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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

Graduate School 2021 Commencement Plans

March 19, 2021

A Message from Dean Cooley Copied to: DGSs, Chairs, Registrars In this message: GSAS Commencement planning Dear graduate students, President Salovey’s message regarding Commencement conveyed the exciting prospect of an in-person ceremony this year... read more

In support of our Asian and Asian American students

March 19, 2021

A Message from Dean Cooley Copied to: DGSs, Chairs, Registrars In this message: A message of support for our Asian and Asian American students Dear graduate students, I write in sadness and solidarity as we all struggle to absorb another horrific... read more

‘A loss not only to Yale, but also to the world’: Mochen Liao ENV ’26 dies at 24

March 12, 2021

Reprinted from Yale Daily News,  ISABELLE QIAN 1:53 AM, MAR 12, 2021 STAFF REPORTER The death of 24-year-old Mochen Liao ENV ’26, a student at the Yale School of the Environment, was reported to YSE last Friday. Liao was born on May 22, 1996, in... read more

The 17th Annual Bouchet Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education – April 8-9 2021

March 8, 2021

A Message from Dean Cooley Copied to: DGSs, Chairs, Registrars In this message: The 17th Annual Bouchet Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education – April 8-9 2021 March 8, 2021 Dear graduate students, I am delighted to write that for the... read more