Director's Message: Graduate Students |
The center's mission calls us to foster a diverse community of researchers across WashU. We have had great participation in our environmental research collaboration series for faculty and full-time research staff, and last summer we debuted our undergraduate research program. I am excited that this semester we are reinvigorating our programming for graduate students. In many fields graduate students are the primary producers of new research, and our graduate students are the originators of many new ideas and collaborative relationships.
Our graduate student programming seeks to provide a sense of community, develop skills for transdisciplinary collaboration, and deepen connections across fields. In addition to enhancing the quality and impact of their research and scholarship at WashU, we hope to empower our graduate students to continue exploring novel collaborations in their professional and scholarly lives beyond WashU.
If you are a graduate student, I hope to see you at our upcoming networking dinner November 18 (see more information below with RSVP by November 12 at 5PM). Please sign-up to learn about future grad-student specific opportunities and share this announcement with fellow students.
If you aren't a graduate student, please share these opportunities with a graduate student with whom you work.
With gratitude,
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Dan Giammar
Director, Center for the Environment
Walter E. Browne Professor of Environmental Engineering
Assistant Vice Provost
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Graduate Student Dinner Nov. 18
Air Quality and Health: From Global to Local
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WashU graduate students who have an interest or focus in environmental research and scholarship are invited to an interdisciplinary networking reception and dinner 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 18 in Umrath Lounge.
This dinner will feature presentations on integrating air quality and health research across local and global scales from Randall Martin and Lindsay Underhill.
Please register by 5 p.m. tomorrow Tuesday Nov. 12.
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Graduate student collaboration lunches |
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Last month, the graduate community kicked off with a Graduate Student Environmental Collaborative Lunch.
This interdisciplinary research-sharing lunch featured presentations by Drew Crenshaw, PhD candidate in Public Health Sciences, and Melissa Ritchey, PhD candidate in Archaeology.
These lunches are designed to help graduate students hone critical skills, learn from each other, and foster connections across schools and disciplines.
The center plans to host similar events next semester. Sign up for graduate community updates to stay in the loop.
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Researcher networking: Explore the WashU Mini City
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Constance Vale and Eugene Vorobeychik lead the WashU Mini-City project (Photo: Joe Angeles/ WashU)
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The Center and teams from the Computer Science and Engineering and Architecture departments are hosting a networking workshop and tour of the WashU Mini City from 11 a.m. to noon this Thursday Nov. 14.
The WashU Mini City is a collaborative project and research facility providing a low-cost space to test questions of urban design and autonomous vehicles. The leads of this project, Constance Vale, and Eugene Vorobeychik are seeking connections with -- and input from -- the environmental research community to find new questions and topics that can be explored using the model city.
This event is open to WashU faculty and research staff.
Please register by noon on Tuesday, Nov. 12
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Save the date: Spring collaboration series |
The center's monthly environmental research collaboration series for faculty and staff will return next semester in the same time slot, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month.
Next semester's lunches will be:
Feb. 5 - Schnuck Pavilion
March 5 - Schnuck Pavilion
April 2 - Farrell Learning and Teaching Center
May 7 - Schnuck Pavilion
The speakers and topics will be announced next month.
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Environmental Research and Creativity Week: Feb. 24-28 |
Save the date for a week showcasing and celebrating WashU's environmental research and creative practice. The center is organizing a week of events February 24 through 28 to elevate the work that's happening across our campuses and create focused opportunities to build collaborations within our community and beyond.
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It's a worm's world: Regeneration and regrowth in the Özpolat Lab
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Duygo Özpolat's work revolves around segmented worms, looking at how they develop and regenerate, read more.
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| How aging water systems are pushing sewage into U.S. homes
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In cities across the United States, an aging complex networks of underground pipes carry drinking water, sewage, and stormwater from place to place, learn more.
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How to grow food without light
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Feng Jiao, collaborators plan to grow food through carbon dioxide electrolysis, learn more.
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| WashU Arboretum earns rare status |
The WashU Arboretum, home to some 6,500 trees across the Danforth Campus, recently received Level III accreditation, read more.
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Animals that are all black or all white have reputations based on superstition
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Biases have real effects, and superstition about black animals has influenced human perceptions and behavior, learn more.
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| Converting CO2 to solid carbon yields benefits for batteries |
Engineers at WashU are working on systems to pull carbon dioxide in and put it to good use, read more.
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Upcoming WashU environmental events |
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The benefits of being a Center Scholar include the opportunity to mentor students in the summer undergraduate research program, connect with potential collaborators, and receive research support from the center.
Explore the program’s benefits and expectations.
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This program is open to WashU:
-Tenured and tenure-track faculty
-Research faculty
-Full-time teaching faculty
-Professors of practice
-Permanent research staff
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| Applicants should be engaged in research or teaching related to the Center's focal areas:
-Biodiversity
-Environmental justice
-Environmental solutions
-Planetary health
-Earth systems and climate change
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