Environmental Science Major Designs a Living Green Wall on Campus
Kira Wiener ’25, who is interested in a career in sustainable architecture, spent the summer planning and executing this on-campus research project.
Picture yourself hiking deep into an old-growth forest to inspect its rich biodiversity, wading into streams to investigate the effects of human land use on water quality, exploring coal mines to understand the formation and effects of fossil fuels and visiting wastewater treatment plants to grasp the processes that transform 30 million gallons of contaminated water each day.
When you join our group of passionate student scientists, you are immersed in the study of Earth’s eight billion people and the ways they interact with the natural world. You’ll receive an interdisciplinary and rigorous education that enriches and prepares you to pursue whatever dreams you have for yourself.
Environmental science graduates have embraced abundant and diverse opportunities: they’ve attended graduate, medical, or law school, or immediately landed jobs in industry, secondary education, research, advocacy and government.
Our Curriculum
Explore the environmental science curriculum at Muhlenberg, where classroom discussion consistently meets hands-on field experiences where you’ll see theory in practice.
Independent Study & Research Opportunities
Environmental science students work independently and alongside faculty mentors to author original research and present at conferences nationwide. Opportunities exist to conduct research during the semester and over the summer as paid research for course credit.
After Muhlenberg
Learn about the environmental science career outcomes and hear from individual alumni on the journeys they’ve taken since graduation.
