UW PoE faculty member Dr. Yen-Chu Weng and her colleague Po-Yi Hung, a faculty member in the Department of Geography at National Taiwan University, co-teach an exploration of environmental and social resilience in Taiwan this summer 2023 on UW’s Study Abroad Program on the Environment Taiwan: Exploring Environmental and Social Resilience. 

 
Professor Eli Wheat, a faculty member in the Program on the Environment and Food Systems Nutrition and Health Program, alongside UW Farm manager and class co-instructor, Perry Acworth, will co-teach a Seattle Promise Academic Introduction Seminar titled Soil to Seed to Snack! 

Corey Garza to serve as Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Corey Garza will serve as the Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Corey Garza has agreed to serve as the UW College of the Environment’s Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, effective September 1. 

Program on the Environment will host Day 2 of our Spring 2023 Capstone Symposium Wednesday, May 31, in person at the UW School of Aquatic Fisheries & Sciences.  All are welcome to attend and support students as they present on the culmination of their hard work over three quarters. 

‘WILDCAT,’ a documentary featuring our UW PoE alumni Samantha Zwicker, focuses on her ecological wild cat conservation work in the Amazon rainforest. ‘WILDCAT’ has won multiple documentary awards including Best Documentary (San Diego Film Critics Society Awards 2023; Iowa Film Critics Awards 2023; National Board of Review Top Five Documentaries 2022; Utah Film Critics Association Awards) and Audience Award (Montclair Film Festival 2022; Santa Fe International Film Festival 2022) and includes numerous nominations. 

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Public Lecture: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge & the Teaching of Plants available to listen until May 30th 

Land Acknowledgement
The UW Farm stands on the lands of the Coast Salish peoples, whose ancestors resided here since time immemorial. Many Indigenous peoples thrive in this place—alive and strong.
UW Farm Annual Plant Sale Fundraiser and Festival
Hosted by the UW Farm and Dirty Dozen Farm Club RSO
May 20th, 10am-2pm
On the campus farm  just west of the Center for Urban Horticulture
Help support the UW Farm and Student Dirty Dozen Farm Club on May 20th by visiting our our annual Plant Sale. 

The Program on the Environment will host the Spring 2023 Capstone Symposium on Wednesday, May 24, online AND on Wednesday, May 31, in person at the UW School of Aquatic Fisheries & Sciences.  

 
The prestigious 2023 College of the Environment Dean’s Medalist award goes to our Program on the Environment student, Lillian Williamson, a double-major in Environmental Studies and Political Science. Lillian’s extraordinary academic and civic accomplishments include being named a Rhodes Scholarship finalist, a Mitchell scholarship semi-finalist, a Husky 100 student, and now, the Dean’s Medalist 2023 award! 

Congratulations to Hannah on being one of eight recipients of the 2023 Husky Sustainability Awards!