Faculty


  1. F&ES Launches First Online Courses in Religion and Ecology

    This fall, Professors Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim will launch for the first time two online courses in the study of religion and ecology. While the courses will initially be open to Yale students only, the instructors intend to eventually make it available to a wider audience.

  2. F&ES Creates William R. Burch Prize To Honor Student Research at TRI

    The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies this week announced the creation of a new student award, the William R. Burch Prize, which is named in honor of the founder of the School’s influential Tropical Resources Institute. The new prize will be awarded annually to the best paper written by a TRI Fellow, and will include a $1,000 cash prize.

  4. Moving ‘Natural Capital’ From Metaphor to Reality

    In a new paper, F&ES Prof. Eli Fenichel and a co-author report developing an approach to calculate a fair and consistent price for natural capital stocks that is grounded in the same theory of economic capital that governs the pricing of other capital assets, from stock prices to factories.

  7. Experts of Thangmi Culture Join Himalaya Initiative

    Shneiderman and Turin <p class="p1"> Sara Shneiderman and Mark Turin hold a statue of Ganesha, a Hindu god. The children&rsquo;s blocks are for learning the Devanagari script, in which Nepali and Hindi, as well as many other South Asian languages, are written. Buddhist prayer flags hang in the background.</p>
    The Himalayan Initiative made its first hire when it was still just a vague idea in Shivi Sivaramakrishnan’s head. In 2009 he helped recruit Sara Shneiderman, then a postdoc at Cambridge University, as an assistant professor of anthropology—“a very unusual hiring,” says Shneiderman, because “the Himalayas are typically defined as peripheral” to South Asian Studies. She spent a year

  15. Efficient Buildings Could Save Thousands of Lives in U.S. Every Year

    Buildings in the U.S. are responsible for 40% of the country’s total energy consumption. By improving the energy efficiency of new and existing buildings, the emissions generated from heating and cooling them could be reduced – preventing thousands of premature deaths every year.