March 27, 2024 YDS Dean Greg Sterling made the following announcement today. —— I am happy to announce that Ryan Darr ’19 Ph.D. has been appointed to the YDS faculty position in environmental ethics. Dr. Darr will join our faculty next year as Assistant Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Environment. Ryan Darr is currently a…
On April 25, YDS dedicated its newly remodeled entrance hall and celebrated the donors whose support made it possible: Sam Croll ’75 M.A.R. and his wife, Ann Croll. A new plaque marks the opening of the hall, bearing the inscription “Croll Family Entrance Hall: Gift of Samuel W. Croll III ’75 M.A.R. and Ann G….
A reflection on the Divinity School’s Living Village By David Sokol David Sokol ’01 B.A. is a New York–based writer and editor whose work focuses on the contemporary built environment. He is a frequent contributor to Architectural Digest and Dwell magazines, and his recent books include Hudson Modern and Hamptons Modern, both of which were published…
New Haven, Conn. — Yale Divinity School (YDS) will break ground on Wednesday, Oct. 11, on a building that is unprecedented in American higher education: a living-building residence hall that will house students in a way that gives back to the environment more than it takes. “The Living Village” is designed to meet the exacting…
Yale Divinity School is hosting a series of events and celebrations on Wednesday, October 11, to celebrate the historic occasion of groundbreaking for its landmark Living Village project….
“Universities exist to address the problems we face as human beings,” Yale Divinity School Dean Greg Sterling told 60 of America’s leading sustainability experts in Washington, D.C., on May 5, in the Divinity School’s first introduction of the Living Village to a public audience….
In the new episode of the YDS “Quadcast,” living buildings pioneer Jason F. McLennan discusses Yale Divinity School’s Living Village, the relationship between religion and the environment, and his response to critics of green building. “Facilities, especially at a divinity school, should reflect the values of the institution, the values of the people it houses,…
By Timothy Cahill ’16 M.A.R. “You can’t heal an ecosystem without healing yourself,” Jason F. McLennan told an audience at Yale Divinity School on January 31. McLennan, founder of the Living Building Challenge, was at YDS to give the 2023 Margaret Lindquist Sorensen Lecture. McLennan is an award-winning architect and visionary whose concept of “regenerative”…
October 17, 2022 Yale Divinity School on Friday launched a fundraising campaign aimed at strengthening support for students, academic programs, justice work, and construction of the first major living-building student residence hall in the college and university sector. The “We Are Called” campaign seeks to raise $130 million, of which more than $80 million is…
The YDS Dean’s Advisory Council, joined by Yale President Peter Salovey, members of the George and Carol Bauer family, and the design team for the School’s Living Village, gathered in New York on May 5 to celebrate the Bauers for making the unique regenerative building project a reality. Years in the making, the success of…
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