The Environmental & Sustainability Studies (ENVST) program turns 25 this year. Founded in 1998, the program has become a model of interdisciplinary undergraduate education focusing on the intersection of environmental science, justice and sustainability. Under the guidance of Dean Donna Gelfand, Daniel McCool, was tasked with researching the creation of an Environmental Studies Program. There were very few fully independent environmental studies programs in the U.S. at the time that the University of Utah’s Environmental and Sustainability Studies program was developed.