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Content: Welcome to SESE!

New challenges face the Earth’s environments and peoples in the 21st century. The school strives to understand these challenges and discover how to solve them. Find out more about the school.

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Announcements

  • ESES Undergraduate Society
    The "Society for Environmental Studies" has been started - a new group for ESES majors. For details, contact the President, Alice Foreman: aforman2@uiuc.edu
  • 29 Excellent Faculty and Teaching Assistants in the School
    The University of Illinois Center for Teaching Excellence rated 29 School educators as "Excellent" last semester.  The full list of instructors is here.

For Potential Students

Flexible Undergraduate Major

Understand the environmental and social issues that face the earth - and do something about them - with a Bachelor Degree in Earth Systems, Environment, and Society. » Learn more...

Master and Doctoral Programs

Undertake advanced research in the Earth's physical and social processes: specialize in Atmospheric Sciences, Geography, or Geology

 

Research

The departments in the school do a wide range of cutting-edge research on many aspects of the Earth System, on subjects as diverse as climate change, geobiology, river restoration, and the effects of environmental change on west African societies.» Learn more...

NEWS: School Scientists share in Nobel Peace Prize for work on Climate Change » Learn more...