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Pioneering discoveries by students

While working with and learning from faculty at the forefront of today’s most exciting breakthroughs in all disciplines, Yale undergraduates have discovered new species, created new technologies, developed and patented new products, and co-authored original research.

Yale research changing the world

Yale researchers recently tested the possibility that a single vaccine could tackle both Zika and the West Nile Virus. Yale physicists discovered a time crystal that “ticks” upon exposure to an electromagnetic pulse, and Yale scholars of Architecture and Forestry collaborated with the UN to design an Ecological Living Module.

Extraordinary resources, available to all

To inspire original research, Yalies have access to a dazzling collection of unique resources at their fingertips including the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design , the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library , the Brain Imaging Center , the Peabody Museum of Natural History , the Yale Collection of Musical Instruments , the Yale University Art Gallery and Yale Center for British Art . 

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Undergraduate science majors who do research with faculty.

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Funding for undergraduate science research fellowships annually

Science, math, and engineering labs at Yale College and the graduate and professional schools.

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Real research in the first year

First-year students can begin conducting original research by using a Yale College First-Year Summer Research Fellowship that provides support for a summer research experience in the sciences and/or engineering under the supervision of a Yale faculty member. More than 100 such fellowships are set aside for first-year students.

Diversity in the sciences

Since 1995, Yale’s nationally recognized STARS (Science, Technology and Research Scholars) Program has promoted diversity in the sciences through mentoring, academic year study groups, and an original research-based summer program for students in their first and second years. Juniors and seniors have the opportunity to continue their research through the STARS II Program.

A team from the Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association was chosen by NASA as one of sixteen across the country whose CubeSat research satellites will be flown into space as auxiliary payloads on upcoming space missions. Yale’s Bouchet Low-Earth Alpha/Beta Space Telescope (BLAST) will map the distribution of galactic cosmic radiation, providing insight into the origins of the universe.

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Are you a current undergraduate student considering pursuing a PhD? Each summer, the Yale Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Program brings a group of undergraduates to Yale for eight weeks to explore what a PhD could offer them. As a SURF program participant, you will:

• learn about the kind of work you can expect to do in graduate school
• gain insight into building a career based on PhD-level training
• become more confident in your academic abilities and potential

During the program, you will be immersed in an academic, professional setting with a faculty mentor, a post-doctoral associate, and/or an advanced graduate student. The program focuses on research: you will pursue individual research projects and participate in workshops and panel discussions.

• If you are interested in the natural sciences, you will learn advanced laboratory methods and conduct research in state-of-the-art facilities. 
• If you are interested in the humanities or social sciences, you will work closely with mentors and use the extraordinary resources found in Yale's libraries.

You will learn to present your research effectively to colleagues, develop a proposal, give a final presentation to your peers, submit a written final paper, and present at the Leadership Alliance National Symposium.

Program Details and Application

The SURF Program is intended for students with a strong desire to pursue research careers at the PhD level. Preference is given to students completing their sophomore or junior years. Applicants must exhibit outstanding academic promise and achievement. We especially encourage applications from students who come from an economically disadvantaged background, are a first-generation college graduate, or have otherwise faced significant obstacles in their pursuit of higher education.

Free housing in a Yale dormitory is provided to SURF participants, along with a $1,000 allowance for food. Air or train transportation to and from the program is covered up to $400 (not including excess luggage charges). All travel arrangements are made through the SURF Program Office. Program participants receive a $4,000 stipend.

The SURF program runs over eight weeks in June and July.

Please apply through the Leadership Alliance Summer Research-Early Identification Program (SR-EIP) website . Note: if you are interested in the NSF “REU Site: Research training in biomedical science and engineering” (click here for more info about the program) you still need to apply through the Leadership Alliance Application portal .

The application opens on November 1 and closes on February 1.

Admissions Notifications: If you are selected to participate, you will be notified by email no later than April 1. Please do not contact the office to inquire about your application status.

Student Testimonial

Omkar A. Katta, Yale SURF Participant, Summer 2019

“It has been a couple of days since I’ve returned home, and I am already missing my time at Yale University. Thank you all for an incredible summer. The friends I have made, the experiences I have had, and the moments we have shared will be near and dear to my heart. You are a huge part of why this summer has been one of the greatest summers in my life. From writing proposals and manuscripts to giving presentations, I have learned the skills necessary to conduct quality research, and I will carry these skills with me for the rest of my research career. Perhaps more uniquely to this program, you created an environment that mirrored the real world experience of conducting research. From exchanging business cards to networking with strangers, I learned what it means to be a polite and productive citizen of academia. I know that in future iterations of the program, you will continue to deliver the same experience to aspiring researchers like me. Thank you for what you have done.”

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Yale undergraduate research, stars summer research program.

