Director's Message: Semester recap

I always enjoy the shift into "summer mode" that comes in the second half of May. It is an opportunity to dig into summer projects and to reflect on the semester that has just concluded. In the Center for the Environment that was an eventful semester.

Through our kickoff week events, environmental research collaboration series, committees, and workshops, the center has engaged more than 500 people within the WashU and the St. Louis community.
Our community of environmentally-focused center scholars has grown to 86 faculty and staff from across our schools.
We have supported seven interdisciplinary teams in proposal submissions for external funding.
Later this month we are launching a new Summer Undergraduate Research Program supporting 12 undergraduate researchers with 12 different PIs across the university.

This progress reflects the continued work of building collaborative relationships, supporting researchers and amplifying the environmental work of the university. These advances built on the efforts and attention of so many members of the WashU community. We are grateful for your continued work and support.

With gratitude,

Dan Giammar

Director, Center for the Environment

Walter E. Browne Professor of Environmental Engineering

Assistant Vice Provost

Congratulations Graduates!

Congratulations to all of our recent graduates, their families, and WashU faculty and staff who accompanied them on their journeys through our institution.

We want to share our particular appreciation to all those who have studied and engaged with the environmental challenges facing our society. We are grateful for your choices and are excited to see the impact you'll have on the world.

Midwest Climate Collaborative to lead effort connecting communities to federal funds

The Midwest Climate Collaborative has received a $400,000 Mosaic Momentum grant to support communities pursuing federal infrastructure funds for environmental action. This award will enable the MCC to build capacity in midwestern Justice 40 communities to apply for, secure, and implement federal grants under the Inflation Reduction Act and the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

This support will help the MCC connect communities to existing resources, expand the outreach and technical assistance of MCC partners to reach more organizations, and further develop the Midwestern Climate Resource Network.

WashU Environmental news

Brown School students engage with St. Louis neighborhoods

Molly Metzger's students in the Community Development Practice class worked with community partners on justice-oriented and built environment projects in St. Louis

Critically endangered lemur attacked by vulnerable fosa in Madagascar

Department of Anthropology's conservation research project in Madagascar is profiled in Popular Science.

Arts & Sciences launches Public Health & Society program

Two center scholars to play key roles in new interdisciplinary public health minor.

WashU works to protect migrating birds

The Office of Sustainability is partnering with the Lights Out Heartland initiative to curb light pollution.

Read more stories from within the WashU ecosystem and external news coverage at the center's website.

WashU environmental events

May

Santiago Sierra: 52 Canvases Exposed to Mexico City’s Air

Now - July 24 | 11 a.m. - 5 p.m. | Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

Office of Sustainability Share Our Stuff move out sale

May 17, 20, 21 | Times vary | Mudd Residential Hall

Biology Department Seminar- Armando Bravo

Monday, May 20 | 4 p.m. | Rebstock 322

Tyson Research Showcase and Dinner

Thursday, May 30 | 2 - 5 p.m. | Tyson Research Center

June

International GEOS-Chem meeting

June 11-14 | Various locations, Danforth Campus

July

Tyson Environmental Conference and Dinner

Friday, July 12 | 1 - 5 p.m. | Tyson Research Center

NASA Exploration Science Forum

July 23-25 | Knight Center

Become a Center Scholar

Learn more about what it means to be a scholar with the Center for the Environment including the benefits, expectations, and application process.

WashU 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 of support for that work, are eligible to become Center for the Environment scholars, learn more and apply today.