Graduate school of arts and sciences

Physics professor will be dean for faculty diversity

Physicist Larry Gladney will become the next dean of diversity and faculty development for the Yale Faculty of Arts & Sciences (FAS). He will lead the effort to build a more intellectually, socially, and culturally diverse faculty, and to support and promote faculty excellence across the FAS. Gladney will also join the FAS as professor of physics. He will take up his new posts on January 1, 2019. Gladney joins Yale from the University of Pennsylvania, where he is the Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty Excellence in UPenn’s Department of Physics and Astronomy and associate dean for natural sciences at its School of Arts and Sciences.

Newest matriculating class is largest ever

This August, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences welcomed its largest number of matriculating students. This year’s class of 708 students earned their undergraduate degrees at 335 different colleges and universities and hail from 49 countries around the world. In addition to 360 students from the United States, 181 students come from China, 29 from India, 13 from Canada, 13 from South Korea, and 11 from the United Kingdom. Most of the students (509) are enrolled in doctoral programs; the remaining 199 are pursuing master’s degrees.

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