Maggie ENVS and Journalism, Class of 2022
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The Environmental Studies major is an interdisciplinary program designed to provide students with the knowledge, skills, and perspectives needed to understand the interactions between human societies and their environments. Understanding the ethical and cultural dimensions of our relationship with the environment, as well as the challenges of protecting it, requires insights from multiple perspectives, including the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. read more...
Truman Scholars
A First for UConn: Two Students Named Truman Scholars for 2021. (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)
Rhodes Scholar
Wanjiku (Wawa) Gatheru ’20 (CAHNR) is the first Rhodes Scholar in UConn's 138-year history! (Sean Flynn/UConn Photo)
Activist
Sena Wazer was recently interviewed by the Hartford Courant on her views on environmental policy. (Kassi Jackson/Hartford Courant photo)
More Highlights
UConn Office of Sustainability Awards Environmental and Social Sustainability Grants to Student-Led Projects https://sustainability.uconn.edu/2025/06/23/2025-environmental-and-social-sustainability-grants-awarded/
View the virtual book launch of Global Im-Possibilities: Exploring the Paradoxes of Just Sustainabilities, which has just been published by Bloomsbury (the bookwebpage is here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/global-impossibilities-9781786999542/). This event features Dr. Julian Agyeman, the originator of the “just sustainabilities” framework, as well as five authors from the edited volume speaking about their case studies. The co-editors of […]
UConn has been ranked #8 by the Sierra Club in their “Cool Schools” list this year, which places UConn as one of the world’s most sustainable campuses. See the UConn Today Article and the Sierra Club magazine article to read about the impressive measures UConn has taken and goals that we have set in environmental […]
UConn students are depicting youth environmental conservation and action throughout the Northeast A group of UConn students spent their summer creating a short documentary film and photography project that focuses on youth environmental conservation and action throughout the northeastern United States. Watch video. https://today.uconn.edu/2021/07/youth-environmental-conservation-and-action/
Congratulations to this year’s Environmental Studies UConn Phi Beta Kappa (PKB) chapter inductees: Kelly-Anne Moffa, Elaine Nguyen, Lauren Ann Pawlowski, and Sarah Nicole Schechter. PKB is an academic honor society for liberal arts and sciences students, and admits individuals based on a review of coursework and academic achievement. The full video of the induction ceremony […]
World Wildlife Fund summer 2021 virtual internships! Our team will be posting 30 open positions to our Careers page. We have paid internships supporting both business and conservation departments at WWF. These include Communications, Human Resources, Finance, Policy, Forests, Oceans, Climate, Wildlife, and more! Internships will pay $15/hour for an 8-week full-time position, starting at the […]
https://sustainability.uconn.edu/2025/06/23/2025-environmental-and-social-sustainability-grants-awarded/
