Director's Message: Research & Creativity |
Welcome back to a new semester and a new year.
At the Center, we are in the leadup to next month's Environmental Research & Creativity Week, Feb. 24 - 28. This series of events builds on the success of last year's kickoff week. This year we will be celebrating and showcasing the breadth of exciting environmental research and creative practice of the WashU community. Between our partners and the center, we have a truly exciting and impactful week planned.
I hope to see you there.
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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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Environmental Research and Creativity Week |
Join the Center for the Environment and partners across WashU for Environmental Research & Creativity Week, Feb. 24 - 28.
This week will celebrate the exciting, diverse environmental work happening throughout the WashU community and foster collaboration among faculty, students, staff, and partners.
Registration is now open for many of the week's events. Learn more, and sign up.
Highlights of the week include:
- The center's inaugural, university-wide Environmental Research Symposium, Feb 24
- Engaging events and tours led by the center's partners focusing on planetary health; research-inspired art; decarbonizing manufacturing; global capitalism and the climate; and tropical forest ecology and conservation
-A lab and studio crawl showcasing the places and processes different disciplines use to explore environmental questions
Call for Graduate Student Lightning Talks
The Environmental Research Symposium, Feb. 24 will feature a series of brief but impactful graduate student lightning talks to elevate emerging environmental work. The center is seeking applications for these talks. Learn more and apply by Jan. 27
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Summer Undergraduate Research Program
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Benefits: $6,000 stipend, paid travel, and housing support as well as professional and social programming.
Dates: May 27 - Aug. 1
Application Deadline: Feb. 15
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Partner opportunities for summer student research: |
We also wanted to highlight additional summer research programs hosted by campus and community partners.
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Tyson Research Center
2025 Tyson Undergraduate Fellows Program
Benefits: $6,000 stipend plus additional scholarship for Pell-eligible students
Dates: May 27 - Aug. 1
Application Deadline: Feb. 15
Missouri Botanical Garden
2025 Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program
Benefits: a weekly stipend of $600, housing and food allowances, transportation, and supplies for research are provided.
Dates: June 2 – Aug. 8
Application Deadline: Feb. 28
Missouri Native Plant Society
2025 Stan Hudson Research Grant
Benefits: grant funds may be used for any non-salary expenses relating to the proposed research, including travel, equipment, and supplies.
Application Deadline: Jan. 31
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We're hiring: Project Manager
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The Center is seeking a full-time Project Manager to support a multi-institution, National Science Foundation funded research project.
This position will be a key participant in a dynamic and interdisciplinary research team with expertise in environmental engineering, health communication, information design, and
entrepreneurship. Learn more and please share with your professional circles.
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WashU Seed funding opportunities
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Spring Collaboration Series
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Connect with an interdisciplinary community of researchers, learn from your colleagues, and generate ideas for collaboration at the center's monthly research lunch. Join the center for its Environmental Research Collaboration series, 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month.
The lunches are open to WashU faculty, postdocs, and staff.
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February 5
Michael Frachetti
A&S Anthropology
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| March 5
Patricia Olynyk
Sam Fox School
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| April 2
Gautam Dantas
Medical School
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| May 7
Lora Iannotti
Brown School
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Four-Foot-Tall Snow Globe helps Investigate Hidden Source of Snow Melt
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Ganesh Chelluboyina studies how dark brown carbon from wildfires can accelerate glacial melting, watch.
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| Coyote genes may show urban evolution at work |
Elizabeth Carlen outlines how city life may be shaping the evolution of coyotes, learn more.
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Nothin’ but pawpaws in the pawpaw patch
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Ana Wassel's team explore how pawpaw trees exert pressure on their neighbors, read more.
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| Why do some cats have orange fur? New hue clues in an old mystery.
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Jonathan Losos discusses the significance of new findings in cat evolution, learn 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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