Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
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Established | 1847 |
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Dean | Lynn Cooley |
Academic staff | 900 |
Students | 2,860[1] |
Location | , , United States |
Website | gsas |
The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is the
The Graduate School is one of twelve constituent schools of Yale University and the only one that awards the degrees of
The Graduate School enrolls approximately 2,800 students, one-third of whom come from outside the United States.[1] Approximately 900 faculty are involved with the graduate students as teachers, mentors, and advisors. Most of these faculty also teach in Yale College, the undergraduate school of the university.
History
Established by an act of the
Following the model of German research universities, the Scientific School faculty established a
In 1892, seven years after Yale organized as a university, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was officially formed, and
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, race and gender restrictions on graduate admissions were gradually relaxed. In 1876 Edward Alexander Bouchet (Yale B.A. 1874) received a doctorate in Physics, becoming the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in the United States and the sixth recipient of a doctorate in the field.[3] Women were admitted into the Graduate School in 1892. In 1894, seven women received Ph.D.s from Yale, including Mary Augusta Scott (English), Laura Johnson Wylie (English), Elizabeth Deering Hanscom (English), Margaretta Palmer (Mathematics), Charlotte Fitch Roberts (Chemistry), and sisters Cornelia H. B. Rogers (Romance Languages and Literatures) and Sara Bulkley Rogers (History).[4]
Organization
Faculty and administration
Most Graduate School faculty are members of the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the largest faculty of the university's schools and the same faculty body that governs the Yale College curriculum.[5] The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is organized into 40 departments, which administer the Graduate School's four divisions: Humanities, Social Sciences, Biological Sciences, and Physical Sciences. Some members of Yale's professional school faculties are also members of the Graduate School faculty, which permits them to advise doctoral candidates.[5]
A Dean of the Graduate School, appointed by the Yale Corporation, is the school's chief administrator. The position is currently held by geneticist Lynn Cooley.[6]
Degree programs
The Graduate School administers 75 degree-granting programs. 56 of these programs grant Ph.D.s., while 19 terminate in master's degrees.[7] It also offers joint-degree programs with several of Yale's professional schools, as well as opportunities for advanced non-degree study.
Facilities
Research facilities
Yale's facilities for research and study include a
Special research facilities for the sciences are clustered on Science Hill, including the Bass Center for Molecular and Structural Biology, Josiah Willard Gibbs Research Laboratories, Kline Geology Laboratory, Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Kline Biology Tower, the Class of 1954 Environmental Science Center, the Peabody Museum of Natural History, and the Arthur W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory. Becton Engineering and Applied Science Center and Arthur K. Watson Hall for computer science are located on the former campus of the Sheffield Scientific School. Other laboratory facilities, like the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, are found at the Yale School of Medicine and the university's West Campus.
Office of International Affairs
The Office of International Affairs serves as an administrative resource to support the international activities of all schools, departments, offices, centers, and organizations at Yale. It tries to promote Yale and its faculty to international audiences and increase the visibility of Yale's international activities around the globe.
References
- ^ a b "Yale "Factsheet"". Yale Office of Institutional Research. 2014. Archived from the original on 1 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ^ JSTOR 1978076.
- Gates, Henry Louis; Higginbotham, Evelyn Brooks (eds.). African American Lives. Oxford University Press. p. 91.
- ^ Vayzman, Liena; Vaughan, Ruth; Wexler, Laura (Sep–Oct 2012). "The Pioneers". Yale Alumni Magazine. Archived from the original on 2 February 2014. Retrieved 3 June 2014.
- ^ a b "Yale University Faculty Handbook" (PDF). Yale University Office of the Provost. 1 July 2014. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ^ Bass, Carole (21 May 2014). "A big day for deans: Yale names three new leaders". Yale Alumni Magazine. Archived from the original on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
- ^ "Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Programs and Policies 2014–2015". Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. July 2014. Archived from the original on 19 July 2014. Retrieved 15 July 2014.