Student Opportunities
The Miller Worley Center grants support to faculty and students to pursue environmentally-focused research. Students have their pick of high quality summer internships developed exclusively for MHC.
Sustainability
The College is committed to advancing its core education and research to impact leadership in local and global sustainability and to foster a culture of sustainability on campus.
Campus Living Laboratory
Using both the natural and built campus landscape, the campus living laboratory offers students the opportunity to obtain multi-disciplinary hands-on undergraduate research experience in fields such as environmental monitoring, history and sustainability.
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Connecting with the environment through dance
Visiting artist Terre Vandale ’02 uses the Campus Living Laboratory as her classroom to teach her dance students about place, movement and the environment.
Feeding a passion for food justice
Julia Talamo ’21 finds opportunity and support at Mount Holyoke as she combines her interests in the environment, racial inequity and food justice.
Mount Holyoke seeks carbon neutrality by 2037
The Board of Trustees announces that Mount Holyoke College has set the goal of being carbon neutral by the College’s bicentennial, 2037.
Posse Scholar gets a conservation scholarship
Mount Holyoke students wins Prestigious Doris Duke Conservation Scholarship.
Mount Holyoke’s dining is now green
The dining options at Mount Holyoke College are now Green Restaurant certified.
Mount Holyoke lights up the town
Mount Holyoke College is working with the South Hadley Electric Light Department to install solar panels on the roof of the Kendall Complex.
Our Mission
The Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Center for the Environment strives...
To prepare students to think critically, creatively and globally — to tackle the world’s most complex issues as environmental leaders.
To advance a culture of sustainability on campus and beyond as a legacy for future generations.
To build connections between our campus — a world-class liberal arts college on an exceptional landscape in the heart of western Massachusetts — and learning opportunities around the globe.
To promote an inclusive, just, equitable and bias-free campus and society in all our programs.
To be an ally in creating a campus that is inclusive, pluralistic and free of discrimination.