Our Degrees
The Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health offers bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees with many interdisciplinary fields of study.
Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Healthy people, healthy planet
The Gillings School's Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering focuses on the interface between people and the environment. Uniquely situated in a school of public health, our interdisciplinary programs in air quality and atmospheric processes, human exposure and health effects, and sustainable water resources draw from faculty expertise in the physical and life sciences, engineering and policy.
Our research strengths include:
- Characterizing exposures to contaminants in air, water, soil and workplaces
- Developing engineering and policy solutions to environmental risks
- Using molecular approaches to understanding diseases caused by toxic substances in the environment
- Overcoming environmental health challenges in developing countries
Save the Date for our Centennial Celebration (2020-2021).
The official kick-off begins fall 2020. Our centennial celebration will be April 10, 2021.
The official kick-off begins fall 2020. Our centennial celebration will be April 10, 2021.
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Environmental Sciences and Engineering Events
- Damned if You Do and Dammed if You Don’t – A Story of Politics, Water, and Denial (or was it the Nile?) January 22 @ 12:20 pm - 1:10 pm
- Introduction to Focus Groups January 23 @ 9:00 am - 4:30 pm
- Connect, Engage, Transform: Rural Community Partnerships January 24 @ 9:00 am - 4:00 pm