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'''Desert Research Institute''' ('''DRI''') is a nonprofit research campus of the [[Nevada System of Higher Education]] (NSHE) and a sister property of the [[University of Nevada, Reno]] (UNR), the organization that oversees all publicly supported higher education in the [[United States|U.S.]] state of [[Nevada]]. At DRI, approximately 500 research faculty and support staff engage in more than $50 million in environmental research each year.<ref name="about"/> DRI's environmental research programs are divided into three core divisions (Atmospheric Sciences, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences, and Hydrologic Sciences) and two interdisciplinary centers (Center for Arid Lands Environmental Management and the Center for Watersheds and Environmental Sustainability). Established in 1988 and sponsored by [[AT&T]], the institute's [[Nevada Medal]] awards "outstanding achievement in science and engineering".