natalie and emma award

​​Two ENVS PhD Students Named the 2023 Recipients of the Radford Byerly, Jr. Award in Science and Technology Policy

March 18, 2024

ENVS PhD students, Natalie Bennett and Emma Galofre Garcia, were named the 2023 recipients of the Radford Byerly, Jr. Award in Science and Technology Policy. The award now supports CU Boulder graduate students with a demonstrated commitment to making a significant contribution to science and technology policy. Read more about...

Maxwell Boykoff

ENVS Chair, Max Boykoff, among 13 selected for Excellence in Leadership Program

Sept. 16, 2022

We are so proud to share that professor and chair of the Department of Environmental Studies, Max Boykoff, was selected for the CU system's Excellence in Leadership Program (ELP) this year. Read the full story about 2022 Program here.

Rayna Benzeev

ENVS PhD Candidate, Rayna Benzeev, awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (SPRF)

Rayna Benzeev, an ENVS PhD candidate, has recently been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship (SPRF). She will be working alongside Dr. Meg Mills-Novoa at University of California Berkeley through her postdoc fellowship. Her project will integrate geospatial mapping and statistical...

Colleen Lyons and Pete Newton

New NSF grant: research on resilience among forest-dependent people in the Brazilian Amazon

ENVS Associate Professor, Peter Newton, and ENVS Associate Research Professor, Colleen Scanlan Lyons, were recently awarded funding from the National Science Foundation's program on Recovery, Renewal, and Resilience in a Post-Pandemic World. Together with researchers from the UK and Brazil, this trans-Atlantic partnership will study the various ways in which...

Jack Barker and Michelle Leung

Two ENVS graduating seniors awarded the Jacob Van Ek Scholarship

May 2, 2022

ENVS is extremely proud to announce that graduating seniors Michelle Leung and Jack Barker have been awarded Jacob Van Ek Scholarships! The award recognizes students who excel in academics and contribute greatly to the CU Boulder community. Click here to read more about the award and present and past winners...

Denise Fernandes and Hilary Brumberg

Two ENVS PhD Students Named the 2022 Recipients of the Radford Byerly, Jr. Award in Science and Technology Policy

Jan. 28, 2022

ENVS PhD Candidate, Denise Fernandes (left), and PhD Student Hilary Brumberg (right) were named the 2022 recipients of the Radford Byerly, Jr. Award in Science and Technology Policy.

Environmental Studies

Three graduate students awarded the Beverly Sears & Cynthia H. Schultz Graduate Student Research Grants

Jan. 18, 2022

Three ENVS PhD students, Laura Rea, Lee Frankel-Goldwater, and Tyler Nuckols, were awarded the 2022 Beverly Sears & Cynthia H. Schultz Graduate Student Research Grants.

Sravya Dhanwada

CU Undergrad Awarded Public Health Research Award

Oct. 6, 2021

CU Boulder undergrad Sravya Dhanwada has been awarded the Student Leaders in Public Health Award from the Rocky Mountain Public Health Training Center. The goal of the Student Leaders in Public Health program is to enhance the public health workforce in the Rocky Mountain region, specifically in rural and underserved...

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.