The STARS Summer Research Program provides summer term support for undergraduate students who live on campus and participate in laboratory research with Yale faculty members. Students selected for the program work as full-time research assistants who support the research of their mentor and/or faculty advisor.  In addition, enrollment in SCIE 101,  Scientific Research: Process and Presentation, and active participation in weekly journal club sessions are required. These sessions provide STARS scholars the opportunity to discuss their individual lab journals as well as other journal article samples selected for the program. At the conclusion of the summer program, each student will submit his or her research results in a written publishable format and will conduct a formal presentation of their research at a public symposium.

Between coursework and research, the STARS Summer program will do much to establish the analytical and research skills necessary for academic and professional success. Each summer scholar works with their mentor who will supervise the scholar in substantive laboratory research and expose the scholar to academic life in their specific field.  Mentors and summer scholars are encouraged to meet regularly to assess the progress made as well as to discuss other issues such as academic and career development.

Summer scholars must live on campus in one of the residential colleges. The purpose of this arrangement is to foster an exciting and challenging academic environment where summer scholars may come together as a community to exchange ideas and information. The program includes evening activities and occasional weekend trips.

STARS summer scholars are awarded a total stipend of $2,500. The program also covers participants’ room and board, as well as the course tuition.  Students are not allowed to enroll in any other courses or be employed if they are participating in the STARS Summer program.   

Eligibility

In order to be eligible for t he STARS Summer Research Program , Yale College students must be enrolled (that is, not withdrawn) both at the time of submitting the fellowship application and at the time of receiving an award. Yale College students who are on a leave of absence are eligible to apply.          

STARS Summer Fellow Responsibilities

• All STARS Summer scholars must live on the Yale campus for the duration of the nine week program. 
• Work with a mentor in designing a mutually beneficially research project that will further develop the summer fellow’s research and analytical skills;
• Write a 6-10 page paper on his/her research project to be presented at the end of the program.  This paper/presentation will be evaluated by the mentor and course instructor.
• Present the findings of research projects before all their peers, mentors, and invited guests from the larger Yale community at the STARS Summer Research Program Symposia at the conclusion of the program;
• Attend and participate in a weekly discussion regarding scientific issues. Some reading and preparation is required;
• Attend class sessions of the summer course, SCIE 101, which meets Monday through Friday from 8:30am - 9:45am.

Approximately thirty students are chosen to participate each summer. 

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STARS Summer Research Program, Symposium 2019

STARS Academic Team

The Academic Team is responsible for overseeing the STARS Program in its entirety. During STARS and STARS II, the Team runs workshops and poster presentations every semester. During STARS Summer, the Team runs “SCIE 101 Scientific Research: Process and Presentation” and runs a weekly journal club.

Dr. Kenneth Nelson

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• Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.

Dr. Maria Moreno

• Academic Coordinator, STARS Program
• Senior Lecturer and Research Scientist in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology

Dr. Kailas Purushothaman                                               

• Advisor, STARS Program                                                                      
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* Application Information   MUST be submitted via the Yale  Student Grants & Fellowships database .

STARS Summer Program dates:  May 27 - July 26, 2024

Summer 2024 deadline for submission:  Friday, February 9, 2024 at 3:00pm ET

• Securing a commitment to conduct summer research in a Yale lab is required before you apply to the STARS Summer Research Program.
• A letter of recommendation from your Principal Investigator (lab head) is required when you apply to the program. Instructions on what should be included in the letter, here .

Include a copy of your transcript, including courses you intend to take in the spring. *Unofficial transcripts are acceptable.

• Students selected for the STARS Summer Research Program will be asked to submit a research plan by TBA 
• The plan must include the following (additional instructions will be provided with award notices):
• Background/Significance of your Research (1/2 – 1 page in length)
• Hypothesis (1 sentence)
• Research Aims (1/2 page in length)

*Failure to submit your plan by the deadline will result in a forfeit of your spot in the program.

• The Yale STARS Summer Research Program does not accept applications directly from students enrolled at other universities.

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Undergraduate research opportunities.

There are many opportunities for students to carry out research in the laboratory of a faculty member. A broad spectrum of state-of-the-art research activities are performed at Yale in the EEB department and in related departments including the Yale Medical School Medicine and the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies. This research is in molecular biology, biochemistry, genetics, cell biology, neurobiology, physiology, environmental sciences, plant science,  ecology and evolution. All interested students are encouraged to participate in research.

Students may work in laboratories for academic credit and/or experience. Financial support may be available in some cases, but students being paid may not receive course credit. The choice of a research laboratory should be made in consultation with faculty members and the director of undergraduate studies. 

Research Courses

During the academic year, students with DUS approval may take either of three research courses, EEB 495 and 496. These courses are primarily for students who are culminating their undergraduate experience by doing independent research to fulfill the senior requirement. It is possible for students who wish to do research earlier in their course of study to take EEB 475/476 before their senior year, but it does not substitute for other course requirements. EEB 475/476 counts towards the 36 credits required for the Yale College degree; but other than meeting the senior requirement, EEB 475/476, and all the research courses, do NOT contribute to satisfying the requirements for the major. For research courses, hours and typically arranged at the mutual convenience of the student and the faculty advisor.

