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, […]
Bending the Arc Towards Justice
Wilson’s talk: “Bending the Arc Towards Justice: Transforming Public Health Through Community-Engaged Research and Practice” described how historic and contemporary discrimination and racism drives environmental, climate, and energy injustices and related health issues.
Two Stories in Pursuit of Linking Science with Action
In this talk, Professor DeFries outlined scientific investigations aimed at addressing two urgent environmental issues in India: climate-smart agriculture that provides nutrition and a resilient food supply and landscape connectivity for wildlife in the face of rapid infrastructure expansion.
Enhancing Nature in Cities for People and Wildlife
December’s Collaboration Series session took the form of a speed-networking workshop aimed at creating fast, focused interactions between researchers who were interested in the intersections of biodiversity, urbanism, human health: “Enhancing nature in cities for people and wildlife.”