F&ES Student Named Switzer Fellow
Margaret Tallmadge ’20 M.E.M. has been named a recipient of the Switzer Environmental Fellowship, a prestigious program that supports future environmental leaders.
Students
Students
Expanding Adaptive Financing Options For Post-Disaster Recovery
As part of their F&ES masters project, students Laura Hammett ’17 M.E.M. and Katy Mixter ’17 M.E.M./M.B.A. recently convened experts from humanitarian and financial organizations for a one-day workshop on the challenges of post-disaster reconstruction and resilience.Environmental Justice Conference Brings Emerging Scholars to F&ES
The day-long Global Environmental Justice Conference brought emerging scholars from around the world and from across disciplines to discuss how scholarship, social justice, and environmental management can be effectively integrated.Eleven F&ES Students Selected as Climate Corps Fellows
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 places specially trained graduates students with private and public sector organizations to help transform how they use energy.Eighth Sabin Venture Prize to Honor Business Ideas that Advance Sustainability
Four startup ideas will be finalists for the 2016 Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize, a $25,000 cash prize that supports for-profit business concepts that help achieve a more sustainable way of life.Eight Sabin International Fellows to Take Lessons Back to Their Home Nations
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has selected eight graduate students as Andrew Sabin International Environmental Fellows, with each Fellow to receive up to $40,000 of funding for their education and post-graduate service in the environmental sector.Effective Dialogue in Forests Landscapes: Ten Years of Experience in Komi, Russia
A decade ago, the Forests Dialogue, an F&ES-based initiative that promotes dialogue between stakeholders in forest regions, ventured into a region of northwest Russia. In the years since, the Komi Dialogue has developed into an ongoing, multi-stakeholder platform that has served as a powerful convening tool.Ecological Classroom: Connecting With Nature at New Haven’s ‘Urban Parklet’
An “urban parklet” designed by an F&ES student in New Haven’s Fair Haven neighborhood has converted a series of parking spaces into a public “ecological classroom,” connecting the neighborhood with urban nature in a whole new way.Out of Their Comfort Zone: Students Merge Ecology and Design in Baltimore
Earth Stewardship Initiative fellows meet with Baltimore officials over a map of the city.
First-year M.E.M. student Amber Collett barely had a chance to unpack her bags after arriving in New Haven this summer before she had to catch a train to Baltimore.
Collett, who hadn’t even completed her F&ES orientation, was one of 18 student fellows from across the country who participated in the Earth Stewardship Initiative (ESI), a Yale-led urban ecology projectSolutions for Scarcity: Yale Series Tackles Drought Crisis in U.S. West
On Feb. 24, Jennifer Pitt ’93 M.E.Sc., director of the Environmental Defense Fund’s Colorado River Program, will kick off a series of F&ES talks about the chronic drought that continues to grip the western U.S.Doctoral Graduate Honored for Research On Unexpected Impact of Small Ponds
Meredith Holgerson ’16 Ph.D., an aquatic ecologist who has provided new insights into the unexpected role of small pond systems, has received a national science award for research she conducted as an F&ES doctoral student.Doctoral Grad Receives Prestigious Yale Prize for Written Scholarship
Opportunity and Optimism During an Uncertain Time
For some students poised to enter the job market, the political turmoil in Washington, D.C. is adding another layer of uncertainty. But during a two-day job trek in the nation’s capital, F&ES students found reasons for optimism.Bormann Prize Winner Honored For Study in ‘Green Sovereignty’
A published paper exploring the relationship between landscape imagery and national self-identity in Costa Rica helped earn Dana Graef, an F&ES doctoral student, the 2014 F. Herbert Bormann Prize.‘Cryptic’ Interactions Drive Biodiversity Decline Near the Edge of Forest Fragments
The fragmentation of tropical forests weakens the effects of the ”natural enemies” of some tree species, reducing their ability to maintain biodiversity, a new Yale-led study found.