We’ll set the stage for your success through hands-on opportunities. You’ll acquire the skills necessary to positively impact both the natural world and the humans who call it home.

Our environmental science and sustainability students expand their skills through internships, research with faculty, community engagement, study away, and more.

Allegheny’s Bousson Environmental Research Reserve spans 283 acres of woodlands, ponds, streams, wetlands, and native wildlife — presenting rich opportunities for student-faculty research.

Our students also study in the field at many other spots near campus, including:

• Allegheny National Forest
• Erie Wildlife Refuge
• Geneva wetlands
• Presque Isle and Pymatuning State Parks
• Tamarack Lake
• Woodcock Creek Lake

Allegheny’s center engages in strategic conservation activities and trains students to become future watershed stewards. Faculty and students work together in the field with the goal to protect, restore, and enhance our land and water resources for future generations in the upper Allegheny River basin, focusing on the French Creek Watershed, one of the most biologically diverse streams east of the Mississippi River.

Creek Connections has forged an effective partnership between Allegheny College and regional K-12 schools to turn waterways in Northwest Pennsylvania, Southwest New York, and the Pittsburgh area into outdoor environmental laboratories. Emphasizing a hands-on, inquiry based investigation of local waterways, this project annually involves over 40 different secondary schools and the classes of 50 teachers.