One minute she was riding along the highway with her family after wrapping up a successful first year as a graduate student in the Classics Department at Yale. The next minute, the car was rear-ended by a distracted driver, her seat belt snapped,... read more
On April 13, 2017, eleven finalists competed in Yale's first 3-Minute Thesis Competition, which challenged graduate students and postdocs to clearly and engagingly present their research to a diverse panel of judges - in 3 minutes or less! The... read more
Three outstanding faculty advisers, one from each academic division, were given Graduate Mentor Awards on Sunday, May 21 at the Graduate School's Convocation Ceremony. Every year, the Graduate School and Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) collaborate... read more
Graduate School degrees are awarded twice each year, at Commencement in May and in the fall, normally December. For Academic Year 2016-17 there were 1204 degrees conferred by GSAS, with some students receiving multiple degrees. In December 2016... read more
Leading the Graduate School’s procession from HGS to Old Campus was bagpipe player Duncan Keller (Geology & Geophysics), wearing his clan Sutherland tartan. After him, in traditional academic regalia, came Dean Lynn Cooley, Associate Deans... read more
Babies and children are always welcome at the Graduate School, and the fleet of strollers parked inside Woolsey Hall offered clear evidence that plenty of toddlers had come to watch their parents, aunts, and uncles accept hard-earned diplomas. At... read more
It was a perfect day in May for the annual Convocation ceremony in the courtyard of HGS. The sky was bright blue, trees were in bloom, and hundreds of people gathered to celebrate student prize-winners and Graduate Mentor Awardees. The School of... read more
Commencement!
The Graduate School will hold a Convocation on Sunday, May 21, in the Hall of Graduate Studies Courtyard at 2 p.m. The ceremony, presided over by Dean Lynn Cooley, features the awarding of prizes to students and faculty mentors.... read more
Gradcast (http://gsa.yale.edu/news/yale-gradcast-gsa-podcast), an initiative organized by the Graduate Student Assembly (GSA), launched its first digital audio file in January. In the months that followed, Gradcast has presented podcasts on topics... read more
David Puleo (Pharmacology) co-authored a guest article that was posted recently on PatentDocs, a major biotechnology and pharmaceutical patent blog.
He was invited to write the blog by his co-author, Anthony Sabatelli (PhD 1984, Chemistry), former... read more
Only one hundred students across the U.S. and Canada were chosen to receive a $15,000 Scholar Award from the International Women’s Philanthropic Educational Organization (P.E.O.) in recognition of their academic excellence. Seven of them are... read more
Monica Rosenberg (Psychology) has been selected by Forbes magazine as one of this year’s “30 under 30 in Science,” a list honoring outstanding scientists who represent “the brightest young entrepreneurs, innovators and game changers,” according to... read more
Camille Cole (History) published an article in the Journal of Social History titled “Precarious Empires: A Social and Environmental History of Steam Navigation on the Tigris.” (http://jsh.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/04/19/jsh.shw011.... read more
The Graduate Student Assembly (GSA) is the democratically elected student government at Yale that advocates on behalf of all students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS). Representing around 3,000 students across more than 60... read more
The Graduate School has received a grant of $350,000 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund a three-year pilot project called the “Writing-in-residence Dissertation Working Group.”
Inspired by the success of “Dissertation Boot Camps” (all-... read more
