Join us May 11 at Spring Celebration to honor 2015-2016 UW Environment award winners

Join us for Spring Celebration on May 17, 2017!

Join us for ice cream sundaes as we bid farewell to the 2015-2016 academic year and honor this year’s College award winners! UW Environment’s Second Annual Spring Celebration will be held at the Fishery Sciences Building at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 11, 2016. This event is for friends and colleagues across all departments and an opportunity to recognize a few of our incredible faculty, students, and staff. 

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UW Environment students named Husky 100 awardees

2016 Husky 100 awardees from the College of the Environment.

Five students from the College of the Environment—Laurel J. James, Leah Litwak, Sierra Kross, Brian Tracey, and Linnea McCann—have been selected as members of the inaugural class of the Husky 100. This new award recognizes 100 undergraduate and graduate students from across the three University of Washington campuses who are making the most of their time as members of the UW community, and making a difference inside and outside of the classroom. 

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UW’s Jerry Franklin honored for lifetime of forest research, policy

SEFS Emeritus Professor Jerry Franklin.

Forest ecologist Jerry Franklin has made a career of straddling two sometimes very different worldviews — that of the ecologist and the forester. The two professions historically didn’t see eye to eye, but Franklin, in his current role as a UW professor of environmental and forest sciences and previously as a forester with the U.S. Forest Service, has in his 60-year career found a way to integrate ecological and economic values into forestry. 

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