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GSAS Commencement Honors Graduates and Mentors

May 23, 2019

On May 20, at the culmination of a long weekend devoted to celebrating the achievements of graduating Yale students across the university, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awarded a total of 1,363 degrees. Of these, four-hundred and six... read more

Yale Ph.D. Student Matches Wits on Jeopardy!

May 22, 2019

Most Yale graduate students are content to distinguish themselves academically and professionally, performing groundbreaking research and publishing scholarship at the bleeding edge of their fields. Some graduate students, however, like Swetha... read more

The Versatility of a History Ph.D.—One Yale Graduate’s Path

May 18, 2019

In retrospect, Laura Mitchell describes her decision to leave academia as daring, even though she doesn’t view the trajectory of her non-academic career as being at odds with her academic interests or motivations. “Sitting in the Library of... read more

Yale Ph.D. Identifies Unknown Renaissance Masterpiece

May 17, 2019

There’s more to Italian Renaissance art than Michelangelo and Da Vinci. Just ask Christopher Platts, who completed his Ph.D. in Art History at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in December. “There are incredible, talented artists from... read more

Yale PhD and Post-Doc Tackles New Frontiers in Digital Humanities

May 16, 2019

As a buzzword, digital humanities can leave those not in-the-know scratching their heads. The hot new term, representing the future of the humanities, can encompass a wide range of approaches to humanistic scholarship. Carol Chiodo, who completed... read more

‘A Tireless Advocate for Graduate Students,’ Dean Lynn Cooley reappointed

May 15, 2019

Yale News Lynn Cooley has been appointed to a second term as dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, President Peter Salovey announced on May 7. Her second five-year term will begin July 1. Cooley is the C.N.H. Long Professor of... read more

Mehraveh Salehi Wins first inter-ivy 3-Minute Thesis Competition

May 14, 2019

Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science Mehraveh Salehi has spent the last few years working on a thesis that combines neuroscience, statistics, and data science and challenges conventions in each of those fields. It also sheds light on... read more

Catharine Shipps wins prestigious fellowship

May 7, 2019

Congratulations to Catharine Shipps, graduate student in the Yale Microbial Sciences Institute, who has won a prestigious National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship! The fellowship will support Catherine’s research into... read more

Characters struggle to communicate and connect in Ph.D. student’s novel

May 2, 2019

Yale News by Susan Gonzalez Yale doctoral student Lindsay Stern traces the idea for her new novel “The Study of Animal Languages” to an experience she had involving a lie detector machine. As an Amherst College undergraduate, Stern had visited... read more

Annual Bouchet Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education Highlights Vital Scholarship

April 30, 2019

On April 5 – 6, 2019 Yale’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Office for Graduate Student Development and Diversity hosted the annual “Bouchet Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education.” The conference has become a dynamic and increasingly... read more

Three Yalies win Pulitzers

April 16, 2019

Yale News  Carly Wanna 1:50 am, Apr 16, 2019 Staff Reporter Two faculty members — David Blight, professor of American history, and Jackie Sibblies Drury ’03, lecturer in playwriting at the School of Drama — and one alumnus, Jeffrey Stewart GRD ’... read more

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

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... 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