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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

Lindsay Stern (Photo by Michael Marsland)

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

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... 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.

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