WashU to lead $26 million decarbonization initiative
A collaboration of universities and industry is embarking on a bold plan to transform manufacturing toward zero or negative emissions by converting carbon dioxide ultimately into environmentally friendly chemicals and products.
2024 Summer Undergraduate Researchers
We are proud to introduce the undergraduate students selected to participate in the 2024 Summer Undergraduate Research Program! Erika Adjei, Environmental Policy and Environmental Science ’25Project: Tropical Monsoons During the Last Glacial MaximumMentors: Bronwen Konecky and Andrew Flaim, Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences Erika Adjei is a rising senior from Dallas, Texas studying Environmental Policy […]
Exploring the humanities at Tyson Research Center
This spring, Anya Yermakova, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for the Humanities in Arts & Sciences, is organizing a pair of performances and a two-day gathering at WashU’s Tyson Research Center. The events build on her scholarship, her creative work and her current seminar, “Topics in Embodied Communication: Listening.”
Masteller wins NSF CAREER award
Claire Masteller, assistant professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, has won a prestigious National Science Foundation award for a study that will look at the erosive power of ocean waves on rocky coastlines.
‘Elegance in simplicity:’ A prototype is born
Students in the McKelvey School of Engineering at WashU designed prototypes for a device that could help environmental engineers monitor the air quality impact of factory farms in Missouri.
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, […]
Becoming a scholar
Learn more about what it means to be a scholar with the Center for the Environment including the benefits, expectations, and application process. Eligibility WashU affiliated tenured/tenure-track faculty, research faculty, professors of practice, permanent research staff, and full-time teaching faculty conducting research or teaching in the focal areas of the Center, regardless of the source […]