About the FAS notes
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) comprises the faculty of Yale College and most of the faculty of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. It encompasses nearly 1,000 tenured or tenure-track faculty as well as multiyear lecturers; they represent 53 departments and programs in the humanities, social sciences, biological sciences, and physical sciences and engineering. Each edition of these notes will showcase a sampling of the milestone achievements of our outstanding faculty and other FAS-related news.
The FAS shield
The FAS coat of arms uses traditional heraldic elements to symbolize the teaching and research mission of the FAS. In the upper left quadrant, the Graduate School is represented by Maltese crosses (a reference to Wilbur Cross 1889PhD, dean of the school from 1916 to 1930); FAS faculty are intimately involved in the teaching and training of graduate students. Diagonally opposite, the ermine quadrant is extracted from the arms of Yale College; every FAS faculty member is responsible for teaching at least one undergraduate course annually. The goat-like mythical Yale, which has long been used informally to represent the university, occupies the shield’s remaining two quadrants, playfully signifying the FAS faculty themselves.
New hubs of scholarship
Two major facilities projects will transform not only the physical landscape of the campus but, more importantly, the way that faculty and students work alongside each other. On Science Hill, enabling work for the new Yale science building—which will house two departments in the biological sciences as well as physics faculty, research support, teaching spaces, and more—began earlier this academic year. Meanwhile, the renovation of 320 York Street into a central home for the humanities will be under way in summer 2018. Both projects (discussed by President Salovey in Q&A, November/December 2016) are designed to foster greater interaction among faculty, students, and staff within and across disciplinary boundaries.
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