The work of the Environmental Studies faculty was honored through two awards in the 24th Annual Campus Sustainability Awards. Kirsten Rowell, an Environmental Studies Associate Faculty, was given the Individual Achievement Award to acknowledge her consistent advocacy of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as central components of any effort to make the work more just and sustainable. In addition, the Center for Sustainable Landscapes and Communities (CSLC), which is led by Environmental Studies Associate Professor Amanda Carrico, Professor Sharon Collinge, and EBIO Ph.D. student Erin Fried, earned the Civic Achievement Award. The CSLC focuses "on building knowledge and informing decision making about public lands in and around Boulder County."
The CU Outreach Award Committee chose the outreach proposal, “CU Restoration Ecology Experimental Learning Program”, as their 2021 recipient. The effort was led by Tim Seastedt, Professor Emeritus of INSTAAR and EBIO, and included ENVS Professor Sharon Collinge and Geography Professor Katherine Lininger. The project builds on three years of...
Join the ENVS community in congratulating Urooj Raja, a Doctoral Candidate in the ENVS program, on receiving the Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the CU Boulder Graduate School. Her dissertation research examines the potential of emerging technology like virtual reality to shrink psychological distance to ‘wicked’ environmental problems, chief among them...
Tune in this weekend (Saturday, March 20th 9am Pacific Time) to community-supported KQUA radio to listen to an episode about off-trail hiking featuring interviews with Tony Cannon ( https://www.wildumpqua.com ) and ENVS PhD Candidate Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey (on the socials at @JeremiahOsGo). You can access the show via the livestream on...
The Only One, Women Making Waves series profiled five women who have dedicated their lives to ocean conservation and are leaders in their field. ENVS Assistant Professor Cassandra Brooks is featured as the Antarctic Champion. Full story and additional profiles can be found here .
One of ENVS' newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Karen Bailey, has been awarded funding from the Nature Conservancy to fund her project "Understanding Systematic Inequities of Climate Adaptation: an Analysis of Flood Mitigation Policies and Planning In New York State". Climate change is predicted to have significant negative impacts on...
CU Boulder Student Government and the University Libraries has named Beth Osnes as one of this year’s recipients of the annual Open Educator Award . This year, the award honored four educators for supporting CU Boulder students’ learning experiences through open educational practices. Osnes uses innovative strategies to encourage students...
Come see one of our very own - PhD Candidate Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey - give a talk in the 3MT (3-minute thesis) FINALE competition, February 16, 4:00-6:00 pm. He'll be discussing some of his dissertation work about how migration influences Bangladeshi farmers.
