Sir Peter Crane, a geophysical sciences professor at the University of Chicago, will replace Gus Speth ’64 LAW ’69 as the dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, University President Richard Levin announced in an e-mail message to the environment school community Wednesday afternoon.
In response to growing demand for the major, the Program of Environmental Studies announced last week that the application deadline for the 7-year-old environmental studies major will be moved up from May 15 to March 27 and that the major may be capped due to limited faculty availability.
Fred Strebeigh is known at Yale as a beloved, and bearded, teacher of nonfiction writing. His new book, which came out Friday, is a legal history two decades in the making, called “Equal: Women Reshape American Law.” Strebeigh spoke to the...
Carbon emissions may be the last thing on most peoples’ minds when they board an airplane. But not for the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
Leading Lives: Gus Speth ’64 LAW ’69 doesn’t cut the figure of a typical environmentalist.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is scheduled to visit Yale next month to deliver an address on climate change, University officials confirmed last week.
When Michael Davies FES ’08 was unsatisfied with the lack of courses focused on environmentalism in politics that were offered at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, he did not just sit back and complain.
In a phone interview with the News, Esty said that at the conference he noticed a major shift in business leaders’ perceptions of the relationship between the environment and economic vitality, which many of them are increasingly beginning to see as compatible.
Environmental ethics, a burgeoning branch of environmentalism at the intersection of religion, philosophy and ecology, is making waves at the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies.
Six months after Yale launched a program to bring environmentally friendly practices to developing countries, a team of faculty and students are work.
Yale administrators are fighting to protect seven New England forest properties, including Myers Forest in northeastern Connecticut, in order to provide land for research and sustainable agricultural practices.
When Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher Jr. FES ’04 enrolled in Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, he had what the school’s Director of Development Eugenie Gentry called “an unusual profile” for a graduate student.
