Sustainability Education & Research
Innovations for Sustainable Solutions
Opportunities are endless to incorporate sustainability into research and learning. From degree programs to research projects to living-learning programs, students and faculty learn, enhance, and find support for addressing sustainability issues.
Sustainability Advisors
Support Sustainability Awareness:
The UMD Office of Sustainability aspires to introduce all students to core sustainability concepts and the university's network of sustainability-minded faculty, staff and students.
Student Projects
Each year, students in Professional Writing and other courses select campus sustainability as the focus of their semester projects. Because many students write proposals for initiatives that campus facilities managers are already working on (installing solar panels on campus buildings, installing energy efficient lights in residence halls, etc.), the Office of Sustainability constructed the following list of possible research projects to guide students toward research topics that will help us create a more sustainable campus.
Living & Learning Programs
The University of Maryland's Living and Learning Programs are unique programs that integrate academics into student living space. Students have the opportunity to live in the same residence hall as fellow members of their Living and Learning Program, forging friendships while simultaneously exploring academic interests. Living and Learning Programs cover areas ranging from engineering to creative writing, and many programs involve a central research activity or project.
Sustainability Teaching Fellows
The Sustainability Teaching Fellows program (formerly the Chesapeake Project) is a two-day workshop and learning community where faculty from across the disciplines learn about sustainability and explore unique opportunities to integrate it into their existing courses.
Research Centers
Many research centers housed at the University of Maryland are involved with finding solutions to environmental problems, in the local community and at global scales. The following are just a few of these centers.
Majors, Minors & Graduate Programs
Although most majors relate to sustainability, there are undergraduate and graduate programs at the University of Maryland that specifically address environmental issues and sustainability.
This list is a helpful starting resource for students interested in preparing for work or further study in an environmentally related field; however, environmental problems are typically so far reaching and interdisciplinary that people from all backgrounds are needed to uncover solutions.
Find your passion and discover ways of making your lifestyle and work more sustainable.
Carbon Offsets
This page is coming soon.