Selected Profile

Steven Yaffee
—DDCF faculty advisor

Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring was the “epiphany” for Steven Yaffee, who read it in middle school and has pursued an education and career in the environment ever since.

After an undergraduate education in aquatic and wildlife science at the University of Michigan, he earned a Ph.D. in Environmental Policy and Planning from MIT (1979).

“Having both science and policy in my background has been critical to my understanding of the issues and—I believe—my effectiveness as a teacher, scholar, and practitioner,” writes Yaffee, who is the faculty advisor for the Doris Duke Conservation Fellows Program (DDCF) at the University of Michigan.
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The Doris Duke
Conservation Fellows Program

Host Universities

Cornell University, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences

Florida A&M University, Environmental Sciences Institute

Northern Arizona University, Center for Environmental Sciences and Education

UC Santa Barbara, Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management

The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, School of Natural Resources and Environment

The University of Wisconsin at Madison, Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies

Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

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