School Notes: Jackson School of Global Affairs
May/June 2025

Schmidt students help craft AI policy for Connecticut

The Yale School of Management’s Chief Executive Leadership Institute (CELI) helped Connecticut legislators draft regulations to guide the use of artificial intelligence in the state. Students on CELI’s Yale AI Policy Student Team—including Jackson student Dan Kent ’26MPP and SOM student Delia Reyes ’25MBA from the Jackson School’s Schmidt Program on Artificial Intelligence, Emerging Technology, and National Power—spent several weeks in January creating a comprehensive overview of the current AI regulatory frontier along with recommendations tailored to the state of Connecticut. “Despite the different approaches states take, there is universal acknowledgement that this technology is important for every level of government to grapple with,” said Kent.

Jackson, Munich Security Conference form academic partnership

The Jackson School of Global Affairs and the Munich Security Conference, the world’s leading forum for debating international security policy, have announced an academic collaboration for the coming 2025–26 academic year. The partnership will allow the two institutions to work together to cohost events, share expertise, and cooperate on future publications. Phil Kaplan ’12, ’20JD, the executive director of the Blue Center for Global Strategic Assessment at the Jackson School, said the conference is a place “where statecraft takes place in real-time . . . making them an ideal partner for the Blue Center to project the work of our scholars out into the world.”

Grand Strategy program welcomes diverse cohort

The Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy accepted 22 students—19 Yale undergraduates and three Yale graduate students—into its 2025 cohort. The students were chosen from more than 170 applicants, the highest number of applicants the program has ever received. The year-long program includes a course, Studies in Grand Strategy, in the spring semester. In the summer, students conduct a research project—often requiring trips abroad—and they complete the program in the fall semester.