News & Events
Udall Scholarship - Up to 7K to work on tribal policy, native health care and the environment
Are you working towards positive solutions to environmental challenges or to issues impacting Native America Public Policy or Health Care?
Have you demonstrated your commitment to one of these areas through public service?
ENVIR Winter Courses - Register Now!
Looking for interesting courses to take this Winter quarter? Check out our Environmental Studies Winter course flyers and enroll now, while there’s still space!
Environmental Studies Courses
ENVIR 100: Introduction to Environmental Studies – Great course for exploring environmental majors.
SustainableUW Festival to highlight UW's boundless call to action
UW’s Sustainability Festival is coming up next week!
The festival, which runs from Oct. 26–Oct. 31, is designed to showcase the full scope of sustainability efforts across UW, including special festival programming as well as regularly-scheduled events.
Read more at UW Sustainability
Alumna Sarah Schooler finds her passion in the Alaska Salmon Program's Living Laboratory
From interning at Seattle City Light during her Capstone project through Environmental Studies, to a quarter studying at Friday Harbor Laboratories, to backpacking class trips in Ecuador and Costa Rica, Sarah Schooler discovered a passion for salmon.
Special Seminar and Course on Surviving Disaster: Natural Hazards and Resilient Communities
Environmental Studies students,
There’s a special seminar associated with an Autumn Speaker Series on Natural Hazards and Resilient Communities. This series will explore the latest developments in social and natural science helping us prepare for, respond to and survive environmental disasters, wherever they strike.
Student Spotlight - Angela Feng
What might Environmental Studies student Angela Feng and the internationally known Seattle hip-hop star Macklemore have in common?
Angela Feng is passionate about environmental education and raising awareness about the level of pollution in the Duwamish river.
Carbon WA Student Organizing Fellowship
Are you passionate about addressing climate change, advancing social justice and enacting political change?
Carbon WA seeks a student to work as a field organizer for a paid, Autumn quarter fellowship.
Exploring wilderness in one of the lower forty-eight’s most untamed landscapes
The College of the Environment recently interviewed Environmental Studies students and faculty member Tim Billo to learn about the Wilderness seminar course (Landscape Change in the Pacific Northwest) he teaches each year.
Read more at the College of the Environment
Capstone Project Updates
With many students’ capstone internships currently wrapping
up, I would like to share some information about what are students have been up
to the last couple of months!
Jesse Barr– Jesse has been working with the City of
Vancouver’s Water Resources Education Center and high school students to build
a recycled soda bottle greenhouse.
Instagram!!
Pleased to announce that UW Environmental Studies is now on Instagram! Follow us now at https://instagram.com/uwenvirostudies/
username: @uwenvirostudies