Teaching, Learning, and Research

Courses and Degree Programs with an Environmental Focus

Fordham provides courses in ethical, economic, and scientific principles that challenges and offers our students an opportunity to engage in environmental education and research. Sustainability is brought to life in the classroom and students are encouraged to explore through a variety of lenses the impact that environmental degradation is having on our planet and the human family.

Undergraduate Programs Graduate Programs

The Louis Calder Center is the Biological Field Station of Fordham University. The field station comprises 113 forested acres with a variety of ecosystems and communities available for study. The laboratories at the Calder Center are well equipped for ecological studies and support research as well as graduate and undergraduate educational programs on a wide variety of topics.

Research Centers and Projects

Social Innovation Collaboratory

The Social Innovation Collaboratory is a network of Fordham University students, faculty, administrators, alumni and community members, working together to promote social innovation for the achievement of social justice, social entrepreneurship, and environmental sustainability.

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CCEL students and staff working in a community garden

Center for Community-Engaged Learning

The mission of CCEL is to bridge Fordham University with our neighboring communities and global partners through experiential learning, research, and civic engagement.

Visit Center for Community-Engaged Learning site

Art and Action on the Bronx River is a Fordham course created with support from the University’s Center for Community Engaged Learning and taught in partnership with the Bronx River Alliance, a nonprofit established 20 years ago to help revitalize and protect the river and its surrounding communities.

Collaboration and Commitments

Several students in lab coats in a science laboratory

Bronx Science Consortium

Fordham University and four of our neighbors in the Bronx have created a new model for scientific research, education, and community engagement known as the Bronx Science Consortium.

Learn more about the consortium

Photographer Julie Larsen Maher WCS Bronx Zoo

Wildlife Conservation Society

Fordham was proud to become the first institution of higher education in the United States to collaborate with the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Framing our Future Campaign, with a commitment to educating about climate change and advocating for nature-based solutions.

Learn more about this partnership