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YSE NewsYSE 2022 Commencement Information
May 13, 2022Details of the May 23 commencement ceremony for the Class of 2022!
YSE NewsYSE Class of ’22: Lovinia Reynolds is Headed Home to Fight for Climate Justice
May 13, 2022Returning to her native Brooklyn, Lovinia Reynolds is graduating from YSE with an eye on climate justice in the largest city in the U.S.
YSE NewsYSE Class of ’22: Kristina Rodriguez is Focused on Preserving Coastal Ecosystems
May 10, 2022A childhood appreciation of South Florida’s dunes and mangroves led Kristina Rodriguez to become deeply invested in conserving the state’s coastal ecosystems for future generations.
YSE NewsYSE Class of ’22: Akshyah Krishnakumar Seeks to Make Change from the Inside
May 10, 2022Akshyah Krishnakumar is seeking to achieve clean energy goals by working from the inside — starting with the fourth largest corporation in the world.
YSE NewsKaren Seto Brings Her ‘Cities as Solutions’ Focus to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
May 6, 2022Recently elected to one of the country’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies, YSE Professor Karen Seto talks about how cities can be a catalyst for generating solutions to climate change, what she is hoping to bring to the academy, and her role in developing the new Yale Center for Cities and Climate Solutions.
YSE NewsResearch on Rapid, Fine-Scale Evolution in Wood Frogs Wins 2022 Bormann Prize
April 28, 2022Andis Arietta’s doctoral research found that frogs have evolved in response to climate change in recent years, but that continued warming would likely outpace the species’s ability to adapt to extreme environmental change.
YSE NewsPresident's Podcast: An Earth Day Conversation with Dean Indy Burke
April 22, 2022For Earth Day, Dean Indy Burke joined Yale University President Peter Salovey on his monthly Yale Talk podcast for a conversation covering a wide range of environmental issues.
YSE NewsYSE, AmeriCorps Partner for New Scholarship Program
April 21, 2022The Yale School of the Environment has announced a new scholarship program for incoming students who formerly worked with AmeriCorps, a federal program that fosters civic engagement through service and volunteering to address poverty, the environment, education, and other unmet human needs.
YSE NewsThe Washington Post’s Chris Mooney Addresses the Challenge of Translating Environmental Data for Public Consumption
April 20, 2022As Earth Day renews the public’s focus on climate change, Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter Chris Mooney teaches YSE students how to effectively translate environmental data for public consumption.
YSE NewsFuture U.S. Conservation Leaders Named 2022 Wyss Scholars
April 20, 2022Three Yale students — Annie Miller ’23 MEM, Molly Ryan ’23 MEM, and Jane Jacoby ’24 MF/JD ’24 — have been named 2022 Wyss Scholars, a program that supports the graduate-level education of a new generation of leaders in U.S. land conservation.
YSE NewsLANDBACK Panel Addresses Importance of Indigenous Leadership in Land Reclamation and Conservation
April 12, 2022Restoring Indigenous power in land stewardship and co-management policies were at the center of a YSE-Wyss Foundation panel discussion that brought together Indigenous voices from across the country.
YSE NewsAlumna Receives Yale’s Highest Graduate Honor
April 8, 2022Dorceta Taylor ’85 M.F.S., ’91 Ph.D., one of the nation’s leading environmental justice scholars and activists, was recently named a recipient of the 2020 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, the highest honor Yale Graduate School bestows on its alumni.
YSE NewsNew Horizons Conference Highlights ‘Work to Be Done’ on Environmental Justice
April 7, 2022More than 800 people from 24 countries attended this year’s three-day virtual conference, a global conversation on justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion hosted by YSE that also serves as a platform for emerging environmental leaders who are historically underrepresented in the environmental field and/or committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field.
YSE NewsPandemic Shutdowns Give Window into Environmental Racism in California’s Air Pollution Policy
April 7, 2022Study finds that though air pollution is highly regulated in California, environmental policy as a whole is not protecting all communities in an equal way: Regulatory machinery has been preferentially protecting White, non-Hispanic people from exposure.
YSE NewsLatest IPCC Report Highlights How ‘Smarter’ Cities Can Mitigate Climate Change
April 4, 2022Providing some hope in the push for climate action, the IPCC report’s chapter on urban mitigation, led by Yale School of the Environment Professor Karen Seto, outlines how cities have an opportunity to increase resource efficiency and significantly reduce GHG emissions through smarter design and greener infrastructure.