News & Announcements

Nine PhD students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) have been named Prize Teaching Fellows for the 2024-2025 academic year: Nicholas Berrettini (Film & Media Studies), Ben Card (English), Emily Cox (History of Art), Ilhan Gokhan (Biomedical Engineering), Diana Martinez-Montes (History), Frances Moore (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology), Wulfstan Scouller (History), Amber Sheu (Chemistry), and Lan Wei (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology).

The Graduate School will select one cohort of 15 current PhD students from across the humanities and humanistic social science disciplines to participate in the summer dissertation writing group. The writing group seeks to develop students’ skills as writers and as managers of long-term academic projects, while counteracting the isolating work practices typical of the dissertation writing phase of the PhD program. Applications are due by April 25.

A long-standing partnership between Yale and New Haven Public Schools brings third-grade students into the museum to view original works of art and learn from specially trained graduate student gallery teachers. In addition to serving the local community, the program helps Yale graduate students refine their communication skills and gain more teaching experience.

Two Yale PhD students are among the 30 individuals selected to receive the 2025 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a merit-based program that supports graduate study for immigrants or children of immigrants.  Incoming student Briseyda Barrientos Ariza will pursue a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese and current joint degree student Ibrahim Dagher is pursuing a JD and PhD.

On April 4-5, nearly 250 attendees took part in the Graduate School’s annual Bouchet Conference on Graduate Education, now in its 21st year. The theme of this year’s conference was “Environmental Justice: The Intersection of Climate Change and Social Equity.” 

Rebecca Schelling is in her second year as a Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS) student in the Pharmacology Department. She does her research at Yale’s Institute of Biomolecular Design and Discovery (IBDD), which focuses on the discovery of new biological molecules and their application to problems in biology and medicine.

Joakim Faergeman, a PhD student in Mathematics, is one of eight recipients of this year’s Jane Street Graduate Research Fellowship, which supports exceptional doctoral students currently pursuing a PhD in computer science, mathematics, physics, or statistics. Faergeman’s research focuses on the geometric Langlands program, which seeks to use techniques from algebraic geometry and representation theory to understand the connections between number theory and harmonic analysis. 

On March 28, the Graduate School held its annual 3-Minute Thesis Competition, which invites Yale graduate students from across the disciplines present their research in a friendly competition to win recognition and cash prizes. This year's first-prize winner was Jiawen Zhang, a fourth-year PhD student in Cellular and Molecular Physiology who presented on "Cracking the Code of Seasonal Energy Saving.”

In Fall 2025, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will establish a new doctoral fellowship to support a cohort of PhD students engaged in planetary solutions research. The application deadline is April 14.

In partnership with Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yale Planetary Solutions launched Impact! to provide support for small, dynamic teams of students, faculty, and staff to pursue small-scale projects focused on planetary solutions challenges. Selected projects are aimed at analyzing variation in local air quality; building a research network for sustainable fashion consumption; and documenting New Haven’s environmental history.