The amount of data flowing into the university increases on a daily basis. Advanced technology such as the university’s new Krios cryo-electron microscope and facilities like the Yale Center for Genome Analysis have the capacity to produce vast... read more
http://ogc.yale.edu/ogc/activism-and-advocacy
Information Concerning Activism and Advocacy
Yale University is committed to the free expression of ideas by members of the University community, including expression of political views; and to the... read more
Marlyse Duguid (PhD 2016, Forestry and Environmental Studies) was named the inaugural Siccama Lecturer in Environmental Field Studies. In that position, she will provide students with enhanced field-based opportunities. Duguid will create and lead... 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
Have you spotted cards that say, “You Are Welcome Here”? YAWH cards began appearing on bulletin boards, in offices, and other spots on campus at the end of January.
The YAWH campaign is an initiative of Yale’s graduate chapter of oSTEM (Out in... read more
Stuart Henderson (PhD 1991, Physics) has been appointed director of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility in Newport News, Virginia. Currently serving as director of the Advanced Photon Source Upgrade... read more
Grace Murray Hopper '34 PhD - Yale Residential College Namesake
February 11, 2017
Yale has renamed Calhoun College for Grace Murray Hopper, 1934 GSAS Mathematics PhD, computer pioneer and public servant. Today Yale President Peter Salovey... read more
The Modern Language Association has awarded Marilyn Migiel (PhD 1981, Italian Language and Literature) the Howard R. Marraro Prize for her most recent book, The Ethical Dimension of the Decameron (University of Toronto Press, 2015). Migiel is... read more
The McDougal Graduate Student Center is moving to the top floor of 135 Prospect Street this summer, in advance of the closing of HGS for renovations. This light-filled venue will have a comfortable lounge, offices for Student Life staff and... read more
Walter Bircher (Engineering and Applied Science) was selected to receive a Lester C. Lichty Fellowship in Mechanical Engineering for 2016-17. When his mother, Mary Bircher, saw the letter from Dean Cooley congratulating him on the award, she was... read more
Culminating ten years of collaborative research, Elissa Epel (PhD 1999, Psychology) and Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn published a book in early January: The Telomere Effect (Hachette, 2017). It has been on the New York Times Best Seller List... read more
Elizabeth (Betsy) Bradley (PhD 1996, Public Health), the Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy at Yale and faculty director of the Global Health Leadership Institute, has been named the next president of Vassar College. Bradley is also... read more
Rebecca Perry (Music) won the 2016 Arthur J. Komar Award from Music Theory Midwest for her presentation, “Between the Signposts: Thematic Interpolation and Structural Defamiliarization in Prokofiev’s Sonata Process.” Music Theory Midwest is a... read more
In northern Israel, scholars from many disciplines and countries work side by side to survey, excavate, and attempt to understand how people have lived ever since the Stone Age.
One of those researchers is fourth-year graduate student Nicholas... read more
Camille Cole (History) published an article this fall 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.... read more
