Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 13, 2001Volume 29, Number 26


Stephen Kellert

Kellert named Tweedy Ordway
Professor of Social Ecology

Stephen Kellert, who has been named the Tweedy/Ordway Professor of Social Ecology at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, has focused his research on human values and perceptions relating to the conservation of biological diversity and on the connections of natural systems with human values.

A member of the Yale faculty for 24 years, Kellert also specializes in environmental education and ethics. He has authored more than 100 publications, including several books that explore people's relationship to nature. These include "The Value of Life: Biological Diversity and Human Society" (1996) and "Kinship to Mastery: Biophilia in Human Evolution and Development" (1997).

Kellert also coedited, with Harvard entomologist Edward O. Wilson, "The Biophilia Hypothesis" (1993), which brought to-gether 20 scientists from various disciplines to refine and examine the idea of biophilia, which suggests that humans possess a deep and biologically based urge to connect with the natural world.

Kellert is now writing a book called "Ordinary Nature: Exploring and Designing Natural Process in Everyday Life," and is coediting two books: "Children and Nature: Theoretical, Conceptual and Empirical Foundations" and "The Good in Nature and Humanity: Connecting Science, Spirit and the Natural World."

Kellert is codirector of a large-scale watershed ecosystem study to examine the complex mental and physical dependency of people on healthy natural systems.

A graduate of Cornell University, Kellert was a fellow of the Russell Sage Program in Law and Social Sciences at the Yale Law School 1968-69. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale in 1972. During his career at the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, he has served as director of admissions and as an associate dean.

Beyond Yale, Kellert has served as president of the Connecticut Audubon Society and of the Xerces Society. He has also held numerous advisory posts.

Kellert has received numerous honors for his work, including the National Conservation Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation and the Distinguished Individual Achievement Award from the Society for Conservation Biology. He is one of 300 individuals listed in "American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present."

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Berkeley Divinity School gets $1 million gift to fund new chapel

First Kingsley Trust Fellows are named

Journalists to discuss forces shaping the environmental agenda

William Lanman, Yale alumnus and benefactor, dies

Beinecke show pays tribute to public-spirited alumnus collector


ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIPS

Stephen Smith will serve a second term as master of Branford College

Peabody exhibit highlights life in a local tidal marsh

Alumnus' donation of books to library includes extensive collection of Molière

Illinois Governor George Ryan to reflect on death penalty


MEDICAL CENTER NEWS

Mellon Foundation grant will fund Latin American studies

Noted alumnus conductor to lead 'Royal Blue' concert

Chinese students, scholars display 'Images from Home'

Public forum to focus on faith and citizenship

Communiversity Day: A Photo Essay

'Setting Sail' exhibit on view at Slifka Center

'Art and Conflict' is theme of International Festival of Arts & Ideas

Noted historian to be Beinecke Library fellow

Trumbull College senior Robert Blake Gilpin awarded annual . . .

Memorial service planned for former instructor Effie Geanakoplos

YES will announce Y50K award winners at April 14 gala

Medical school dean Dr. David Kessler to talk at tea


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