News & Announcements

Department of History of Art PhD candidate Kathleen Quaintance has been planting, harvesting and making indigo at the Yale Farm. It’s part of a grant-funded project exploring how indigo dye is made and why people and communities still choose to undertake the labor-intensive method of harvest and dye extraction.

On October 20, four Graduate School alumni were awarded the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal during a ceremony at Yale. The honorees are Philip J. Deloria ’94 PhD (American Studies), Samuel Jay Keyser ’62 PhD (Linguistics), Andrew J. Lankford ’72, ’78 PhD (Physics), and Jeffrey Settleman ’89 PhD (Genetics).

An international team, including Yale researchers, may have solved a magnetic field mystery contained in 565-million-year-old rocks. They recently published their findings in the journal Science Advances. PhD student James Pierce was first author on the study.

Joel Mokyr ’74 PhD (Economics) has won the 2025 Nobel Prize in economic sciences for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress.

Award-winning archaeologist Kristina Douglass ’16 PhD (Anthropology) is among the 22 recipients of the 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, a prestigious award known informally as the “genius grant.”

Read the latest news from the Graduate School in our October 2025 alumni newsletter.

The Peter Salovey and Marta Moret Data Science Fellows Program, which launches in the spring 2026 semester, will offer mentoring, professional development and outreach opportunities for an interdisciplinary cohort of PhD students. The program is a collaboration between the Graduate School and the Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science.

In response to cuts to federal funding for scientific research, a group of Yale graduate students has taken to heart the adage, “don’t agonize, organize.” They’re calling their representatives, writing op-eds for their hometown newspapers, and showing up at town halls.

The new certificate program, offered by the Graduate School in partnership with the Wu Tsai Institute, will prepare the next generation of human cognition researchers through interdisciplinary training across biological, psychological, and computational sciences. 

Two PhD candidates in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) program, Jordan Polster and Denethi Wijegunawardana, were recently selected as recipients of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Fellows Program. The program launches promising PhD students into impactful scientific research careers while fostering inclusive training environments.