Environmental and Urban Studies

EUS is an interdisciplinary program that examines the interdependence of human societies and the physical environment.

The program strives to ensure that students have a substantial background in the physical and social sciences, humanities, economics, and policy, while enhancing their understanding of the relationship between built and natural environments.

Looking for the Environmental Studies Concentration?

The Environmental and Urban Studies Program (EUS) is now open only to students who were enrolled at the College during the 2021–22 academic year. New students may select Environmental Studies (ES) as a concentration. Please visit the ES website for concentration information and requirements.

Learn More about the ES Concentration

Taking Community Science on the Road

Follow EUS Associate Professor Eli Dueker as he takes the newly outfitted mobile community science RV Anchor’s Drop on its maiden voyage across the United States this summer. Air quality measurements will be taken at each stop, and every body of water encountered will be Planktoscoped. Stay tuned!

AnchorStories Blog

Faculty Spotlight

Gidon Eshel Named One of the Top Influential Earth Scientists Today

Gidon Eshel is a research professor specializing in oceanography, climatology, and geophysics. He attended Technion-Israel Institute of Technology before transferring to Columbia University, where he earned an MA, MPhil, and PhD in mathematical physics, and was a NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. He has served as staff scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and professor of geophysics at the University of Chicago.