Current Opportunities

Symposium Call for Papers

The Kennedy Center for International Studies, the Global Environmental Studies program, and the Stewardship Lab, together with campus partners, will host a symposium in November 2025 to mark the 20th anniversary of the publication of Stewardship and the Creation: LDS Perspectives on the Environment. We hope to reflect on these last twenty years and explore Gospel-centered approaches to meeting the challenges of the future.

We call for papers that will explore aspects of stewardship from a range of disciplines, including business, law, engineering, the life sciences, the social sciences, church history and doctrine, and the humanities and arts. We seek papers and creative works grounded in sound doctrine—including the scriptures and the teachings of prophets, seers, and revelators in the latter-days—that push the boundaries of academic disciplinary norms and show innovative, and where useful, interdisciplinary versatility in order to meet the challenges of increasingly scarce natural resources, water and air pollution, the biodiversity crisis, and climate change. We look for papers and creative works that will illuminate dimensions of and the relationship between our social, natural, spiritual, and built environments as understood through the Restored Gospel. Our goal is to highlight possible gospel methodologies for defining, teaching, and acting on principles of a multi-dimensional stewardship and sustainability for Latter-day Saints that motivate the faithful to live more sustainably and also builds bridges and partnerships with others of faith and of goodwill.

For paper proposals, please send an abstract of 300-500 words to AllieAsay@byu.edu, along with a copy of your CV by July 1. For full panel proposals or creative projects, please provide a 500 word description and CVs of relevant presenters. Paper presentations will be no more than 20 minutes. Following the conference, at a date to be determined, submissions of longer versions of the papers will be considered for publication in a collected volume of essays.

Student papers will also be welcomed, either in short presentation mode (5 minutes) or in poster format.

Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities

Campus

• Global Environmental Studies Club: Help plan student-led activities on campus. Sign up or see Instagram.
• Community Clean-up: Volunteer with Y-Serve on Saturdays in fall and winter semester. Meet by Jamba Juice at 8:50am to carpool. Projects end by 11:30am. More

Community

• Latter-day Saint Earth Stewardship: Volunteer, join a local chapter, or attend an event. More
• BikeWalk Provo: Make Provo safe, convenient, and fun for all people to get around by bike or foot. More
• Conserve Utah Valley: Help with Slate Canyon Saturdays and other local projects. More
• Grow the Flow: Inspire change to save the Great Salt Lake, a precious ecosystem. More
• Provo's Sustainability and Natural Resources Committee: Volunteer with local advocates. More