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.
Pole to Pole: A career in climate science
Hooked on science after an unintended geology class in her first semester at Mount Holyoke, Heidi Roop ’07 has traveled the world as a climate scientist.
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.
Our Mission
The Leslie Miller and Richard Worley Center for the Environment prepares students to think critically, creatively, and globally — to tackle the environmental challenges of the 21st century.
The Center advances a culture of sustainability on campus and beyond as a legacy for future generations.
It builds 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.