“We need Joy as we need air. We need Love as we need water. We need each other as we need the earth we share.”
Maya Angelou
The mission of the Environment and Sustainability Studies (ENV) Program is to prepare students to create just and sustainable futures. By leveraging the experiential learning of liberal arts education and coupling it with our vibrant professional schools, we teach students how to think across disciplinary boundaries to address environmental challenges and to act within their communities for environmental justice. We ready students to be bold and ethical leaders who respond to environmental issues using socio-environmental synthesis for evidence-based, creative, and principled action.
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News
- Stone Mountain Student Class Trip
Dr. Stephen Smith’s ENV 321(Earth’s Dynamic Surface) class took a trip to Stone Mountain State Park, NC. Apart from about 10 minutes of rain on the summit, they all had a great day! - Recruiting for Faculty Positions
We are currently recruiting for two faculty positions. Click on the links below to apply on the HR website: *Associate Professor of Environmental Social Science, Environment and Sustainability Studies Program *Geographic Information Systems Assistant Teaching Professor, Environment and Sustainability Studies Program - ENV professor to collaborate on NASA-funded study of carbon storage in forests
Dr. Ovidiu Csillik, assistant professor in remote sensing in the Environmental Program, will serve as a co-investigator on a new $1 million NASA-funded project to get a more accurate and detailed picture of what is happening with carbon storage over time in tropical forests. See the Wake Forest news article here. - Dr. Ovidiu Csillik’s Work Published in PNAS
Dr. Ovidiu Csillik is pleased to share that his recent publication in PNAS has been featured in Reuters, Nature Highlights, and Mongabay. The study provides an in-depth analysis of aboveground carbon losses and gains in the Amazon forest, emphasizing the significant impact of forest degradation on the regional carbon balance. Utilizing high-resolution airborne laser […] - ENV Program welcomes new facultyAs we wind down the summer and prepare to begin the 2024-2025 academic year, we are happy to welcome three new faculty members to the ENV team and send off Dr. Sames on new adventures. Dr. Leslie Straker has joined us from the WFU Graduate Program in Sustainability. He has coastal expertise in natural and […]