News

PoE’s Director, Julia Parrish, has been selected as one of the UW’s Distinguished Teaching Award winners for 2008!  She will be inducted into the UW Teaching Academy and will receive the award at the annual recognition ceremony in June. (March 2008)

Alumni Link - Newsletter of the Environmental Studies Alumni Advisory Board (November 2007)

Eat Local this Thanksgiving! "Keeping it local for a green Thanksgiving"in the Seattle P.I. (November 3, 2007)

PoE's Michelle Hall featured in University Week "ArtsLink: Helping students connect." (October 25, 2007)

PoE's Spring 2007 Graduation- PoE hosted its annual Environmental Studies Graduation Celebration on Friday, June 8, 2007 in the Mary Gates Hall Commons. You can read or listen
to the keynote address by Dr. Stephen Bezruchka, who spoke on "Energy, Equity, and the Environment: PoE Vanguards." (audio file)

PoE's Spring 2007 Newsletter- CONNECTIONS See previous newsletters below (archive)

PoE highlighted as a key interdisciplinary environmental program in Provost Wise's series Uniquely Washington episode "Celebrating Place." (May 2007)

Environmental Management Keystone students & projects featured in University Week. (April 19, 2007)

Alumni Link - Newsletter of the Environmental Studies Alumni Advisory Board (April 2007)

PoE receives the 2007 Brotman Award for Instructional Excellence! This award is given annually in recognition of outstanding achievements in undergraduate education. (March 2007)

PoE's ENVIR 100 instructor Yoram Bauman (The Stand-up Economist) featured in the Seattle PI - "Do-gooders and good humor mix well on Non-Profit Nights, and that's no joke" (January 29, 2007)

Click here for News Archive (2005- 2006)

Curriculum for the Bioregion

Curriculum for the Bioregion" is a new initiative of the Washington Center (The Evergreen State College in conjunction with other WA universities) that aims to better prepare undergraduates, as well as ourselves, to live in a world where the complex issues of environmental quality, environmental justice, and sustainability are paramount. This faculty and curriculum development project is based on two ideas: local environmental knowledge is the basis for understanding the larger issues of global change, and within this framework of global change, experiential learning in local places has lasting meaning.

Read it here! Curriculum for the Bioregion Report