YSE Class of ’21 “Forward with Optimism and Resolve”
Dean Burke commends this year’s graduates for their resilience, true expertise, scholarship, and leadership during a historically challenging time.
Events
Events
YED Explores ‘Big Ideas’ as Kickoff To Climate Week in New York City
The Yale Environmental Dialogue, an F&ES-based initiative that aims to add new energy to the national conversation about environmental issues, hosted an event at the Yale Club of New York to kick off Climate Week NYC.Yale Symposium Explores Impacts Of Chinese Overseas Investment
On Saturday, April 4, the Yale Symposium on Chinese Overseas Investment and its Environmental and Social Impacts will explore the relationship between China’s overseas investment and the impacts — both negative and positive.A Message for Sochi: Students Pitch Climate Story at Olympics
There will be no shortage of storylines coming out of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. A group of F&ES students will be there to make sure that climate change is one of them.Farrell Testifies Before U.S. Lawmakers on Dark Money and Climate Misinformation
In testimony before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on the Climate Crisis, F&ES Prof. Justin Farrell described a decades-old “well-coordinated and well-funded” movement intended to deceive the American people about the reality of climate change.‘We Put Our Faith in You’: A Call for Leadership in a World of Injustices
Indy Burke began her role as F&ES dean in the fall of 2016, just a few months after the Class of 2018 master’s students first arrived on campus. Much has happened in the 19 months since, she reminded those students during the School’s 117th commencement ceremony.The Voices of Global Warming: Radio Series Makes Climate Connections
A new national radio program produced by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication will share daily stories about how climate change is affecting life in North America and what individuals and groups are doing about it.Promoting a New Conversation on Climate Change: The Human Story
During a recent event, hosted by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, journalists from The New York Times Magazine described the urgent need for a new, more effective conversation around climate change — a moral story, focused on humans, that currently isn’t being told.Esty-Led Panel Highlights ‘Bottom-Up’ Solutions in Climate Week NYC Kickoff
Dan Esty (far right), the Hillhouse Professor of Environmental Law and Policy at Yale, moderates the kickoff panel during Climate Week NYC. Panel: Is There Enough Water To Support the Fracking Boom?
A group of national water experts will discuss the potential consequences of the controversial drilling method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, during a panel discussion on Friday at F&ES.Yale-Led Team Swarms Meeting To Bridge Worlds of Ecology and Design
A Yale-led coalition recently descended on the annual meeting of theEcological Society of America to illustrate how ecology can be used to help solve larger societal challenges.Secret Weapon for Tackling Yale Bug Outbreak? Meet the Lady Beetles
An ongoing campaign to control a breakout of aphids in the trees outside Kroon Hall has included the spraying of vegetable oil and tree maintance. But in early June the university broke out a secret weapon: lady beetles.F&ES Welcomes the Class of 2019
Students introduce themselves at Kroon Hall during MODs. At COP25, Students Will Help Forge Solutions to Global Climate Challenge
More than 40 members of the Yale community, including 38 students from F&ES, will be in Madrid next month for COP25, the annual “conference of the parties” hosted by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.Yale Event Explores the Future of Urban Parks in the 21st Century
On Nov. 13 the F&ES-based Hixon Center for Urban Ecology will convene a conference to examine the future of urban parks — and how researchers and practitioners can create and sustain better public green spaces.