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. 

‘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. 

Come join the College of the Environment for an afternoon of games, food, and merriment to celebrate an outstanding College community! All College faculty, staff, students, postdocs, and their guests are invited to attend.

Spend 9 days (July 8 to 16) backpacking in Olympic National Park this Summer as part of the course, Wilderness in the Anthropocene (ENVIR 380)!
This 5-credit A term course includes hands on activities and remote assignments. 

Summer Registration is now open!

Check out this new Special Topic Course ENVIR 295 B: Rivers in the Environmental Humanities. This 5 credit course will run during A- Term (June 20 – July 19) and only has 20 spots available, so register soon! 

The Program on the Environment spring 2022 seminar series will focus on sustainable business.

Note: Updated list of speakers as follows
March 30: Charlie Donovan, Foster School of Business
April 6: Prof. 

The Program on the Environment Graduation Celebration 2022 will be held on June 9 in the HUB Lyceum. Eligible students are graduates of Autumn 2021, Winter 2022, Spring 2022, and Summer 2022. 

The Program on the Environment will host the Autumn 2021 Capstone Symposium on Wednesday, December 1, online.  All are welcome to attend and support students as they present on the culmination of their hard work over three quarters. 

Congratulations to Environmental Studies majors Tiara Adler and Zaya Delgerjargal, our 2018-2019 Environmental Leadership Scholarship recipients!
Program on the Environment, with support from generous donors, awards scholarships to two students each year who demonstrate a passion for environmental studies, integrative thought and action in their academics and activities, and a vision of how they hope to make a positive difference in the world. 

This past summer, Program on the Environment lecturer Tim Billo traveled to Southeast Alaska with nine UW students for a bold new course exploring wilderness management and its unintended consequences. While there, students examined the complex and evolving relationship between the Huna Tlingit People and the National Park Service in Glacier Bay National Park.