Director's Message: Growth |
I'm excited to share that the center is growing in several encouraging and meaningful ways.
This month, we added the 100th researcher to our Center Scholars program. This milestone on its own is affirming. What is even more affirming is the potential for the new and deeper collaborative relationships among this community of scholars needed to address our deepest environmental challenges.
In addition to our work with faculty and staff, we are expanding our programming for WashU graduate students. This semester we are reinvigorating our graduate student community with new events, offering more chances for academic and professional growth.
Our team is growing as well. I'm incredibly excited to welcome Michael O'Toole to the center as our new research development associate, a role where he will provide meaningful support to interdisciplinary environmental teams pursuing new and impactful research opportunities.
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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Environmental Research & Creativity Week
Feb. 24 - 28, 2025 |
Save the date for a week showcasing and celebrating WashU's environmental research and creative practice. The center is organizing events 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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Welcome Michael O'Toole, research development associate |
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Michael O’Toole has joined the center’s staff as a research development associate. In his role he will work collaboratively with researchers to increase the size and impact of WashU’s environmental research portfolio. Michael comes to WashU from the Taylor Geospatial Institute, where he supported faculty pursuing multi-institutional collaborative research. He has a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago. Learn more about Michael and his work.
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Call for PIs: Summer Undergraduate Research Program
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The center is seeking researchers to host undergraduate students during its ten-week Summer Undergraduate Research Program. In its second year, this interdisciplinary program will support a diverse cohort of 10-15 students in environmental research at WashU. The center will cover stipends, housing and travel as well as host professional development and cohort-building opportunities for these students.
The opportunity to host a student is open to Center Scholars, and the deadline to submit a project is November 4.
Learn more about becoming a Center Scholar.
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Graduate Student Community Events |
WashU graduate students of all backgrounds with interests in environmental areas are invited to join the center's revamped environmental graduate student community. There are two upcoming professional development events aimed at building connections among students in different programs.
Graduate Student Environmental Collaboration Lunch| Noon - 1 p.m., Oct. 29
This lunch session will feature research presentations from PhD candidates Drew Crenshaw (Public Health Sciences) and Melissa Ritchey (Archaeology). Registration is required, please sign up by October 24.
Save the date for an Interdisciplinary Environmental Graduate Dinner and featured research presentation from 4:30 - 6:30 p.m. on Monday November 18.
Sign up for updates and please share these opportunities with graduate students with whom you work.
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From Gen-Z to Boomers: Climate Action Across Ages |
The WashU Climate Change Community – a group of alumni focused on climate solutions – is hosting a webinar 6-7 p.m. on Oct. 22.
The event features “boomer” climate activist Lawrence MacDonald and 2017 WashU alum Chloe Ames. The event will explore how different generations can collaborate to address climate change and whether it is too late to make a difference.
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| Distinguished Speaker Greg Lowry:
Resilient & Sustainable Agriculture using Nano-enabled Precision Delivery of Active Agents in Plants
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The center and the Department of Energy, Environmental, & Chemical Engineering are co-hosting a presentation by Greg Lowry from 11 a.m. to noon on Friday, Oct. 25.
Lowry is a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University who specializes in nanomaterials and robotics in sustainable agriculture, testing and remediation of chemical pollutants, and environmental issues linked to fossil fuel.
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St. Louis Confluence Collaborative: Rewarding community-Based Research |
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Applications are open for the St. Louis Confluence Collaborative for Community-Engaged Research, Teaching, and Practice's William H. Danforth St. Louis Confluence Award.
The award recognizes faculty members for interdisciplinary, community-engaged research with a $50,000 cash prize.
Learn more about the application as well as past finalists and winners.
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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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Federal grants bring 32 electric vehicle chargers to Delmar Loop
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The $500,000 grant came from the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration, read more.
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| WashU research funding exceeds $1 billion for first time
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External dollars solve major challenges, spark local job growth, development, learn more.
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A year in the life of a Pathfinder Fellow: Journey to Madagascar
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Elizabeth Swords’ second year as a Pathfinder Fellow involved lessons on environmental modernism and a 22-day trip to Madagascar,, learn more.
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| Frachetti receives $2.4 million to study resilience in Asia-Pacific region |
The U.S. Department of Defense has provided a three-year $2.4 million grant in the Asia-Pacific Region, read more.
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NASA mission to probe possibility of life on Europa
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Exploration of Jupiter's icy moon could reveal how common habitable environments are in the universe, read more.
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| Underwater Caves in Sicily Show Signs of Early Humans From 17,000 Years Ago |
Underwater cave discovery suggests the island was a stepping stone for early humans to settle the Mediterranean, read more.
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Upcoming WashU environmental events |
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