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21-407: The International Prize Program awards the annual Gruber Prizes: The prizes, which are awarded to prominent scientists, social scientists, and jurists in these subjects, provide a gold medal and a cash award of US$ 500,000. The Young Scientist Awards recognize brilliant early career international scientists and are selected in partnership with major scientific organizations: Established in 2011,

42-476: A Democrat in 1930 and served as Governor for four two-year terms, from January 7, 1931, to January 4, 1939. He was a Delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Connecticut in 1936. He was defeated in 1938 in his attempt to gain re-election for a fifth term. He is credited with passage of several items of reform legislation during his tenure of governor, which included measures related to

63-452: A Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree. The Graduate School is one of twelve constituent schools of Yale University and the only one that awards the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy , Master of Philosophy , Master of Arts , Master of Science , and Master of Engineering . While doctoral programs are also available in five of Yale's professional schools, students are enrolled through the graduate school, which confers their degrees. The school

84-846: A university library system of nearly fifteen million volumes, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library , the Yale University Art Gallery , the Yale Center for British Art , the Humanities Quadrangle , the Office of Information Technology Services, departmental libraries and collections, and the extensive resources of the professional schools. The collections and services of the Research Libraries Group, which consists of Columbia , Harvard , and Yale universities and

105-775: A commission proposing radical eugenic policies; these policies were never implemented. Cross was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1934. After retiring from public service, he continued to stay active in his writing and research projects. Cross died on October 5, 1948, in New Haven at the age of 86. He is interred at Evergreen Cemetery . Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, Wilbur Cross School in Bridgeport , and Connecticut's Wilbur Cross Parkway and Wilbur Cross Highway were named in his honor, as

126-714: A high school principal and schoolteacher at Staples High School in Westport before being offered a job as a professor of English at Yale in 1894. Over the next 36 years, he taught at Yale, became editor of the Yale Review, Sterling Professor of English in 1922, and Dean of the Yale Graduate School from 1916 to 1930. On July 17, 1889, he was married to Helen Baldwin Avery, and they had four children; Wilbur Lucius Cross, Jr., Avery Cross, Elizabeth Cross, and Arthur Cross. Cross became

147-566: A well-known literary critic . Along with C. F. Tucker Brooke , Cross was the editor of the Yale Shakespeare ; he also edited the Yale Review for almost 30 years. He wrote several books, including Life and Times of Laurence Sterne (1909) and The History of Henry Fielding (1918), and several books on the English novel. After retiring from Yale, Cross was elected governor of Connecticut as

168-608: Is administered in four divisions— Humanities , Social Sciences , and Biological and Physical Sciences—and its faculty are divided into 52 departments and programs. Nineteen of these programs terminate with the master's degree. The Graduate School enrolls approximately 2,800 students, one-third of whom come from outside the United States. Approximately 900 faculty are involved with the graduate students as teachers, mentors, and advisors. Most of these faculty also teach in Yale College ,

189-647: The New York Public Library , are also available to students. Special research facilities for the sciences are clustered on Science Hill , including the Bass Center for Molecular and Structural Biology, Josiah Willard Gibbs Research Laboratories, Kline Geology Laboratory, Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Kline Biology Tower , the Class of 1954 Environmental Science Center, the Peabody Museum of Natural History , and

210-679: The Arthur W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory. Becton Engineering and Applied Science Center and Arthur K. Watson Hall for computer science are located on the former campus of the Sheffield Scientific School. Other laboratory facilities, like the Boyer Center for Molecular Medicine, are found at the Yale School of Medicine and the university's West Campus. The Office of International Affairs serves as an administrative resource to support

231-697: The Graduate School faculty, which permits them to advise doctoral candidates. A Dean of the Graduate School , appointed by the Yale Corporation , is the school's chief administrator. The position is currently held by geneticist Lynn Cooley . The Graduate School administers 75 degree-granting programs. 56 of these programs grant Ph.D.s., while 19 terminate in master's degrees. It also offers joint-degree programs with several of Yale's professional schools, as well as opportunities for advanced non-degree study. Yale's facilities for research and study include

