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The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences celebrated its Class of 2025 graduates today with a Diploma Ceremony at Woolsey Hall. The Graduate School awarded a total of 776 degrees, including 120 Master of Arts (MA), 258 Master of Science (MS), 126 Master of Philosophy (MPhil), and 272 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees.

On May 18, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences held its annual Convocation Ceremony. Graduating students were recognized with academic prizes for outstanding achievement, including academic awards by department and two University awards. The ceremony also honored four faculty members for exemplary graduate student mentorship.

The Graduate School will distribute diplomas to its MA, MS, MPhil, and PhD degree recipients in a ceremony on Monday, May 19, beginning at noon in Woolsey Hall. The ceremony will be livestreamed.

A study led by Chase D. Brownstein, a PhD student in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, sheds light on how coral reefs became biodiversity hotspots. The results were published May 7 in the journal Science Advances.

Each spring the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences recognizes professors from each of four divisions who provide “superb teaching, advising, and mentoring” to Yale students.

Read Dean Cooley's message to the community at the close of the 2024-25 academic year.

In partnership with Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Yale Planetary Solutions (YPS) Impact! program provides funding that enables student engagement in faculty- and staff-coordinated projects that address complex problems related to planetary challenges. Projects are eligible for up to $10,000 in funding for non-stipend research or project expenses. Proposals for the next round of funding are due May 12.

Tomomi Yoshida, a sixth-year PhD candidate in Immunobiology, is one of 32 early career researchers named as a 2025 Schmidt Science Fellow to pursue innovative interdisciplinary science. As a 2025 Schmidt Science Fellow, Yoshida will pivot from immunology to neuroscience to investigate how different types of inflammation affect the engagement of CVO neural circuits that regulate physiology and behavior.

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.