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.
St. Louis Policy Initiative
The St. Louis Policy Initiative brings diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives to study policy in our region.
Center for the Environment Kick-Off Week
The center and its partners hosted a week of events celebrating, promoting, and connecting the critical environmental work happening throughout the WashU community and beyond. The kick-off week began on Monday with a science communications Q&A with students and Assembly Series talk by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Elizabeth Kolbert. The week continued with workshops, […]
New tool to enable exploration of human-environment interactions
This universal device will allow transdisciplinary collaboration globally. Named for the dahlia flower whose petals bloom in concentric arrays, the dahliagram’s “petals” illustrate the relative impact of different pull and push factors contributing to human behavior over time.
Student groups work to reduce food waste
In an effort to reduce food waste, two Washington University in St. Louis student groups have joined forces to distribute healthy, fresh food to local shelters and food banks.
Research Facilities
WashU has a variety of research facilities across both of our campuses. Find out how they might support your work.
Foundations award $5 million for food production initiative
Feng Jiao, who is internationally renowned for carbon dioxide conversion and electrolysis, to lead work designed to address food insecurity in low- and middle-income countries