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252-604: The Gruber Science Fellowships are the most prestigious awards offered by the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences . Annually, only approximately 20 are awarded to the most highly ranked applicants to Yale PhD programs in the life sciences, cosmology, and astrophysics, in recognition of their outstanding accomplishments and exceptional promise. The Administered by Yale Law School , the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women's Rights continues and expands upon

273-480: The Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the largest faculty of the university's schools and the same faculty body that governs the Yale College curriculum. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences is organized into 40 departments, which administer the Graduate School's four divisions: Humanities, Social Sciences, Biological Sciences, and Physical Sciences. Some members of Yale's professional school faculties are also members of

294-542: The abolition of child labor , and instituted a minimum wage rate. Also there was legislation that authorized governmental reorganization, and improved factory laws. He also endorsed legislation that authorized funding for the rebuilding of the Connecticut State College, which included the construction of the first campus library, named the Cross Library. During his tenure, eugenicist Harry H. Laughlin served on

315-456: The international activities of all schools, departments, offices, centers, and organizations at Yale. It tries to promote Yale and its faculty to international audiences and increase the visibility of Yale's international activities around the globe. 41°18′44″N 72°55′45″W  /  41.31229°N 72.92911°W  / 41.31229; -72.92911 Wilbur Lucius Cross Wilbur Lucius Cross (April 10, 1862 – October 5, 1948)

336-805: The late nineteenth century, race and gender restrictions on graduate admissions were gradually relaxed. In 1876 Edward Alexander Bouchet (Yale B.A. 1874) received a doctorate in Physics, becoming the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in the United States and the sixth recipient of a doctorate in the field. Women were admitted into the Graduate School in 1892. In 1894, seven women received Ph.D.s from Yale, including Mary Augusta Scott (English), Laura Johnson Wylie (English), Elizabeth Deering Hanscom (English), Margaretta Palmer (Mathematics), Charlotte Fitch Roberts (Chemistry), and sisters Cornelia H. B. Rogers (Romance Languages and Literatures) and Sara Bulkley Rogers (History). Most Graduate School faculty are members of

357-477: The missions of the previous Justice and Women's Rights Prizes, from which it evolved. Currently, the program consists of four core components: Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences The Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is the graduate school of Yale University . Founded in 1847, it is the oldest graduate school in North America , and was the first North American graduate school to confer

378-725: The model of German research universities, the Scientific School faculty established a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1860. At Commencement in July 1861, the school awarded the first three Ph.D.'s in North America to Eugene Schuyler (philosophy and psychology), Arthur Williams Wright (physics), and James Morris Whiton (classics). NYU 's School of Practical and Analytical Chemistry, the University of Pennsylvania , Harvard University , and Princeton University established similar programs over

399-431: The next two decades. In 1892, seven years after Yale organized as a university, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was officially formed, and Arthur Twining Hadley was appointed dean. Hadley became Yale's 13th president in 1899. In 1920, the Graduate School was assigned its own governing board, and under Dean Wilbur Lucius Cross (1916-1930), it attracted a large and distinguished scholarly faculty. Beginning in

420-999: The undergraduate school of the university. Established by an act of the Yale Corporation in August 1847, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences was originally called the "Department of Philosophy and the Arts" and enrolled eleven students who had completed four-year undergraduate degrees. The Department was also the precursor of the Sheffield Scientific School , which was cleaved from the department in 1854. The program offered seminars in chemistry and metallurgy, agricultural science, Greek and Latin literature, mathematics, philology, and Arabic. The faculty consisted of two full-time science professors, chemists Benjamin Silliman, Jr. and John P. Norton , and five Yale College faculty members who offered advanced courses in their subject areas. Following

441-590: Was an American literary critic who served as the 71st governor of Connecticut from 1931 to 1939. Born in 1862 in Mansfield , Cross attended Natchaug School in Willimantic . He graduated from Yale College with a B.A. in 1885 and served as principal of Staples High School in Westport for a short time before returning to Yale as a graduate student, earning a PhD in English literature in 1889. Cross spent several years as

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