GSAS offices relocate
Over the summer, most of the Graduate School’s administrators moved from HGS into Warner House, 1 Hillhouse Avenue, to facilitate closer cooperation with the deans of Yale College and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Included in the move were the offices of Dean Cooley, the academic deans, admissions, financial aid, diversity, and the teaching fellow program.
The McDougal Graduate Student Center and the office of Graduate Student Life will remain in HGS for at least the next two years, until a new graduate student center is created. In addition, HGS and the McDougal Center will continue to host many of the Graduate School’s community events and celebrations, such as orientation, dean’s receptions and lectures, commencement, and student life and professional development activities.
Creating educational programs in Africa
Graduate students Wendell Adjetey (history, African American studies) and Etienne Mashuli (African studies) have won a highly competitive fellowship from Echoing Green, a global nonprofit organization, to create educational programs in Africa. More than 3,500 projects were submitted to Echoing Green for funding; only 52 were chosen. They will use the grant to launch the Tujenge Africa Foundation and establish the first English-language preparatory school and public library in Burundi. Echoing Green will provide seed funding, mentoring, and leadership opportunities for two years.
Mashuli was born in Rwanda and moved to the United States in 2007, when he won a full scholarship to North Central College in Illinois. He was awarded a Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellowship to support his master’s degree studies at Yale. Adjetey was born in Ghana and immigrated to Canada as a child. In 2014, he won a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation fellowship, the most prestigious doctoral award for the social sciences and humanities in Canada. He was also a member of the inaugural cohort of Diplomacy and Diversity Fellows, awarded by Humanity in Action (HIA), an international educational organization, in 2014. HIA brought 24 American and European graduate students together to discuss diplomacy and international affairs through the lenses of diversity, pluralism, and democracy.
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