As a summer intern at the World Resources Institute (WRI) in the Markets and Enterprise Program, SNRE M.S. student Emily Taylor had the opportunity to be on the cutting edge of financing climate change mitigation. Emily received funding for her internship through the Edna Bailey Sussman Fund Environmental Internship Program. This generous funding enables SNRE students to accept non-paying internship positions in environmental fields.
Assistant research scientist
Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Yale University, 2007
M.S., Environmental Engineering, Yale University, 2004
B.S., Chemical Engineering, Clarkson University, 2001
Gus Winkes completed a legal internship with Seattle City Attorney's office. He is a dual degree student with the law school. For the internship, Gus obtained a limited license to practice law in Washington. This allowed him to represent the City of Seattle in court and to draft legal documents, in addition to doing extensive legal research and writing. He worked for the Land Use Section, so learned a lot about Seattle land use law, as well as general lawyering skills.
Antonia Chan is an Erb student and interned in the Supply Chain Sustainability group at Ford Motor Company. Since the team had recently lost its champion, she identified and built strategic cross-departmental relationships to enhance the impact of the work in the SCS group. She also helped developed a supply chain sustainability scorecard to evaluate supplier performance and communicate actions to mitigate reputational, financial, and legal risks to Ford.
Kate Newlin's job as an intern was to conduct a LCA-based analysis of a material being developed by a start-up material supplier. Personally, she learned that it is important to understand the types of work settings that contribute to efficient and focused work, and those that are distracting, then to do what you can to create the former for yourself. Professionally, Kate learned firsthand how tricky LCA can be, particularly with respect to data collection.
Ye Yue worked remotely to help develop GS-45 standards on single-use plastic resin film bags, conducted LCA comparing conventional and environmentally preferable products.
Calling all students to the first SNRE town hall of the year! We want your feedback!
Please join us to share your views on the first weeks of the fall semester and to discuss paths forward for our fair institution. StudGov representatives will be in Dana 1040 at 4:30pm on Sept. 19 to facilitate a discussion on any and all matters regarding the SNRE student experience.
Students are strongly encourage to attend. Weather and can-do spirits permitting, we'll likely head to Dominick's following the meeting (~6pm) to kick back and continue the conversation.
The School of Natural Resources and Environment is seeking applicants for a full”time, nine”month faculty position in sustainable food systems. SNRE’s mission is to contribute to the protection of the Earth’s resources and the achievement of a sustainable society.