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Perspectives: Conversations with Alumni Elizabeth Breese ‘12 PhD, Sociology

March 14, 2022

Announcing Perspectives: Conversations with Alumni featuring Elizabeth Breese ’12 PhD (Sociology) Wednesday, March 16, 2022 4:00 PM via Zoom Register Read more Conversations with Alumni is an interview series intended to bring the Graduate School... read more

Where Do I Go from Yale? (WDIGFY) Virtual Event April 8-9, 2022

March 8, 2022

Where Do I Go from Yale? (WDIGFY) Virtual Event April 8-9, 2022 The premier career pathways event hosted by the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association (GSAA), the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Yale Alumni Association (YAA) Careers... read more

GSAS Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Update 2022

March 3, 2022

A Message from Dean Cooley Dear graduate students, If you have seen the recent message from Secretary and Vice President for University Life, Kim Goff-Crews, or the Feb 23 Yale News article on campus roadmaps for promoting equity, you will know... read more

Yale GSAS Town Hall on COVID-19 Policies

February 17, 2022

A Message from Dean Cooley Dear graduate students, Now that the semester is well under way, we know there are lingering pandemic-related questions about current policies and what to expect for the remainder of the semester. Graduate Student... read more

Announcing Keynote Speakers for the 18th Annual Yale Bouchet Conference, April 7-8, 2022

February 7, 2022

Announcing Keynote Speakers for the 18th Annual Yale Bouchet Conference, April 7-8, 2022 Keynote speaker: Freeman A. Hrabowski III Guest lecturer: Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. Conference theme: The Future of the Academy in the Midst of Uncertainty... read more

Yale Names Maurie McInnis and Marta Lourdes Tellado Successor Trustees

January 26, 2022

Reprinted from YaleNews By Jim Shelton President Peter Salovey has announced the appointments of Maurie McInnis ’90 M.A. ’96 Ph.D., president of Stony Brook University, and Marta Lourdes Tellado ’02 Ph.D., president and CEO of Consumer Reports, as... read more

Honoring Yale Librarian, Kenya Flash

January 10, 2022

Yale GSAS students and staff mourn the loss of Kenya Flash, a beloved member of the G&P community and an esteemed Yale Librarian. There will be several memorials this weekend in tribute to Kenya’s life, and all are open to G&P students. See... read more

Announcing the 2022 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal Recipients

December 6, 2021

Dean Lynn Cooley announced the recipients of the 2022 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal presented by the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School Alumni Association: Virginia Rosa Dominguez (’73 Yale College,’79 Ph.D., Social... read more

West Campus event invites local students to see themselves in STEM fields

November 15, 2021

Reprinted from YaleNews By Allison Bensinger The Zoom room opened and, within a minute, more than 100 middle school and high school students joined the online webinar. They began filling the chat with greetings to one another and with comments of... read more

Compared with a control (left), treatment with SLR14 (right) reduces the signs of inflammation and pneumonia in the lungs of SARS-CoV-2–infected mice. (©2021 Mao et al.)

Immune system early responder can combat COVID-19

November 10, 2021

Reprinted from YaleNews on November 10, 2021 Contact: Bess Connolly, 203-410-5032 or elizabeth.connolly@yale.edu A simple RNA molecule jumpstarts the immune system’s “first responders” to viral infection and can even eradicate the SARS-CoV-2 virus... read more

Physicist Dr. Charles Brown featured in Perspectives: Conversations with Alumni

October 27, 2021

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and the Graduate School Alumni Association (GSAA) On October 27th, The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) and the Graduate School Alumni Association (GSAA) co-hosted a... read more

Photo provided by Jeopardy Productions Inc. shows "Jeopardy!" contestant Matt Amodio during a taping of the popular game show.

Matt Amodio's historic run on "Jeopardy!" finally over – it came to be known as the "Amodio Rodeo"

October 12, 2021

CBS News reprinted New York — All good things must come to an end and Matt Amodio's historic run on “Jeopardy!” did just that on Monday's show, leaving the Yale doctoral student with 38 wins and more than $1.5 million in prize money. Amodio failed... read more

Matt Amodio GRD ’23 now second place all-time in “Jeopardy!” wins

October 7, 2021

Amodio, a fifth-year computer science Ph.D. candidate, passed James Holzhauer and now sits behind only Ken Jennings in consecutive “Jeopardy!” wins. (reprinted from Yale News) James Richardson, Dean Centa & Louie Lu 1:35 am, Oct 07, 2021 Staff... read more

Damith Ayaska Fernando ’08 B.S., ’18 M.S (Photo by Robert Lisak)

In Memoriam: Ayaska Fernando, Yale School of Medicine director of admissions and campus figure

October 6, 2021

Yale News reprinted from October 5, 2021 Damith Ayaska Fernando ’08 B.S., ’18 M.S. (widely known as Ayaska), the director of admissions at Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and a beloved member of the larger Yale community, died on Oct. 2 after a... read more

2021 Yale-Jefferson Awards honor three Yalies for their contributions to society and community

October 5, 2021

Yale Alumni reprinted from September 20, 2021 The Yale-Jefferson Awards are presented annually, recognizing sustained public service that is individual, innovative, impactful, and inspiring. The recipients are three Yalies – a Yale College... read more

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