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  • Advising & Mentoring

    Yale is one of the best places in the world for you to make the transformation from student to independent researcher, from consumer to producer of knowledge. Along the way, you will weave together a network of advisers and mentors who will support you in the pursuit of your intellectual and professional goals. Graduate education is a collaborative enterprise: You are not alone. Yale’s many advisers and mentors are here to help you in this intellectual journey.

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  1. FEAST for Teaching

    The Graduate School’s "Free Eating Attracts Students & Teachers" ("FEAST") program allows faculty course supervisors and their teaching fellows or part time acting instructors to discuss teaching issues over lunch.

    • Advising & Mentoring
    • Interdisciplinary Academic Opportunities
    • Professional Development & Career Strategy
    • Student Life & Community
    • Teaching
    • Information
  2. Poorvu Center: Graduate Writing Lab

    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.

    • Advising & Mentoring
    • Professional Development & Career Strategy
    • Student Life & Community
    • Office
  3. GSAS Mentoring Conversation Guide for Graduate Students

    The Graduate School Dean's Office has developed this brief guide for structuring your mentoring conversations to aid in your academic and professional development.

    • Advising & Mentoring
    • Professional Development & Career Strategy
    • Guide
  4. GSAS Sample Mentoring Agreement

    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.

    • Advising & Mentoring
    • Professional Development & Career Strategy
    • Guide
  5. Yale Library

    Yale University Library is made up of 500 staff, more than a dozen libraries and locations, vast physical collections, and extensive electronic resources. All these elements are animated and connected by technology and expertise in the service of teaching, learning, research, and practice.

    • Advising & Mentoring
    • Interdisciplinary Academic Opportunities
    • Professional Development & Career Strategy
    • Information
    • Office
  6. Meals for Mentoring

    The Graduate School’s "Meals for Mentoring" program is a chance for PhD students and their mentors to talk about research, coursework, career goals, and personal and professional development over a free lunch.

    • Advising & Mentoring
    • Interdisciplinary Academic Opportunities
    • Professional Development & Career Strategy
    • Student Life & Community
    • Teaching
    • Information
  7. Office for Graduate Student Development and Diversity Fellows Program

    Are you a current graduate student who wants to help create programming and provide support to your peers? If so, come join us! We invite you to apply as an Office for Graduate Student Development and Diversity (OGSDD) Fellow.

    • Advising & Mentoring
    • Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging
    • Professional Development & Career Strategy
    • Student Life & Community
    • Information
  8. Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning

    The Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning offers robust resources to support graduate student professional development, focused particularly on teaching and writing.

    • Advising & Mentoring
    • Teaching
    • Professional Development & Career Strategy
    • Office