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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.
I am an Emory Researcher - Eri Saikawa
Professor Gonzalo Vazquez-Prokopec on CBS This Morning: Humans vs. Mosquitoes
ENVS Faculty in the News
New Book Eyes Earth's Excavators, from Microbes to Elephants and Dinosaurs
Professor Martin - 5/22/23
Dangerous Soil: Measuring environmental contaminents and their health costs in the Westside
Professor Saikawa - Fall 2022
Preventing Pandemics with Data from the Forests of Gombe
Professor Gillespie - 12/8/22
Explore research as early as your first year
Undergraduate students in ENVS are encouraged to engage in research with faculty.
Research Options