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Last-minute Commencement reminders

May 20, 2021

A Message from Dean Cooley Copied to: DGSs, Chairs, Registrars In this message: Last-minute Commencement reminders Dear graduate students, I hope you are looking forward to Commencement this Sunday, May 23 at 10 a.m. By all reports, Old Campus is... read more

2021 G&P Porter and Field Prize Winners

May 19, 2021

Reprinted from the  Office of the Secretary and Vice President for University Life In this short video, Bench Ansfield (American Studies), Stefano Daniele (Neuroscience), and Zuri Sullivan (Immunobiology) speak to their prizewinning dissertations.... read more

Announcing the 2021 Graduate Mentor Awards

April 26, 2021

The Graduate Mentor Award recognizes faculty members who are exceptional in fostering the intellectual, professional, and personal development of their students. It is the University's principal award for superb teaching, advising and mentoring of... read more

Registration and health and safety guidance for students attending commencement

April 23, 2021

A Message from Dean Cooley Copied to: DGSs, Chairs, Registrars In this message: Registration and health and safety guidance for students attending commencement Dear graduate students, I write in anticipation of our 2021 Graduate School Commencement... read more

The Derek Chauvin trial verdicts

April 21, 2021

A Message from Dean Cooley Copied to: DGSs, Chairs, Registrars In this message: Responding to the Chauvin trial verdicts; related campus events. Dear graduate students, With the guilty verdicts in the Derek Chauvin trial yesterday, we can feel... read more

Yale Law School Teach-In Series

April 20, 2021

Criminal Justice, Racial Justice, Policing, and the Derek Chauvin Trial Yale Law School invites the Yale University community to a virtual teach-in series.  Each panel discussion will feature YLS experts in the fields of racial justice, criminal... read more

Fall 2021 and the student vaccine requirement

April 19, 2021

A Message from Dean Cooley Copied to: DGSs, Chairs, Registrars In this message: COVID vaccination required for Fall 2021 Dear graduate students, President Salovey and Provost Strobel just announced that all students coming to campus for the fall... read more

Career pathways for PhDs:

April 15, 2021

Q&A with Hyun Ja Shin, Director Graduate and Postdoctoral Career Services What’s the current state of the academic job market for PhDs?  How does this look across disciplines? We all know that things have been tough for graduates seeking... read more

THE STONE HEADS OF 320 YORK

April 12, 2021

Whitney Humanities Center article April 12, 2021 - 5:30pm by Clio Doyle Clio Doyle is a seventh-year PhD Candidate in English and Renaissance Studies at Yale who works on stories about the invention of agriculture in medieval and early modern ... read more

Announcing the Yale University Bouchet Honor Society Inductees 2020 and 2021

April 9, 2021

2020 BGHS Inductees Dr. Mahlet Garedew Center for Green Chemistry and Engineering Dr. Mahlet Garedew is currently a postdoctoral associate at the Center for Green Chemistry and Engineering working on electrochemical conversion of biomass waste to... read more

2021 Where Do I Go from Yale?

April 7, 2021

P R O G R A M There is limited capacity, so please use this link to apply to attend.

Articulate textiles speak of nation building, and the power of Togolese women

April 6, 2021

By April Swieconek Doctoral candidate Marius Kothor studies successful women textile traders in mid-20th century Togo, who distributed Dutch wax textiles from Europe throughout West and Central Africa, using the wealth they obtained to change the... read more

Yale PhD Candidate Da’Von Boyd wins Best Paper award from the National Conference of Black Political Scientists

April 6, 2021

By Anne Taylor For Da’Von Boyd, connections between the theological and the secular in politics runs deep. Born into a family of preachers, Boyd’s formative years were spent engaged in rigorous political debate with his parents and siblings. And... read more

Updated information about the coming months: Commencement, Summer and Fall 2021

March 30, 2021

A Message from Dean Cooley Copied to: DGSs, Chairs, Registrars In this message: GSAS Commencement planning Dear graduate students, One year since the pandemic changed nearly everything in our lives, we are at last able to look to the future with... read more

American History alum wins prestigious Bancroft Prize for Hurricane Katrina scholarship

March 24, 2021

New York Times article by By Jennifer Schuessler March 23, 2021 Jennifer Schuessler is a culture reporter covering intellectual life and the world of ideas. She is based in New York. @jennyschuessler The scholars Claudio Saunt and Andy Horowitz... read more