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Welcome to the Department of Environmental Sciences (ENVS)
Real 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.
CNN - Remembering Jane Goodall with Professor Tom Gillespie
I am an Emory Researcher - Eri Saikawa
Virtual Planet at Department of Environmental Sciences, Emory University
ENVS Faculty in the News
From Dinosaur Scratches to Insects in Amber, How Paleontologists Uncover Prehistoric Courtship
Professor Tony Martin - September 2025
Exploring the frontiers of data science, across space and time
Professor Xiao Huang - June 2025
Emory Developing New Approach to Control Dangerous Urban Mosquito in Ethiopia
Drs. Prokopec, Huang & Ajibade - April 2025
Explore research as early as your first year
Undergraduate students in ENVS are encouraged to engage in research with faculty.
Research Options