For many students, their introduction to earth science and environmental change begins in Max Christie’s classroom at the University of Illinois... Read full story Teaching the questions, not just the answers

What happens at the end of science? Philosophy?It is the kind of question that can pause a conversation. Not because science fails, and not because philosophy is waiting at the edge of the laboratory to correct it, but because every discipline, if you follow it far enough, begins to run into its... Read full story The double life: GGIS undergraduate studies geography and history

Starting Fall 2026, the Earth, Society and Environmental Sustainability (ESES) Bachelor’s degree will become Environmental Sustainability (ES). If you've been around our program, this might already sound familiar — students, faculty, and staff have been calling us "Environmental Sustainability... Read full story ESES to ES: A new name for what we've always been about