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Alexander Herzen Student Club is a center of gravity and an assemblage point for all Russian-speaking anti-Putin students at Yale.
We hold meetings every week on Fridays (graduate in Luce Hall, undergraduate in Silliman Dining Hall).
Anti-war group activities contribute to resisting Russia's aggression in Ukraine.

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Bridging GAPS is a mutli-disciplinary organization geared towards building a community across STEM programs at Yale for graduate students identifying with underrepresented groups, including but not limited to gender, racial, and/or ethnic minorities. Our organization has three aims:

To foster community among STEM graduate students across disciplines around shared identities and experiences as underrepresented researchers

To provide opportunities for professional and academic development to support members in navigating their programs and careers beyond graduate school

To support the recruitment and retention of underrepresented researchers in STEM departments at Yale

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We are an A Cappella group dedicated to the adaptation and performance of modern Chinese music. We comprise of graduate and professional Yale students passionate about singing and arranging.

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The Equity in the Job Search Symposium is an annual symposium that provides practical, hands-on workshops to assist graduate students and postdocs at all stages of the STEM job search. We integrate this career advice with data-driven discussions of gender bias to expand the conversation of gender bias to a larger population. The guiding principle behind the symposium is to overcome bias for all. We aim to impart to our participants the idea that everyone benefits from more inclusivity.

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The Graduate Student Assembly is an elected body of Yale students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The Assembly's goals are to identify the needs and concerns of graduate students, consider possible solutions, and present these to the Dean and other administrators. We also discuss, propose, and advise on possible changes to Graduate School policy proposed by the administration. The assembly provides a means for communication and deliberation both among graduate students and between graduate students and other members of the Yale community.

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The Graduate Student Disability Alliance (GSDA) is an affinity group for graduate and professional students who are situated within the disability umbrella. The primary function of the Graduate Student Disability Alliance is to create a sense of community among graduate students with disabilities, advocate for members of our community, foster a sense of belonging on campus, and support our members while they navigate graduate school and beyond.

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Community Slack Channel: https://join.slack.com/t/graduatestude-hjz1748/shared_invite/zt-23kads0u9-WonGxrbuvqzzj1JfE1cmgg

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Group for GSAS Gruber fellows to connect, share, socialize and host programs of interest.

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This group is for officers of graduate student groups officially registered with the McDougal Center and GSAS. It contains policies, information and forms for group leader use. Once you are listed as an officer of a GSAS registered and approved group, you will be added here automatically,

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Mission 1: Educate
As a relatively new field, chemical biology has been growing tremendously over the past few years. We aim to make contributions to the further promotion of the chemical biology field, and help scientists within or without this field better understand what the field entails and its potential to contribute to the frontiers of science. ICBS-Yale is dedicated to educating academics about chemical biology, starting locally with the Yale community, and then expanding to the greater New England area, working together with the ICBS-Boston Chapter.

Mission 2: Appreciate
As the chemical biology field starts to gain more appreciation, many academic institutions are looking to expand in this area. However, it has been noticed that graduate and post-doctoral trainees in chemical biology might still be at disadvantage and sometimes overlooked during job hunting due to the lack of robust understanding of this new field. ICBS-Yale will make efforts to garner more respect and appreciation for this discipline, hoping to bring trainees tremendous benefits in their future career development.

Mission 3: Bridge
ICBS-Yale is dedicated to better bridging the siloed worlds of trainees in the biological and biomedical sciences and trainees in chemistry. We aim to foster communication, collaboration, and community between these disparate research areas.

Mission 4: Connect
ICBS-Yale aims to build stronger connections between academia and industry, and thus provide professional resources to chemical biology trainees, as well as to those who conduct scientific research at the interface between chemistry and biological & biomedical sciences. Yale-based biotech startup companies and therapeutic innovation efforts launched by Yale faculties will also be exploited as tremendous resources within the Yale community, which could be more accessible for Yale trainees.

Mission 5: Develop
As a summary of all previously listed missions and purposes, ICBS-Yale is dedicated to the career development of Yale chemical biology trainees, as well as to those who conduct scientific research at the interface between chemistry and biological & biomedical sciences.

