01/29/2025
This weekend, some of our EVSS students had the chance to earn their Beekeeping Certification with the Charleston Area Beekeepers Association (CABA)! A huge thank you to CABA for hosting such an amazing class—our students are now ready to care for their bees with confidence! 🐝🌿
01/23/2025
In light of the start of a new semester and some new faces within the EVSS program✨, we wanted to take the time to highlight MESSA, the EVSS program’s student association!🪴
MESSA organizes various activities such as social events, networking workshops, volunteer opportunities, and fundraisers to support and engage with the EVSS community!🌼
Read through MESSA’s monthly newsletter that is sent to all EVSS students via email to find out about upcoming events!
By attending volunteer and network events, you can also become eligible for funding through the EVSS program, which can be used for education travel, such as attending research conferences! Find out more about these opportunities on the EVSS hub website within the “Funding” section!🤑
We are so lucky to have MESSA, so get involved today🎉
01/16/2025
Our EVSS students had an amazing time at GSA’s Welcome Back Party at the South Carolina Aquarium!🐠 Big thanks to GSA for hosting such a fun and informative event that brought CofC graduate students together to kick off the semester!🥳
01/13/2025
Last week we welcomed our incoming Spring 2025 EVSS students at Spring orientation!✨Thank you to the professors and MESSA leadership for coming to speak at orientation to help our incoming students feel welcomed!🎉
Did you know that EVSS students can start in either the fall or the spring?📚We welcome students to apply either semester, as we hope to work with your schedules! 🗓️
01/02/2025
Happy New Year! 🌿 Excited to kick off 2025 and welcome back our environmental leaders. Let’s work together to make this year impactful! 🌍
12/19/2024
Shoutout to Rachel Bares, one of our 2024-2025 Merit Research Assistants, for her amazing progress this semester! 🧬 She’s wrapped up sequencing for loggerhead turtle DNA and is now analyzing genetic variation to explore homozygosity and heterozygosity. Her work on PCR primers and genetic assays is moving forward, while her expanding literature review connects genomics with resource management and equitable research practices. Can’t wait to see where this takes her!
12/10/2024
That’s a wrap on the fall 2024 semester for our Environmental and Sustainability Studies graduate program! 🎉 What better way to celebrate than joining the December Green Drinks event, focused on a sustainable holiday season? 🌱✨ Join us this Thursday, December 12th, from 6-8 PM at Palmetto Brewing, alongside Wake Refill and Charleston County Recycling. Come connect with your environmental community and support a greener holiday season! 🍃🎄
12/03/2024
🌿 Thank you to the Graduate School for spotlighting our amazing EVSS Program Coordinator, Lucy Davis! 🌍
From mentoring students to managing gardens and leading sustainability initiatives, Lucy’s work helps drive the success of the EVSS program at CofC. Her leadership inspires future environmental leaders to make a real-world impact. 💚 check out the blog article through the link in our Bio!
11/22/2024
We are so proud of all of our EVSS students who defended this fall! Aly, Evan, Reagen, Hailey, and Allie did amazing!♥️🎉🎉
Big thank you to our CofC faculty, staff and community partners for supporting these students along the way!
11/08/2024
This month we wanted to highlight one of our EVSS alumni! Allyssa Zebrowski graduated from the EVSS program in 2018 and has been doing impressive work ever since!🌊🌤️
11/06/2024
Happy to celebrate EVSS students who were awarded scholarships and fellowship awards at the Graduate Fellowship Reception! **Not all who received support are pictured.
10/30/2024
This month’s student highlight is a second year EVSS student, Will Steelman! We are so proud of all the work he has done, he’s a great asset to the EVSS Graduate School!🪨🌿👏
10/23/2024
Yesterday, EVSS students and others had the chance to explore the Clemson Coastal Research and Education Center!🪴 A big thank you to Zach and the Clemson Extension team for the insightful tour. We appreciate everyone who joined us—it was a fantastic experience!🌸🐝
10/22/2024
Congratulations to all who participated in the South Carolina Water Resources Conference!👏🤩
Amanda Guthrie presented on the Coastal Resiliency Collective, Guinn Wallover presented on MPW’s Septic System Program, and Amy Scaroni presented about her Edisto Island community engagement work!
Shu-Mei Huang presented a poster on the SC Water Monitoring portal and Cailyn Spedding, Kajal Karmur, and Piper Monk produced posters on the SOS project!
Special congratulations to Piper Monk for winning the student poster portion of the conference! Great job everyone!!🎉☀️
10/14/2024
🎉 Huge congratulations to all the students who participated in the 3MT competition at the College of Charleston Graduate School! Your hard work and dedication truly shone through. A special shoutout to our EVSS/MPA concurrent student, Aly Petruch, for earning second place! 👏👏
Great job to all our EVSS participants: Clell Carnes, Evan Cizler, Hailey Connell, and Aly! We’re so proud of you all! Keep inspiring us with your amazing research and presentations! 💪📚
10/12/2024
Cailyn Spedding and Zachary Fogleman presented at the 2024 Water Chats Webinar: Student Research Spotlight! Cailyn presented on “Solutions on Septic: Identifying Resilient Solutions for Septic Management in Coastal South Carolina”! She is working to initiate the conversation to switch from septic to sewer!💧Zachary presented on the “Coastal Resilience in South Carolina: Creating a Framework for Collective Collaboration”! He is working to better understand perceptions of climate hazards!🌿 Thank you S.C. Sea Grant Consortium for organizing such an informative, student-focused event!
Great job Cailyn and Zachary!!👏👏
10/09/2024
Grad Education Week is next week from Oct. 14th-18th! Special shout-out for the workshop “How to Network with Faculty” hosted by Lucy Davis! Follow this link below to learn more and sign up for events🤩: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=ONSF4rrbTEqUHFk7pCLerNe1JLlX0QpKtLhRUTY3H3VUNkpTQjQySzNJRUZZNUFMUldJMlE5WE4wMC4u&route=shorturl
10/08/2024
The EVSS Seminar Series is kicking off on October 22nd from 3:05-4:20pm in RITA 102! Dr. Matt Nowlin and Dale Morris are participating in a panel discussion facilitated by Dr. Todd LeVasseur! Don’t miss the opportunity to learn about environmental policy!🌿🤩