News & Announcements

As we start a new academic year, it is my pleasure to extend a warm welcome to continuing and new students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Yale is a special place to pursue graduate education, offering you exceptional faculty, collections, and facilities to develop your intellectual pursuits. Yale graduate students are scholars in training of the highest caliber – you will produce unique discoveries and have innovative ideas to improve the world.

Yale University’s new graduate certificate program—Material Histories of the Human Record—opens up the classroom walls and invites students into Yale Library Special Collections.

Gooding-Williams, who was an undergraduate (’75) and PhD (’82) student at Yale, joins the Department of Philosophy as Brooks and Suzanne Ragen Professor of Philosophy.  

In her first formal addresses as Yale’s President, Maurie McInnis addressed students entering Yale College and the Graduate School.

An ancient building in modern day Syria has long been considered an example of what is known as a domestic “house church.” But a new study challenges this idea. A careful comparison of the building’s later architectural features with those of other domestic structures in Dura-Europos — and an analysis of the way renovations impacted natural light flow within the building — provide considerable evidence that it was not a house church at all, said Camille Leon Angelo, a PhD candidate in Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and one of the researchers.

This year’s Quad Fellows, a scholarship program that sponsors master’s and doctoral students in STEM fields, includes a trio of Yalies.

Kyrillos Abdallah, a PhD candidate in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry has been selected as a recipient of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Fellowship. This fellowship recognizes exceptional achievements in scientific research and acknowledges student potential as a future leader in their respective field.

A steady diet of smaller storms may be what fuels Jupiter’s Great Red Spot — and a decline in small storms may be causing it to shrink. Caleb Keaveney, a PhD student in Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and lead author of a new study in the journal Icarus, and his co-authors focused on the influence of smaller, transient storms on the Great Red Spot.

The wood inside the average tree might seem barren, but it’s home to an incredibly diverse array of life. According to a new study by Yale PhD students Jonathan Gewirtzman and Wyatt Arnold, more than 1 trillion fungi, bacteria, and other microbes live inside the average trunk, according to the most comprehensive survey yet conducted, comprising unique communities specialized to various tree species.

Jerome Pollitt ‘57, a distinguished historian of Greek art and archaeology, who made ancient artifacts come alive by weaving them into their historical and literary contexts, died on April 24. He was a past recipient of the Graduate School's Wilbur Cross Medal for his combined excellence as a scholar and teacher.