Faculty News

Loneliness in the US has skyrocketed, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. This recently published study led by ENVS Professor, Jill Litt , and recent ENVS PhD graduate, Ashby Lavelle Sachs, used outdoor spaces to facilitate community showing significant improvement in mental health among pregnant teens and young mothers. Read the...

Check out ENVS Chair, Max Boykoff's, conversation on NPR discussing the harmful effects of coffee pods on the climate.

As winter continues to hurl brutal storms across the country, more is being upset than just flight schedules. Last month, ENVS Assistant Professor, Zia Mehrabi , spoke with AXIOS about the damages done to our food systems this winter and how its affecting the most vulnerable.

Just published in the journal, The Lancet Planetary Health, Professor Jill Litt and co-authors showed convincing evidence that community gardens improve multiple areas of physical and mental health.

In Spring 2023, the Department of Environmental Studies is celebrating 30 years of educating undergraduates, 20 years of training M.Sc. and Ph.D. researchers, and 7 years of shaping practitioners through the Masters of the Environment (MENV) program. During the weekend of Earth Day 2023 (22 April 2023), a reunion will...

Today, at the Right Here, Right Now Climate Summit, ENVS Assistant Professor and Director of the Center for Social and Environmental Futures, Matthew Burgess , led a panel on Bipartisan Youth Climate Advocacy with representatives from the American Conservation Coalition, Green For all Campaign, and ENVS PhD candidate Emily Nocito...

We are very excited to announce that Dr. Karen Bailey, Assistant Professor in ENVS, was awarded the Ecological Society of America's (ESA) 2022 Excellence in Ecology (EEE) award for early – mid career scholars! Click here for more information on Dr. Bailey, ESA and the EEE award. Congrats!

The Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) at the University of Colorado Boulder is hiring a tenure-track faculty member in energy. The position is open to candidates from a wide range of background/disciplines in clean energy sciences, technology, sustainability, economics, and policy and the tenure-home department will be decided based...

As COP 27 gets underway on November 6th in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, two ENVS faculty will be heading to attend the meetings. ENVS Chair, Max Boykoff, is leading CU’s delegation to COP27 this year and Colleen Scanlan Lyons, associate research professor in ENVS and project director for the Governors’ Climate...