Environmental Studies

Twelve sustainably designed homes will become the Loy Farm Living-Learning Community, a model of green architecture where students thrive by living harmoniously with nature. The LLC will open in fall 2024 with all 12 homes completed by fall 2025.

Environmental Studies students partner with local small business, Kindred Seedlings Farm, in a community-engaged course this spring to help break ground on a new agricultural endeavor.

Students and community members gathered at the Elon Community Garden for the yearly spring-themed festival.

The university's top undergraduate research award comes with $20,000 to support and celebrate academic and creative achievements.

Peter Kalmus will speak at Elon University on April 18 at 7:30 pm in McKinnon Hall.

Five Elon first-year students describe their unique Elon experiences since arriving at the university in August.

Michael Strickland's Garden Studio class provides an opportunity for students who want to experience hands-on learning in home-scale gardening and food production.

Associate Professor Amanda Chunco's Wildlife Ecology lab class ran field studies for half the semester at Loy Farm looking to collect data on rodents and small animals.

The $377,800 grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute is designed to improve introductory science experiences for undergraduate students and increase retention of talented STEM students.  

Dozens gathered at the Elon Community Garden for the annual festival on Friday, Oct. 28 which was put together by students in the fall semester studio garden class.