Student Activities
Students Blogging from Bali
12.07.07 Twenty-two students from Yale F&ES are currently attending the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), in Bali, Indonesia. Their travel to the conference was made possible by a generous gift from Sandra and Jim Leitner. Stay up to date, through the F&ES blog.
The Students, the Habitat—Even the Menu is Diverse
Take a trip to Yale-Myers Forest for the second installment of a three part series on Technical Skills Modules at F&ES.
Understanding Cities as Ecosystems
Tromping around at the edge of an athletic field on a sticky day at the end of August, approximately 30 members of F&ES’ incoming class whacked away at clumps of bittersweet, phragmites, purple loosestrife and other invasive vegetation, clearing space for planting native species and augmenting ongoing efforts to restore New Haven’s Beaver Ponds Park. Situated in the city’s northwest corner and linking ethnically diverse neighborhoods, the 109-acre park, like many wetlands, was long treated as useless—drained, graded, filled and developed.
Student Initiation Stresses Fun (and Learning)
On a blue–chip August morning last summer, a day of cloudless skies and soft air, the sun–dappled road into Great Mountain Forest in Norfolk, Conn., was dotted with people, heads down, muttering under their breath.
Doctoral Student's Research Featured on NPR
Jennifer Balch is part of a research team using experimental burns to study the effects of fire in the transitional forests of Brazil.
Summer Internship: La Minga
La minga, or "community service", is a cornerstone in rural areas of Ecuador in which communities work together to construct sanitation systems, build houses, improve community green spaces,
Doctoral Students Awards/Fellowships - 2007/2008
Congratulations to our 2007-08 Award and Fellowship recipients.
