EVST News August 26, 2024
Welcome back to Yale!
Welcome Back Events!
EVST Senior Reception: Wednesday, August 28th, Kroon Lounge (3rd floor), 7:00-8:30pm. This is the first class meeting for all seniors enrolled in EVST 496 in the fall, but seniors planning to write their essays in the spring are also strongly encouraged to attend to learn more about the EVST senior-essay process. RSVP here. We hope every EVST senior will be there! If you have not already done so, please PLEASE FILL OUT THE PRE-SEMESTER SENIOR SURVEY LINK.
EVST Picnic: Thursday, September 5th, Kroon Courtyard, 5:00-7pm. All EVST majors and students interested in the major are invited! Meet EVST faculty and students in the major, play games, pick up EVST swag, and enjoy pizza, gelato, and gourmet ice pops. Gluten free, vegan, and vegetarian options available. Meet our canine support team: Handsome Dan, Heidi, and EVST’s Stella. RSVP here.
Visit EVST's newly updated website for a calendar of upcoming events and course registration details and job opportunities on the News & Opportunities page.
Visit EVST's Instagram for Summer Environmental Fellowship Highlights and Faculty Spotlights (more coming soon!).
DUS Office Hours
Professor Fotos EVST BA DUS
- Tuesday (8/27): 3-5:00pm
- Wednesday (8/28): 2-4:00pm
Location: Outdoors at Beinecke Plaza. Rain location: Rosenkranz Hall, Room 10.
More about Professor Fotos here
Professor Freidenburg EVST BS DUS
- Wednesday (8/28): 9-12:00pm
Location: Zoom or Sage 3A - 1st floor. Sign-up sheet & Zoom link here.
More about Kealoha Freidenburg here.
Meet the 2024-2025 EVST Peer Mentors!
Peer mentors can be a great resource for advice about classes and EVST research, extracurricular, or job opportunities. If you have a question and you don't know the answer, feel free to ask. Reach out to a Peer Mentor, below, or join Yale Environmental Studies on GroupMe!
Emma Polinsky, BA '24, Environmental Policy
Emma grew up outside of Charlotte, North Carolina, but now calls Saint Petersburg, Florida home. Through the Summer Environmental Fellowship, Dwight Hall Summer Fellowship, Women in Government Fellowship, and Summer Experience Award, she has worked at the NOAA Climate Program Office as a communications intern and Haven’s Harvest. She has specific interests in climate change communications, environmental policy, and community-based solutions.
Mikaele Ymker, BS '24, Food and Agriculture
Hailing from New Zealand, Mikaele is passionate about building sustainable global agrifood systems through connecting science, policy, and innovation. She has worked with agriculture technology startups including Halter NZ, which uses intelligent farm management systems to improve animal welfare, productivity, and environmental outcomes for livestock farmers, and Symbrosia, a Yale-founded startup using sustainable seaweed production to mitigate agricultural methane emissions.
Quinn Evans, BS '25, Biodiversity and Conservation
Quinn's on-campus research implements evolutionary quantitative genetics to uncover the genetic bases of trait differences between species of monkeyflowers. He spent the summer of 2023 conducting additional field research on sagebrush plant community resilience. A longtime Coloradan, Quinn has a deep love for the outdoors and spent a gap year before college working in food systems with Huerta Urbana.
Nola Dorji, BS '25, Sustainability and Natural Resources
‘Nola’ is an international student from Bhutan who lived in the Philippines for most of her life. She is enrolled in the Statistics and Data Science program and involved in the Dwight Hall Socially Responsible Investment (DHSRI) club, Environmental Education Collaborative (EECO), and a Silliman FroCo.
Sarah Cheung, BS '25, Environmental Justice
Sarah is a Human Rights Scholar with certificates in Data Science and Chinese and an incoming 5-year BS/MPP student at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, where she hopes to delve more into international climate justice and geopolitics.
Rose Hansen, BS '25, Energy and Climate
This summer, Rose pursued energy research supported by the Summer Environmental Fellowship and the Benjamin Franklin Richter Fellowship. Interviewing everyone from Department of Energy officials to Uber drivers, she has studied the European approach to the energy transition; her research will become a series of podcasts for the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy.
Saskia Braden, BA '25, Environmental Policy
Saskia is passionate about climate policy. Last summer, she supported domestic climate priorities as an intern in the White House Climate Policy Office. Over the past few years, she has had the opportunity to look at corporate climate action, international climate risk assessment, and grassroots organizing.
Yale College Environmental Organizations
Contacts:
YSEC: jenny.liu@yale.edu, isabella.barboza-rodriguez@yale.edu
Environmental Education Collaborative: noe.topping@yale.edu, Jaden.uram@yale.edu
Students for Carbon Dividends: grace.gibson-snyder@yale.edu
Yale Student Energy Association: remi.mellinghoff@yale.edu
Dwight Hall Socially Responsible Investment Fund: Jayanti.gupta@yale.edu, Aryav.bothra@yale.edu
Check out the Related Organizations page on the EVST website for more campus organizations.
Fall Speaker Series