Please note that taking EEB 475 at any time does not satisfy the lab requirement or the elective requirement for a course from EEB at 350 or above. Approval from the Yale College Committee on Honors and Academic Standing is required if certain limits are exceeded. A student must petition the committee for permission to enroll in more than one such course credit in any one term before the senior year or in more than two such course credits in any one term during the senior year. Permission is also required for a student to enroll in more than three such course credits in the first six terms of enrollment. In the petition the student must give sound academic reasons for exceeding these limits. Students taking EEB 475/476 are expected to spend at least 10 hours per week in the laboratory of a faculty member. This course can be taken more than once. Students must reapply each semester to be enrolled, and at the completion of each term, a paper must be submitted to their professor. This course fulfills the senior requirement if 2 semesters are taken in the senior year.  Students are expected to spend a minimum of 10-12 hours per week in the laboratory and to attend monthly discussion groups. Research should be conducted under the supervision of the same faculty. At the end of the course a written report on the research accomplished must be submitted before a grade will be given. EEB 495/496 is intended for senior students who wish to do intensive research for the B.S. Intensive degree. It is a year-long course, two credits each term, in which students are expected to spend at least 20 hours per week in the laboratory. At the end of the course, students prepare a paper describing the research they completed. One grade is given at the end of the second semester.

Summer Research

Yale students can also perform research with a faculty member during the summer months, which allows students to devote full-time effort to a research project. Summer research enables students to continue research that was initiated during the previous academic year or to begin research that will be continued during the following academic year. Sometimes the faculty member has grant funds that can support students during the summer. Other possibilities for financial support can be found at  http://science.yalecollege.yale.edu/fellowships-grants . Interested students should consult a member of the Yale faculty or the director of undergraduate studies. Academic credit is not granted unless the student is registered in (and paying tuition to) the Yale summer school. Summer research at other institutions is possible through several programs. More information can be found at:  http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/funding-opportunities . Yale does not award academic credit for research done at other institutions, even if done in the context of a course.

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Medzhitov laboratory studies biology of inflammation, mechanisms of homoeostasis, allergic immunity and mechanisms of diseases.

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Host-pathogen interactions.

The disease state caused by microbial infection is a result of either microbial virulence or immunopathology (the host response to infection), or in some cases both. Thus immune sensing and responsiveness to infection are adjusted during evolution to achieve an optimal balance to maximize protection from infection, and to minimize the pathology caused by an overzealous immune response. This balance can presumably vary depending on infection. We are interested in studying the mechanisms (both hard-wired and adaptive) that allow for an optimal trade-off between these two conflicting goals. We are interested in understanding the role avoidance, resistance and tolerance as defense strategies.

Inflammation is a fundamental physiological process that underlies a multitude of normal and pathological conditions. We are studying both the basic biology of inflammation and the regulatory mechanisms that control initiation, quality and intensity of inflammatory responses. In particular, we are studying the links between inflammation and metabolism, inflammation and aging, and inflammation and cancer.

Control of adaptive immunity

Innate immune recognition plays a critical role in the control of adaptive immune responses. Multiple mechanisms underlie the connections between innate and adaptive immune systems, and most of them are poorly understood. We are studying basic mechanisms that couple innate immune recognition with activation and differentiation of adaptive immune responses. We are also studying the links between innate immune system and peripheral tolerance.

Control of gene expression

Stimulation of macrophages through TLRs leads to changes in the expression (induction and suppression) of hundreds of genes. These changes are effected through a diversity of mechanisms. Gene regulation occurs at multiple levels (activation of trasnscription factors, chromatin remodeling and histone modifications) and has both signal-specific and gene-specific components. Different subsets of TLR-inducible genes are subject to differential regulatory influences, which are dependent on the function of the products they encode. We are interested in the basic principles of inducible gene expression, which are currently poorly characterized.

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We are studying the role of macrophages in maintenance of homeostasis and in physiological inflammation.

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Women’s, gender, and sexuality studies (wgss) graduate student research funding application.

The WGSS Program is happy to announce a new funding resource for graduate students in the WGSS Certificate or Combined PhD program.  Up to seven WGSS graduate students per academic year will receive up to $700 each towards travel to an academic conference related to their work in the Certificate or Combined PhD program.  WGSS understands that those who do interdisciplinary scholarship often need to attend multiple conferences a year, and we are grateful to be able to support the professional development of our Certificate and PhD students.  Applications will be accepted twice per academic year, in February and October, with priority given to those who are presenting papers and who lack other sources of funding.  Note that the award does not cover food expenses.

These funds cannot provide reimbursement for expenses already incurred.

