Beginning May 18, the Collegeville Farmers’ Market will feature a new vendor: the Ursinus Organic Farm. Dean Scott 2014, the Student Director of the farm, and Brandon Hoover, Sustainability Program Coordinator of Ursinus College, have been busy preparing the farm for the 2013 growing season. Read More
Environmental Studies students and additional volunteers planted a rain garden April 16 at Hunsberger Woods. Environmental Studies and Spanish major Megan Maccaroni 2014 highlights the project in this video. Read More
Ursinus Environmental Studies is in the news this week. the Education Life section of the New York Times featured online a photograph by student Sarah Huang 2014.
Also this week Ursinus is mentioned in the Philadelphia Inquirer sustainability column for recycling clothing as part of Move-Out. The column states: “From the University of Pennsylvania to Drexel University to Ursinus College and beyond, officials and students are setting up collections and, in some cases, sales with proceeds benefiting charity.”
Ursinus College is included in the downloadable book, The Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges, published by The Princeton Review. Read More
Join State Sen. John Rafferty at an annual Enviromental Roundtable discussion with state legislators, local environmental organizations, state agencies and Ursinus faculty and staff. This is a special event for the Ursinus campus community only. Read More
In spring our thoughts may turn to baseball, but also to how an Ursinus liberal arts education produces good stewards of the earth. When class work encourages civic engagement and spawns partnerships that benefit the greater Collegeville community, it is a win for all. Continue reading
Ursinus College is hosting a Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Tree Tenders training course to empower and teach area residents who want to care for and help restore the local tree population. Read More
Steve Sandstrom, a specialist in environment and community, will present a lecture titled “Developing a Sustainable Community: A Systems Approach” on March 14 at 7 p.m. in Pfahler Auditorium. Read More
Ursinus Environmental Studies students will be rooting a few hundred tree and shrub plantings in upland areas of Hunsberger Woods, an opportunity which allows students to provide stewardship of the tract and demonstrate an overall commitment to watershed health in the Perkiomen. Read More
Environmental Chemistry students traveled with Professor Tina Ross to a Superfund site in New Castle County Delaware this Fall semester. The site had a legacy of chemical releases that eventually led to intervention by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Read More