Environmental Sustainability MAJOR
Develop sustainable solutions to environmental issues. Meredith’s environmental sustainability major is an interdisciplinary program focused on three foundations: natural sciences, social sciences, and economics and communication.
At Meredith, you can tailor an environmental sustainability program that fits your professional career interests. You will choose from select liberal arts courses, such as environmental politics, ethics, and economics, in addition to science and math classes, and participate in a research or internship experience.
As a result, you’ll be prepared for a wide array of career options. And, you’ll engage in your studies within a campus environment that is focused on issues of sustainability.
Student Organizations
Angels for the Environment is a student organization dedicated to the mission of education about environmental issues.
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STEM Summer School
Meredith STEM College is an opportunity for rising 10th, 11th, and 12th-grade women to develop their interest in science.
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Careers
An environmental sustainability degree prepares students for a wide array of potential careers as well as graduate study.
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Meredith Minute
Often the term “natural” is used to convey the idea that a product is safe or of better quality. Today the media play on our fears to make us guarded and uncertain of synthetic chemicals in our food and other products; however, synthetic substances should not be assumed to be toxic. Professor of Chemistry Walda Powell discusses if “natural” products are safer than synthetic.
Did you know humans have changed the earth so quickly that geologists have declared a new era called the Anthropocene? In this episode of Meredith Minute, Associate Professor of Geoscience Matthew Stutz discusses the impact humans are having on the earth and offers hope for an alternative future.
When Berekia Divanga, ’19, moved from Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, to Raleigh in 2012, she brought her ambition and determination.
When Matilda Odera, ’18, talks about her Meredith experience, she lights up. Whether she’s describing the friends she’s made across campus, her undergraduate research, or her involvement in A4E, Meredith’s student environmental organization, it’s clear that she has made the most of her time in Raleigh.
As a Spanish and environmental sustainability major, Meredith Hovis’s decision to study abroad was life-changing.
Contact Information
Dr. Francie S. Cuffney
Department Head Biological Sciences
(919) 760-2879
cuffneyf@meredith.edu
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