Over 600 students attended the UW Environmental Career Fair to interact with nearly 40 organizations. If you attended the fair, the Environmental Career Fair Planning Team would appreciate your feedback to help them make the fair even better next year! 

For the fourth year, the UW Husky Green Award will recognize students, faculty and staff who have demonstrated leadership, initiative, and dedication to environmental stewardship and sustainability. We need your help to ensure our students, peers and faculty don’t go unrecognized!
  

After graduating from UW and the Program on the Environment program in summer of 2012, Erin Tomaras travelled down to Guatemala to act as the 2012 volunteer/research coordinator for ARCAS, a sea turtle project on the Pacific Coast. 

In Fall 2012, ENVIR 480 students supported the UW Green Laboratory Certification program by engaging in student-designed, hands-on, project-based work. Specific project topics, and some highlights, included:

A comparison between LED and non-LED growth chamber lights. 

Spring 2013 ENVIR 479 PoE Honors Seminar- 2 credits(Un)Making a Green Argument: Climate Policy and Environmental Advocacy
Last June, Rolling Stone published an essay by climate activist Bill McKibben titled “Global Warming’s Terrifying New Math.”  As a piece of popular advocacy, the essay is extraordinary in its clarity of argument and power of persuasion.   

In fall 2012, the ENVIR 480 class focused on the challenging and important topic of Green Laboratories. The eleven students learned a lot about laboratories on campus, and identified both challenges and opportunities to make them more environmentally sustainable. 

Do you speak Korean well enough to act as an interpreter? The Dann Woo Community Garden is looking for students interested in acting as interpreters for elder gardeners. The goal is, “…collecting gardener stories as a way to preserve their histories and pass the important knowledge on to the youth in our program”. 

Have you wondered if it pays to be a good environmental steward or socially responsible? If so, Dr. Dorothy Paun’s presentation on her triple bottom line sustainability research will provide food for thought. 

Interested in Teach For America?  Exploring opportunities for after graduation?  The final application deadline for the 2013 TFA corps is Friday, February 15!

 
Application requirements:
·         1 page resume
·         500 word letter of intent
·         Online application
·         Note: References and preferences not required to apply
 
To learn more about Teach For America’s mission and program, visit www.teachforamerica.org or email katherine.kleitsch@teachforamerica.org
 
Come by TFA office hours in the MGH Career Center on Fridays at 2:00PM 

Come check out PoE’s lost and found! We currently have the following items:
1. A pair of leopard print, bejeweled glasses.
2. A paisley pashmina.
3. Lab coat (size small) with accompanying goggles.