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.
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A week in the wild at Yellowstone National Park
Students and professors from the College of the Environment make a classroom out of one of the world’s most closely monitored ecosystems: Yellowstone National Park.
Read more »UW’s Neal McMillin makes waves in the tidal energy sector
The School of Marine and Environmental Affairs' Neal McMillin explores what it might take for governments, scientists, communities, and other stakeholders to get tidal energy projects off the ground and into the ocean.
Read more »UW Environment’s Leah Litwak champions better food assistance integration at local farmers markets
Environmental Studies senior explores how farmer's markets might make nutritious, local food an option for entire communities.
Read more »Meet Meryl Mims, Aquatic and Fishery Sciences graduate student
With two degrees under her belt and dissertation research to complete, Meryl Mims found herself in southeastern Arizona’s Sky Islands in the summer of 2013. In a landscape known for the juxtaposition of its sprawling features—where towering, forested mountains seep upward through the desert’s dry, cracked surface—a two-inch long frog captured Mims’ attention. “We were already out there and we were hearing the Arizona treefrogs.
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