The Fall 2024 deadline is Wednesday, October 9, 2024 by 11:59 PM. The Spring 2025 deadline is Wednesday, February 5, 2025 by 11:59 PM.

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The Cambodian genocide of 1975-1979, in which approximately 1.7 million people lost their lives (21% of the country’s population), was one of the worst human tragedies of the last century. As in the Ottoman Empire during the Armenian genocide, in Nazi Germany, and more recently in East Timor, Guatemala, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, the Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot combined extremist ideology with ethnic animosity and a diabolical disregard for human life to produce repression, misery, and murder on a massive scale. On July 18, 2007,  Cambodian and international co-prosecutors  at the newly established mixed UN/Cambodian tribunal in Phnom Penh found evidence of “crimes against humanity, genocide, grave breaches of the Geneva Convention, homicide, torture and religious persecution.”  On November 16, 2018, the Cambodian and international judges of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) ruled that the former Khmer Rouge regime headed by Pol Pot had perpetrated genocide in Cambodia while it held power during 1975-1979. The court convicted Pol Pot’s former deputy, Nuon Chea, and the Khmer Rouge regime’s head of state, Khieu Samphan, of genocide of the ethnic Vietnamese minority of Cambodia, and also convicted Nuon Chea of genocide of the country’s Cham Muslim minority. Both men were also convicted of extermination and various other crimes against humanity, and were sentenced to life imprisonment.  These convictions mean that most of the surviving top leaders of the Democratic Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge) regime have now been jailed, prosecuted, or convicted of crimes they committed when in power in 1975-79. Two died in prison awaiting prosecution or during their trial, but three survived to face judgement and are now serving life sentences.

Since 1994, the  award-winning  Cambodian Genocide Program, a project of the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University’s  MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies , has been studying these events to learn as much as possible about the tragedy, and to help determine who was responsible for the crimes of the Pol Pot regime. In Phnom Penh in 1996, for instance, we obtained access to the 100,000-page archive of that defunct regime’s security police, the Santebal. This material has been microfilmed by Yale University’s Sterling Library and made available to scholars worldwide. As of January 2008, we have also compiled and published 22,000 biographic and bibliographic records, and over 6,000 photographs, along with documents, translations, maps, and an extensive list of CGP books and research papers on the genocide, as well as the CGP’s newly-enhanced, interactive  Cambodian Geographic Database, CGEO , which includes data on: Cambodia’s 13,000 villages; the 115,000 sites targeted in 231,00 U.S. bombing sorties flown over Cambodia in 1965-75, dropping half a million or more tons of munitions; 158 prisons run by Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime during 1975-1979, and 309 mass-grave sites with an estimated total of 19,000 grave pits; and 76 sites of post-1979 memorials to victims of the Khmer Rouge.

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Established in June 2018. REEES gathers and institutionalizes Yale’s longstanding and emerging strengths in research, teaching, and public outreach about this part of the world, including those housed the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (Slavic Languages and Literatures, History, Film Studies, Anthropology, Economics, and Political Science, and others), and in the professional schools, including the Yale Schools of Art, Drama, Management, Music, and Public Health, as well as the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs.

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What does the future hold for Russian studies at Yale?

Amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, University administrators discuss how Yale has adjusted to changing relationships with institutions, faculty and scholars based in Russia — and what’s next.

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As universities scramble to suspend their relationships with Russia and its schools in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine, Yale has been closely reassessing its ties with Russian academic and institutional partners.

Faculty and administrators walk a precarious line trying to maintain interpersonal relationships with Russian students and scholars while severing all ties to the government. According to Vice President for Global Strategy Pericles Lewis, the University’s institutional relationships with Russian schools will remain on hold as the war in Ukraine continues — with these partnerships eligible for re-evaluation in about a year’s time. One program within the University that is affected is the Fox International Fellowship, a graduate student exchange program at Yale that partners with 21 academic institutions across the world. The Fellowship recently announced a suspension of its partnership with Moscow State University — which was its first partner after its establishment in 1988. The program was set up to “ provide a peaceful international exchange ” in the midst of Cold War tensions.

“It’s upsetting, you know,” said Emily Erikson, who serves as director of the Fox International Fellowship. “[But] I think it’s the right thing to do.”

Erikson clarified that the Fellowship does not blame scholars for the decisions of the Russian government, but noted that given the context of “complicated” Russian relations with the United States, there was no guarantee that students could travel safely back and forth between the two nations. The decision to suspend ties with Moscow State University — which operates with state funding — was made on the level of the fellowship, not the senior administration.

In addition to the suspension of the Moscow State University partnership, Yale has pulled its money from Russia, committed to rejecting donations from sanctioned individuals and further diminished the School of Management’s ties with Moscow’s Skolkovo school. Faculty members have generally followed suit with these administrative-level decisions by removing their own partnerships with Russian institutions and their associated faculty. Lewis told the News that the University will not prevent its faculty from conducting work with Russia-based colleagues “as long as it is legal and meets ethical guidelines” and so long as they “declare their outside funding.” 

