The LUC Institute of Environmental Sustainability creates solutions to stresses on our planet's natural resources through teaching, research, and outreach.
The new Institute of Environmental Sustainability at Loyola University Chicago is committed to developing responsible solutions, in the service of humanity, to the stress on our planet's natural resources. We strive to expand knowledge through teaching, conducting research, and sponsoring outreach activities on pressing environmental issues.
These issues include global climate change, the food production and distribution system, conserving and recovering biodiversity, restoring ecosystem function, identifying emerging environmental contaminants, and privatizing natural resources.
Our programs give students the chance to gain the skills necessary to become leaders in environmental research, policy and justice through a combination of traditional classroom work, hands-on fieldwork, research projects, community outreach and internships.
The Institute endeavors to develop a conservation ethic by increasing Loyola’s campus energy efficiency and transforming our consumption behaviors to conserve natural resources for the common good, for future generations, and for all forms of life on the planet.
The mission of Loyola University Chicago’s Institute of Environmental Sustainability (IES) is to engage students in understanding and responding to local and global environmental issues by:
Delivering Core environmental science courses to raise awareness and action in all LUC undergraduates;
Preparing IES baccalaureate and graduate students for socially responsible professions in environmental science, policy, education, business, and health, and;
Advancing our knowledge of environmental problems and developing solutions through original research and community outreach.
The IES strives to advance sustainability in operations across all university campuses and to develop an environmentally conscious culture throughout the university. The IES advances the University’s mission of seeking God in all things and working to expand knowledge in the service of humanity through learning, justice and faith by providing a rich and transformational educational experience grounded in teaching and research excellence, experiential learning, and student entrepreneurial action in the service of nature, humanity, and the planet.
