Department of Environmental Sciences

Application Deadline: April 12, 2020

As part of an ongoing commitment to diversifying our programs, the professoriate and the research workforce, the College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Virginia solicits applications to the Rising Scholars Postdoctoral Fellows Program.  This program seeks to recruit postdoctoral scholars who have the potential to assume a tenure-track faculty position and who would benefit from a mentored professional development opportunity. 

Professor Dave Hondula, University of Arizona, was interviewed in the Washington Post about preparations the hottest city in the United States, Phoenix, Arizona is doing as Global Warming makes the city even hotter.

Master's student Tara Illgner recently published a letter to editor with the local Charlottesville area newspaper The Daily Progress. See link below to full article.

Congratulations to our undergraduate students! Please follow the "View Full Story" link below to watch the diploma ceremonies on vimeo.

The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 120 members and 26 international members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Of the 120 members elected today was UVA's very own Dr. Jim Galloway, Sidman P. Poole Professor in the Department of Environmental Science. Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,403 and the total number of international members to 501. Congratulations on this outstanding career achievement Dr. Galloway!