environmental studies

Adulting 101: Randolph professors use senior seminar to teach skills beyond the classroom

Sarah Sojka and Elizabeth Parsons cook together over a stovetop.

“One of the things I love about Randolph is that we prepare students for life, not just jobs.”... READ MORE >>

Heat Watch Project featured in ‘Urban Climate’ article

Heat watch

Karin Warren and a group of co-authors wrote the manuscript about the statewide research project. ... READ MORE >>

Serious about science: Students enjoy newly opened lab spaces in the midst of the Martin Science renovation

Students work in one of Martin Science Building's newly reopened labs.

Through careful planning, students were able to use parts of Martin Science Building this fall while Phase One renovation work was being completed.... READ MORE >>

Karin Warren presents two papers at American Geophysical Union annual meeting

Karin Warren landscape

Both posters focused on Warren’s recent research. ... READ MORE >>

Randolph included in Princeton Review’s ‘Guide to Green Colleges’

Photo of Main Hall, with a beautiful blue sky and clouds in the distance

Randolph was ranked 19th, the only Virginia institution to make the top 20. ... READ MORE >>

Sojka, Warren attend Ocean Observatories Initiative workshops for marine science major

Collage photo of professors Sarah Sojka and Karin Warren

Both workshops were conducted by the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a National Science Foundation-funded, science-driven ocean observing network that delivers real-time data from more than 900 instruments to address critical science questions regarding the world’s oceans. ... READ MORE >>

College’s 113th Annual Exhibition, ‘Vita Wild,’ opens on Sept. 8

Acrylic painting featuring a wolf drinking from a small body of water, surrounded by dark woods

The exhibit showcases nine contemporary artists whose works reflect cultural and environmental changes that expand the expression and definition of traditional wildlife art. ... READ MORE >>

Jenna McDermott ’25 reflects on summer work as a game warden

Jenna McDermott poses in her game warden uniform

McDermott worked as a Delaware National Resources Fish and Wildlife Seasonal Police Officer. ... READ MORE >>

Randolph students conduct forest inventories for summer internship

Students walk through the woods on back campus

Alana Ellis ’26, Wednesday Hertzberg ’26, and Trinity Shirlen ’26 worked for the 500-Year Forest Foundation.... READ MORE >>

Randolph collaborates on project to plant garden at local high school

They planted the first seeds of the garden at E.C. Glass High School on April 17 and 18.... READ MORE >>