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UW Bothell receives $800k for programs leading to green-economy careers
An initiative at the University of Washington Bothell to prepare the next generation of students for the green economy has received $811,061 as part of $19.4 million secured by Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (WA-01) for community projects across the 1st Congressional District in Washington state. The budget was approved by the U.S. Congress in late December...
January 12, 2023
Our home in the forest
Our Home in the Forest, a Discovery Core class at the University of Washington Bothell this autumn quarter, stretches the boundaries of what constitutes a classroom. Not content to study nature at a distance, the faculty leaders and their students went from learning in a typical 900-square-foot room with white walls and carpet flooring to a 326-acre...
December 20, 2021
Environmental Education & Research Center opens fall 2021
As National Recreation & Parks month comes to a close, the University of Washington Bothell Environmental Education & Research Center at Saint Edward State Park is gearing up to open. The one-of-a-kind facility, designed for the appreciation, study and stewardship of Pacific Northwest ecosystems, will officially launch this fall in the annex to what until 1977 was the historic Saint Edward Seminary. The EERC’s opening, delayed a year by...
July 28, 2021
New environmental center at Saint Edward park
University of Washington Bothell faculty and staff are helping plan an environmental learning center that would make more use of Saint Edward State Park as an outdoor classroom and living laboratory. David Stokes, a professor of ecology and conservation biology in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (IAS), envisions the Environmental Education and Research Center (EERC) as...
February 12, 2019