News & Announcements

Two close relatives of SARS-CoV-2 have reduced transmission potential, a new study finds. Understanding why could help identify future pandemic threats. Mario Peña-Hernández, a Yale PhD student in the labs of Akiko Iwasaki and Craig Wilen, is lead author of the study.

Kenneth Zhou, an Immunobiology graduate student in the Wang Lab, has been awarded the prestigious Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Awards (F31) from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). F31 funding awards from the NIH are designed to help promising predoctoral students develop into productive, independent research scientists through mentored research training while conducting dissertation research.

Four hundred Yale chemists gathered to celebrate the 101st anniversary of Sterling Chemistry Laboratory.

The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) proudly celebrated its Class of 2024 at a memorable Commencement Ceremony held on May 20. This year, the Graduate School awarded a total of 1,430 degrees, comprising 217 Master of Arts (MA), 378 Master of Science (MS), 416 Master of Philosophy (MPhil), and 419 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees.

Read Dean Cooley's message to the community at the close of the 2023-24 academic year.

When Aishwarya Iyer ’24 PhD was in the eighth grade in Maharashtra, India, she performed a home energy audit for a science competition that involved assessing residents’ energy usage and making suggestions for maximizing energy efficiency. This was the first time Iyer had delved into the broader environmental impacts of residents’ choices about energy use and she was struck by how small adjustments could avert carbon emissions.

Ten PhD students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) have been named Prize Teaching Fellows for the 2023-2024 academic year: Camille Angelo (Religious Studies), Carissa Chan (Microbiology), Grayson Hoy (Chemistry), Nghiem Huynh (Economics), Kimberly Lifton (Medieval Studies), Benjamin Schafer (History), Jillian Stallman (Economics), Audrey Tjahjadi (Anthropology), Alexa Williams (Chemistry), and Novak Yang (Immunobiology).

Amos S. Espinosa, a PhD Candidate in Experimental Pathology, was recently named a winner of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) Minority Hematology Graduate Award (MHGA). Amos is a member of the Krause Lab and a Medical Research Scholar.

Shannon Whittaker, who is graduating from the Yale School of Public Health this spring with a PhD in social and behavioral sciences and public health, started her dissertation while COVID-19 had shut down most of the world. She calls it the most revelatory point of her time at YSPH. It was as much a self-revelation as a scholarly one.

Sreeganga Chandra, Jennifer Allen, Marynel Vázquez, and Grace Kao were recognized with Graduate Mentor Awards from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.