Roundtable on Tyson’s Military History

Breakfast provided!

Members of the fall 2025 cohort of the Tyson Environmental Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellowship will present their research findings to date on the U.S. military’s use of the site now home to WashU’s environment field research station, Tyson Research Center. During WWII and the Korean War, the U.S. military constructed bunkers and other facilities to store and test weapons at the Eureka, Mo., location. 

Tyson undergraduate researchers are helping to drive forward the larger Tyson History Project, which aims to preserve, interpret and communicate the history of Tyson Research Center — both prior to and since WashU’s presence — over the millennia of human occupation. The initiative is funded in part by an Ignite Interdisciplinary Grant from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research.

Note: The application deadline for the spring 2026 Tyson Environmental Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellowship is Wednesday, December 17.