College of the Environment

As artificial intelligence quickly reshapes how people interact with the world in various ways, instructors and students are taking a closer look at its role in higher education. College of the Environment are creating curriculum focused on helping students thoughtfully evaluate when AI can support learning, when it can undermine it, and how its use affects individuals, communit...

When the opportunity arose to work with 5 million-year-old ice from Antarctica, Hailey Smith jumped at the chance.  Smith, a fourth-year undergraduate student, had spent the past year working with graduate student mentor Liam Kirkpatrick on a research project to decipher the origins of layering in ice core segments from Antarctica. These ice cores give us insights into atmospher...

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Efforts to restore fish passage are cropping up across the country, but these projects come with hefty price tags. In a new study, University of Washington researchers explore different approaches to improving the benefits from investments in salmon recovery.

Explore recent research from the University of Washington: how climate change is redirecting rivers, what bean plants use to protect themselves from pests, where the water in an atmospheric river comes from and how researchers are making tensegrities tiny.