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

 
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! 

Today is the day to show your support for Program on the Environment (PoE) with  Husky Giving Day!
You can donate here: https://givingday.uw.edu/o/university-of-washington/i/husky-giving-day/p/college-of-the-environment 
You can select the specific program you want to support on the donation page. 

Anya Gavrylko, Environmental Community Legacy Scholarship
Anya is an Environmental Studies and Community, Environmental & Planning double major graduating in the spring of 2023. She is from Chicago, Illinois, and is currently working as a research assistant on a project monitoring bird-collisions on campus to bring more bird safe architectural design-based solutions to the University of Washington. 

You’re invited to the Sustainability Studio (ENVIR 480) final presentations next Thursday (3/11) from 11:30am – 1pm. Below is the Zoom link (+password!) for our class. The presentation flyer is also attached. 

The PoE’s ENVIR 100 Introduction to Environmental Studies and faculty member Kristi Straus was featured in this year’s annual report from Continuum College! Read a snippet of the feature:
Read the full feature and rest of the annual report here. 

Program on the Environment students, staff and faculty are invited to the first of our fall series of Open Spaces Conversations on Friday, October 9, 3-5 PM. This first event will feature Prof. 

Tim Billo, instructor of our Natural History of the Puget Sound Region course, practices what he preaches. He uses his research into the natural history of our local sword ferns as a way of introducing undergraduates to research, demonstrating to them that they can make important contributions to natural history, as well as to helping to solve pressing ecological issues. 

Read more in the Seattle Times

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.