Cassandra Brooks

Assistant Professor Cassandra Brooks Featured in Only One Women Making Waves Series

March 19, 2021

The Only One, Women Making Waves series profiled five women who have dedicated their lives to ocean conservation and are leaders in their field. ENVS Assistant Professor Cassandra Brooks is featured as the Antarctic Champion. Full story and additional profiles can be found here .

Karen Bailey

New ENVS Faculty Awarded Grant to Understand Systematic Inequities of Climate Adaptation

March 14, 2021

One of ENVS' newest faculty member, Assistant Professor Karen Bailey, has been awarded funding from the Nature Conservancy to fund her project "Understanding Systematic Inequities of Climate Adaptation: an Analysis of Flood Mitigation Policies and Planning In New York State". Climate change is predicted to have significant negative impacts on...

Beth Osnes

ENVS Associate Faculty, Beth Osnes, Recipient of the Open Educator Award

March 14, 2021

CU Boulder Student Government and the University Libraries has named Beth Osnes as one of this year’s recipients of the annual Open Educator Award . This year, the award honored four educators for supporting CU Boulder students’ learning experiences through open educational practices. Osnes uses innovative strategies to encourage students...

Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey

ENVS PhD candidate a finalist in the 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) Finale

Feb. 16, 2021

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 Bangladeshi farmers.

Jill Litt

ENVS Professor, Jill Litt, receives Boulder Faculty Excellence Award for her Research and Scholarly Work

Feb. 12, 2021

The BFA Excellence Awards specifically recognize outstanding work and a concerted effort to make advances in the academy.

ENVS Professor Pete Newton

ENVS professor leads study of socio-economic implications of alternative protein Description

Feb. 5, 2021

Dr. Peter Newton (ENVS Assistant Professor) led a study of the potential social and economic opportunities and challenges of plant-based and cultured (or 'clean') meat for farmers and ranchers. The paper was published in the journal 'Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems', and was co-authored by Dan Blaustein-Rejto who works with The Breakthrough Institute.

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Congratulations to this year's Radford Byerly, Jr. Award in Science and Technology Policy award winners

Jan. 15, 2021

Congratulations to this year’s Radford Byerly, Jr. Award in Science and Technology Policy Margaret Hegwood and Ricardo Simmonds!

CO Equal Pay for Equal Work Act

Effective 1/1/2021 : Colorado's Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (C.R.S. § 8-5-101 et seq .) amends Colorado law and provides new wage discrimination and employer provisions that differ from federal law and other state equal pay laws. CO's EPEWA applies to all employers and employees in the state of...

Matthew Burgess

Assistant Professor Matt Burgess awarded Open Inquiry 2020 Teaching Award

Dec. 17, 2020

The Open Inquiry Awards highlight some of the individuals, groups, and institutions who do exemplary work promoting open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement — providing models that others can learn from, be inspired by, and perhaps even emulate.

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J. Terrence McCabe elected to be a fellow of the AAAS

Nov. 24, 2020

J. Terrence McCabe was elected to be a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for distinguished contributions to anthropology, particularly for understanding how people adapt to arid rangelands of East Africa, and how they cope with changing socio-economic conditions.

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