Three GSAS affiliates selected for university awards
In May, three Graduate School students received the John Addison Porter Prize and the Theron Rockwell Field Prize, among the university’s most prestigious awards. Porter Prize recipients included Emily Yankowitz ’25PhD (history), whose dissertation examined the nature of US citizenship before it was defined by the 14th Amendment, and Michael Grunst ’25PhD (microbiology), whose dissertation investigated viral Spike proteins. Matthew Dudley ’25PhD (history) received the Field Prize for his dissertation on legal and state documents from the geniza chambers of Cairo’s oldest synagogues.
New Planetary Solutions fellowship launched
The Graduate School has partnered with Yale Planetary Solutions to create a new fellowship program for doctoral students. Eleven GSAS students were named to the inaugural cohort of the Stella M. Hammond Planetary Solutions Fellowship, named for Stella Hammond ’72MPhil.
Fellows come from departments across the university, with research topics ranging from recycling solar panel waste into photocatalytic devices to predicting the effects of climate change on infectious disease.
Over the course of the two-year fellowship, the cohort will build community, learn together, and make positive impacts across a wide range of challenges. Fellows receive a supplemental stipend and research funding as well as training in areas such as leadership, grants management, systems thinking, and more.
GSAS Summer Academy
Now in its second year, the Graduate School’s Summer Academy offers short courses for graduate students on a range of scholarly and professional topics. In summer 2025, course topics included building research skills, led by Yale librarians; advanced research techniques with AI; conflict and negotiation; artificial intelligence for teaching, research, and productivity; strategies for career success; and a dissertation writing-in-residence program for humanities and social science scholars.
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