Director's Message: Summer in St. Louis |
Summers in St. Louis can be hot and humid but rarely uneventful. Unlike some species, the Center for the Environment has not gone dormant for the hot summer months. Instead we are excited to offer summer programming that includes two research networking lunches, our one-year birthday party, and two field trips. I hope you can join us for some of these events.
We are less than a month away from the start of the school year, and I hope this time is productive and regenerative and that it gives you a chance to connect across our community.
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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Research networking lunches |
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This month, the center is hosting two research lunches aimed at building connections and sharing opportunities among the university's environmental research community.
Research Networking Lunch: Agriculture-Environment-Human Health
Monday, July 22 | 11:30-12:30 p.m. | Schnuck Pavilion Room 202
This networking event is designed to help build connections among researchers focused on agriculture, environmental impact, and human health. The lunch will include structured small-group conversations as well as opportunities to discuss your current and upcoming work.
This lunch is open to WashU faculty and staff as well as researchers from partner institutions. Lunch is included, please RSVP by July 18.
Environmental Justice Funding Opportunities with the Research Development Office Monday, July 29 | Noon - 1 p.m. |Schnuck Pavilion Room 202
The Research Development Office present information on environmental justice funding opportunities. The RDO team will discuss their services, give an overview of the federal environmental justice funding landscape, and share information about specific agency programs.
This event is open to WashU faculty and staff. It is intended for scholars looking to strengthen and expand their work at the intersections of environmental and social challenges. Lunch is included; please RSVP by July 24.
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Happy birthday (to us), the center is 1-year old |
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| We are hosting a birthday celebration for our scholars, staff, and partners marking one year of work since the center's launch.
Join us and celebrate from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 24 on the second floor of Green Hall. The celebration will feature cake, refreshments, and the opportunity to relax and connect with colleagues.
The party is open to all members of the WashU environmental community, or anyone connected to our shared work.
Please let us know if you plan to attend to help us plan for food.
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Tour Cahokia Mounds and the Missouri Botanical Garden |
The center is hosting two visits to research sites in the St. Louis metro area. Both are open to any friends and partners of the Washington University environmental research community.
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Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site tour
Wednesday, July 31 | 9:15 a.m. - 1p.m.
Learn about the ongoing research, education, and outreach work of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site. Site Services Specialist Angela Cooper, PhD will lead the tour of the site's Grand Plaza and a visit to the top of Monks Mound. The tour will provide a comprehensive overview of the history of Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site and the people who lived here. The center will coordinate carpooling to the site from the Danforth campus. Please RSVP by July 27.
Sustainability and research tour of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Thursday, August 15| 9:00 a.m. - Noon
Learn more about the sustainable operations and research efforts of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Join colleagues for a sustainability tour and discussion of the garden's research and conservation work. Please RSVP by August 9.
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Artificial intelligence meets cartography
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Graduate students in Nathan Jacobs’ lab presented mapping tools to create satellite images from text prompts at EarthVision 2024, read more.
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| Early, Losos elected members of American Philosophical Society
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The center's director for biodiversity elected to the United State's oldest learned society,
learn more.
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Archaeologists Dispute Theory of Largest Native American City's Abandonment
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Archaeologists have challenged a popular theory in a recent study about the abandonment of Cahokia, learn more.
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| Scientists find new way global air churn makes particles |
Jian Wang’s atmospheric science and engineering lab discovers new mechanism of particle formation when stratosphere, troposphere air mix, read more.
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Upcoming WashU environmental events |
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Environmental Research Collaboration Series |
Save the date for the fall semester's Environmental Collaboration Series. These monthly lunches are designed to build community among researchers and allow for learning from colleagues while also highlighting specific projects, sharing tools, and generating ideas for future collaboration.
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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.
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