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Happy Birthday Edward Bouchet - Yale Scholar and Trailblazer

September 14, 2018

Few scholars have epitomized Yale historian George W. Pierson’s characterization of the university as a “company of scholars [and] a society of friends” greater than Dr. Edward Alexander Bouchet (1852-1918), born 166 years ago on September 15th. “... read more

Salovey, Cooley welcome new graduate students to ‘Yale family’

August 24, 2018

Article in YaleNews by Kendall Teare, August 24, 2018 President Peter Salovey and Dean Lynn Cooley of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (GSAS) welcomed the new class of graduate students to Yale at the school’s matriculation ceremony on... read more

Yale Ph.D. Grad – Inspiring Minds that will Change the World

August 24, 2018

Daniel Fried’s parents are teachers, and so you could say education runs in the family. Naturally, as he finished up his Ph.D. in 2011, in Organic Chemistry at Yale, he considered ways his background in science and education could work together. “... read more

Yale Ph.D. Student Learns from Nobel Laureates at 2018 Lindau-Nobel Meeting

August 23, 2018

Every summer, the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting brings together hundreds of young scientists from around the world for a week of exchange and discussion with Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany, alternating each year between the fields of physics,... read more

A Prize-Winning Study of Environmental and Technology History

August 6, 2018

In a world increasingly defined by the catastrophic collision of technology and the environment, some historical perspective is helpful. Camille Cole’s Joel A. Tarr Prize winning paper, “Precarious Empires: A Social and Environmental History of... read more

Remembering Lincoln Brower, Ph.D. '57, Foremost Expert on the Monarch Butterfly

August 6, 2018

Lincoln Brower, a major research scientist who studied monarch butterflies for decades, died on July 17 at his home in Roseland, Virginia. He was 86. Brower received his Ph.D. from Yale in Zoology in 1957. Over a career spanning six decades, he... read more

Thank You from Yale! Thanks to Your Giving!

July 16, 2018

Please take a minute (actually 56 seconds!) to view the video. Thanks to Dan Hebert, Kierstin Wesolowski, Kira Baum, Taylor Currie, Genevieve Brewer, and Devin Maloney for their terrific work in producing this year’s thank-you email and video and... read more

A Scientific Breakthrough on West Campus

June 29, 2018

Breakthroughs in synthetic biology verging on a complete revolution of the field are all in a day’s work for Karl Barber, who completed his Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Physiology at Yale in 2018. In recognition of his achievements, Barber was... read more

Where Do I Go from Yale? 2018: Managing Your Serendipity

June 27, 2018

“Where do I go from Yale?” On April 21, 2018 over a hundred current Yale College, graduate, and professional students met with dozens of Yale graduate school alumni in Linsly-Chittenden Hall to ask questions, share stories, and imagine answers to... read more

Catharine Bond Hill ’85 Ph.D., to serve as senior trustee, Yale Board of Trustees

June 22, 2018

Article was published in the YaleNews on June 21, 2018 The Yale Board of Trustees — known formally as the Yale Corporation — has named its next senior trustee and will welcome three new members on July 1. Catharine Bond Hill ’85 Ph.D. will serve as... read more

Yale PhD leads to Whale Conservation

June 22, 2018

This article was published in the Westport News by Sophie Vaughan on Friday, June 22, 2018 Meet your neighbor…Whale conservation biologist Howard Rosenbaum In the year after he graduated Hamilton College, Howard Rosenbaum traveled the world — to... read more

Congratulations and welcome to the inaugural West Campus McDougal Fellows team!

June 21, 2018

Congratulations and welcome to the inaugural West Campus McDougal Fellows team! We’re excited to announce that Phu Khat Nwe (far left, from the Crawford Lab) Courtney Smith (second left, Lemmon Lab), and Meaghan Sullivan (far right, Simon Lab) will... read more

Welcome New GSAS Students!

June 11, 2018

Welcome New Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (GSAS) students - entering Fall 2018! We are very excited that you are joining our community of scholars and leaders this fall. We look forward to meeting you in person and to sharing your... read more

Yale study tracks Title IX use across U.S. colleges and universities

June 1, 2018

YaleNews Article, By Bess Connolly Martell, June 1, 2018 Title IX — the U.S. civil rights law passed in 1972 that prohibits sex discrimination in federally funded education programs — has been widely recognized as a crucial step toward gender... read more

One Ph.D.’s Journey from Thomas Jefferson to Latinx Literature

May 31, 2018

Edgar Garcia is currently the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor in English and Creative Writing at the University of Chicago, but his academic career took some unexpected turns along the way. When he arrived at the Yale English department, he... read more