Renovations breathe fresh life into Greeley Lab
After nearly seven years of phased work, renovations to F&ES’s historic Greeley Memorial Laboratory were completed this semester. The $12 million project includes upgrades to basic infrastructure and improvements to the laboratory facilities at the 57-year-old building, a brutalist landmark that had fallen into serious neglect in recent years. The project also restored the vision of the original designer and architecture icon Paul Rudolph. “Renovating [Greeley] not only saved the building for the university, but has set a standard for the preservation of midcentury modern buildings all over the world, brutalist and others, which are at that age where they really need to be taken care of,” said School of Architecture dean Robert A. M. Stern ’65MArch. The building is home to the Yale Center for Green Chemistry as well as offices and lab space for F&ES faculty members.
Gruber fellows work for global justice
Three F&ES students—Ruth Metzel ’16MEM/MBA, Hassaan Sipra ’16MEM, and Sarah Tolbert ’16MEM/IR—have received 2016–17 Gruber Fellowships in Global Justice and Women’s Rights for their work on projects in vulnerable parts of the world. The Yale program, which is administered by Yale Law School, helps foster international understanding and dialogue in the fields of global justice and women’s rights. The fellowships enable recent graduates of Yale graduate and professional schools to spend a year working abroad on these challenges. It is the first time that the majority of the Gruber Fellowship recipients are from F&ES. Metzel will work on a project connecting Panamanian smallholder farmers and landowners to the global climate finance landscape; Sipra will work with a waste management company in Lahore, Pakistan, to streamline the city’s waste management processes and formalize its informal waste pickers sector; and Tolbert will help indigenous communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo apply for land tenure for their community forests.
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