Director's Message: undergraduate impact |
When I headed off to college a few decades ago, I wanted to become a civil engineer who would build bridges and other large infrastructure projects. A set of summer research experiences transformed the trajectory of my education and professional life. Through laboratory and field research over the summer, I fell in love with research and with environmental engineering, loves that sent me to graduate school, a postdoc, and ultimately to WashU. As an undergraduate I even got to face the challenging decision of whether to spend part of the summer in Hawaii or the entire summer in Greenland.
This summer, the center is hosting our inaugural summer undergraduate research program. We are excited to have a dozen WashU undergraduate students embedded in research groups in four different schools across the university. By design many of these students are new to research. I can't wait to see where their research will take them this summer and beyond. You can read more about the students and the program below.
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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| This month the WashU community experienced a tremendous loss. Stan Braude - professor of practice in biology and in environmental studies - passed away after a short illness June 1.
Stan was a committed teacher, researcher, and explorer of the world. He helped instill an understanding and care for the environment among three decades of WashU students. As the founding curator of the university's arboretum, he helped establish our university as a greener, healthier place.
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Summer Undergraduate Research Program |
This summer the center launched its inaugural summer undergraduate research program. A dozen undergraduate students are learning first-hand the skills and tools to conduct research in environmentally focused labs and research groups across the university.
During this 10-week program, these students are working alongside faculty and graduate student mentors. Along with the day-to-day experience of conducting research, these students are engaging in weekly professional development sessions and cohort building activities.
Read more about this inaugural cohort.
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We are hiring: Research Development Associate |
The center is seeking a Research Development Associate to lead research proposal development and strategic planning for large and complex interdisciplinary environmental research activities that involve faculty from multiple schools and institutes.
This new position will play an important role in the exciting and dynamic interdisciplinary research landscape at the university while supporting the Center's mission to increase the size and impact of the WashU’s environmental research portfolio.
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Preferred Education & Experience
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Advanced degree in an environmental field, PhD strongly preferred
- Experience participating in and playing key roles in interdisciplinary scientific teams
- Experience with managing, developing, and reviewing of multi-investigator or multi-institution grant applications or with forms of scientific writing and editing,
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Experience with federal grants websites and award databases.
- Experience analyzing requests for proposals, funding opportunity announcements, and other funding calls
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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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Upcoming WashU environmental events |
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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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