News Archive (2005-2006)

PoE Director Dave Secord makes a statement about the environment and global affairs - download pdf file, 28 KB (May 17, 2006). See what the UW is doing to further efforts to globalize research, education, and engagement in the Office of Global Affairs - http://washington.edu/home/international.

PoE's Capstone instructor John Withey co-authored a paper for BioScience on interdisciplinary and graduate education - download the pdf file, 110 KB (September 2006)

Read about the UW's Restoration Ecology Network in Science Magazine (June 30, 2006)

Listen to KPLU environment reporter Steve Krueger's interview with UWREN co-director Warren Gold. Click here to listen to the story (mp3). (June 30, 2006)

PoE prepares students to work in a sustainable world -Read the article in Facilities Manager (May/June 2006)

Gates Sr. speaks about PoE's ANWR course - UW Foundation: August Chairman's Corner
(Summer 2005)

Dispatches from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, by David Williams in Grist Magazine (August 2005)

PoE in the Paper! Seattle PI's Joel Connelly (August 3, 2005)

Henry Luce Foundation Awards Environmental Management Program $600,000 Grant (March 2005)

Campaign UW: Creating Futures Through the Environment

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Bill Gates Sr. and PoE's ANWR course

Bill Gates Sr. offers his thoughts about PoE's Summer 2005 Arctic National Wildlife Refuge travel course, the scholarly student, and more!

UW Foundation: August Chairman's Corner (pdf)

Henry Luce Foundation Awards Environmental Management Program $600,000 Grant

PoE’s Environmental Management (EM) Certificate Program has received a grant for $600,000 over three years from the Henry Luce Foundation to support an expanded and improved speaker series, provide student funding, and enlarge and diversify our capstone in the form of new "keystone" projects. Keystone projects will be developed in partnership with a wide variety of external stakeholders, including businesses, governments, and non-profit organizations, and will address a wide range of issues in environmental management, with the key themes of regional economic vitality and environmental sustainability.

Kevin Laverty, Director of the EM program and principal investigator for the Luce grant, says the keystone projects have a dual target: students, who will benefit immediately from improved real-world environmental management experience, and the participating community partners who will be able to tap into University expertise.

The Luce Foundation grant provides fellowship support and tuition waivers for six students per year, who will earn the title “Luce Fellow”. In accepting the grant, UW President Mark Emmert wrote, “Support from the Luce Foundation will allow us to significantly improve the training our students receive in environmental management and will make this training available to a much broader range of students”.

According to Laverty, “implementing successful projects with community partners and the enhanced visibility generated by our high-profile speaker series will provide a strong basis for making the EM Program sustainable in the long run. We expect these partnerships to blossom into greatly enhanced internship and career opportunities for all EM students.”

More information about the EM program is available on the web at:
http://depts.washington.edu/poeweb/gradprograms/envmgt/index.html.

Campaign UW: Creating Futures Through the Environment

Every day faculty, staff, and students at the University of Washington are working to create futures of unprecedented hope, possibility, and value. To learn more about how UW faculty and students are contributing to a better understanding of our natural environment and how to work toward its protection and improvement, visit: http://uwfoundation.org/themes/better_futures_environ.asp