Welcome to the Graduate School!
The Graduate School welcomed 643 new students to campus at the annual matriculation ceremony in Sprague Hall on August 25. Incoming students were chosen from a pool of more than 10,250 applicants. Most—471—are enrolled in PhD programs: 256 students in the natural sciences, 113 in the humanities, and 102 in the social sciences. The other 172 are pursuing master’s degrees. Approximately one-third are international students. All doctoral students receive a generous financial aid package that pays their full tuition, provides a minimum stipend of $29,650, and covers the cost of comprehensive health care (with additional support for married students and those with children). New this year are 15 Dean’s Emerging Scholar Fellowships, a partnership between the Graduate School and the Office of the Provost to promote academic excellence and inclusion while increasing diversity in doctoral programs across the campus.
GSAS honors Wilbur Cross medalists
The Graduate School will award Wilbur Cross Medals to four distinguished alumni in September: Arend Lijphart ’63PhD (political science), Ira Mellman ’78PhD (genetics), Arthur Nozik ’67PhD (chemistry), and Eleanor Sterling ’83, ’93PhD (anthropology/forestry and environmental studies). Lijphart, professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, is a major figure in the study of conflict reduction in divided societies. Mellman, vice president of cancer immunology at Genentech, is a groundbreaking researcher in cancer immunotherapy. He established the combined graduate program in the biological and biomedical sciences while on the faculty at Yale. Nozik, senior research fellow emeritus at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, and professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, is at the forefront of research in solar energy. Sterling, chief conservation scientist at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, is a world leader in promoting biodiversity. She launched her career with research on the aye-aye, a reclusive, nocturnal Madagascan lemur once thought to be extinct, and she remains the world authority on this extraordinary animal.
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