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A Message from Dan Brown, SEFS Director: Summer 2025
Spring quarter is quickly winding down and as the SEFS community anticipates our commencement ceremony this Friday, I’m reflecting on the excellent work of our graduating students and the important research and engagement activities in which they participate in during their time at SEFS.
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SEFS remembers School of Forest Resources alumni Toby Atterbury, February 23, 1937 – March 26, 2025
The SEFS community is saddened to hear of the loss of School of Forest Resources alumni, Toby Atterbury. He was 88 years old and passed away peacefully in Seattle surrounded by loved ones.
Read moreThe socio-ecological niche: how can we better understand the roles of non-human species in modern socio-ecological systems?
SEFS Assistant Professor Alex McInturff runs the People and Wildlife Lab here at the University of Washington. McInturff’s recent research published in People and Nature helps us better understand a human-altered planet by bringing social science to life in niche ecology – his team is calling this concept “The Socio-Ecological Niche” or SEN for short.
Read moreSEFS 2025 Commencement Speaker: J. Cameron Crump, UW alumni and Forest Resources Division Manager at the Washington State Department of Natural Resources
Cameron Crump is currently the Forest Resources Division Manager at the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) where she leads the Silviculture, Informatics, and Habitat Conservation Plan sections for 2.1 million acres of forested state trust lands.
Read moreRobert Swan selected as recipient of the 2025 Excellence in Teaching Award
This spring, UW President Ana Mari Cauce and Provost Tricia Serio announced the recipients of the 2025 Awards of Excellence. For over 50 years, these awards have honored and celebrated outstanding faculty, staff, students and alumni whose achievements exemplify the University’s mission.
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Brian Harvey named National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow
This spring, Associate Professor Brian Harvey was named a Kavli Fellow by the National Academy of Sciences. The honor recognizes 87 of the nation’s brightest young scientists from industry, academia and government and invites them to take part in the Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia in 2025.
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2025 Sustaining Our World Lecture featuring Hilary Franz – former WA State Commissioner of Public Lands
On April 10, 2025 SEFS will be welcoming the Former Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands to Kane Hall for its annual Sustaining Our World lecture series. This year’s topic is “Climate Change And Resilience: How Science And Solutions Can Bring Society Together.”
Climate change can be a great unifier, if we will let it.
Guest Lecture: Dr. Richard Vlosky – Cross-Laminated Timber in the U.S. South: Changes in Sector Influence and Sawmill Engagement Over the Past Five Years
Who: Please join us in welcoming Dr. Richard Vlosky from Louisiana State University. Dr. Vlosky is a UW alumni and is the Crosby Land & Resource Endowed Professor of Forest Sector Business Development at LSU.
Read moreThe Impact of Giving – A SEFS Donor Spotlight Series: John C. Garcia
This is the second donor spotlight in a series. This series of stories reveals the impact that donors have on students, faculty and research here at the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences and more broadly at the College of the Environment.
Read moreA message from Dan Brown, SEFS Director: Spring 2025
We are well into 2025 and while there are moments when the future feels uncertain, the importance of our work here at SEFS and the broader scientific community is not. Our work and our commitment to our mission and values has not diminished in any way.
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