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Studying Science, from the Elm City to the South Pole

November 20, 2018

Most scientists will never have the opportunity to travel to the South Pole for their research, but then again, most scientists aren’t Faustin Carter (PhD ’15). Carter works as a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory in the High... read more

Yale lab earns a top prize for its latest scientific visualization

November 9, 2018

Article in YaleNews by Jim Shelton, November 7, 2018 Daniel Smith, a graduate student in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, and Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, assistant professor and assistant curator in geology and geophysics, have won a 2018... read more

GSA launches “Relax and Chill”

October 10, 2018

Article in YaleNews by Carly Wanna 2:28 am, Oct 08, 2018, Staff Reporter Graduate students of a variety of disciplines united in the Watson Center on Sunday to socialize with their peers, enjoy free food and drinks, partake in yoga and, simply, “... read more

Yale Grad Works on Financial Reforms in Egypt

October 10, 2018

Where can a Yale graduate education take you? Anywhere in the world! Consider the example of Abigail Olvera, who earned her Master’s degree in Global Affairs in 2014. While at Yale, she focused on private sector growth in developing countries and... read more

2018 Wilbur Cross Medalists Talks

October 2, 2018

2018 Wilbur Cross Medalists Talks

2018 Ph.D. graduate claims “Studying History is Vital to Peace and Nation Building”

September 24, 2018

As the first African-Canadian male and the first Ghanaian-born scholar, as well as one of the first Africans overall, to earn a doctorate from the Yale Department of History, Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey (Ph.D. ’18) has special insight into the... read more

Happy Birthday Edward Bouchet - Yale Scholar and Trailblazer

September 14, 2018

Few scholars have epitomized Yale historian George W. Pierson’s characterization of the university as a “company of scholars [and] a society of friends” greater than Dr. Edward Alexander Bouchet (1852-1918), born 166 years ago on September 15th. “... read more

Salovey, Cooley welcome new graduate students to ‘Yale family’

August 24, 2018

Article in YaleNews by Kendall Teare, August 24, 2018 President Peter Salovey and Dean Lynn Cooley of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (GSAS) welcomed the new class of graduate students to Yale at the school’s matriculation ceremony on... read more

Yale Ph.D. Grad – Inspiring Minds that will Change the World

August 24, 2018

Daniel Fried’s parents are teachers, and so you could say education runs in the family. Naturally, as he finished up his Ph.D. in 2011, in Organic Chemistry at Yale, he considered ways his background in science and education could work together. “... read more

Yale Ph.D. Student Learns from Nobel Laureates at 2018 Lindau-Nobel Meeting

August 23, 2018

Every summer, the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting brings together hundreds of young scientists from around the world for a week of exchange and discussion with Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, alternating each year between the fields of physics,... read more

A Prize-Winning Study of Environmental and Technology History

August 6, 2018

In a world increasingly defined by the catastrophic collision of technology and the environment, some historical perspective is helpful. Camille Cole’s Joel A. Tarr Prize winning paper, “Precarious Empires: A Social and Environmental History of... read more

Remembering Lincoln Brower, Ph.D. '57, Foremost Expert on the Monarch Butterfly

August 6, 2018

Lincoln Brower, a major research scientist who studied monarch butterflies for decades, died on July 17 at his home in Roseland, Virginia. He was 86. Brower received his Ph.D. from Yale in Zoology in 1957. Over a career spanning six decades, he... read more

Thank You from Yale! Thanks to Your Giving!

July 16, 2018

Please take a minute (actually 56 seconds!) to view the video. Thanks to Dan Hebert, Kierstin Wesolowski, Kira Baum, Taylor Currie, Genevieve Brewer, and Devin Maloney for their terrific work in producing this year’s thank-you email and video and... read more

A Scientific Breakthrough on West Campus

June 29, 2018

Breakthroughs in synthetic biology verging on a complete revolution of the field are all in a day’s work for Karl Barber, who completed his Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale in 2018. In recognition of his achievements, Barber was... read more

Where Do I Go from Yale? 2018: Managing Your Serendipity

June 27, 2018

“Where do I go from Yale?” On April 21, 2018 over a hundred current Yale College, graduate, and professional students met with dozens of Yale graduate school alumni in Linsly-Chittenden Hall to ask questions, share stories, and imagine answers to... read more