Snapshot of the incoming class
Nearly 600 future scholars and scientists enrolled at the Graduate School this fall, chosen from a pool of 10,778 applicants. Ranging in age from 20 years to 62 and coming from dozens of countries, the new students include 437 who are pursuing PhDs and 162 in master’s degree programs. The most populous PhD programs are engineering & applied science, with 45 matriculants, followed by molecular cell biology, genetics, and development, with 35. Physics and political science each has 23 new students, and chemistry and history have 21 apiece. International relations is the largest master’s degree program, with 37 new students enrolled.
Alumna is dean at Simmons College
Renée T. White ’95PhD (sociology) has been appointed dean of the Simmons College School of Arts and Sciences, effective September 1. At Simmons, she will lead both undergraduate and graduate programs, and oversee educational leadership, financial management, faculty and curricular review and development, tenure and promotion, campus-wide strategic initiatives, community outreach, and resource development. A prolific writer, White is the coauthor of three books, including the acclaimed Spoils of War: Women of Color, Cultures, & Evolutions, and author ofPutting Risk in Perspective: Black Teenage Lives in the Era of AIDS. Prior to her current position, White was a professor of sociology and black studies at Fairfield University, where she served as the university’s first academic coordinator for diversity and global citizenship.
Exploring galaxies
Yale astronomers have looked into the distant universe and discovered that galaxies display one of two distinct behaviors: they are either “awake” or “asleep,” actively forming stars or not forming any new stars at all. Graduate student Kate Whitaker is lead author of a paper published in the June 20 online edition of the Astrophysical Journal that describes the research. Her team’s survey of the distant universe shows that even very young galaxies 12 billion light years away are either awake or asleep, meaning that galaxies have behaved this way for more than 85 percent of the history of the universe. The researchers spent 75 nights peering into the distant universe and collecting light from 40,000 galaxies, creating the deepest and most complete survey of its kind ever made.
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