Newest crop of graduate students arrives on campus
President Richard C. Levin and Dean Thomas Pollard, along with senior administrators and members of the faculty, welcomed the Graduate School’s newest students to Yale with a formal matriculation ceremony in Sprague Hall on August 26.
Admission to this year’s entering class was extraordinarily competitive, with 10,494 hopefuls vying for fewer than 550 places. The new students hail from 41 different countries. Most (318) come from the United States, and the second largest contingent (62) comes from China; 23 students are from Canada; 18 from the U.K.; 15 from India; and 12 from South Korea. They earned their undergraduate degrees at 268 different colleges and universities, including Yale.
Wilbur Cross medalists announced
The Wilbur Cross Medal, the Graduate School’s highest honor, will be awarded on October 5 to four alumni and former dean Jon Butler. The alumni are Stephen Greenblatt ’64, ’69PhD (English), Fred I. Greenstein ’60PhD (political science), Timothy J. Richmond ’75PhD (molecular biophysics and biochemistry), and Paul Wender ’73PhD (chemistry). Each medalist will give a public lecture, meet with current students and faculty, and attend a festive dinner hosted by Dean Thomas Pollard and the Graduate School Alumni Association.
Greenblatt is the Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. One of the world’s leading literary scholar-critics in the “New Historicism,” he is author of 13 books, including Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, which has been translated into many languages. Greenblatt is general editor of The Norton Shakespeare and The Norton Anthology of English Literature, eighth edition, and former president of the Modern Language Association.
Greenstein, professor emeritus of politics at Princeton University, has been a leader in the field of political psychology. His books include Leadership in the Modern Presidencyand the eight-volume Handbook of Political Science(with Nelson W. Polsby). He was president of the International Society for Political Psychology.
Richmond is professor at ETH Zurich’s Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics. His research in molecular biology explores the atomic structure of large macromolecular assemblies, using both X-ray crystallographic and biochemical approaches. His many honors include membership in the Academia Europae and the National Academy of Sciences.
Wender is the Francis W. Bergstrom Professor of Chemistry at Stanford University and a leader in the field of “Green Chemistry”—environmentally responsible chemistry. He is a preeminent architect of complex molecule assembly, used to produce taxol and other molecules with medical applications. A member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he has also won teaching prizes at Stanford.
Butler, who served as dean of the Graduate School for six years, is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of American Studies, History, and Religious Studies at Yale. He is currently on a one-year leave to work on God in Gotham, a history of religion in Manhattan from the Civil War to the election of John F. Kennedy.
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