Reactions following the invasion

Molly Brunson, who serves as director of the Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program at the MacMillan Center, said that her perspective on Russian institutional ties at Yale is complicated.

“There’s a kind of real important moral and ethical reason to sever ties with these institutional connections … that might be encouraging [Putin] in ways direct or indirect,” Brunson said. 

But Brunson also explained that Putin’s war in Ukraine sparked a now “emerging” conversation between faculty over how interpersonal connections between scholars and students in the Russian and Eastern European region can be maintained. She mentioned that the issues faculty currently have to address mirror the “kind of difficulties and challenges of working across borders during the Cold War.”

She said that, following news of the invasion, faculty at Yale had “dedicated a lot of [their] initial energies toward supporting colleagues, friends, families in Ukraine and fleeing Ukraine.” In addition to this, the University worked to figure out which scholars were at risk, and how to help them efficiently and quickly. This not only included Ukrainian individuals, but also those fleeing Russia who were in danger due to various dissident activities.

From an administrative standpoint, Lewis also noted that the University was working to assist Russian students and scholars “who are here now and don’t want to go back to Russia.”

The Office of International Students & Scholars, or OISS, has been working with both Ukrainian and Russian students on disrupted summer and travel plans. In an email to the News, OISS Executive Director Ann Kuhlman acknowledged that the tense situation surrounding Ukraine and Russia has prevented students from getting funds and helping family at home.

“OISS has been in touch with both our Ukrainian and Russian students and have been working with them based on their individual needs and advising them on immigration, travel, and financial concerns,” Kuhlman wrote.

Facing challenges in academia

For Yale faculty, professors are struggling to figure out how to conduct field research, write books or support colleagues in Russia. Visas are hard to come by due to the current conflict, Brunson said, and other logistic challenges will make research difficult.

One such obstacle, Brunson said, is the lack of open lines of communication for colleagues in Russia. Crackdowns on social media platforms by the Russian government, including Facebook and Twitter, have meant that many feeds utilized by professional spheres have largely gone silent. Although many scholars have migrated to the instant messaging service Telegram, she said, it may take time for the platform to securely establish robust lines of communication that were once available.

“There is a very, very significant need to keep those [academic] civil, social communities intact, if there’s going to be any hope of moving into a different moment,” Brunson said.

Brunson — who is also a professor in Slavic languages and literature — told her graduate students to plan to write a dissertation that does not require them to go to Russia, because she is not sure they will be able to in the next few years.

With regard to Russian studies at Yale, Brunson admitted that there was no current “plan” for how to proceed — but that faculty and officials at the University were working on asking questions and figuring out what the best step forward would be. In the meantime, she does not think that relations with Russia will resolve anytime soon, and believes that the University needs to plan for all contingencies, including Russia becoming completely cut off from research and from potential on-the-ground collaborations in the coming years.

But Brunson does not believe that such a complete shutdown of research in Russia would be productive to the academic community and to the world. She said that the threats of a continued ground war in Europe, nuclear entanglement and extreme crises such as world hunger make the research conducted surrounding Russia — especially in relation to Eastern Europe and local regions — fundamental.

“It is absolutely not a time to stop work on Russia and Eastern Europe and Eurasia,” Brunson said. “If anything, it is a time to increase it manyfold … it’s very clear now that our ignorance [has been] quite damaging.”

Reflecting on Yale’s future with Russia

Brunson urged caution in University administrative and faculty decisions surrounding whether to hold off on or continue ties with Russian institutions.

“I think that what is important to remember is that … beyond these institutions are actual people with actual lives and careers and families that have been completely upended,” she said. “[There are] big institutional decisions, and that’s often what we focus on, but they actually have extraordinary impacts on individuals. And I think for this reason, it is imperative that we be very thoughtful in what we choose to support but also what we choose to cut off.”

Erikson added her own thoughts on understanding how the University will proceed in examining its global partnerships, especially with Russia.

“The mission of the University is a global mission,” Erikson said. “It is not truth and knowledge and a better society for one nation. It is for all nations. And [the] University tries to accomplish that mission, but it can be very hard to make those kinds of decisions.”

The Fox International Fellowship was established in 1988 by Joseph Carrère Fox ’38.

Correction, April 29: This article has been updated with the correct date at which the Fox International Fellowship was established.

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Yale announces $150 million to support leadership in ai.

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Yale will commit more than $150 million over the next five years to support faculty, students, and staff as they engage with artificial intelligence (AI), the university announced today.

The investment will help the community develop, use, and evaluate AI and apply it to deliver breakthrough research at an unprecedented speed and scale, Yale Provost Scott Strobel wrote in a message to the Yale community . It will support key areas, including compute infrastructure, community access to secure generative AI tools, targeted faculty hires, seed grants, and opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.

