About the Center

Since November 2004, the Bucknell University Environmental Center has sought to provide a venue for interdisciplinary teaching, research, and outreach related to environmental affairs. The Center brings together faculty, staff, and students from each of the University's four divisions (humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering

Our Mission

The Bucknell University Environmental Center seeks to integrate perspectives from the natural and social sciences, humanities, and engineering to enhance faculty, staff, student, and community understanding of complex contemporary environmental issues and of the interaction between nature and human beings in traditions throughout the ages. The center supports faculty, staff, and students dedicated to environmental and nature-related learning, teaching, scholarship, service, and action at local, regional, national, and international levels.

Goals

To facilitate student, faculty, staff, and community learning about environmental issues and problem-solving.

To enhance disciplinary and interdisciplinary teaching on environmental topics and nature studies.

To support scholarship on nature and the environment by faculty and students.

To promote active engagement in environmental and related cultural service.

To increase awareness of, and implementation of, sustainable practices across all aspects of campus life, focusing on our campus facilities management and residential educational programming.