Program in Environmental Sciences | Weinberg College News

Using data for social good: Faculty empower students to use data to uplift community organizations

Northwestern University is building students’ data literacy while providing unique experiential learning opportunities to drive social good. Launched in September 2021 and powered by funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Metropolitan Chicago Data-Science Corps (MCDC) empowers undergraduate students from...

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Meet Assistant Professor of Instruction Elsa Anderson of the Program in Environmental Sciences

Weinberg College welcomes Assistant Professor of Instruction Elsa Anderson to the Program in Environmental Sciences! Anderson recently gave some insight into her background in environmental science and why she chose to teach urban ecology at Northwestern. Where are you from? Where did you...

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Parker Levinson ’18 discusses Antarctica expeditions

Parker Levinson, Class of 2018, has lately spent her time somewhere much colder than Evanston: the continent of Antarctica. A graduate of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Levinson has a degree in environmental science as well as African studies....

Alumni & Students

Meet botanist and ecological restoration practitioner, Cassi Saari ’11

Cassi Saari graduated in 2011 with a degree from the Program in Environmental Sciences. Today Saari is a project manager for the Chicago Park District Natural Areas. “We have areas with lots of native plants that have been planted intentionally for...