Sustainability Events

The Charles Center offers summer research grants to students of all class years in all disciplines. This workshop will cover how to create an application and what components are required. Take advantage of this great summer experience! 

Push/Pushback: 9 Steps to Make a Difference with Activism and Art

Weds 2nd November 6-7.30pm, on live stream in Sadler Tidewater A (with Zoom options).

The first 50 people to register will receive a free E-book of “PUSH/PUSHBACK”

Register here

The Virginia Beer Company will be our host as three VIMS graduate students give 5-minute fast-talks on the important research they are conducting. Drop in, interact with the students, and enter to win door prizes and discounts.

Keynote speakers will be Dr. Daryl G. Smith and Junior Peña.

Join the Charles Center for Academic Excellence and partnering campus organizations for cookies, cider, hot chocolate, and information on Summer 2023 research and internship opportunities!

Offices closed. No undergraduate classes scheduled.

The Charles Center offers summer research grants to students of all class years in all disciplines. This workshop will cover how to create an application and what components are required. Take advantage of this great summer experience! 

The Charles Center offers summer research grants to students of all class years in all disciplines. This workshop will cover how to create an application and what components are required. Take advantage of this great summer experience! 

Performance showcase about creative conservation 

Planning to apply for department honors and do a senior thesis? The Charles Center offers up to $4,000 for ten weeks of research the summer before your senior year to give you a strong head start on your project.

The CGA is celebrating Geography Awareness Week from November 14th - 18th! There will be events each day and a weeklong competition with geo-swag prizes for undergraduate winners and ArcGIS Personal Use licenses for graduating senior and alumni winners.

Can we engage and lead with our values at this time of heightened political polarization? Can we be peace builders?
Join in dialogue with six other participants from across Williamsburg and W&M. Leave with new perspectives and an Extraordinary Cupcake.

A Global Perspective on Addressing Biodiversity and Protected Area Conservation Challenges and Environmental Injustices through Geographic Information Systems

Explore careers in conservation

International Careers Week: Diverse Paths to working in International Careers

Planning to apply for department honors and do a senior thesis? The Charles Center offers up to $4,000 for ten weeks of research the summer before your senior year to give you a strong head start on your project.

Join VIMS for a special lecture by our Scholar in Ocean Residency, Nainoa Thompson, a native Hawaiian navigator. He returns to inspire and educate us to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world with a melding of science and indigenous wisdom.

In collaboration with the Wild & Scenic Film Festival, the Institute for Integrative Conservation offers for streaming: NEWTOK, A Patagonia Film

The CGA speaker series continues with a talk from VIMS’s Kory Angstadt! Kory will discuss how drones have simplified the field collection of accurate elevations and measuring the extent of plant communities in tidal marshes.

Old Dominion University is hosting a virtual fall mapathon with a presentation from the Program Director for OpenStreetMap US  to wrap up this year’s Geography Awareness Week activities.

Finals got you stressed out? Feeling overwhelmed? Need somebody to talk to? Come have a conversation about how to deal with the pressures of finals with clinicians from the Counseling Center.

Representatives from the Charles Center will be tabling in Sadler with information about funded academic internships for Summer 2023. Come stop by to grab some flyers, ask questions, and get more information. 

SEALS and the VCPC have joined together to bring you the Careers in Environmental Law Panel! We have gathered professionals from government agencies, non-profits, and private practice to come speak to students about their careers in Environmental Law. 

Representatives from the Charles Center will be tabling in Sadler with information about funded academic internships for Summer 2023. Come stop by to grab some flyers, ask questions, and get more information. 

Opening reception for the ecocritical art exhibition, "Romance & Decay: A Generation's View of the Environment," organized by students in Prof. Braddock's "Art and Ecology" course. November 30, 6:30-8:00pm, Keck Environmental Field Lab.