Oxford has a long history of promoting environmental leadership and healthful living. Whether helping remove invasive plants from Oxford’s Hearn Woods, studying plant succession at the Oxhouse Science Center, or helping design new buildings that preserve and showcase the natural environment, Oxford students, faculty, and staff connect with the world around them.
A faculty member for more than 20 years, biologist Eloise Carter has become as central to Oxford as the campus green. Her love of science, dedication to teaching, and delightful insistence that plants are “sexy” have earned her a string of awards and the admiration of hundreds of students. Most are Oxford undergraduates taking college-level biology for the first time. A growing number, however, are the primary and secondary school teachers who spend their summers at the Oxhouse—set in a preserve dedicated to environmental education—learning bold new ways to teach science.
Carter’s work with the University’s environmental stewardship committee has led to the preservation of hardwood forestland on Emory’s Atlanta campus and the addition of environmental issues to courses across the Oxford curriculum.
Now she is championing a new science and mathematics building, designed to protect the natural environment and provide the kind of dynamic laboratories and classrooms that will transform Oxford students into scientists. This new facility will nearly double Oxford’s space for teaching and research in the sciences.
Your support will further Oxford College’s long-standing efforts to provide a healthy, sustainable environment in which to live, learn, and grow.
