Environmental Science Major Designs a Living Green Wall on Campus
Kira Wiener ’25, who is interested in a career in sustainable architecture, spent the summer planning and executing this on-campus research project.
Join a field of academic inquiry and exploration that pairs a robust scientific curriculum with a broad liberal arts education, preparing graduates to tackle the challenges of a changing global environment.
Picture yourself hiking deep into an old-growth forest to inspect its rich biodiversity, wading into streams to investigate the effects of human land use on water quality, exploring coal mines to understand the formation and effects of fossil fuels and visiting wastewater treatment plants to grasp the processes that transform 30 million gallons of contaminated water each day.
When you join our group of passionate student scientists, you are immersed in the study of Earth’s eight billion people and the ways they interact with the natural world. You’ll receive an interdisciplinary and rigorous education that enriches and prepares you to pursue whatever dreams you have for yourself.
Environmental science graduates have embraced abundant and diverse opportunities: they’ve attended graduate, medical, or law school, or immediately landed jobs in industry, secondary education, research, advocacy and government.
Explore the environmental science curriculum at Muhlenberg, where classroom discussion consistently meets hands-on field experiences where you’ll see theory in practice.
Environmental science students work independently and alongside faculty mentors to author original research and present at conferences nationwide. Opportunities exist to conduct research during the semester and over the summer as paid research for course credit.
Learn about the environmental science career outcomes and hear from individual alumni on the journeys they’ve taken since graduation.
Anna Shigo '24 is using what she learned at Muhlenberg to preserve open space in an environment she's long called home.
Alison Stoufer '20 says her time performing research and working in the field at Muhlenberg helped her pinpoint a fulfilling career.
James Wynne '23 took on an internship with the Allentown Environmental Advisory Council, focusing on the group's report on energy equity.
After a summer searching the job market, environmental science and sustainability studies double major Anna Shigo ’24 began her role as the open space coordinator for Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Now she’s working to preserve the environment she grew up in, just north of Muhlenberg.
“The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2025 Edition” includes a Green Rating for each of the 511 schools profiled. Muhlenberg earned a score of 98 out of 99.
The former student-athlete arrived at her environmental science major after studying tropical and marine ecology during a semester abroad in Panama.
Kira Wiener ’25, who is interested in a career in sustainable architecture, spent the summer planning and executing this on-campus research project.