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Environmental Studies
The goal of the environmental studies department is to enhance society's ability to create an environmentally acceptable future.
Start Local, Think Global
The mission of the Department of Environmental Studies is to provide students with the advanced interdisciplinary training necessary for solving environmental problems. Graduates of the department are prepared for diverse careers in the environmental field.
Graduate Education
Welcome to Graduate Education at UIS
We are pleased that you have chosen to explore our graduate degree and certificate programs. More than 40% of UIS students are engaged in graduate study, and most were attracted to UIS by an impressive combination of factors that include educational quality, value and campus location and setting.
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UIS professor pens book about the environmental and human rights impacts of Kenyan rose farming
Springfield native Megan Styles, an assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Illinois Springfield<
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Helping re-establish Ospreys in Central Illinois
Every summer since 2014, University of Illinois Springfield Environmental Studies Associate Professor Tih-Fen Ting has trekked to Virginia or Massachusetts to bring Osprey chicks back to Central Illinois for release. It’s a process known as “hacking" through translocation.