Alumni mentoring event
In April, the Association of Yale Alumni and the Yale Graduate School Alumni Association cohosted the latest Careers, Life, and Yale event: “Managing Your Serendipity: Where Do I Go from Yale?” This annual career mentoring workshop helps students in all stages of graduate and undergraduate study better understand the power of a PhD. The April program showcased a wide range of career paths taken by alumni with doctoral degrees—beyond and in academia—in order to help students think creatively about launching meaningful careers. Alumni shared their experiences working in cultural, international, and governmental institutions as well as in research, industry, and academia. Pulin Sanghvi ’92, former executive director of career services at Princeton University, gave the keynote.
Admissions news
The Graduate School admissions office processed more than 11,210 applications this year—only a few shy of the all-time record of 11,297 in 2012. Would-be PhD and master’s degree students applied from all 50 states (plus Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico) and from 101 countries, including Colombia, Jamaica, Gabon, Oman, Senegal, Tajikistan, Laos, Ukraine, and Liberia. The greatest number of international applications came, as usual, from China, followed by India, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and Canada, in that order. Offers of admission were extended to approximately 1,450 students.
Conference draws scholars and students to Yale
The annual Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education, held April 27–28, focused on “Celebrating Legacies: Past, Present, and Future.” The event “has become a dynamic and increasingly recognized academic conference, drawing New Haven community residents, scholars, administrators, and graduate and undergraduate students from across the nation,” says Michelle Nearon, director of the Office for Graduate Student Development and Diversity. The conference is named for Yale alumnus Edward Alexander Bouchet who, in 1876, became the first self-identified African American to earn a PhD in any discipline from an American university and the sixth person ever to earn a PhD in physics in the western hemisphere.
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