Department of Environmental Studies
"We seek knowledge to support a more sustainable and just world."
- An interdisciplinary program including fields from the humanities to the social and natural sciences
- We stress community service by faculty and students
- We train creative problem solvers for environmental issues
Undergraduate Student Lauren Martinez
Hometown: Chicago, Illinois
Mentor/advisor: Josh Slotnick
Lauren is one of our most talented and energetic students, focusing on sustainable agriculture, education, and social change. A recipient of several UM/EVST scholarships, Lauren has worked in local agriculture, in environmental education with elementary students and as an Assistant Manger and Marketing coordinator at Clark Fork Organics farm. She will graduate, with high honors, in spring of ’09, and then become a Peace Corps volunteer. Post-Peace Corps she aspires to blend her interests in education and agriculture to work towards social justice and environmental sustainability here at home.
Derek Kanwischer
Derek Kanwischer
Hometown: Moorhead, Minnesota
Advisor/Mentor: Len Broberg
Derek is a highly skilled organizer. In his time in EVST he has brought glass recycling to Missoula, gained University of Montana commitment to creating an appropriate technology home for student residence and sustainability education/demonstration, and researched the use of biodiesel fuel in the Program in Ecological Agriculture and Society farm tractor. The latter work resulted in an article in Mother Earth News written by Derek: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Modern-Homesteading/2008-06-01/How-to-Make-Biofuel.aspx. He spent the last summer working for the Western Organization of Resource Councils leading the Homegrown Prosperity Renewable Energy Tour that traversed 7 states and 40 towns across the west. His interests beyond sustainability include environmental journalism, photojournalism and film.
