San Francisco recruitment event
The Graduate School and the Graduate School Alumni Association (GSAA) held a meet-and-greet reception for admitted students in San Francisco on March 14, 2019. This inaugural event was hosted by Rahul Prasad ’87PhD and included a dozen Bay Area alumni who shared their own student experiences at Yale, giving insight into life in New Haven and how Yale helped prepare them for rewarding careers.
Bouchet conference
The theme for the 16th annual Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education, held April 5–6, was “Reflections on Racism and US Racial Tensions in the Twenty-first Century.” 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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