News and Announcements

Kirsta MacLellan, Sustainability Champion, March 2023
March 13, 2023
Superintendent Kirsta MacLellan is putting sustainability front at center at Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray Colleges—from greener cleaning to cleaner recycling.
View east from Hillhouse Avenue, rendering courtesy of Yale University
February 23, 2023
A series of planned building projects would transform the School of Engineering & Applied Science, advance Yale’s strategy for hastening research breakthroughs.
Song bird graphic, courtesy of the Office of Sustainability
February 13, 2023
Halfway through a yearlong study, the Yale Bird-Friendly Building Initiative is gathering insights to help reduce bird collisions on Yale’s campus and in cities everywhere.
Amber Garrard, photo courtesy of the Office of Sustainability
January 23, 2023
Garrard, who has served in the Yale Office of Sustainability for 11 years, has been named as its new director. She succeeds Ginger Chapman, who retired as director in...
Facilities Operations staff member using service software, photo by Robert DeSanto
January 19, 2023
We are performing maintenance for Facilities’ online services tool on Thursday, January 19, from 5 to 7 pm.
Illustration by Emily Cai ’25
January 18, 2023
Two of Yale’s recycling experts explain how it works on campus—sorting fact from fiction. Jim Reid is Superintendent for Yale Landscape and Grounds and oversees University...
Virginia "Ginger" Chapman, photo courtesy of the Office of Sustainability
December 6, 2022
After nearly three decades at Yale, Ginger Chapman, Director of the Office of Sustainability, will retire at the end of December. Chapman joined the Office of Sustainability...