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Two Yale faculty members, alumnus honored with 2019 Pulitzer Prizes

April 15, 2019

Yale News David Blight, the Class of 1954 Professor of American History and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, and Jackie Sibblies Drury ’03, a lecturer in playwriting at the Yale School of... read more

The new members of the Society of Scholars are (first row, from left) Asma Afsaruddin, Alberto Bardelli, Bonnie Bassler, and Peter Buerhaus; (second row, from left) Ting-Chao Chou, Chester A. Crocker, Ana V. Diez Roux, and Sean Gallagher; (third row, from left) Alon Goldstein, Julia A. Haller, Patrick J. Heagerty, and Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz; and (fourth row, from left) Helen Mayberg, Mark S. Schlissel, James M. Tielsch, and C. Megan Urry

Ting-Chao Chou, '70 PhD inducted into the Society of Scholars at Johns Hopkins

April 11, 2019

Johns Hopkins inducts new members into Society of Scholars Society members, nominated by JHU faculty, have achieved marked distinction in their careers since spending formative years at Hopkins Excerpt from the article: Ting-Chao Chou Ting-Chao... read more

Why Choose Yale Graduate School?

April 11, 2019

Graduate school is the place to examine life's most challenging questions develop as a scholar produce new knowledge at the cutting edge of your discipline join a lively, welcoming, and diverse intellectual community prepare for a successful career... read more

Courtney J. Martin ’09 Ph.D. named director of the Yale Center for British Art

April 10, 2019

Courtney J. Martin ’09 Ph.D., deputy director and chief curator of Dia Art Foundation, will be the next director of the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), President Peter Salovey announced today. “I am delighted to announce the appointment of... read more

Beza Getachew, winner of the 2018 Annual Graduate School 3-Minute Thesis Competition

Annual Graduate School 3-Minute Thesis Competition Develops Communication Skills

April 4, 2019

Communication skills are essential for any graduate student, whether at a high-level conference, interviewing for a job, or just explaining your research to friends and family. Complicated, specialized projects like dissertation research can be... read more

Where Do I Go from Yale?

April 3, 2019

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From Dante to Documentaries: A Yale Graduate Student's Career Path

March 28, 2019

Ken Browne is the first to admit that his career path, from studying medieval Italian literature at Yale in the 1970’s to film and television production, first for Major League Baseball, and then as an independent documentary filmmaker, is an... read more

Scientists narrow in on cells that drive immune response to cancer

March 20, 2019

Yale West Campus Article published on Wednesday, March 20, 2019 Immunotherapy, using the body’s own immune system to target and destroy cancer cells, is one of the most promising frontiers in cancer research, but many patients do not respond to... read more

Pre- (pink) and post- (blue) synaptic compartments are smaller than normal in mice lacking TRIO gene, impairing normal brain function and causing disease-associated symptoms. A sample from a mouse with reduced TRIO levels is on the right in this figure.

Single gene linked to host of abnormalities during neurodevelopment

March 13, 2019

YaleNews Contact: Bill Hathaway 203-432-1322 or william.hathaway@yale.edu Embargoed for release: 11 AM ET March 5, 2019 Yale researchers have shown that mutations of a gene associated with autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and epilepsy... read more

Alumna, Louise Bernard: An Overview of the Planned Barack Obama Presidential Center and Museum

March 7, 2019

This is a great video of our alumna, Louise Bernard giving an overview of the planned Barack Obama Presidential Center and Museum.

From Student to Leader

March 7, 2019

From a pioneer of Yale’s environmental engineering program to Drexel’s new dean(originally printed in Yale Engineering magazine 2018-2019) Earlier this year, Sharon L. Walker, Ph.D. was named Drexel University’s new dean of the College of... read more

The MacMillan Center announces fellowships for language study

February 25, 2019

Yale MacMillan Center Monday, February 25, 2019 The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale will offer fellowships to students for language study beginning in Summer 2019. The MacMillan Center Summer Language... read more

My time in New Haven: The journey and experience of a woman at Yale before women at Yale

January 23, 2019

Yale Alumni By Christine Curtis | Posted January 23, 2019 I attended Yale undergraduate classes from 1963 to 1965, the only woman in my classes. This was before Yale officially admitted women, and as such, I was not an official student, though I... read more

Yale researchers have discovered a way to get biologics drugs into the interior of a cell.

Yale scientists open up new world for biologics — inside the cell

January 21, 2019

YaleNews By Bill Hathaway January 4, 2019 The vast majority of top-selling drugs are biologics — also known as proteins. Proteins are used today to treat many debilitating diseases, including arthritis, Crohn’s disease, and several forms of... read more

Dr. Harris Pastides, Photography by Robert Clark

President Harris Pastides, Ph.D. to retire from University of South Carolina.

January 17, 2019

Article in Columbia Metropolitan, USC’s Challenges, Climate, and Future, Sitting down with Dr. Harris Pastides, By Henry Clay President Harris Pastides, Ph.D., has led the University of South Carolina through a 10-year period of great challenges... read more

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