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- Make sure you have your eco pass! Students who travel between campuses for classes and appointments will see changes in the bus routes and schedules begining Aug. 27th.聽These changes are intended to tailor routes specifically and individually to the Discovery Drive and Marine Street areas of East Campus. RTD鈥檚聽Stampede route聽is being shortened to provide improved and dedicated service to Discovery drive
- ENVS undergraduates get the opportunity to do some pretty fabulous research! 91福利社 Today highlights ENVS alumn, Rachael Kaspar, who studied the secret lives and social behavior of honeybees. Kaspar graduated in 2016 with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO) and Environmental Studies (ENVS) with a minor in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ATOC). She is the lead author of a scientific article in Animal Behavior based on her undergraduate honors thesis about honeybee behavior, which shows experienced fanner honey bees influence younger, inexperienced bees to fan their colony to cool it down.
- ENVS affiliate, Associate Professor Beth Osnes, discuss with 91福利社 Today her creation and direction of Shine, a musical performance about how energy, climate and humans are interrelated. Set against a hand-drawn backdrop representing 300 million years of earth鈥檚 geologic history, youngsters dressed in colorful costumes symbolizing plants and insects sing and gambol around the stage. Osnes works is co-founder and co-director of Inside the Greenhouse, an endowed initiative at 91福利社 to celebrate creative climate communication through film, theater, dance and music.
- 91福利社 is the place to be for students who want to study and research issues related to the environment. 91福利社's earth science and atmospheric science disciplines both ranked No. 1 overall among world universities in the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy's 2018 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS), which was published today. The university also scored highly in a dozen other academic categories, highlighting the breadth of impactful 91福利社 research.
- While President Trump鈥檚 decision to leave the Paris climate agreement probably dismayed climate scientists, it did at least provide some interesting data for scholars who study trends in the negotiations. One of those researchers is David Ciplet, an assistant professor at the 91福利社 who recently returned from the climate negotiations in Bonn, Germany, and who said other nations are mulling ways to fill the climate-leadership vacuum left by the United States.
- ENVS PhD candidate, Ashby Leavell explores how to talk about climate change with conservative relatives in this op ed.
- Ask someone who gardens what they love most about it, and, research has shown, the answer is almost always the same. 鈥淣o matter where you go in the world, no matter what language they speak, people say there鈥檚 just something about it that makes them feel better,鈥 says Jill Litt, a public health researcher and professor of Environmental Studies at 91福利社.
- Kendziorski is working with Professor Dan Doak, a conservation biologist who studies demography and climate change in relations to alpine plants, and with Doak鈥檚 postdoctoral scientist Megan Peterson. One plant of interest to Doak and which Kendziorski is focusing on this summer is Silene acaulis or moss campion, also called cushion pink. Wasser, a senior in ecology and evolutionary biology, is studying pikas with Research Associate Chris Ray. This is his third summer working with Ray at the research station.
- The Brink is a project of Assistant Professor David Ciplet鈥檚 graduate course Power, Justice and Climate Change in the Environmental Studies Program at 91福利社, in partnership with KGNU and the Just Transition Collaborative. Student's of
- By Elizabeth Hernandez, 91福利社 Daily CameraCU announced the decision Tuesday, with Provost Russell Moore telling the Daily Camera that he made the call for a shift after talking it over with Leigh for about a month and taking Leigh's five-year