News & Announcements

Talia Weiss, a PhD student in Physics, recently traveled to Hiroshima, Japan participate in the 63rd Pugwash Conference, “80 Years After the Atomic Bombing – Time for Peace, Dialogue and Nuclear Disarmament.” Weiss chaired a panel discussion on the role of scientists in reducing nuclear threats.

Recipients are chosen for their excellence in scholarship and in service. Alumni and friends of the Graduate School may submit nominations for consideration. Nominations are accepted year-round but must be received by March 1 for consideration for the following year’s honorees.

Shelley Fisher Fishkin ’71, ’77 PhD (American Studies), is the author of the recent book, “Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn’s Comrade.” Her new article in the Yale Alumni Magazine explores the literary giant's many ties to Yale.

Syed Rizvi, a third-year PhD student in Computer Science, has been awarded a prestigious Google PhD Fellowship in the Health Research category. Notably, Rizvi is the only Yale recipient of this highly competitive fellowship in 2025.

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.