Environmental Council
Interim Director of the Environmental Council: John Braden1101 West Peabody Drive
Urbana, IL 61801
(217) 333-4178
E-mail: environ@uiuc.edu
The Environmental Council coordinates and supports programs of
research, teaching, and public service in areas related to environmental
quality. Although the council does not offer degree programs, it
coordinates with departments across campus for undergraduate- and
graduate-level courses on environmental subjects and provides opportunities
for students working within specific disciplines to participate
in interdisciplinary environmental research.
The council’s close ties with many other campus units make
it possible for students seeking graduate degrees from those units
to engage in environmental research within the council’s varied
interdisciplinary programs. Current scholarly research coordinated
by the council addresses a wide range of significant environmental
problem areas, including environmental toxicology, environmental
mutagens and carcinogens, water quality and water resources management,
effects of pollution on biological systems, environmental chemistry,
social and economic impacts of resource development, methods of
environmental risk assessment, analysis of environmental perception
and decision making, economics of environmental regulation, and
environmental quality management.
The council supports five graduate research and study programs:
Interdisciplinary Environmental Toxicology, Human Dimensions of
Environmental Systems (HDES), the program in Environmental and Resource
Economics (pERE), the Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
(PEEB), and Applied Earth Systems Science (AESS). Financial support
is available. Brochures describing the programs and the requirements
for admission are available from the Environmental Council.