Sewanee Environmental Institute

Sewanee: The University of the South

Student & Faculty Collaboration

David Haskell with Students.

At SEI, undergraduate students and faculty work together to further our understanding of environmental change.

A center for environmental education and research

SEI promotes the use of the University of the South's ecologically and culturally diverse 13,000-acre campus as a living laboratory for the interdisciplinary study of people and the land. SEI offers field-based educational programs at the undergraduate and pre-college level, and fosters faculty-mentored student research on the Cumberland Plateau and beyond.

Educational Programs

Each summer SEI brings undergraduate and high school students to our campus to engage in field-based learning opportunities with our faculty.

The Sewanee Landscape

Across Sewanee's forested landscape over 50 miles of hiking trails lead you to old growth cove forests, waterfalls, lakes, ancient Native American rockshelters and more.

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Sewanee student gives presentation amid camouflage

March 8, 2013

Meg Armistead, a Sewanee junior from Charlotte, NC, recently had a very unusual opportunity for an undergraduate. Read more…

Universtiy Garden in the news

February 19, 2013

The University's garden is bedded down for winter. Read more…

Peter Crane to give PBK lecture on the history and culture of the Ginkgo

February 16, 2013

Dr.Peter Crane will be on the Sewanee campus as the 2012-13 Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. He will give a lecture, “Ginkgo: The History and Culture of the World's Most Ancient Tree,” at 4:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 18. The lecture is free and open to the public. Read more…

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Wrestling with privet on Bluebell Island

Bluebell Island

Sharp blades and muscles: These are the lab tools used lately by my class. We’ve been mapping and eradicating privet from Bluebell Island, a local…

Ephermal Ponds

pond

Posted on February 5, 2012 On Saturday morning, I visited the large ephemeral pond at the end of Brakefield Road. This pond, like all ephemeral…