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Seven women graduated from Yale with Ph.D. degrees.
Beginning in the 2015-16 academic year, the Graduate School will provide funding for eligible PhD students in the humanities and social sciences who need a sixth year to finish their work, Dean Lynn Cooley announced before winter break. “I am pleased to be able to offer this extraordinary support to both current students and those we will admit in the coming months,” Cooley said. “This will... » read more
Yale is planning to build a new residence hall for graduate and professional students on Elm Street, Provost Ben Polak announced on January 15. The new facility is slated for occupancy in 2017. “This project is an essential part of our strategic plan to improve graduate housing and a crucial step toward enabling us to begin the long-awaited... » read more
When graduate students seek advice and assistance in launching their careers, they now head to the Office of Career Strategy at 55 Whitney Avenue, the result of an August merger of Graduate Career Services and the undergraduate Office of Career Services. Meredith Mira and Ellie Schmelzer are ready to help them. Meredith returned recently from... » read more
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has launched an initiative to prepare college graduates from underrepresented minorities* for PhD programs in the biomedical sciences. PREP (Post-baccalaureate Research Education Program) at Yale is funded for four years with a grant of nearly $1.3 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).... » read more
Approaching music via philosophy and neuroscience An article by Carmel Raz (Music) was published in the November issue of the journal 19th-Century Music. “‘The Expressive Organ Within Us’: Ether, Ethereality, and Early Romantic Ideas about Music and the Nerves,” argues that the early Romantic obsession with ethereal sounds drew not only... » read more
History of Art students Meredith Gamer and Esther Chadwick (with Cyra Levenson, associate curator of education at the Yale Center for British Art) co-curated “Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain,” a... » read more
According to conservative estimates, close to 9 million Syrians have fled their homes since the outbreak of civil war in March 2011. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), more than 3 million people have escaped to... » read more
Emily Bucholz (School of Public Health), an MD/PhD student studying chronic disease epidemiology, won the American Heart Association’s Samuel A. Levine Young Clinical Investigator Award for research she presented at the association’s annual meeting... » read more
Former university president Benjamin Sasse (PhD 2004, History) is now a US Senator, representing the state of Nebraska. Elected in November, he was sworn into office on January 6, 2015, when the 114th Congress met for the first time. Prior to... » read more
Matthew Reed (PhD 2013, Physics) has won the Council of Graduate Schools/ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award in the Physical Sciences. The prize was presented at an awards ceremony in Washington, DC, in December. The award recognizes original... » read more
Catherine McNeur (PhD 2012, History), assistant professor of environmental and public history at Portland State University, recently published her first book: Taming Manhattan: Environmental Battles in the Antebellum City (Harvard... » read more
Graduate Student Assembly Update The GSA is excited to start the spring semester and is committed to continuing its efforts to improve the Yale graduate student experience through both new and ongoing projects. Sixth-Year Funding for Doctoral Students: The GSA is thrilled with the recent announcement from the Dean’s Office that Yale will now guarantee sixth-year... » read more
Fifteenth Annual McDougal Winter Ball and Masquerade
Friday, February 20, 2015, 8 pm
The Ballroom, Omni Hotel, Temple Street, New Haven
Dessert bar and DJ
Tickets go on sale in February.
Seven women graduated from Yale with Ph.D. degrees.