Several UW 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. QS World University Rankings by Subject tracks an analysis, conducted by QS Quacquarelli Symonds, of 16,400 university programs at 1,500 institutions in 96 locations around the world. The University of Washington has five subjects in the top 10 in 2024, including Geology (No.
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University of Washington spinoff Banyu Carbon, which is developing an inexpensive and low-energy method for carbon removal, recently raised $6.5 million in seed round funding, putting the company on track to scale up its technology for pilot testing this year.
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Though the El Niño period we’re in is natural and relatively predictable, its impacts on the global environment and economy have been significant — from sweltering heat in Australia to deep freezes across the southern U.S. El Niño may be giving us a glimpse of what’s to come if climate change is not soon curtailed.
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From new discoveries in our solar system to insights about how predators and prey interact with humans, 2023 was another impressive year of research in the College of the Environment. Our students tackled new challenges, and we celebrated anniversaries, new honors, new leadership positions and more.
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