Restored Mine Lands - Powell River Project, Norton, Virgina
Prospective Students
We invite you to explore the exciting possibilities of a carreer focused supplying essential ecosystem services for today and future generations. Our goal as a faculty is to put our understanding of basic sciences - chemistry, physics, biology, and genomics - to work to solve the presssing problems our the world.
Discover Your Own Path - Environmental Science
- Work with important issues that affect your neighborhood, your state, and your planet - find a balance between meeting human needs for today and keeping the Earth healthy for tomorrow.
- Don't just study environmental problems; learn how to develop solutions that will improve the environment for us and for future generations.
- Discover technology and tools that can restore degraded environments.
- Start your career immediately or prepare for professional studies or graduate school. Our students are highly employable and readily placed in consulting firms, businesses, government agencies, and non-government organizations and compete extremely well for entrance to graduate programs throughout the U.S.
- Learn from a faculty committed to students, teaching excellence, and making the world a better place.
Discover Your Own Path - Crop & Soil Environmental Sciences
- Work with globally important issues - food, grassland ecosystems, and agricultural sustainability.
- Find fulfillment and enjoyment in creating and maintaining beautiful and functional landscapes such as golf courses, sports and recreational fields, and in the booming turf and landscape industry.
- Learn to grow more nutritious, safer crops to feed the world and improve health while reducing environmental degradation.
- Prepare for careers in business, consulting, Extension, and government, or move directly into professional studies or graduate school. Our programs offer the rigor, flexibility, and practical knowledge that will help you succeed regardless of the path you choose.
- Learn from a faculty committed to students, teaching excellence, and making the world a better place.
Beyond the Classroom
- Develop professional and leadership skills through service projects and social events as a member of the nationally recognized Agronomy Club or Turf Club. Student led clubs offer learning opportunities with faculty advisors, and a lot of fun.
- Travel to new places and experience the thrill of victory with nationally ranked competitive teams that build life-long friendships and hone your knowledge of crops, turf, soils, and the environment. Our four faculty-coached teams include crop judging, soil judging, and quiz bowl teams in turf science and crop and soil science.
- Gain valuable on-the-job experience and explore career opportunities through internships with industry and agency partners.
- Conduct research alongside top-notch faculty using state-of-the-art equipment in the laboratory and the field. Make discoveries in crop genetics, crop ecology, precision agriculture, waste management, and land restoration.
- Encounter new cultures, new agroecosystesm, and new perspectives on the contributions and challenges of agriculture and soil management around the world through study-abroad and student exchange programs.
- Be recognized for your achievements through one of the department's merit-based scholarships; more than $25,000 in scholarship finds are awarded annually.
- Learn with world-class faculty members who really care about you and your educational experience
Contacts
Undergraduate Coordinators
CSES
Dr. James McKenna
ENSC
Dr. Matt Eick
Dr. David Parrish
Graduate Coordinator
All Degress
Dr. Mark Alley
Smyth Hall