Events

Conversation With Dan Gross - career paths in clean energy and climatetech | Tuesday, January 21 11:45am - 12:45pm, Evans Hall, School of Management room 2400 | Dan Gross, instructor of Yale’s Renewable Energy Project Finance course and Director of Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, will host a conversation about career paths in clean energy and climatetech. The conversation will focus on advice for skills in demand, thoughts on the impact of the incoming administration and how the climatetech and clean energy sectors can reinvent themselves in response, and time for Q&A. Register here.

Food, Agriculture and Climate Change Certificate | Certificate drop-in hour Friday, January 24 from 2:30-3:30 PM at the Yale LGBTQ Center 135 Prospect Street. Find requirements for completion here.

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Spring Opportunities

2025 LEAP Student Grant Program Call for Applications | The Law, Environment & Animals Program (LEAP) at Yale Law School invites applications for its student grant program. Applicants may work individually or in teams. The grant program supports student-led research and creative projects that advance understanding of, draw attention to, and/or develop strategies to address the urgent threats facing non-human animals. All current Yale students can submit proposals for term time and summer projects. For details on how to apply, see the LEAP website. Funding awards can range from $250 to $2,000. The deadline for submitting a proposal is Friday, March 28, 2025 at 12 pm ET. Decisions will be made by mid-April 2025. Projects should be completed by December 1, 2025, though this deadline is flexible for longer-term projects. More information can be found on LEAP’s website. Contact LEAP Postgraduate Fellow Laurie Sellars (laurie.sellars@yale.edu) with questions.

Plant-Forward Yalies Reading Group | Weekly dinner meetings to discuss an agreed upon text. The theme of the reading group will be either the political economy of animals; factory farming and the ecological rift; or interspecies encounters, solidarity, and justice. Anyone interested should fill out this interest form.

Public Humanities Grant Program | Offers small grants of $250–3,000 for public humanities projects broadly related to the environment. Read news items about some past grant projects here. Apply via the application webform by Friday, February 7th @ 1:00pm. Decisions will be announced by the end of February. Visit their website for more details.

Summer Opportunities

Yale Summer Internships and Fellowships

2025 YPCCC/Pulitzer Center Fellowship for Climate Reporting | Apply by February 2nd
Yale Sustainable Food Program's Lazarus Summer Internship | Apply by February 14th
Yale Sustainable Food Program's Global Food Fellowship | Apply by March 5th
Tropical Resources Institute (TRI) Fellowship | Apply by March 14th
EVST Summer Environmental Fellowships | Apply by March 14th
Western Resources Fellowship at Ucross High Plains Stewardship Initiative | Apply by March 17th
Ongoing Compilation of Summer Opportunities for BS Program Students

Additional Yale funding opportunities can be found by clicking the button below:

Yale Funding for Environmental Summer Experiences

Other Fellowship Opportunities

Details for opportunities below can be found in last week's newsletter, here.

Carbon Containment Lab Summer Internship | Apply by February 9th
Middlebury School of the Environment Summer Program | Apply by March 1st
Alaska Conservation Foundation’s conservation internships | Apply by February 12th
Montana Conservation Corps | Apply here
2025 NOAA Ernest F. Hollings Undergraduate Scholarship | Apply by January 31st
Overland Summers | Apply here by January 21st or March 31st
Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) at BIOS: Collaborative Marine Research
Scientists in Parks Fellows | Click here to learn more and apply by January 21st
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's (SERC) Internship Program | .Apply by February 15th using the SOLAA web portal
UC San Diego/Scripps Institute of Oceanography MPL SUMMER INTERNSHIP PROGRAM | Apply by January 24th at 4 PM PT
UNH Summer '25 Sustainability Fellowship | Apply here by February 9th

Seniors

Lazarus Fellow 2025-27 position | The Lazarus Fellowship is a two-year, full-time salaried staff position with benefits. Applications are due by March 2 at 5:00 PM EST. Visit their openings page to find out when the application goes live. Contact current Lazarus Fellow fafa.vanha@yale.edu for more information about the job.

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Resources

Do you have questions about the EVST major? Meet with EVST's BA DUS or BS DUS, reach out to a Peer Mentor or Certificate or Graduate School Liaison, or join Yale Environmental Studies on GroupMe.

Weekly DUS office hours are posted on the EVST website.