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3-MInute Thesis Competition

January 24, 2018

The 3-Minute Thesis competition challenges Yale PhD students to clearly and compellingly describe their thesis to a broad audience - in 3 minutes! By preparing a successful presentation, students will develop a key professional asset that is just... read more

Classicist to Creative Strategist

January 18, 2018

The literature and rhetoric of ancient Greece and Rome might seem worlds away from the high-tech world of digital marketing, but that doesn’t mean the Classics have nothing to tell us about contemporary business problems. Just ask Michael Zimm (Ph... read more

From left to right: Michael Tom ’83 M.D., vice chairman of the Yale Alumni Fund board, Jocelyn Kane, managing director of the Yale Alumni Fund, Jack Thomas ’80, Roni Beth Tower ’77 M.S., ’80 Ph.D., Shana Katz Ross ’00, ’06 MBA, Lynn Andrewsen ’82, senior director, engagement and campaign initiatives, and Thomas Leatherbury ’76, ’79 J.D., chairman of the Yale Alumni Fund. Not pictured: Caroline Tanbee Smith ’14. (Photo by Tony Fiorini)

Yale Alumni Fund recognizes ‘exemplary’ alumni

January 11, 2018

The Yale Alumni Fund honored four individuals with Chairman’s Awards during the combined Association of Yale Alumni Assembly & Yale Alumni Fund Convocation event. The awards, which recognize exemplary fundraising volunteers, were conferred... read more

One Graduate’s Story – Preparing for a Unique Career Path

December 13, 2017

Matthew Tanico (PhD 2017, Spanish and Renaissance Studies) has embarked on the first-step of his career as a Visiting Assistant Professor at New York University. He joined the Spanish and Portuguese department in early September, but also continues... read more

Message from the Dean, Yale GSAS: New Conference Travel Funding

December 8, 2017

It is with great pleasure that I write to announce a substantial increase in the amount of funding available for conference travel from two new sources. First, the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale has... read more

Exploring Sociology through Humor and Storytelling

November 27, 2017

When Adam Valen Levinson came to Yale to begin his Ph.D. in Sociology, he was already doing something most young scholars only begin after they complete their doctorates: preparing his first book for publication. The Abu Dhabi Bar Mitzvah (W.W.... read more

Beilinson and Zakiniaeiz lead world’s only student-run scientific journal

October 31, 2017

When Helen Beilinson GRD ’20 was five years old and her mother asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, the young girl responded, “a grad student.” Today, Beilinson is not only a fourth-year graduate student in immunology at Yale, but one of... read more

Grad Group Fosters Community

October 24, 2017

Dissertation writing in the humanities is often a solitary process, spent in libraries and other lonely study spots. But this summer, the Graduate School of Arts and Science’s new three-year Writing-in-residence Dissertation Working Group pilot... read more

Yale Graduate School honors four alumni with Wilbur Cross Medals

October 24, 2017

The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awarded Wilbur Cross Medals — the school’s highest honor — to four alumni on Tuesday, Oct. 24. This year’s honorees are: economist Douglas W. Diamond ’80 Ph.D., feminist scholar Donna J. Haraway ’72 Ph.... read more

Ribbon-cutting ceremony was held in celebration of the McDougal Center's temporary home in Founders Hall.

Free coffee is just one new amenity in the McDougal Center’s interim space

October 20, 2017

Amanda Lerner, a Ph.D. student in Slavic languages and literatures, enjoys the McDougal Graduate Student Center’s new temporary home at 135 Prospect St. because it’s a quiet place for her work, while also allowing her to grab a lunch from one of... read more

Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Betsy Levy Paluck, and Dawoud Bey

Three Yale alumni are recipients of MacArthur ‘genius’ grants

October 12, 2017

Three Yale alumni — visual artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby (M.F.A. 2011), photographer Dawoud Bey (M.F.A. 1993), and psychologist Betsy Levy Paluck (B.S. 2000 and Ph.D. 2007) — are among the 24 individuals who have been named 2017 MacArthur Fellows... read more

Graduate School Offers Added Support for Ph.D. Students and Families

September 28, 2017

The Graduate School of Art and Sciences will provide additional flexibility and support to Ph.D. students and their families, Dean Lynn Cooley has announced. Under the new Ph.D. Student Family Support Policy, Ph.D. students with a child will... read more

A new journey begins for graduate students

August 31, 2017

Students in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences were welcomed to campus on Aug. 24 during a matriculation ceremony and other events. President Peter Salovey and Lynn Cooley, dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, addressed the... read more

Advancing Quantum Technology in 40 Picoseconds

July 10, 2017

Linran Fan (Engineering and Applied Science) is first author of an article published in Nature Photonics that presents a significant breakthrough in quantum communications and quantum computing. Working in the lab of Hong Tang, the Llewellyn West... read more

Combating Terrorism at the Pentagon and West Point