“ Yale has long been at the forefront of AI development and research, and our leadership continues to be necessary as this technology evolves and endures,” Strobel said. “To fulfill the university’s mission to improve the world and prepare the next generation of society’s great leaders and thinkers, we must explore, advance, and harness AI for its benefits while providing ethical, legal, and social frameworks to address the challenges it poses.”

The commitment will benefit all of campus while contributing to school- and unit-specific AI strategies, including curricular, research, and recruitment goals that each dean has identified for the coming year, he said.

The $150 million commitment responds to the report of the Yale Task Force on Artificial Intelligence . During the spring, the 18-member group of faculty and campus leaders engaged with dean-led faculty panels and university experts in education, collections, clinical practice, and operations to review AI activity already underway and develop a vision for Yale’s leadership in the future.

The task force recommendations guide the following commitments:

Expanding research infrastructure

Over the next several years, Yale will build a portfolio of approximately 450 graphics processing units (GPUs) — advanced processors that have become foundational to modern AI development — invest in cloud-based GPU access, and hire new computational research support analysts.

When paired with high performance computing clusters and advanced GPUs, AI enables processing and analysis of big data sets, advanced simulations, and more, Strobel said. This allows investigators to conduct research on and with AI in ways not possible using traditional computers alone. Such research can enable drug discovery, enhance understanding of biological and physical systems, track migration patterns, and reconstruct historical sites, among many other innovative applications.

To facilitate these complex AI computations, the task force advised that the university invest in several hundred GPUs, enable cloud access to additional GPUs through technology providers, and explore partnerships with other institutions seeking to share compute resources, Strobel said.

The new commitment will support:

A portfolio of GPUs : The university will stagger purchases of the approximately 450 GPUs “to naturally track with the anticipated rapid evolution of GPU technology,” Strobel said.

Most of these new GPUs will be installed on clusters maintained by the Yale Center for Research Computing (YCRC) and located at the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC) , a LEED Platinum certified data center and joint venture between Yale and several other universities. To supplement these resources, the university will also invest in cloud-based GPU access, expanding capacity for research that demands a very large number of GPUs for short periods of time.

Computational research support analysts: To support researchers across campus as they access this new AI infrastructure, the YCRC will hire new computational research support analysts to join its existing research support team. These professionals will offer training and assist members of the community as they advance their research using new GPU-intensive compute resources.

Delivering secure access to generative AI

If the Yale community is to shape how AI is developed, experiment with its possibilities, and evaluate its role in society, the AI task force concluded, it must have equitable access to generative AI , Strobel said.

Specifically, he said, the task force recommended that Yale procure or develop secure generative AI tools capable of protecting individual and university data and adapting to new innovations over time. In response, the university will launch the Clarity platform , which will provide faculty, students, and staff with secure access to robust AI tools.

The Clarity platform : In its initial phase, Clarity offers an AI chatbot powered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4o. Importantly, Clarity provides a “walled-off” environment; its use is limited to Yale faculty, students, and staff, and information entered into its chatbot is not saved or used to train external AI models.

Clarity is appropriate for use with all data types, including high-risk data , provided that all security standards are observed, Strobel said. Its chatbot is capable of content creation, coding assistance, data and image analysis, text-to-speech, and more. Over time, the platform may expand to incorporate additional AI tools, including other large language models . Clarity is designed to evolve as generative AI develops and the community offers feedback. (Before using the Clarity AI chatbot, Strobel said, members of the Yale community should review training resources and guidance on appropriate use .)

Additional AI tools : In addition to Clarity, the university will also offer faculty, students, and staff access to other AI tools, including Microsoft Copilot Enterprise and Adobe Firefly. More information about these tools, including instructions and training material, is available on the AI at Yale website , a new and evolving hub of information about AI at the university. Additional details on AI tools will be shared with the community soon.

Building expertise to support research and education

In addition to offering secure AI tools, Yale will broaden and deepen its expertise in AI to advance research, scholarship, and education, Strobel said. These will include:

Faculty positions: While meeting with faculty and leaders across campus, the task force observed the breadth of Yale’s engagement with AI. Many of the university’s researchers and scholars have been developing, utilizing, and analyzing AI for years. Their breakthroughs and insights — from using AI to produce faster medical diagnoses to examining AI’s impact on human labor — are producing knowledge that impacts lives around the world, Strobel said. In addition, faculty are increasingly engaging with AI in their teaching, using it as a tool and a phenomenon to study and critique.

To further expand Yale’s capacity for AI-related research, teaching, and learning, the university expects to recruit more than 20 faculty whose scholarship centers on AI technology. In the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS), and the School of Medicine, deans are allocating positions, some recently created through the expansion of the FAS and SEAS faculty , to supplement existing capabilities in AI research, application, and development, Strobel wrote.

