People

Nia is a junior from Belize majoring in Environmental Analysis and Film and Media Studies. She is passionate about the power of individual action as well as government action, environmental justice, energy conservation, habitat conservation, and the connection between people, animals, and the planet. She is involved with sustainability on campus through being a WashU […]

Education PhD, California Institute of Technology, 2001MS, California Institute of Technology, 1998BS, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996 Research areas EnergyEnvironmental EngineeringMaterials for Energy and Environmental Technologies Research Dan Giammar’s research focuses on chemical reactions that affect the fate and transport of heavy metals, radionuclides, and other inorganic constituents in natural and engineered aquatic systems. He is […]

Alex Morales-Heil is a program manager for the Center for the Environment where she supports community engaged research, undergraduate research programming, and an educational coordinating committee.  Alex has been at the university since 2019 and previously served as the administrative coordinator for the WashU Climate Change Program.  She holds degrees in both Mathematics and Elementary […]

Kevin Hahn-Petruso is a program manager for the Center for the Environment where he supports cross-school collaboration among researchers, develops interdisciplinary workshop and supports the Center’s Internal Advisory Council and Council of Partners. Prior to joining WashU in 2022, he worked as the Policy Manager for Trailnet, a St. Louis-based sustainable transportation nonprofit, where he led […]