NRES provides outstanding undergraduate and graduate educational opportunities. program have gone on to complete graduate and professional degrees. Our graduates work in environmental science and natural resource management positions in government, corporations, consulting firms, and non-governmental organizations. NRES also offers traditional Master of Science, online Master of Science, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees. Our graduate students gain employment with research universities, government agencies, national and international non-governmental organizations, and business enterprises. All NRES educational and research programs center on science, applied ecology, and conservation in a variety of aquatic, terrestrial and human dominated ecosystems. Within that framework, our faculty, staff, and students study a wide variety of ecological systems with emphases on soil, water, people and social systems, forests, plants, animals, and microbes. Much of our research focuses on natural and social processes, such as habitat fragmentation, regulation, dispersal, disturbance, invasion, bioactivity, and decision-making. We research and work in locations locally, across the United States, and around the world. Comments, links, photos, and videos are welcome on all University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign social media platforms. All posts should be relevant to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign community. Comments or posts made by outside users to University accounts can be removed for any of the following reasons, at any time, if they (a) use obscene, threatening, or harassing language; (b) disclose information that is confidential by law or regulation; (c) promote or advocate illegal activity; (d) violate copyrights or trademarks; (e) are commercial advertising, unsolicited self-promotion, SPAM, or solicitations; or (f) endorse or oppose anyone campaigning for election to a political office. User comments or user posts do not represent the opinions of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The University and units adapting this policy reserve the right to respond to comments that do not violate this policy.
