ENVS and the Medicine, Science and the Humanities Program are sponsoring an event a Bird in Hand. On Wednesday, February 26th at 6pm, we will be welcoming authors Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan to discuss their new book, The Sustainability Class: How to Take Back Our Future from Lifestyle Environmentalists. The event features free cocktails or coffees […]
News & Announcements Archive
The Future of Here: A Glimpse of a River Culture To Come
The Future of Here is an invitation to reimagine our place along the Jones Falls River and the Chesapeake Bay in a distant future beyond our fossil-fueled present. Consider what local landscapes and cultures might look like in a time far beyond the Baltimore we know now. What artifacts might people of that future time produce, […]
Morgan Grove (USDA Forest Service)- Feb 6 @ 12 pm
Title: Urban Ecology, Systems Thinking, and Problem Solving in Baltimore. Bromery speaker will be hosted by Meghan Avolio and Katalin Szlavecz.
Rachel Carson Council 2025 Student Fellowship is OPEN!
The ENVS Program is now part of the Rachel Carson Council (RCC) network and as such students may develop more meaningful relationships with the RCC. The RCC National Environment Leadership Fellowship (NELF) Program is designed to identify outstanding students with a passion for environmental education, organizing, and advocacy and provide them with financial support to […]
Summer Fellowships
ENVS students, look for information on the 2025 Hendler Summer Grant application process in March and see Prof. Burgess with any queries.
Welcome Back Social
Faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate students in the EPS/ENVS Program gathered together at the Fall welcome back social held at the Baltimore Museum of Art and Gertrudes Restaurant on 30 September.
Regional GeoEcology Field Trip
There is nothing like the Southland in the springtime, with its forest ephemerals coming alive and its waters flowing with confidence and reason across a landscape tempered by ancient bedrock. And so it was that a group of graduate and undergraduate students fled the urban lifestyle to camp and explore the natural history of the […]
Book Published by ENVS Faculty
ENVS faculty, Dr. Jana Kopelent Rehak recently published an ethnographic account of life on Smith Island. This fascinating ethnographic account of Smith Island residents examines the challenges faced by an aging community that is grappling with flooding, land erosion, and population loss. By combining socioecology, life course theory, and eco-phenomenology, Kopelent Rehak offers a comprehensive […]
Film Screening and Discussion – The Oil Machine
On 24 October at 7:30 pm in Olin Hall, the ENVS program would like to welcome you all to a pre-release screening of the documentary “The Oil Machine.” After the documentary the Production Team will be on hand for a question and answer session. This screening is open to the public and please register first. Refreshments […]
Eroding History Film Screening
Eroding History tells the story of two Black communities on Maryland’s Deal Island Peninsula that are losing heir land and their history due to the intersection of historical racism and modern climate changes. The screening will take place in Hudson 110 on the Homewood Campus on Tuesday, 10 October at 5-7 pm.