Sweet Briar News About: Center for Human and Environmental Sustainability

Author Elizabeth Rush to Speak on Climate Change at Sweet Briar

March 14, 2023

Community collaboration shines during Earth Week

April 14, 2022

Robin Wall Kimmerer on “Braiding Sweetgrass” and special events series

February 25, 2022

The Sweet Briar Train Station

November 23, 2021

Virginia Senate Committee on Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources holds fall retreat at Sweet Briar

October 26, 2021

Willits Food Systems Summer Fellows gain a bounty of experience

August 11, 2021

Bringing Earth Day to life across campus

April 21, 2021

‘The Sixth Extinction’ author Elizabeth Kolbert speaks at the 2021 Waxter Environmental Forum

April 8, 2021

University Business article shares how we found ‘gold’ in our roots

February 18, 2021

NRCS helps Sweet Briar rediscover its roots in agriculture

December 3, 2020

Admissions Blog: Abby Cahill ’21 shares her experience in environmental science and summer research

November 18, 2020

Brewer Fund Challenge: Thank you!

July 23, 2020

$500,000 donation will support viticulture and provide a path to the future

April 24, 2020

Environmental sustainability is growing

April 22, 2020

Sweet Briar College and American Farmland Trust collaborate on programming

January 31, 2020

Local, state and federal leaders celebrate Sweet Briar as ‘a new model for higher education’ at ceremonial ribbon-cutting

September 20, 2019

U.S. Sen. Mark Warner and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to visit Sweet Briar on Founders’ Day

September 12, 2019

Sweet Briar’s Mary Pope Hutson ’83 to lead National Park System Advisory Board

September 6, 2019

Science and history dominate 2019 Honors Summer Research Program

May 29, 2019

Deep Roots: Farming at Sweet Briar

May 24, 2019

Sweet Briar celebrates Earth Week with special guests

May 1, 2019

Panel of alumnae experts in conservation and agriculture to visit Sweet Briar

April 3, 2019

Iditarod rookie musher, Sweet Briar grad Alison Lifka to speak at alma mater April 2

March 21, 2019

Sweet Briar and Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation announce partnership

December 11, 2018

Core 110: Learning by design

December 3, 2018

Q&A: After five years in Alaska, Sweet Briar grad Alison Lifka gets ready for Iditarod

October 26, 2018

Virginia secretary of agriculture and forestry to speak at Sweet Briar College on Earth Day

April 13, 2018

Admissions Blog: Summer internship success stories

April 6, 2018

Admissions Blog: How Sweet Briar grads are winning at outcomes

March 16, 2018

Ginette Hemley to headline 2018 Waxter Forum at Sweet Briar

March 1, 2018

Sweet Briar EXPLORE weekends let high school girls try arts, sciences and more

January 25, 2018

Sweet Briar presents weekly Faculty Research Seminar Series over lunch

January 18, 2018

Sweet Briar’s campus is excellent ecosystem for grant-funded sustainability internships

June 8, 2017

Sweet Briar invites high school girls to second Explore Environmental Science Weekend

March 8, 2017

Sweet Briar’s first-ever Explore Environmental Science Weekend to give high school girls hands-on experience

August 30, 2016

Ancient forests can’t talk, so one determined scientist speaks for them

April 20, 2016

Fight for old-growth forests subject of Sweet Briar’s Waxter Forum

April 12, 2016

Environmental history, science and technology converge in lecture on George Washington

February 19, 2016

Grant to bolster Sweet Briar’s environmental programs

February 1, 2016

Sweet Briar biologist nominated for conservation prize

August 18, 2015

Student-faculty duo publishes paper in national geophysics journal

December 4, 2014

Sweet Briar to sell warm-season grasses for biofuel

April 10, 2014

Waxter speaker lures readers to science with fiction

March 22, 2013