Celebrating outstanding graduate teaching fellows
Every year, the Graduate School and Yale College select a small number of Prize Teaching Fellows (PTFs) in recognition of their extraordinary competence, dedication, and enthusiasm in the classroom. PTFs are chosen from among those nominated by their undergraduate students and the faculty members they assist. This year, Alice Baumgartner (history), Alex Engler (engineering and applied science), Kyle Luh (mathematics), Daniel Martin (chemistry), and Miranda Sachs (history) were honored as PTFs at a dinner in November. “Learning how to teach is integral to graduate training at Yale,” says Lynn Cooley, dean of GSAS. “Good scholarship and research are refined and improved through the act of teaching.”
Conserving endangered languages
According to UNESCO, half of the 6,000 languages spoken today will disappear by the end of this century if nothing is done to preserve them. Their loss will erase from human history a wealth of culture and traditional knowledge. Last summer, four linguistics students worked to preserve endangered languages. Matt Tyler focused on Choktaw in Mississippi; Rikker Dockum worked with Khamti speakers in Myanmar; Josh Phillips documented Ritharrngu and Kriol in north Australia; and Sarah Babinski worked on Australian Aboriginal languages.
Alumna wins MacArthur Fellowship
Kellie Jones ’99PhD (history of art), associate professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Institute for Research in African American Studies at Columbia University, has been awarded a 2016 MacArthur Fellowship, commonly known as a “genius grant.” As both an art historian and a curator, she is known for “deepening our understanding of contemporary art of the African Diaspora and securing its place in the canons of modern and contemporary art,” the MacArthur Foundation wrote. From 1999 to 2006, Jones was on the faculty at Yale.
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