Next Generation of Leaders Connect and Collaborate at 2025 Gulf Scholars Program Conference

During the conference, attendees engaged in an activity to visualize the Gulf Scholars Program network on a physical map of the Gulf region, including the locations of the Gulf Scholar institutions. Participants included information on their Gulf-related interests and project areas as related to their connections to place and were encouraged to revisit the map throughout the conference to identify new collaborators with similar interest areas.

Dozens of attendees mapped themselves onto the Gulf network. Gulf interest areas were incredibly broad ranging, including sustainability and conservation, human-environment interactions, cultural preservation and climate resilience, place-based community engagement and education, and much more.

After mapping was complete, attendees participated in a gallery walk of the mapped network, exploring connections between their interests, projects, and impact areas with others that shared a similar focus.