Our Degrees

Are you interested in the mechanics of life and improving human and animal health, food safety, energy production and environmental quality?

We offer the climate science and policy minor to provide students from across campus with a basic background in climate change science as well as mitigation and adaptation strategies.

Do you want to make a difference in the health and lives of people?

Did you know that insects are the most diverse group of animals on earth? Insects offer unique opportunities to study biological systems and are model experimental animals.

Do you want to explore the relationships among the environment, law, policy, people and community planning?

Do you want to contribute solutions to environmental challenges such as climate change, biodiversity conservation, pollution, water use and land use?

Are you interested in environmental toxins, their environmental fate and regulation, and their impacts on humans and other species?

The environmental horticulture minor focuses the student on the identification, taxonomy, propagation, production and maintenance of ornamental plants in commercial production or urban landsca

Environmental toxicology explores the effects of toxicants (both human made and naturally occurring) on the normal biochemical, cellular and physiological functioning of biological systems.

Do you know where your next meal is coming from? Whatever you choose, it was probably grown, processed, delivered and prepared using techniques developed by food scientists and technologists.