SEFS professor quoted in UW alumni magazine

A common story reported these days is about the benefits of going outside and into nature. A story in the March 2019 issue of Columns, a University of Washington alumni magazine, touched again on these benefits, and also shared that scientists don’t know exactly why we benefit from time in the outdoors. 

SEFS Students Make Meal for 120+ in Homeless Community

Just before the end of the winter 2019 quarter, a group of School of Environmental and Forest Sciences students prepared and served more than 120 burritos for the residents of Tent City 3, a community of men and women who are homeless and living under shelters managed by Seattle Housing and Resource Effort and the Women’s Equality and Enhancement League. 

Research team awarded grant to study ethnoforestry

In March, The University of Washington Population Health Initiative announced it would be awarding about $280,000 in grant funding to six teams at UW. The School of Environmental and Forest Sciences is proud to congratulate a team of three investigators from the school who were awarded some of this funding. 

Emeritus professor receives American Horticultural Society award

Congratulations to John Wott, an emeritus professor with the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, recently received a national award from the American Horticultural Society.
Wott received the organization’s Professional Award for his significant influence on horticulture in the Pacific Northwest over the course of his career. 

Emeritus professor receives American Horticultural Society award

Congratulations to John Wott, an emeritus professor with the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, recently received a national award from the American Horticultural Society.

Wott received the organization’s Professional Award for his significant influence on horticulture in the Pacific Northwest over the course of his career. 

SEFS student featured in Crosscut story

Crosscut recently featured SEFS PhD student Clint Robins.

Clint Robins, a PhD student at the UW School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, was recently featured in Crosscut’s “I Am STEM,” a series that features diverse stories of people who work in STEM and adjacent fields in the Pacific Northwest. 

Research team awarded grant to study ethnoforestry

Bear grass is one of the plants the research team will study.

Earlier this month, The University of Washington Population Health Initiative announced it would be awarding about $280,000 in grant funding to six teams at UW. 

2019 Sustaining Our World Lecture: Diversity and the environment

Dorceta Taylor

The 2019 Sustaining Our World Lecture welcomes Dorceta Taylor, the James E. Crowfoot Collegiate Chair and the Director of Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the University of Michigan‘s School for the Environment and Sustainability (SEAS). 

Wirsing, other researchers look at how deer responding to return of wolves

An adult gray wolf is caught on a wildlife camera in eastern Washington in 2015.University of Washington

As gray wolves continue to make a strong comeback in Washington state, their presence is impacting other animals, particularly the ones these large carnivores target as prey. 

Prugh contributes to paper that used NASA data to study wildlife, climate change

University of Washington’s School of Environmental and Forest Sciences associate professor Laura R. Prugh is a co-author of a paper that used NASA satellite data to study the movement of wildlife.