With the growing field of "green economy," graduates versed in modern, environmentally friendly approaches to life and business are in great demand. Students in this program--which offers majors in environmental policy, ecology and biodiversity, natural resources and the environment, or environmental chemistry--examine environmental issues and conduct research at local, national, and international levels. Students draw on the unparalleled physical resources available in Sewanee's living laboratory, which embraces 13,000 acres of forested landholdings.
Karimeh Moukaddem (C'11), double major in Environmental Policy and International Development, wraps up her year in Brazil. Read her interview for the Young Scientist series "Forests, farming, and sprawl: the struggle over land in an Amazonian metropolis."
Held at the University of the South, this workshop includes short lectures and discussions led by internationally-recognized scholars, small group discussions, walks in the woods and trips to farms, reflection, and planning. The program will guide humanities faculty in incorporating units on animal-human relationships into courses and developing whole courses in the vibrant and growing interdisciplinary field of human-animal studies. "Teaching the Animal" is funded by an ACS grant and is available to faculty of the Associated Colleges of the South.
Daniel Church, C'11, began a post-baccalaureate fellowship with Director of Sustainability Integration Marvin Pate, and the Office of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability in July 2012. Church received a B.A. in Environmental Studies: Policy. The year-long fellowship will see Church helping to coordinate various sustainability-related student groups while also helping to draft sections of the Sustainability Master Plan, such as Transportation, Groundskeeping, Stormwater Management, and Campus Planning. Church will also help coordinate recycling efforts, and initiate new sustainability programs being rolled out across campus during the 2012-2013 academic year.
