2023 Environmental Studies graduates, Kat Lykins and Henry Lau, have their capstone survey work featured in The Urbanist: Most Vendors Don’t Oppose Pedestrianizing Pike Place Market, Survey Shows
Read more »News
Congratulations 2023-2024 PoE Scholarship Recipients!
Ariana Milo, Environmental Community Legacy Scholarship & PoE Alumni Council Scholarship Ariana is an Environmental Studies major from St. Louis, Missouri, and is graduating in 2026. Her focus lies in sustainability, along with interests in ecology and agriculture.
Read more »The Climate-Mental Health Nexus: How a well-being approach can provide lessons for win-win policies
Join the University of Washington’s EarthLab, the UW Environment and Well-Being Lab, and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Centre on Well-being, Inclusion, Sustainability and Equal Opportunity (WISE) in a half-day public symposium on the intersection of climate change and mental health.
Read more »UW Farm Harvest Dinner 2023
You are invited to an unforgettable evening at the annual “UW Farm Harvest Dinner” fundraiser. Join us at the Center for Urban Horticulture to support and celebrate the UW Farm’s contributions to our community!
Read more »PoE & Taiwan Studies Taiwan Study Abroad 2023 Recap: Exploring Environmental and Social Resilience
Article Contributor: Ian Oates, Program Coordinator, Taiwan Studies The second iteration of the UW Taiwan Studies Program and UW Program on the Environment summer study abroad course, Exploring Environmental and Social Resilience, concluded two weeks ago.
Read more »Week 4: PoE’s Summer Study Abroad Program on Taiwan: Exploring Environmental and Social Resilience
In the final week of Program on the Environment’s Taiwan study Abroad Program, we went to Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, to explore topics of eco-tourism and indigenous communities. We were greeted by our partners in the Geography Department of National Kaohsiung Normal University.
Read more »PoE’s Summer Study Abroad Program on Taiwan: Exploring Environmental and Social Resilience
UW TSP and UW Program on the Environment Professor Yen-Chu Weng‘s study abroad program just completed its second week! The theme of Week 2 was Food and Agriculture. “We started off the week with Professor Po-Yi Hung’s insightful lecture on Food and Society Issues in Taiwan.
Read more »Two Student Opportunities: NOAA and Washington Sea Grant
Washington Sea Grant has an outstanding opportunity for a Community Engagement Specialist with a focus on the West Coast of Washington State. Priority consideration will be given to applications received by July 14.
Read more »PoE's Summer Study Abroad Program on Taiwan: Exploring Environmental and Social Resilience
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.
Read more »Soil to Seed to Snack! Urban Agricultural Systems: a 4-week class opportunity for Seattle Promise students
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!
Read more »




