Masters Program


  1. Success in an ‘Accidental Profession’

    A broad science background and some old-fashioned pluck helped Jean Thomson Black ’75 MFS build an impactful career in science publishing, for which she was honored with the School’s Distinguished Service Award at Reunion Weekend 2020.

  6. Student Helps Craft Law to Tackle Brazil’s ‘Systemic’ Waste Management Challenges

    In 2010, Brazil enacted the Nacional Waste Management Law, which enforces extended producer responsibilities (EPR), a strategy that makes producers responsible for creating and expanding recycling infrastructure for end-of-life products, shifting the responsibility for managing post-consumption goods from municipalities to producers. This law is the first of its kind in Brazil, the largest country in South America and one of

  7. Spurred by Hurricane Irene, Student Balances Academics and Public Service

    While many students at F&ES are interested in environmental policy, James Albis ’16 M.E.M. has brought a unique perspective to the classroom ­— that of an elected politician.
     
    When Albis (D-East Haven) first decided to run for the Connecticut state legislature at age 26, he was focused on income inequality and economic justice, not environmental policy. But Hurricane

  8. Solving the Ivory Deadlock

    In an interview Gao Yufang ’14 M.E.Sc., who is now a doctoral student at F&ES, discusses a new paper he co-authored in Science that calls for a more iterative process that recognizes different value systems in order to save the world's disappearing elephants.

  11. Setting the Standard in The Cleanup of Toxic Lead

    For more than four decades, Ian von Lindern M.F.S. ’73, Ph.D. ’80 has been at the center of a massive cleanup of lead pollution in Idaho. The strategies he has helped develop are now being used to tackle health threats globally.

  12. Selling the Farm

    Joe Orefice ’09 M.F. gave up his farm, an endowed position at Cornell, and the verdant Adirondack Mountains to oversee Yale’s forests. Why? There are a few reasons.

  14. Land Justice: Forester Untangles the Thorny Challenges of ‘Heirs Property’

    At the first Yale Forest Forum, a veteran forester discussed the legal and economic challenges of so-called “heirs’ property,” a phenomenon common in the U.S. South in which the title to land remains in the name of a person even after they have die — while the land rights are passed down, informally, from one generation to the next.