Data science fellows program to launch in spring
The new Peter Salovey and Marta Moret Data Science Fellows Program will offer mentoring, professional development, and outreach opportunities for an interdisciplinary cohort of PhD students. The support will complement the students’ ongoing PhD training and encourage engagement with a wider community of scholars addressing the challenges facing science and society where data science plays a critical role.
The program will include about 20 PhD students, all of whom will be eligible for funding to support travel to conferences and workshops, participation in outreach events, and access to data storage and advanced research computing. A subset of participants will receive up to two years of stipend and tuition support. The program is a collaboration between the Graduate School and the Yale Institute for Foundations of Data Science.
New “Brains, Minds, and Machines” certificate offered
A new certificate program, offered by the Graduate School in partnership with the Wu Tsai Institute, will prepare the next generation of human cognition researchers through interdisciplinary training across biological, psychological, and computational sciences. The new certificate is one of 17 academic program certificates offered by the Graduate School, providing complementary training that broadens a student’s PhD work.
Alumna named 2025 MacArthur Fellow
Kristina Douglass ’16PhD (anthropology) is among the 22 recipients of the 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, a prestigious award known informally as the “genius grant.” Douglass is an archaeologist investigating how human societies and environments coevolved and adapted to climate variability. Her research focuses on coastal communities in southwest Madagascar, a biodiversity hot spot that is particularly vulnerable to present-day climate change pressures.
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