by cdunn | May 12, 2021 | Funding, Students
Career Advancement is pleased to award $5,000 Environmental Justice Fellowship Grants to students to conduct independent research, or a summer project related to creating a solution to address environmental justice in the Chicago-area. This opportunity will culminate...
by cdunn | May 12, 2021 | Events, Students
The UChicago Environmental Alliance (UCEA) is excited to host a Sustainability Town Hall on May 13th to promote information-sharing and conversation about all things environmental on campus! UCEA is a consortium of environmental RSOs and other student groups which...
by cdunn | May 11, 2021 | Events, Faculty and OAAs, Students
Luis Bettencourt, Pritzker Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation and Professor in the Department of Ecology & Evolution, will give a keynote lecture at the Sustainability Science Days Conference on May 18, 2021. Professor Bettencourt will speak...
by cdunn | May 10, 2021 | Faculty and OAAs, News, Research
“The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently announced it has awarded $27.5 million for 16 water infrastructure projects. The goal of all these projects is to reduce energy use and carbon emissions in our aging water infrastructure, particularly in wastewater...
by cdunn | May 10, 2021 | Events, Faculty and OAAs, Students
The University of Chicago Physics Profs. Sid Nagel and Heinrich Jaeger invite the public to the 8 lectures of the course PHSC11800 Physics & Contemporary Architecture, featuring a top flight of architects and structural engineers discussing contemporary structures...
by cdunn | May 7, 2021 | Events, Faculty and OAAs, Staff, Students
Join the Pearson Institute for a Lunch and Learn with Bina Desai on May 11, 2021 at 10:00 am (CDT). Head of Programmes at the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), Bina Desai will discuss addressing internal displacement as a critical step towards peace and...
by cdunn | May 7, 2021 | Events, Students
The Phoenix Outdoor Program (part of College Programming and Orientation) and Chicago Outdoors (a new series from Chicago Studies and the Program on the Global Environment) are sponsoring a Campus & Community Cleanup on May 11. Students must register for the event...
by cdunn | May 6, 2021 | Funding, Students
Career Advancement is pleased to award $5,000 Environmental Justice Fellowship Grants to students to conduct independent research, or a summer project related to creating a solution to address environmental justice in the Chicago-area. This opportunity will culminate...
by cdunn | May 4, 2021 | Faculty and OAAs, News
Phoenix Sustainability Initiative Organizes Virtual “Earth Week” Programming to Celebrate Environmentalism “Last week, Phoenix Sustainability Initiative (PSI) hosted eight virtual events as part of a weeklong celebration of Earth Day, observed annually on April...
by cdunn | Apr 30, 2021 | News, Students
Aurora Ireland and Edgar Marrufo Villalpando, graduate students in the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago, were awarded the prestigious Department of Energy’s Office of Science Graduate Student Research fellowship. Ms. Ireland’s work is on...
by cdunn | Apr 29, 2021 | Events, Students
Interested in energy, the environment and climate change but not sure how to make a career out of it? There are a wide array of exciting career pathways to choose from across these topics for young people with various skill sets and passions. To provide UChicago...
by cdunn | Apr 28, 2021 | Events, Students
The University of Chicago Physics Profs. Sid Nagel and Heinrich Jaeger invite the public to the 8 lectures of the course PHSC11800 Physics & Contemporary Architecture, featuring a top flight of architects and structural engineers discussing contemporary structures...
by cdunn | Apr 28, 2021 | Faculty and OAAs, News
The pandemic forced us to create habits that benefit the Earth and ourselves. Here’s which behaviors to keep. “We’ve had to adapt to a rapidly changing world over the last year but some of our newly acquired habits are worth retaining when the...
by cdunn | Apr 28, 2021 | Events, Students
This dialogue between MWRD Commissioner Kimberly Du Buclet and WBEZ’s Monica Eng (“Curious City”) will explore the structures and modern-day challenges facing Chicago’s water system, as seen from the perspective of the regional agency responsible for the management of...
by cdunn | Apr 26, 2021 | Events, Students
For this event, travel back in time to early Chicago to see how the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago reversed the Chicago River and developed wastewater treatment technology. Go behind the scenes and under water to see how MWRD transforms the...
