Environmental Studies

Elon University senior environmental studies major Sam Shoge received a statewide award for innovative undergraduate research using Geographic Information Systems at the 2011 North Carolina GIS conference held this month at the Raleigh Convention Center.

Janet MacFall, of the Dept. of Environmental Studies, has been elected to the National Board for Professional Certification of the Ecological Society of America.

Elon University has been included in the National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology 2010 campus sustainability case studies, the only database of its kind in the United States to highlight campus climate and sustainability efforts ranging from recycling and energy efficiency to alternative transportation systems and green jobs training programs.

The mayor of a Kansas town that turned itself into a “green” community following a tornado in 2007 visits Elon University this month to talk about the challenges and successes his town discovered throughout the recovery and rebuilding process.

Elon University's Center for Environmental Studies hosted a Wild Feline Husbandry and Conservation Workshop on Nov. 6, 2010.

The Department of Environmental Studies has created an additional major, and a new minor, for Elon University students with an academic or career interest in the fields of sustainability, wildlife ecology and conservation.

Environmental Studies assistant professor Josh Kapfer recently co-authored a manuscript published in the Journal of Zoology titled "Modeling the relationship between habitat preferences and home-range size: a case study on a large mobile colubrid snake from North America."