Global environmental expert Susan Tambi Matambo (MEM ‘04) joins Lydia Monk (Pierson ‘24) and Nicholas Perez (JE ‘24) to break down the disparities in climate impacts and solutions, and what can be done about it.
This is one of five Live Explainers being held during Yale Earth Week 2021. To register for these and other events, please visit earthweek.yale.edu!
Dr. Maya Prabhu joins Nora Massie (Davenport ‘22) to explain how climate change is altering the places communities can call home.
This is one of five Live Explainers being held during Yale Earth Week 2021. To register for these and other events, please visit earthweek.yale.edu!
Since its “discovery,” America has been imagined as a heavenly destination, identified with the New Jerusalem of the Bible as a paradise and refuge. This apocalyptic metaphor has also helped create exclusionary and violent policies against unwanted people groups. This talk by Professor Yii-Jan Lin, Assistant Professor of New Testament at the Yale Divinity School, will focus on US policies and attitudes toward Chinese immigration and the influence of apocalyptic metaphors and conceptualizations of America.
When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that many facial recognition technologies misclassify women and darker-skinned faces, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms.
Immediately following the screening, Professor Elisa Celis will moderate a discussion with the filmmaker, Shalini Kantayya.
Often when we discuss the development of chemicals and substances, the conversation usually focuses on how scientists and inventors synthesized them. In this talk, materials scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez will highlight how simple materials and the inventions they enabled shaped society. Based on her new book The Alchemy of Us, she will show how everyday inventions had a hand in fashioning language, politics, and even our bodies.
Chris Perkins (MEM/MBA ‘21) joins Marie Sanford (Saybrook ‘23) to debunk myths around accessibility to green spaces and nature.
This is one of five Live Explainers being held during Yale Earth Week 2021. To register for these and other events, please visit earthweek.yale.edu!
Contact: Scot Bearss, Scot.Bearss@yale.edu
Please join us for the last event in our special webinar series held on the last Friday of every month. Led by Professor Moira Fradinger, this series is a part of a collaborative effort with CLAIS, Latin American Interdisciplinary Gender Network, and The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to highlight gender studies and gender issues in Latin America.
Join us for an informal Yale career and post-Yale journey conversation with four Yale College alumni: Alán Díaz-Santana ’18, Ava Tomasula y Garcia ’17, Nicolas Aramayo ’17, and Ivetty Estepan ‘18. Below are their bios. This event is co-sponsored by La Casa Cultural and it will be moderated by Yale Professor Moira Fradinger.
Alán Díaz-Santana ’18 (he/his) is a teaches high school geography in Alamo, TX and is an Executive Board Member, American Federation of Teachers.
Please join the LGBTQ Affinity Group for the highly anticipated return of our annual Spring Social, a celebration for all Yale faculty, staff, postdocs, allies, and significant others.
Research Day is the annual showcase for diverse, multidisciplinary research conducted at Yale School of the Environment.
Session: Biogeochemical Cycles and Their Regulation
1. The role of ungulate density and sociality on landscape nutrient distribution (Kristy M. Ferraro)
2. The fate of soil carbon in drylands after the addition of multiple levels of water and nitrogen (Christopher Beltz)
3. Iron’s Effect on Methane Emissions from Freshwater Systems (Itai Boneh)