Spread across campus, these targeted positions will support field-specific approaches to AI while creating opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration.

“ Additional faculty expertise will strengthen Yale’s depth of knowledge and enhance the learning environment for students, who will be expected to understand, navigate, and make decisions about AI technologies throughout their lives and careers,” Strobel said.

Seed grants for reviewing curricula in the context of AI: Addressing the need to prepare Yale’s graduates to lead and thrive in a future infused with AI, the task force acknowledged Yale’s “opportunity to serve as a model by adapting its curricula.” Deans and faculty are already implementing innovative changes to coursework and offering answers to questions about what it means to teach and train in this new age, Strobel said.

To aid their work, the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning will pilot curriculum review grants this year, assisting schools and departments as they examine their programs and disciplines in the context of AI. These grants will facilitate pioneering approaches to curriculum review and design. The learning opportunities that result will give students the range of skills needed to shape AI and its role in their professions and communities.

The Poorvu Center will share more information about these grant opportunities later this year, Strobel said.

Facilitating innovation and collaboration

Though the task force noted “rich disciplinary distinctions” in school and unit approaches to AI, it also remarked on the critical contributions Yale makes by “draw[ing] on expertise from the full breadth of its diverse community…” The task force members encouraged the university to create “catalysts for collaboration” that exploit Yale’s strength in cross- and inter-disciplinary research and scholarship, Strobel said.

To leverage Yale’s wide-ranging expertise and perspectives on AI, Strobel said, the university will offer opportunities for innovation and collaboration across schools, units, departments, and disciplines. This academic year, Yale will host a campus-wide research symposium on AI, inviting faculty, students, and staff to present research, share ideas, and establish connections across intellectual boundaries.

To offer a variety of ways to engage, the university will also sponsor interdisciplinary AI prompt-a-thons, seminars, and a research seed grant program, he said. Additionally, the Yale University Library will play a key role in facilitating research and educational innovation throughout the community, offering support and AI-powered tools to improve access to digitized collections and unlock new research possibilities. Details will be posted to the AI at Yale website .

“ Whether you are studying, teaching, researching, or working at Yale, I encourage you to explore the resources available now and engage with the opportunities to come,” Strobel wrote in his message. “Members of our community — from Information Technology to the Library to deans’ offices — continue to work diligently to implement these investments.”

Strobel expressed gratitude to Jenny Frederick, associate provost for academic initiatives and executive director of the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning, for her work in “orchestrating AI investments across campus.”

“ As we advance Yale’s leadership in AI, let us embrace one of the fundamental tenets of a university: curiosity,” he added. “Our willingness to share — with each other and with the world — various perspectives, ideas, evaluations, and analyses will be critical to our success.

“ Our efforts will equip society and the next generation with the tools and frameworks necessary to positively shape a world continuously transformed by technological innovation.”

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2025: centering the black sacred arts: research, education, and public life, submit a proposal here.

In May 2025, the ISM’s fourth Black Sacred Arts conference will convene scholars and artists to consider the theoretical and practical work of centering the Black sacred arts in the academy and beyond. It will explore ways to incorporate the study and practice of the Black sacred arts in curricula and public life with the aim of uncovering new methodologies, epistemologies and pedagogies offered through their study. 

It will address questions such as: How does centering the Black sacred arts in disciplinary discussions push various fields of study to imagine new theoretical paradigms and methodologies? What are some of the theological and philosophical approaches that are uncovered through the study of Black expressive culture and religion? And what can be gleaned when the Black sacred arts become the heuristic? 

The conference will further seek out research and case studies that illustrate the profound losses that have accompanied the exclusion of the Black sacred arts in educational and institutional settings. The interdisciplinary conversations we hope will emerge from this conference will discover novel terrain through centering the Black sacred arts in discussions of sonic, visual, and other sensoria that cut across religious, geographic, or social categories throughout Africa and beyond.

Accepted presenters and performers will receive an honorarium of $250 to help defray the cost of travel to New Haven. In addition, they will be provided with hotel accommodations and several meals at the conference.

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Proposal topics.

We invite proposals for presentations that address topics including but not limited to:

• Globalization of the Black sacred arts
• The Black sacred arts in non-traditional spaces
• Phenomenological approaches to the Black sacred arts
• Black sacred arts and popular culture
• The Black sacred arts and the formation and maintenance of identity
• The Black sacred arts and the ontological turn
• Pedagogy and the Black sacred arts 
• Language, conceptual frameworks, and the Black sacred arts
• Public life and the Black sacred arts
• Cosmological and epistemological issues in the study of the Black sacred arts
• Artists as mediums, prophetic figures, and teachers
• Problematizing methodologies of research in ritual contexts 
• Interrogating and decolonizing frameworks and terms associated with the study of the Black sacred arts
• Addressing the challenges of researching and teaching the Black sacred arts in secular contexts

How to submit abstracts

Submit abstracts at this link by December 15, 2024. If submitting a proposal for an organized panel, the panel organizer or chair should upload a PDF containing the panel title and abstracts from all panel participants. Applicants will need to open a free account with Submittable before uploading abstracts. The following information for individual and panel proposals is requested:

• Affiliation
• 150-word bio or personal narrative
• Paper or panel title
• 300-word panel and individual paper abstracts

Questions about the conference or abstract submission process may be directed to  [email protected] . 

