Wyss Scholars Program Supports Future Western Conservation Leaders
’18 M.E.M. — as 2017 Wyss Scholars
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Wherever the Sun Shines: Bringing Solar to Low- and Middle-income Communities
A new guidebook based on research by YSE scholars offers a roadmap for installing rooftop solar panels in communities that are often overlooked when it comes to promoting renewable energy solutions.Where are F&ES Students Working This Summer? Just About Everywhere
The 152 students who have already completed at least one academic year at F&ES are spending their summers in 34 countries and in states across the U.S., completing internships or conducting their own independent research.Two F&ES-ers Honored by NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program
Two F&ES students have been honored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program, which recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported disciplines.Two F&ES Students Honored for Leadership in Conservation Science
Two F&ES students have been awarded the new MK McCarthy-RW Worth Scholarship for Leadership in Conservation Science.Three Yale Students Selected As 2014 Wyss Scholars
The Wyss Foundation, a charitable organization that promotes land conservation in the U.S. West, has selected three Yale students as 2014 Wyss Scholars — Benjamin Hayes M.F. ‘15, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Marsters M.E.M. ‘16 M.B.A. ‘16, and Mordechai Treiger LAW ‘15.Three F&ESers Named Switzer Fellows
Three F&ES students have been named recipients of Switzer Environmental Fellowships, a prestigious program that supports future environmental leaders.The Judge and the Frog: Student Takes Expertise to Supreme Court
Dual-degree student Katie Bleau ’20 M.E.M. was at the United States Supreme Court on one of the more important moments in its recent history — but not for the reason you think. She tells the story of her role in an important endangered species case on a memorable day in Washington.The Academic Value of Yale’s Carbon Charge Experiment
As F&ES students and administration work on strategies to reduce their own carbon emissions as part of the Yale Carbon Charge project, they are also looking beyond the School to see how they can help other buildings slash their energy consumption.Eleven F&ES Students Advance Energy Leadership as EDF 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 gives specially trained graduates students the opportunity to help transform energy use within organizations in the private and public sector in the U.S., Mexico and China.Student-Led Symposium Highlights Food Issues at F&ES
The inaugural Yale Food Systems Symposium attracted researchers, practitioners, theorists (and eaters) from across the country to discuss the path to a more sustainable food system.Student Research finds Lack of Transparency, Systemic Discrimination in Food Supply System
Efforts to help direct institutional food purchasing toward more equitable and sustainable food suppliers can be stymied by a lack of transparency and by discriminatory practices that keep minority-owned farms, small-scale producers and frontline workers at a disadvantage.AGU Honors F&ES Student For Bringing Remote Sensing to Vulnerable Places
Rebecca Lehman ’18 M.E.M., a second-year master’s student at F&ES, recently received a grand prize in the American Geophysical Union’s Data Visualization and Storytelling contest.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 ofSpurred 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