Environmental Studies is an interdisciplinary program based on a holistic understanding of environmental issues occurring at the local, national, and global level.  The program offers students tools and perspectives from the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences to understand the causes and consequences of environmental problems and the knowledge to develop potential solutions.

What's New

• EnviroThursday for February 2 - "Volunteering with the Peace Corps" at 12 noon in Olin Rice 250.
     
  
• EnviroThursday for February 9 - "EcoBucks and the Gender of 'Green'" by Evangeline Heiliger, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Gender Studies, Coe College at 12 noon in Olin Rice 250.
       
  
• EnviroThursday for February 16 - "Delisting of the Gray Wolf" by L. David Mech at 12 noon in Olin Rice 250.
       
  
• Congratulations to Prof. Chris Wells who has been granted tenure.  Chris is an environmental historian and started in the Environmental Studies Department in 2005.  He teaches the following courses:  American Environmental History, Consumer Nation:  American Consumer Culture in the 29th Century, Environmental Justice, U.S. Urban Enironmental History, Imperial Nature:  The United States and the Global Environment, and Car Country:  The Automobile and the American Environment.
       
  
• Prof. Christie Manning Receives 2011 Macalester Sustainability Award for Curricular Innovation - The Education in the Classroom Task Force of the Macalester Sustainability Committee is pleased to announce that Christie Manning, Visiting Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, received the 2011 Macalester Sustainability Award for Curricular Innovation. The task force unanimously selected Professor Manning for the award, which is presented to a faculty member whose curricular innovation "has most effectively influenced the way his or her students think about sustainability." Nominators discussed the multiple ways in which Professor Manning's ENVI 270: Psychology of Sustainable Behavior exemplifed the award. In addition to the honor of this recognition, Professor Manning will receive $1,000 from funds donated by Alfred N. Page.
      
• Prof. Dan Hornbach Wins Thomas Jefferson Award - Congratulations to Professor Dan Hornbach, who has received the 2011 Thomas Jefferson Award, honoring faculty members who best exemplify the principles and ideals of Thomas Jefferson. Hornbach was selected by a committee of past Jefferson Award winners. READ MORE