The CONS graduate program in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology takes its name from the Pew Charitable Trust funding initiative that led to its development. We received a two-year planning grant from Pew, 1988-89, to design our program. We called upon practitioners and potential employers in the Washington, D. C. conservation and development communities to help us to choose the core courses for the program, and to implement the required internship and scholarly paper requirements. We were approved as a graduate program in the spring of 1991, graduated our first students in 1992, and as of December, 2004, have 144 alumni.

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