The Elephant in the Desert

Wilkes Center Announces Top Three Finalists for Climate Launch Prize

A company that makes safer, greener  building materials; an animal-free protein growing technology; and a technology for resource recovery from wastewater  are among the top three climate solutions that could win the $250,000 prize.   SALT LAKE CITY – On Wednesday, September 24, the Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy at the University of […]

Forging the Future

William Anderegg Passes Wilkes Center Leadership Baton Forward

Anderegg has established a legacy of communicating science and convening innovators at The Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy After three years as the founding director of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy at the University of Utah, William Anderegg, professor in the School of Biological Sciences, will step down as the […]

Wilkes Center partners with Microsoft on Sustainability White Paper

The Wilkes Center partnered with Microsoft in supporting its newly published white paper “Investing in nature for a sustainable future: Lessons from science and practice“.  The paper, released on October 9, 2024, puts forward 8 actions for what is needed to empower companies to maximize the sustainability impacts of their nature-based investments. The Microsoft-led policy […]

Establishing a “Wildfire Resilience Collective” Wilkes Center Hackathon, 2024

By Hannah Meier , PhD Student, School of Biological Sciences Caption: [from left to right]: Tegan, a PhD student in the Anderegg lab, investigates the impact of climate change on forest biodiversity and carbon sequestration. Elizabeth Williams is an undergraduate biomedical engineering student with a keen interest in public health, having already conducted research in […]

William Anderegg wins prestigious NSF Waterman Award

Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that William Anderegg, associate professor of biology at the University of Utah and director of the Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy, is one of three 2023 recipients of the prestigious Alan T. Waterman Award. NSF is recognizing Anderegg for his contributions to ecosystem and climate change […]