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Welcome to the Department of Environmental Sciences (ENVS)
About UsReal World Connections: How a degree in ENVS has real-world impacts!
Equipping students to address the most important challenges of our world: climate change, disease ecology, food and water security, vector-borne disease, human impacts on the environment - a degree in ENVS offers students opportunities to tackle the most pressing issues of our times.
Find out more about the ENVS degree and the specialization tracks on our Majors page.
Professor Tom Gillespie with BBC World News: Saving species and preventing pandemics.
Professor Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec on CBS This Morning: Humans vs. Mosquitoes
ENVS Faculty in the News
And Then the Gorillas Started Coughing: Humans are spreading the coronavirus to other animals. What does that mean for all of us?
Professor Gillespie featured in NYTimes - 2/19/21
Digging into the deep past: First-known iguana burrow fossil tells prehistoric tale of an island and an iconic lizard
Professor Martin - Emory News - 12/9/20
After Lead Pollution Findings In Atlanta, A Free Program To Test Georgia Yards For Contamination
Saikawa Lab - NPR - 11/10/20
Explore research as early as your first year
Undergraduate students in ENVS are encouraged to engage in research with faculty.
Research Options