Congratulations to UW Environment’s Kristi Straus! The lecturer at UW’s Program on the Environment was recently selected to receive the 2017 Distinguished Teaching Award. She will be honored at UW’s Awards of Excellence ceremony on June 8, 2017 at 3:30 p.m. at Meany Hall. Distinguished Teaching Award recipients are chosen based on a variety of criteria, including mastery of the subject matter, enthusiasm and innovation in teaching and learning process, ability to engage students both within and outside the classroom, ability to inspire independent and original thinking in students and to stimulate students to do creative work, and innovations in course and curriculum design.
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Anna Mines graduated from the University of Washington’s Environmental Studies and ethnomusicology programs in 2014. After earning her diploma, she left for a six-week backpacking trip on the beautiful southern Italian coast and then settled in Rome. Today, she’s in studying Italian on a student visa and working to launch a responsible tourism business called Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is (PYMWYMI).
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Congrats to the School of Oceanography’s Rick Keil, the new director of UW Environment's Program on the Environment!
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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.
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