Recultivating Indigenous Sovereignty and Stewardship
Friday, March 28th On March 28th, WashU hosted the 2025 Recultivating Indigenous Sovereignty Gathering Day-of-Panels – spearheaded by local native community members in collaboration with the Center for the Environment and 12 different partners. Over 100 campus and community members came together across three panels designed to advance Indigenous approaches to land and food systems. Featured […]
Graduate Student Lightning Talk Application
Apply below to present a lightning talk during the 2025 Environmental Research and Creativity Week. Would you like to present your research in a short, 5-minute lightning talk at the Center for the Environment Research Symposium? The WashU Center for the Environment is looking to showcase graduate student researchers whose work addresses any of the […]
Xu: Emissions from CO2 Removal
Research Focus Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the predominant greenhouse gas driving climate change. The prospect of capturing and storing CO2 emerges as a pivotal strategy in mitigating climate change. Current efforts involve capturing CO2 from point sources (e.g., industrial facilities) and directly from the air. In August 2023, the Biden-Harris administration announced $1.2 billion for […]
WashU team to study virus transmission, human-wildlife interaction
Red colobus monkeys are the most threatened group of African monkeys. A Washington University in St. Louis team will model viral transmission dynamics among red colobus monkeys and their human neighbors near Kibale National Park, Uganda. The collaboration got its start with support from Arts & Sciences under its Incubator for Transdisciplinary Futures research cluster, “The Human-Wildlife Interface.”
WashU students contribute to biomanufacturing in space
Many kids dream of being astronauts when they grow up, but Millie Savage is contributing to something bigger: helping future space explorers manufacture their own supplies in space conditions.
Roots of diversity: How underground fungi shape forests
A large study involving 43 research plots in the Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) Network — including a swath of trees at Tyson Research Center — has helped clarify the power of underground fungi to shape forests.
Undergraduate Academics and Programs
Washington University in St. Louis offers a variety academic programs, majors, and courses for undergraduate and graduate students.
Climate Curriculum Database
The Climate Curriculum Database is designed to allow students, professors, and others in the WashU community to find courses related to climate change in all of its related disciplines, from economics to architecture to engineering. Each course links to the WebStac course listing, where more information about syllabi, course descriptions and enrollment can be found.
Climate Curricular Guides
Originally compiled by the WashU Climate Change Program, these guides pull climate-related courses into thematic lists to provide interested students with suggested courses that can be taken along any course of study. The Climate Curricular Guides are simply meant to assist students in course selection.
WashU Arboretum
The more than 300 species of trees on the Danforth Campus play a major role in the outdoor architecture as key elements of the campus landscape. The campus canopy is the result of careful planning for the continued success of the local plant community.