We welcome abstracts for individual papers and organized panels from advanced graduate students, faculty, scholars working outside the academy, and practitioners. Individual papers and presentations will be allotted 20 minutes apiece; organized panels may include 3-4 presenters. Abstracts should be approximately 300 words in length and accompanied by a 150-word bio or personal narrative. For an organized panel, please include the panel title, a panel abstract, and all individual abstracts compiled together as one submission. 

We also invite proposals for alternative formats that incorporate interactive engagement with artistic and ritual phenomena, such as lecture-demonstrations, sonic activations, and listening and viewing sessions. Those interested in pursuing alternative presentational modalities should describe aspects of format and proposed length in their abstract. Performers’ abstracts may contain one URL for a multimedia supplement directly related to the presentation. The conference will be conducted in-person in New Haven.

Abstracts due: Friday, December 15, 2024

Acceptances announced: February 15, 2025

Schedule announced and conference registration opens: March 1, 2025

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Daniel Avorgbedor, University of Ghana

Charlene Désir, Nova Southeastern University

Collin Edouard, Yale University

Steven Friedson, University of North Texas

Ayodeji Ogunnaike, University of Virginia

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Yale Joins Conflict Observatory Documenting Ukraine War Crimes

Ukraine war damage.

The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) will document alleged violations of international law and crimes against humanity, including war crimes, by Russia-aligned forces in Ukraine as part of a new Conflict Observatory initiative announced today by the U.S. Department of State.

The Yale HRL recently identified 22 damaged hospitals and health care facilities in Ukraine in its first report to the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe’s Moscow Mechanism.

The Yale HRL team will work in close collaboration with the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO), geographic mapping software company ESRI, the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative, PlanetScape Ai, and other partners in supporting the Conflict Observatory.

“President Peter Salovey has denounced the ‘callous disregard for human life and reckless destruction of Ukraine’s cities,’” said Pericles Lewis, vice president for global strategy and vice provost for academic initiatives at Yale University. “The work of the Humanitarian Research Lab continues a long tradition of Yale scholars who lend their expertise to addressing the health and welfare of communities around the globe. My colleagues and I are proud of the work of the Humanitarian Research Lab to document potential war crimes.”

A summary of the HRL team’s first report, Evidence of Widespread and Systematic Bombardment of Ukrainian Healthcare Facilities is available on the Conflict Observatory website . The report, which contributed to the Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe’s (OSCE) Moscow Mechanism mission of experts, found that 22 hospitals and health care facilities in five localities in Ukraine sustained damage between 24 February and 29 March 2022. The Moscow Mechanism was initiated by OSCE Member States to collect evidence of alleged violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. The HRL report is based on commercial satellite imagery analysis and open-source investigative methods. The Yale HRL concluded that Russia-aligned forces have engaged in widespread and systematic bombardment of Ukrainian health care facilities. The HRL’s evidence corroborates reports by OSCE ground monitors in Ukraine who also documented attacks on health care facilities by Russia-aligned forces.

Destruction of health facilities is devastating not only for patients and providers; but for entire populations. Dean Sten Vermund, Yale School of Public Health

“Destruction of health facilities is devastating not only for patients and providers but for entire populations,” said Professor Sten Vermund, M.D., Ph.D., dean of the Yale School of Public Health. “Health facility destruction is a form of terrorism that leaves lasting scars.”

Kaveh Khoshnood, Ph.D., M.P.H., an associate professor of epidemiology at the YSPH and faculty director of HRL, will serve as principal investigator. Nathaniel Raymond, lecturer in epidemiology at YSPH and executive director of the Yale HRL, will supervise the HRL team working on the project.

“The Humanitarian Research Lab brings unique skills and expertise to the Conflict Observatory,” said Khoshnood. “This project aligns directly with the lab’s mission to support international responses during complex emergencies in real-time while developing rigorous and empirical methodologies for conducting this work.”

Featured in this article

• Sten H. Vermund, MD, PhD Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health
• Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, MPH Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases); Program Co-Director, Global Health Ethics Program, Yale Institute for Global Health
• Nathaniel Raymond Executive Director, Humanitarian Research Lab; Executive Director, Humanitarian Research Lab - YSPH, EMD

Related Links

• Evidence of Widespread and Systematic Bombardment of Ukrainian Healthcare Facilities