Cailey Condit, a UW Assistant Professor and petrologist in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences was recently awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award, the most prestigious award presented by NSF to support junior faculty. Condit has exciting plans for her award, titled “CAREER: Connecting metamorphic reactions, fluid production, and deep slow slip in subduction zones”.
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Eric Steig, a University of Washington glaciologist and geochemist, recently was awarded a prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship, an honor given to 188 “culture creators” working across 52 disciplines.
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New research led by the University of Washington analyzes the most recent ice age, when a large swath of North America was covered in ice, to better understand the relationship between CO2 and global temperature. It finds that while most future warming estimates remain unchanged, the absolute worst-case scenario is unlikely.
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Several College of the Environment disciplines placed highly in two recent rankings: QS World University Rankings by Subject and U.S. News & World Report’s 2025 Best Graduate Schools.
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Taking home the $15,000 Grand Prize was AgroFilms, a team of students from the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences as well as a technology management MBA student. The team’s mulch film, both innovative and low-cost, has the potential to keep plastic waste out of farms, landfills and oceans.
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