The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center BioKIC
Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center BioKIC
Learn more about your impact
This fund helps researchers create new knowledge about the diversity of life; make it open and freely available to the public; and use it to improve human health, food, and environmental stewardship. Your gift helps us develop digital tools to share and analyze biodiversity data and foster in-person and virtual learning experiences for academic and general audiences.
Our center synthesizes information generated across multiple continents and centuries in order to understand the origins of biological diversity and what will happen to it on a changing planet. We support students and faculty who do collections-based research that uses physical and digital specimens of all varieties, including insects, plants, mammals, birds, mollusks, lichen and more. Our scientists are also international leaders in working with partners outside academia to develop more effective institutions for stewarding biological species and information."
Impact of donor support
Your gift helps us:
- Connect students who are excited about biodiversity to hands-on learning experiences at ASU’s biological collections where they can better understand life on earth from multiple perspectives, including genetics, evolution and ecology.
- Support the public value of science by making millions of digitized specimens available for use in courses, conservation management, disease modeling and fundamental research in ecology and evolution.
- Innovate new learning experiences for in-person and online ASU majors, including using 3D scans of fossils and interactive maps of human-wildlife conflict.
- Fuel cutting-edge computational research that learns from past environments to predict future trends on important topics for society, such as zoonotic disease spread and climate adaptation.
