Experiential Learning Opportunities
4/30/25
At Department of Environment and Sustainability (EVS), we believe your classroom should extend into forests, fields, farms, wetlands and beyond. That’s why every degree we offer is built around real-world experiences. Whether you’re tracking wildlife, studying climate policy or growing urban gardens, you’ll gain practical skills while finding your place in this vast and dynamic field.
Graduate Overview
5/29/25
The Department of Environment and Sustainability offers graduate programs for students who want to make a lasting difference—through research, leadership or community-driven work. Whether you're diving into field ecology or rethinking how we approach sustainability, you'll find a graduate path here that prepares you to take on the world’s most complex environmental challenges.
What is Environment and Sustainability?
6/6/24
Environmental Studies and Sciences are extremely broad topics, dealing with more than just forests and birds. We actively look for ways to make the world we live in better for all by mitigating pollution, minimizing impacts, and maximizing productivity while working to safeguard natural systems and ecosystem services.
Careers in Environment and Sustainability
10/26/23
Students in our program intern and often find permanent positions with NGOs, government and companies like the Nature Conservancy, The US Fish and Wildlife Service, and local environmental consulting groups.
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Environment and Sustainability

The biggest challenge of the 21st century is understanding our Earth—how we've impacted the natural world and how we can fix those effects. Tackling these issues requires knowledge that spans natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities.

The Department of Environment and Sustainability (EVS) at UB offers a unique, interdisciplinary education for both undergraduate and graduate students. We promote collaborative learning and research within our department, across the university, and with the greater Buffalo community. By combining programs and research from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, we prepare our graduates to be well-rounded citizens, researchers, managers, and guardians of the Earth's environments and resources.

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Academic Advising

Make an advising appointment with your advisor:

For Environmental Sciences, please sign up for an appointment with Prof. Nick Henshue.

For Environmental Studies, Environmental Sustainability, and Internships, please sign up for an appointment with Prof. Sandy Geffner.

Being a Sustainability Scientist

Are you interested in tackling the most difficult socioecological problems of our time?

Future Students

Looking ahead to studying at UB.

By engaging with a broad range of research fields and faculty expertise, undergraduate and graduate study will give you a comprehensive view of the natural and human world.

Multidisciplinary Research

Multidisciplinary research.

We seek to understand and help solve complex, twenty-first century problems which require knowledge from the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

Internships and Fieldwork

We are especially proud of all the relationships for internships and research that have been built over decades in Western New York and beyond... Relationships that foster our students' experience in many facets of the environmental field.