Undergraduate Students

M.S / J.D. Candidate, Alex J. Hamilton, is receives the Wyss Scholarship to "support the graduate-level education of a new generation of leaders in western land conservation."

Associate Professor, Jill Litt, and Ph.D. student, Ashby Leavell, were awarded a seed grant from the CU Renee Crown Wellness Institute to pursue their 2020-2021 study, "Designing Nature-Based Social Prescriptions with Adolescent Mothers and Their Peers to Address Social Connection".

Jenn successfully defended her dissertation on March 30th titled "Re-Creating the American West: An Examination of the Impacts of Creative District Policy in Rural Colorado". It looks at the social, spatial, and economic outcomes for rural communities that engage with the creative district policy framework through a mixed method case study approach.

Professor Lambert writes op-ed piece to dispel claims that wolves caused the current pandemic.

Joanna Lambert was recently interviewed by The Revelator to talk about the ecology and politics of wolf reintroduction.

Jessica Egan, a hydrologist and graduate student at the University of Colorado Boulder, presents research on a new study at AGU’s Fall Meeting in San Francisco.

The fight over whether gray wolves should be reintroduced in Colorado continues as over 200,000 signatures were delivered to the Secretary of State's office Tuesday morning. The Rocky Mountain Wolf Action Fund is behind the campaign to get the issue on the ballot in 2020. “This is the first time ever in U.S. history where the restoration of an endangered species using the mechanism of reintroduction has been done via a democratic process,” Lambert said.

“I’m really thankful to CU, which game me this sort of cross-pollination and promotion of interdisciplinary skills,” he says. “I’m able to engage in these seemingly disconnected pursuits in one place. That’s kind of cool.”

Maxwell Boykoff is the Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy, which is part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He also is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Studies program and is Adjunct faculty in the Geography Department.