The Global Environmental Change and Sustainability (GECS) program provides a supportive yet challenging academic home for students who are passionate about the environment and who want to make a positive difference in the world.The interdisciplinary GECS major and minor introduce students to the Earth s living and nonliving systems and how humans interact with and affect those systems. The GECS curriculum is solution-focused, providing students with the tools they need to become the next generation of problem-solvers. Courses examine how the powerful tools of science and policy can be brought to bear on environmental problems and the challenge of developing a more sustainable and equitable society.