News & Announcements

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.

The annual competition allows PhD students an opportunity to hone their public speaking skills — and better understand their research.

Yale PhD student Kristine Guillaume and incoming Yale Law School student Ananya Agustin Malhotra are among this year’s Soros fellows.

Next week, when a total solar eclipse traces a narrow path across the United States, Christopher Lindsay, a fourth year PhD candidate in astronomy and Gruber Science Fellow in Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, won’t be chasing its “path of totality.” He’ll follow another lofty calling instead — helping to conduct a scientific symphony of telescopes, sunspotters, pinhole projectors, and kitchen colanders at a public viewing event at Yale’s Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium.

Lynn Cooley, the C. N. H. Long Professor of Genetics and Professor of Cell Biology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, has been reappointed to a third term as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), Yale President Peter Salovey announced this week. Her third five-year term will begin July 1.

A power trio of new undergraduate courses — on modern opera, heavy metal, and Latin jazz — demonstrates how Yale’s Associates in Teaching program helps faculty members and PhD students partner to fine-tune their teaching chops.

A graduate student’s film examines a radio station that broadcasts messages of support to incarcerated people across Appalachia — and takes aim at mass incarceration.

Yale researchers have developed a novel approach to synthesize a highly complex group of molecules found in marine invertebrates. A team of Yale chemists, writing in the journal Science, has succeeded in synthesizing eight of the compounds for the first time using an approach that combines inventive chemical strategy with the latest technology in small molecule structure determination. Co-first authors of the new study are Yale chemistry graduate students Brandon Alexander and Noah Bartfield.