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Yale Graduate Impact (YGI) Fellowship
The YGI Fellowship allows humanities PhD students to pursue external work experiences related to their academic research at organizations outside of Yale. As a YGI Fellow, you will develop key professional skills and gain work experience while furthering your scholarly goals. The program provides funding for positions that would otherwise be unpaid. You design your own position in conversation with an appropriate organization, including museums, presses, and nonprofits.
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Office for Graduate Student Engagement & Development (OGSED)
The Office for Graduate Student Engagement and Development (OGSED) is committed to building and maintaining a nurturing and caring community of scholars where students from diverse backgrounds and experiences are supported in their professional and intellectual goals and pursuits.
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Poorvu Center: Graduate Writing Lab
https://poorvucenter.yale.edu/writing/graduate
The Poorvu Center’s Graduate Writing Lab supports Yale graduate students in all aspects of written, oral, and visual communication. You can discuss a draft with a GWL Fellow in a 1–1 writing consultation; write with other graduate students at an All Write or Retreat; or join a peer-review group to give and receive support as you make progress on your dissertation, prospectus, or fellowship application. The GWL also offers over 100 workshops per year and a suite of public speaking programs. Alongside these resources, the GWL strives to promote a culture among graduate students that centers writing as a process of developing, refining, and disseminating knowledge, nurtured within a supportive community of scholars.
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Graduation Requirements
Once you've completed all of your academic requirements, receiving your degree is not automatic. Follow the instructions on this page to submit your degree petition and graduate.
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Gruber Science Fellowship at Yale
The Gruber Fellowship is the most prestigious award offered by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences to incoming science students in recognition of their outstanding accomplishments and exceptional promise.
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GSAS Dean's Office
The Graduate School’s Dean’s Office provides centralized support for GSAS students and faculty, as well as its many academic, pre-professional, social, and cultural programs. The office sets and administers Graduate School policy, stewards and distributes university resources, advocates for the needs of graduate students, and provides leadership to advance the mission and strategic direction of GSAS.
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GSAS First-Year Focus Program
GSAS First-Year Focus is an optional, year-long program for first-year graduate students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, sponsored by the Office for Graduate Student Engagement and Development (OGSED), to provide incoming students with the skills, connections, and community that will let them flourish at Yale.
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GSAS Mentoring Conversation Guide for Graduate Students
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The Graduate School Dean's Office has developed this brief guide for structuring your mentoring conversations to aid in your academic and professional development.
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GSAS Professional Experience (GPE) Fellowship
The GSAS Professional Experience (GPE) Fellowship is designed to expand opportunities for PhD students to strengthen their professional skills and broaden career exposure by working with experienced administrators outside of their academic programs. Host offices across Yale take advantage of the diverse array of skills that PhD students offer to advance their programming and projects.
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GSAS Sample Mentoring Agreement
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Mentoring agreements (sometimes referred to as “compacts”) are common in the sciences as a tool to guide and define collaboration between faculty, graduate students, and/or postdocs in a lab setting. This template mentoring agreement has been adapted from the American Association of Medical Colleges and the Advising Agreement between Graduate Students and Faculty at Brown University.