Environmental Studies
- The award will fund small exhibits created by high school students that will tour museums and birding festivals throughout the Americas, raising awareness about climate change and promoting STEM diversity.
- In the book ‘The Wild and the Wicked,’ Benjamin Hale argues that because people have the unique capacity to care for the environment, they have a moral obligation to do so.
- Karen Bailey will present her work on the fraught relationship between elephant and human communities in Thailand when she receives her award at the Ecological Society of America 2023 Annual Meeting.
- Appearance of famed political activist, scholar and author reflects the department’s progress toward becoming ‘go-to place’ of interdisciplinary work at the nexus of humans and the environment, ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ professor says.
- Climate-communication class assignment was to ‘visually communicate sustainable fashion,’ and the effort got more response than anticipated.
- Despite the Inflation Reduction Act, U.S. progress on climate change remains stuck in a climate conundrum, experts say, hampered by politics, complexity and the scope of the problem.
- The MINT study program uses nature-based social intervention to address and dimmish loneliness with teenage parents and their peers.
- The Ecological Society of America has honored Karen Bailey for her work as an interdisciplinary ecologist.
- The Research and Innovation Office has announced the 2023 RIO Faculty Fellows cohort, which includes 17 faculty members from departments and research institutes spanning the campus.
- ÌÒÉ«ÊÓÆµ undergraduate finds documents indicating eugenics sympathy by museum founder T.D.A. Cockerell.