Join us for ice cream sundaes as we bid farewell to the 2017-2018 academic year and honor this year’s College of the Environment award winners!
Learn more about the College Awards »Expanding field-based learning opportunities
The generous support of donors like Tom Hinckley, Environmental and Forest Sciences professor emeritus, makes immersive learning in the field accessible for more UW undergraduates.
Read more »2018 Hall Conservation Genetics Research Fund winners announced
UW Environment is pleased to announce that School of Environmental and Forest Sciences’ students Taylor Ganz and Lila Westreich and the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences’ Marta Gomez-Buckley are recipients of the 2018 Hall Conservation Genetics Research Fund. The fund is made possible by a generous gift from the Benjamin and Margaret Hall Charitable Lead Trust. Taylor Ganz Advisor: Laura Prugh Using forensic DNA analysis to identify the species and individual predator at white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), mule deer (Odocoileus virginianus) and elk (Cervus elaphus) kill sites, the project will quantify the degree of specialization within predators, applying recently developed techniques in wildlife forensics to inform the conservation and management of Washington’s wildlife.
More about the Hall Conservation Genetics Research Award »UW Environment student Frieda Luoma-Cohan awarded 2018 Bonderman Travel Fellowship
Fifteen University of Washington students were recently awarded prestigious Bonderman Travel Fellowships, including one from the College of the Environment. The award will enable Program on the Environment‘s Frieda Luoma-Cohan to embark on a solo journey at least eight months long and take her to at least two regions and six countries around the world. The fellowship, established in 1995 and worth $20,000 each, aims to expose students to the intrinsic, often life-changing benefits of international travel.
Meet all of the 2018 Bonderman Fellowship Awardees »Q&A: Washington Sea Grant’s Penny Dalton a leader, mentor in ocean policy field
When Penny Dalton accepted a prestigious Sea Grant ocean policy fellowship during graduate school, it forever changed the course of her career. Instead of focusing on fisheries research, she landed on Capitol Hill, in federal agencies and oceanographic associations and, ultimately, to Washington Sea Grant at the University of Washington, where she has served as director for 12 years. Dalton will retire May 1.
Read the Q&A at UW Today »