Matthew Burgess

ENVS assistant professor, Matthew Burgess, Honorable Mention for the 2022 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program faculty mentor

Assistant professor, Matthew Burgess has been named as an Honorable Mention for the 2022 Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) faculty mentor. His extreme care, guidance, and knowledge was mentioned by the nominating student. Congratulations to Professor Burgess and the other award recipients.

Amanda Carrico

ENVS professor, Amanda Carrico, among those named as a 2022 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Awardee

Dr. Carrico and 17 other professors have been awarded the 2021-2022 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from the CU Boulder Graduate School. Read the full article for information on the award and other 2022 recipients. Congratulations to all of the award recipients!

Sharon Collinge and Amanda Carrico

ENVS Professors earned 2021 Civic Achievement Award at the Campus Sustainability Summit

Congratulations to ENVS professors, Sharon Collinge and Amanda Carrico, who were awarded the the 2021 Civic Achievement Award at the Campus Sustainability Summit on April 21, 2022. The work they are leading at the CU Boulder Center for Sustainable Landscapes and Communities (CSLC) is what earned the pair the award...

Explorers Club

ENVS Professor Cassandra Brooks inducted into the Explorers Club

ENVS Professor Cassandra Brooks is among the 2022 inductees into the Explorers Club. Dr. Brooks' drive to develop a network of marine protected areas in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica has taken her around the world and is why she has been declared as one of the "50 people changing...

Environmental Racism Course

ENVS PhD candidate and Professor develop course on environmental racism

CU Boulder Today featured the new course examining environmental racism which will begin to be offered in ENVS in Fall 2022. The course will look at how environmental racism shapes contemporary scientific and environmental practices. Taught by ENVS PhD candidate Denise Fernandes, Professor Karen Bailey helped develop the course content.

CIRES Bipartisan Climate Solutions panel

ENVS Prof and Alum host the CIRES panel on Bipartisan Climate Solutions

CIRES is hosting the Bipartisan Climate Solutions panel, moderated by Professor Matt Burgess and ENVS alum Renae Marshall. The panel will feature Rep. Joe Neguse and Rep. John Curtis. The panel will discuss where consensus lies on climate change policy.

CU in DC

ENVS Professor Matt Burgess among those who traveled to D.C. for "CU in D.C.: Working to Build a Just and Sustainable Future"

During the first week of April 2022, members of the CU Boulder community, including ENVS professor Matt Burgess , traveled to Washington D.C. for CU in D.C.: Working to Build a Just and Sustainable Future . This annual event resumed this year and focused on climate change work at CU,...

2022 Conference on World Affairs

ENVS experts among panelists at the 74th Annual Conference on World Affairs

The 74th annual Conference on World Affairs took place on the CU Boulder April 6-9, 2022. Scholars from across CU Boulder spoke, including ENVS professors, Sharon Collinge and Max Boykoff, on a range of topics including food systems and climate change. The event was free and open ot the public...

Maxwell Boykoff

ENVS Chair and Professor, Max Boykoff, contributes to the Working Group III of the IPCC AR6

The final installment of the IPCC AR6 report on climate and climate science from Working Group III was finalized on April 4, 2022. One of the contributors to the report was ENVS Chair and Professor, Max Boykoff . "The Working Group III report provides an updated global assessment of climate...

Hegwood Langendorf Burgess Paper

ENVS lab publishes new paper in Nature Sustainability investigating why win-wins are so hard to achieve

A trio of ENVS researchers were published in March in the journal Nature Sustainability, "showing mathematically why complexity makes win–wins elusive." PhD student, Margaret Hegwood, recent PhD graduate Ryan E. Langendorf, and professor Matt Burgess conducted the meta-analysis, which validates skepticism of real-world win-wins that practitioners can often have and...

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