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YSE Celebrates 125 Years of Leadership, Innovation, and Impact

The Yale School of the Environment has been educating the next generation of environmental leaders and helping to meet some of society’s greatest challenges since 1900. Today, the community is working on climate solutions while looking at the challenges and opportunities ahead.

Steve Hamburg ‘77 MFS, ‘84 PhD applied to just one graduate school after earning a bachelor’s degree in ecology. He was drawn to the Yale School of the Environment because of its interdisciplinary and forward-looking, yet practical, approach to environmental science.

“It was the only program I applied to because of the level of innovation and systems thinking and the integration across disciplines that was taking place,” he said.

Hamburg is now the senior vice president and chief scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), and he says that when he glances around at today’s environmental leaders in public, private, and nonprofit organizations he sees old friends and classmates who are “having enormous impact in changing how we view the environment, in how we need to think about the environment to mitigate human impacts and address the climate crisis.” 
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Anniversary Events

 
13 Feb

Yale Forest Forum

  • A History of People, Forests, and Forestry
  • 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
  • Thursdays through April 23
Ali Zaidi portrait
14 Feb

Rethinking Climate Change Progress with Ali Zaidi

  • White House National Climate Advisor (2022 – January 2025)
  • 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
  • Kroon Hall, New Haven, CT
Event poster
27 Feb

Abundant Narratives on Land & Indigeneity

  • 2 Days
  • Kroon Hall, and Zoom
Graphic of a simulated mountain range of overlapping colors
08 May

New Horizons in Conservation

  • 2025 Convening
  • 4 Days
  • New Haven, CT
SAF 25
22 Oct

SAF National Convention

  • From Roots to Canopy: 125 Years of Forestry and Natural Resources
  • 4 Days
  • Hartford, CT
participants in the 2024 conference
06 Nov

Yale Clean Energy Conference

  • 2 Days
  • New Haven, CT
Treetop level view of a forest canopy
31 Jan

31st Annual ISTF Conference

  • Governing Resilient Tropical Forest Systems
  • 2 Days
  • Kroon Hall and Zoom
Yale Center for Business and the Environment
08 Feb

2025 Business and the Environment Conference

  • 8:00 am - 3:30 pm
  • Evans Hall, New Haven, CT
Indy Burke

From our founding in 1900 as The Yale Forest School to our present as the Yale School of the Environment, our strength is rooted in our interdisciplinary approach to developing solutions to meet some of society’s greatest global challenges and educating the next generation of environmental leaders.”

Indy Burke Carl Knobloch, Jr. Dean      Read the Story

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We invite you to take part in celebrating all that we have accomplished together — remembering the remarkable work of those who were here before us — and reflecting on what we hope to achieve in the future!