Program Type: Undergraduate
Minor Requirements: View requirements
Department: Biological Sciences
You have a passion for the environment. Would you like to integrate environmental skills and knowledge into your chosen career path? Or perhaps you simply want to be more informed about where you work, live and play. The Environmental Studies minor will get you there!
United by our passion for the environment, NKU’s environmental studies minor offers a foundation in environmental science followed by great flexibility in course choice and a focus on real-world applications and career readiness.
Lynn Crane
Academic Advisor
(859) 572-5306
cranel1@nku.edu
Graduating Year: 2019
Education: Environmental Studies minor + BS, Biological Sciences
Career: Aquatic Toxicologist, current Ph.D. student at University of Cincinnati
Sarah took advantage of many opportunities while at NKU as an employee in the Chemistry Stock Room, a research student studying white-nose fungus in bats and she worked on another research project focused on reforestation. Sarah was also a member of the NKU pep band. Since graduating, she has completed an MA in Geography at UC, while working as a Pathways Physical Scientist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Sarah is current studying harmful algal blooms at multiple scales.
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