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Q&A: LEAP Student Grant Winner Kevin Yang on Designing for Nonhuman Animals
Kevin Yang (M.Arch. '24), a LEAP 2022 Student Grant recipient, focuses on creating and deploying structures that reclaim human-dominated spaces for nonhuman animals.
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Q&A: LEAP Student Fellow Alice Courtright on Motherhood, Faith, and the Natural World
LEAP Student Fellow Alice Courtright writes about the connection between nonhuman animals, suffering, motherhood, longing, and the environment.
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LEAP Announces Three Student Grant Program Recipients for 2023
This year’s LEAP Student Grant Program awards will support multidisciplinary projects in conservation storytelling, art and education, and the spiritual and cultural importance of nonhuman animals.
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LEAP Student Fellow Nathalie Sommer Wins P.E.O. Scholar Award
Nathalie Sommer, a Ph.D. student in the Yale School of the Environment and LEAP Student Fellow, is one of 110 doctoral students in the U. S. and Canada to receive the award.
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Jack Whiteley ’18 Appointed Associate Professor at Minnesota Law
Jack Whiteley ’18, one of several recent graduates to enter law teaching with an interest nonhuman animals and the law, has been appointed Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School.
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LEAP Student Researcher Meredith Barges Builds a Safer World for Birds
LEAP Student Researcher Meredith Barges ’23 MDiv discusses the Lights Out Connecticut, which she co-founded, and other efforts to make cities safe for birds.
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Building a Bird-Friendly Yale, With Campus as a Living Lab
The Law, Ethics & Animals Program at Yale Law School and Yale partners are finding solutions to a major biodiversity challenge: the more than 1 billion birds killed by window collisions every year in North America.
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LEAP Seeks Litigation Fellow Focused on Animal Agriculture and Climate Change
The Law, Ethics, and Animals Program invites applications for a Litigation Fellow to join the Climate Change & Animal Agriculture Litigation Initiative.