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Grad School Alum Wins Tanaka Award for Work on Dark Matter

January 4, 2019

As an undergraduate majoring in Physics at the University of Chicago, Ben Brubaker realized he was fascinated with the big questions unique to the field. “Questions like: what is the nature of dark matter?” Brubaker said. “The more you learn about... read more

Congratulating Yale Graduate School’s Prize Teaching Fellows

December 14, 2018

Vital to their journey as graduate students at Yale, most doctoral candidates take on the challenge to serve as Teaching Fellows or Part-Time Acting Instructors during their time at the Graduate School. For those who excel at teaching, their... read more

Graduate Students Hold Relax and Chill Holiday Toy Drive

December 11, 2018

The Graduate Student Assembly (GSA), the Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS), the Office for Graduate Student Development and Diversity (OGSDD), and the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project (YUPP), recently hosted a holiday gift/toy drive... read more

Studying Science, from the Elm City to the South Pole

November 20, 2018

Most scientists will never have the opportunity to travel to the South Pole for their research, but then again, most scientists aren’t Faustin Carter (PhD ’15). Carter works as a postdoctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory in the High... read more

Yale lab earns a top prize for its latest scientific visualization

November 9, 2018

Article in YaleNews by Jim Shelton, November 7, 2018 Daniel Smith, a graduate student in the Department of Geology and Geophysics, and Bhart-Anjan Bhullar, assistant professor and assistant curator in geology and geophysics, have won a 2018... read more

GSA launches “Relax and Chill”

October 10, 2018

Article in YaleNews by Carly Wanna 2:28 am, Oct 08, 2018, Staff Reporter Graduate students of a variety of disciplines united in the Watson Center on Sunday to socialize with their peers, enjoy free food and drinks, partake in yoga and, simply, “... read more

Yale Grad Works on Financial Reforms in Egypt

October 10, 2018

Where can a Yale graduate education take you? Anywhere in the world! Consider the example of Abigail Olvera, who earned her Master’s degree in Global Affairs in 2014. While at Yale, she focused on private sector growth in developing countries and... read more

2018 Wilbur Cross Medalists Talks

October 2, 2018

2018 Wilbur Cross Medalists Talks

2018 Ph.D. graduate claims “Studying History is Vital to Peace and Nation Building”

September 24, 2018

As the first African-Canadian male and the first Ghanaian-born scholar, as well as one of the first Africans overall, to earn a doctorate from the Yale Department of History, Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey (Ph.D. ’18) has special insight into the... read more

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