Summer job opportunity! Help be part of the team restoring natural areas on our campus. Learn skills that can help you get a full time job in the conservation field.

Learn more about how ENV and SAOC are working together on land stewardship on our campus. 

Dreaming of warmer days? Applications are open for a paid internship opportunity to work for Dr. Jackson from spring break to the end of the semester, focused on outdoor work to help with our Community Reforestation Grant. Applications are due Feb 15th!

This semester, the Environmental Studies department is happy to host Dr. Matthew Ramirez as a two-day scholar in residence through the Jules Roth Scholar Program. 

The students in Dr. Jackson's Ecology class highlighted their research projects at the Annual Ecology Poster session on November 14, 2025. 

You can now make an online gift that goes directly to the Environmental Studies Department through a new online portal! 

Help needed for senior project looking at bird window strikes across campus! 

Purchase College will be hosting its third annual BioBlitz on September 11th and 12th. Last year we had 44 participants and we hope to get even more people involved this year!

After six weeks participating in the SUNY/EOP Undergraduate Summer Research Program, two EOP students presented their final projects at the Program's Summer Research Symposium.

Students on the Sustainability Team partnered with seniors enrolled in Community Design this spring to create original, eye-catching signs, maps, and stickers promoting the Purchase Nature Preserve.

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Allyson Jackson secured close to $500,000 from New York State's Department of Environmental Conservation.

Environmental Studies students and professors presented at the 2025 Northeast Natural History Conference in Springfield, MA. 

We have so much going on that isn't shown on the website. Keep up to date on projects happening on campus by following any of these instagram accounts

For the first time, we have images and video of river otters enjoying the Blind Brook Forest right here on campus! 

Anyone can join the Sustainability Team, no matter what your major or position with the college. 

Summer job opportunity! Help be part of the team restoring the Blind Brook forest. Over the three year period of this grant, we hope to set the forest on a trajectory of recovery that will last for future generations. Learn skills that can help you get a full time job in the conservation field.

The fall 2024 Wildlife Ecology class worked together to plan, generate hypotheses, and collect data on novel research ideas.

Take a look at what it's like to study Environmental Studies at Purchase.

While Spotted Lanternflies may have disappeared for now, they will be back!

Students in Professor Allyson Jackson's Wildlife Ecology class answered questions about their research at this mini-symposium.

Anyone can join the Sustainability Team, no matter what your major or position with the college. 

Welcome to our Land Stewardship and Invasive Species interns for 2024–2025.

National Geographic defines a BioBlitz as "an event that focuses on finding and identifying as many species as possible in a specific area over a short period of time." 

The Environmental Studies Department is installing Spotted Lanternfly traps around campus this year. 

Vice President Robyn Graygor shares why the club is an essential Purchase experience.

Professor George Kraemer and student Maura Vander Putten will study invasive species along hiking trails in the Catskills next summer.

Allyson Jackson, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, was awarded the $99,480 grant to empower students to help protect the environment.

A collaboration between the Environmental Studies program and the Sustainability Office sparked a search for species on the Purchase campus.

The interpretive signs in the Purchase Native Pollinator Garden resulted from collaboration between environmental studies, arts management, and graphic design.

Research articles published by Wildlife Ecology students in the 6th volume of the Purchase College Journal of Ecology. 

Working with GreenSheen, a leader in paint recycling, thousands of cans were dropped off by community members.

This spring, the Purchase College Chapter of Sigma Xi nominated eight seniors to be inducted into this scientific research honor society.

Six students and two faculty mentors attended the 2023 Northeast Natural History Conference in Burlington, VT in April to present their senior project research.

Special congrats to the ENV award winners this year:

Outstanding Senior: Tiffani Rushford 

Outstanding Junior: Julie Gifford