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Jill Kelly, Forestry and Environmental Studies, Wins Public Service Award

June 11, 2015

Every year, the Graduate School honors one or more students who have given extraordinary service to our community. The winner of this year’s Public Service Award is Jill Kelly (PhD, expected 2019, Forestry and Environmental Studies). Kelly earned... read more

Kudos

June 11, 2015

Carlos Oliveira Every year, about 90 million people come down with the flu, including more than 100,000 children under the age of five who die of an illness that is usually preventable in affluent societies. “Influenza disproportionately affects... read more

Online Education Innovation Grant Competition Awards Top Prizes

June 11, 2015

Recognizing the importance of digital learning as a tool for future college professors, Risa Sodi, associate director of the Yale Center for Teaching and Learning and director of Academic Advising for Yale College, came up with a plan to encourage... read more

Graduate Mentor Awards

May 21, 2015

Professors Naomi Lamoreaux, Verity Harte, and Hal Blumenfeld were honored at this year’s Convocation with Graduate Mentor Awards. These awards recognize advisers who have been exceptionally supportive of their students’ professional, scholarly, and... read more

Five Alumni win Guggenheims

April 24, 2015

Five GSAS graduates have won 2015 fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to pursue research projects. Nationwide, 75 scholars, artists, and scientists were chosen from a pool of more than 3,100 applicants. The Graduate... read more

New National Science Foundation Fellows!

April 24, 2015

Congratulations to the 35 students who were named new National Science Foundation Fellows! NSF fellowships are among the most prestigious federal awards for graduate students in STEM fields. Nationally, 2000 new fellows are chosen each year from a... read more

A New Approach to Research, Teaching, and Learning

April 13, 2015

Digital Humanities (DH) is an emerging field at the intersection of computing and the traditional humanities. DH interprets the cultural and social impact of new media and information technologies, and also creates and applies these technologies to... read more

A Series: Evolving from Student to Colleague, Thanks to Faculty Mentors

April 13, 2015

“Having been a graduate student at Yale (in the 1970s) and now a professor who has taught here for over 20 years, I think the hallmark of our program is the close, supportive rapport that faculty build with graduate students, while also respecting... read more

Kudos

April 13, 2015

Curtis Schauder Research by Curtis Schauder (MB&B) has been published in the journal Nature. The article, “Structure of a lipid-bound extended synaptotagmin indicates a role in lipid transfer,” describes the structure of a key protein involved... read more

Welcome Back, Palimpsest!

April 13, 2015

Failure, Volume VI of Palimpsest, is anything but.  Susan Morrow (Germanic Languages and Literatures) decided to awaken the dormant creative arts magazine that graduate and professional students had produced from 2002 to 2007, and thanks to funding... read more

#InspiringYaleStudents - Steven Reilly

April 10, 2015

Steven Reilly, a graduate student in the James Noonan Lab, investigates the genetic underpinnings behind the evolution of the human cortex. Human higher cognition is attributed to the evolutionary expansion and elaboration of the cerebral cortex.... read more

A Career at the Intersection of Science and Public Policy

March 23, 2015

Laura Sima (PhD 2012, Engineering and Applied Science) is an environmental engineer at the Department of State. Based in Washington, DC, she works on government development finance policy to promote U.S. interests and sound infrastructure... read more

#InspiringYaleStudents - Lauren Tilton

March 12, 2015

Lauren Tilton is a PhD Candidate in American Studies interested in 20th-Century Cultural History, Visual Culture, Public Humanities, Digital Humanities. Lauren is working on documentary expression in the 20th century. She is currently Co-Director,... read more

New Haven is One of Yale’s Biggest Assets, and Vice Versa

February 24, 2015

#GSCIA (greatest small city in America): “New Haven has a great reputation, great restaurants.” The city that Yale calls home, was named the nation’s number one spot for foodies by Livability.com. “From the soul food served at Sandra's Next... read more

What’s New in New Haven?

February 24, 2015

#GSCIA (greatest small city in America): “New Haven has a great reputation, great restaurants.” The city that Yale calls home, was named the nation’s number one spot for foodies by Livability.com. “From the soul food served at Sandra's Next... read more