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Colorado might be a long way from an ocean, but when Emily Nocito was looking for a college where she could study high seas conservation, she chose CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ's environmental studies program.
Join the ENVS community in congratulating Urooj Raja, a Doctoral Candidate in the ENVS program, on receiving the Dissertation Completion Fellowship from the CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ Graduate School. Her dissertation research examines the potential of
Tune in this weekend (Saturday, March 20th 9am Pacific Time) to community-supported KQUA radio to listen to an episode about off-trail hiking featuring interviews with Tony Cannon (https://www.wildumpqua.com) and ENVS PhD Candidate Jeremiah Osborne-
Come see one of our very own - PhD Candidate Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey - give a talk in the 3MT (3-minute thesis) FINALE competition, February 16, 4:00-6:00 pm. He'll be discussing some of his dissertation work about how migration influences
Congratulations to this year’s Radford Byerly, Jr. Award in Science and Technology Policy Margaret Hegwood and Ricardo Simmonds!
Profound Connections is a CESR project started on campus by Caitlin O’Neill and Cindy Lee that brings sustainability-oriented clubs together at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ. These clubs are active and ready for more members, even during social distancing! Read more about how to join now.
CU grads Tyler Huggins (Ph.D. Environmental Engineering) and Justin Whiteley have formed a successful startup known as Meati Foods in NE ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ, which grows lab-cultured mycelium indoors in stainless steel tanks, similar to those used to brew beer. The process uses 99% less water and land, and emits 99% less carbon dioxide than conventionally produced animal protein. Meati Foods has already attracted $28.2 million in investment funding and cultivates a scalable protein product that is remarkably similar in texture to steak and chicken cutlets, a viable market competitor to companies like Impossible (burger) and Beyond Meat.
Denise Fernandes, Ph.D. student in Environmental Studies, and photographer Shelby McAuliffe collaborated on a project researching the cultural politics of oil and gas in ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ and Weld counties.
Get support for statistics and data science in your research from LISA; The Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis (LISA) is a statistics and data science collaboration laboratory at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ. LISA’s goal is to increase the quantity- Congratulations to Sebastian for passing his dissertation defense!