Do You Want to Tackle? What Global Issue

We don’t just talk about making the world a better place—we provide you with the tools and skills to actually do it. At Rollins, there are myriad opportunities to explore the many defining issues of our time, but here are a few to get you started as you consider what role you’ll play in combating them. So how do you want to make a difference?

TAKE THIS QUIZ TO FIND OUT.

What’s more important—water or food?

What best describes an issue you’d like to explore?

Increasing access to people’s basic needs

H20 is the source of life.

No one should ever go hungry.

I’m all about preserving our green spaces.

Clean Water

You’ll engage this issue right at the source as part of our Immersion program, which gives you firsthand experience with cultural, environmental, social, and political issues. For over 25 years, chemistry professor Pedro Bernal has been leading Tars on Immersions to the Dominican Republic, where they’ve installed more than 20,000 life-changing water filters throughout rural communities across the island.

Zero Hunger

You can put your passion into practice like Andrew Boyd ’21 through internship opportunities at organizations such as Feeding Children Everywhere (now U.S. Hunger). The business management major got a behind-the-scenes look at the world of nonprofits, honing skills in supply chain operations, problem solving, and system analysis while tackling the hunger crisis on a global scale.

Sustainable Communities

Spy capuchin monkeys high in the rainforest while learning about how a focus on conservation can define an economy and culture. Through two different field-study options in Costa Rica, a world leader in environmental protection and sustainable development, you’ll engage with community leaders and gain the kind of real-world experience necessary to confront these complex challenges.

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Creating a sustainable future

By focusing on natural habitats or improving cities?

Resilient Infrastructure

Through Rollins’ Student-Faculty Collaborative Scholarship Program, you’ll have the opportunity to conduct original research alongside our expert faculty. After examining musical acoustics with physics professor Thom Moore, Lauren Neldner ’20 earned a spot in a National Science Foundation program to study seismology, which sparked her desire to engineer safer buildings and devise early warning systems for earthquakes.

We must abolish scarcity.

Improving quality of life for others

Through their lot in life or health?

No Poverty

Service learning programs like the Bonner Leaders can prove both life-changing and career-defining. Just ask Madhavi Mooljee ’21, who worked with IDignity, a local nonprofit that secures identification so impoverished people can find jobs and attend school. Mooljee went on to earn a fellowship from Venture for America and aspires to create her own social enterprise that combats poverty and supports immigrant communities.

Without our health, we have nothing.

Health and Wellness

Many of Rollins’ interdisciplinary, discussion-based classes include research components that put you on the front lines of real-world problems. For example, math professor Zeynep Teymuroglu recently earned a grant to engage her students in research focused on mathematical models of opioid use and disease spread that can help inform policy decisions around the country.