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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 […]

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.”

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.

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.

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, […]

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 […]