Admissions news
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences received 22,623 applications this year—a new all-time record. Prospective PhD and master’s degree students applied from all 50 states (plus Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico) and from 169 countries, including Estonia, Nepal, Panama, Poland, and Indonesia. Offers of admission were extended to 1,837 students.
Graduate School honors exceptional mentorship and teaching
The Graduate Mentor Award recognizes faculty members exceptional at fostering the intellectual, professional, and personal development of their students. It is the university’s principal award for superb teaching, advising, and mentoring of graduate students. This year’s recipients are Moira Fradinger ’03PhD, associate professor of comparative literature; David Moore ’06, associate professor of physics; Rourke O’Brien, associate professor of sociology and of public health—health policy; and Andrew Wang, associate professor of internal medicine (rheumatology).
Two PhD students win Soros Fellowships
Two Yale PhD students are among the 30 individuals selected to receive the 2025 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, a merit-based program that supports graduate study for immigrants or children of immigrants. Incoming student Briseyda Barrientos Ariza will pursue a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese, and current joint degree student Ibrahim Dagher is pursuing a JD and PhD.
Recent graduate named Schmidt Science Fellow
Tomomi Yoshida ’25PhD (immunobiology) is one of 32 early career researchers named as a 2025 Schmidt Science Fellow to pursue innovative interdisciplinary science. The funding equips scientists to apply their knowledge to a new field of study with the goal of accelerating discoveries, and to develop their leadership potential.
As a 2025 Schmidt Science Fellow, Yoshida will pivot from immunology to neuroscience to investigate how different types of inflammation affect the engagement of CVO neural circuits that regulate physiology and behavior.
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