A decade of help for student parents
In the spring of 2007, on the advice of the Graduate Student Assembly, the Graduate School launched a new ‘Parental Relief’ policy. The first of its kind among peer institutions schools, Yale’s policy gives students having children (through either birth or adoption) enhanced funding, reduced academic responsibilities, and an additional semester of registration towards time to degree. While on Parental Relief, students remain registered, enabling them to continue work on their dissertation, retain their health award, receive a stipend, and maintain other student privileges.
The Graduate School has spent nearly $4 million on the Parental Relief policy to date. Since its inception, about 300 students have taken advantage of this policy—in some cases twice, to accommodate the arrival of a second child. Recipients of this benefit include men and women, domestic and international students, across all years of study and all divisions of the Graduate School.
Alumna to head Vassar College
Elizabeth (Betsy) Bradley ’96PhD (public health) has been named the next president of Vassar College, effective July 1. Bradley is the Brady-Johnson Professor of Grand Strategy at Yale, faculty director of the Global Health Leadership Institute, professor of public health, and head of Branford College. She has directed health-care projects around the world, has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers, and coauthored three books, most recently The American Healthcare Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less. Bradley will succeed Catharine (Cappy) Bond Hill ’85PhD (economics). Hill, an Alumni Fellow of the Yale Corporation since 2013, has led Vassar College for a decade.
Guide to healthy aging
Elissa Epel ’99PhD (psychology) and Nobel Laureate Elizabeth Blackburn have coauthored a New York Times bestseller: The Telomere Effect (Hachette, 2017). The book presents research on the correlation between the length and condition of telomeres and the way people age. Using peer-reviewed research, it explains why sleep, exercise, diet, chronic stress, relationships, and other factors impact the aging process. Epel is a professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and director of UCSF’s Aging, Metabolism, and Emotion Center and associate director of the Center for Health and Community. Blackburn, president of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale in the 1970s. She won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of telomerase and the role telomeres play in the aging process.
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