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
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.
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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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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?” 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
Article was published in the YaleNews on June 21, 2018
The Yale Board of Trustees — known formally as the Yale Corporation — has named its next senior trustee and will welcome three new members on July 1.
Catharine Bond Hill ’85 Ph.D. will serve as... read more
This article was published in the Westport News by Sophie Vaughan on Friday, June 22, 2018
Meet your neighbor…Whale conservation biologist Howard Rosenbaum
In the year after he graduated Hamilton College, Howard Rosenbaum traveled the world — to... read more
Congratulations and welcome to the inaugural West Campus McDougal Fellows team!
We’re excited to announce that Phu Khat Nwe (far left, from the Crawford Lab) Courtney Smith (second left, Lemmon Lab), and Meaghan Sullivan (far right, Simon Lab) will... read more
Welcome New Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (GSAS) students - entering Fall 2018!
We are very excited that you are joining our community of scholars and leaders this fall. We look forward to meeting you in person and to sharing your... read more
YaleNews Article, By Bess Connolly Martell, June 1, 2018
Title IX — the U.S. civil rights law passed in 1972 that prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs — has been widely recognized as a crucial step toward gender... read more
