The Wyss Foundation, a charitable organization that supports land conservation in the American West, has selected three Yale students as 2019 Wyss Scholars.
A new guidebook based on research by YSE scholars offers a roadmap for installing rooftop solar panels in communities that are often overlooked when it comes to promoting renewable energy solutions.
The 152 students who have already completed at least one academic year at F&ES are spending their summers in 34 countries and in states across the U.S., completing internships or conducting their own independent research.
Two F&ES students have been honored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program, which recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported disciplines.
The Wyss Foundation, a charitable organization that promotes land conservation in the U.S. West, has selected three Yale students as 2014 Wyss Scholars — Benjamin Hayes M.F. ‘15, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Marsters M.E.M. ‘16 M.B.A. ‘16, and Mordechai Treiger LAW ‘15.
Dual-degree student Katie Bleau ’20 M.E.M. was at the United States Supreme Court on one of the more important moments in its recent history — but not for the reason you think. She tells the story of her role in an important endangered species case on a memorable day in Washington.
As F&ES students and administration work on strategies to reduce their own carbon emissions as part of the Yale Carbon Charge project, they are also looking beyond the School to see how they can help other buildings slash their energy consumption.
Eleven students and graduates from F&ES have been selected as summer fellows for the Environmental Defense Fund’s Climate Corps program, an innovative fellowship that gives specially trained graduates students the opportunity to help transform energy use within organizations in the private and public sector in the U.S., Mexico and China.
The inaugural Yale Food Systems Symposium attracted researchers, practitioners, theorists (and eaters) from across the country to discuss the path to a more sustainable food system.
Efforts to help direct institutional food purchasing toward more equitable and sustainable food suppliers can be stymied by a lack of transparency and by discriminatory practices that keep minority-owned farms, small-scale producers and frontline workers at a disadvantage.
Rebecca Lehman ’18 M.E.M., a second-year master’s student at F&ES, recently received a grand prize in the American Geophysical Union’s Data Visualization and Storytelling contest.
In 2010, Brazil enacted the Nacional Waste Management Law, which enforces extended producer responsibilities (EPR), a strategy that makes producers responsible for creating and expanding recycling infrastructure for end-of-life products, shifting the responsibility for managing post-consumption goods from municipalities to producers. This law is the first of its kind in Brazil, the largest country in South America and one of