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Family Support Subsidy for Parenting PhD Students
PhD students who are registered full-time in any year of study are eligible for the family support subsidy to assist with child-related expenses.
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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.
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PhD Student Funding Overview
An overview of types of funding and financial resources for PhD students
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Master's Student Funding Overview
An overview of types of funding and financial resources for Master's students
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Good Life Center
https://goodlifecenteratyale.com/
The Good Life Center offers free wellness-focused programming for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. Through evidence-backed programming on mindfulness, gratitude, social connection, exercise, sleep, acts of kindness, time in nature, play, and time affluence, the Good Life Center encourages students to slow down and figure out just what wellness means for them personally.
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Graduate & Professional Student Senate (GPSS)
https://www.gpsenate.yale.edu/
The Graduate & Professional Student Senate (GPSS) engages students from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Yale's professional schools in community service; organizes social, academic, and professional events; and supports student groups. Senate members also represent graduate and professional students on official university committees.
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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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Graduate Student Assembly (GSA)
https://gsa.yale.edu/
The GSA is an elected body of graduate students that represent all PhD and Master's students in GSAS. The GSA works closely with Yale administrators, including the Dean of the Graduate School, to advocate for and improve graduate students' academic, social, and living experiences at Yale.
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Office for Graduate Student Development & Diversity (OGSDD)
The Office for Graduate Student Development and Diversity (OGSDD) 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.