Dean’s Message: A Risk Worth Taking

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<h3 style="color:#666;">Dean’s Message: A Risk Worth Taking</h3>
<em><p>Dean James Gustave Speth
</p></em><p>As many of you know from personal experience, taking a new position often involves a real risk. You can’t be sure whether you’ll be able to accomplish the things you think are important or even whether you’ll like the work.</p> <p>Now, as my two terms as dean are up and I’m headed out the door for Vermont (see below), I can say with pleasure that coming to F&ES was definitely a risk worth taking! I feel very good about what we’ve been able to do together here over the past decade, and especially about the 2,057 students who graduated during these years and the things they have accomplished and will accomplish decades into the future. What a joy these years have been!</p> <p>So, my purpose in this final column is simply to say thank you for the chance to work with you and for what you have made possible. Thank you staff and faculty, alumni and students, advisors and donors and especially Cameron—all of you.</p> <p>And the forward momentum hasn’t stopped. In just the last few months, we have, among many other things:</p> <ul> <li>actively pursued searches for several new faculty members;</li> <li> moved into the magnificent Kroon Hall;</li> <li>launched a pathbreaking lecture series on attractive visions for the world of 2050 and how to realize them;</li> <li>acquired the talents of our friend and Nobel Laureate Raj Pachauri as the first director of the new Yale Climate and Energy Institute; and</li> <li>most important for our future, found a great new…

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