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Akin to Cancer Immunotherapy, the awarding of the Nobel Prize has popularized this rapidly evolving field. Its broad scope and impact are recognized in various arenas, including medicine, genetics, enzymology, immunology, pharmacology, physiology, pathology, bioengineering, materials science, and synthetic biology. Familiarizing yourself with the tools and methods of Chemical Biology will ensure your scientific knowledge remains broadly relevant and provide you with a means to apply cutting-edge approaches to your own field and research.

Join the Yale Chapter of the International Chemical Biology Society. We are a graduate and professional student organization open to students and post-docs from all schools and departments. We work to organize events, seminars, and sessions that will:
1) Highlight ongoing research utilizing Chemical Biology from all Yale Schools and Departments
2) Equip members with concepts and methods that can be applied in their own research
3) Provide a platform for interdisciplinary discussions and collaborations across Yale and beyond
4) Offer networking opportunities with leaders and researchers doing Chemical Biology at Yale as well as other registered ICBS Chapters throughout the world
5) Offer workshops and mentoring sessions to brainstorm how to apply chemical biology approaches to facilitate your research
6) Offer networking opportunities with the industry

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KDSY is a Kpop dance society at Yale. We hope to encourage interaction and collaboration with other dance groups on campus and make KDSY a reflection of Yale's diverse and creative environment. Also, allowing students of all cultural and dance backgrounds to participate in bringing the variety, skill, and vibrancy of Korean dance to the stage.

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The mission of NOBCChE includes building an eminent community of scientists and engineers by increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in the fields of chemistry, chemical engineering, and related disciplines. NOBCChE-Yale and its partners will use a combination of in-person and virtual meetings, workshops, demonstrations, awards, and other events to deliver programming that advances the shared objectives of NOBCChE-Yale and the national organization.

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The goal of the New Haven Science Fair Program is to work with students and teachers from New Haven Pre-K through Grade 12 classrooms, to help them carry out investigative hands-on science fair projects in order to promote skills in critical thinking, the scientific process, and science communication.

The program now engages about half of the population of the New Haven Public School system (over 8,000 students) and almost all of its schools (43 schools), utilizing more than 200 volunteers for mentors and judges each year.

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Be a Project Mentor!
Be a Science Night Presenter!
Be a Science Fair Judge!

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Open Labs organizes science outreach events for K-12 students in the New Haven area. We coordinate multiple forms of outreach including hands-on science demonstrations, science talks, and digital content!

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Pathways to Science is Yale's coordinated STEM outreach infrastructure that provides an overarching infrastructure for the many and varied STEM programs and events for local pre-college students at Yale. Guided by a steering committee of Yale senior scientists and administrators, the Office of New Haven Affairs serves as a central hub for this initiative, both assisting Yale faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates in designing and implementing STEM programming as well as managing contacts and relationships with participating school districts, teachers, parents, and pre-college students. The more than 1,800 Pathways to Science Scholars are considered the youngest members of Yale's scientific community and are invited throughout the year to special events, academic lectures, demonstrations, hands-on activities, summer programs, and research opportunities.

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Volunteer opportunities.
Assistance with designing and implementing STEM (and nonSTEM!) outreach events for local students.
Assistance with broader impacts components of NSF Grants.
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Our mission is to encourage local high school students, especially underrepresented groups like women and minorities, to pursue careers related to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). To achieve this goal, we provide mentors for students and host a variety of public events throughout the school year. Our mentors help students to explore a variety of career options and to navigate the transition between high school and college.

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The Grant Hagan Society is a graduate-student led affinity group to support people of color in the Yale Department of Music. We are deeply invested in the racial and ethnic diversity of the students and faculty of the department, as well as diversity broadly construed (gender, sexuality, [dis]ability, class, religion, etc.). The Grant Hagan Society strives to help foster a sense of camaraderie among people of color within the field of music studies, as we believe that belonging to an inclusive community contributes in important ways to a successful career path after graduate school, whether in the academy and beyond.

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The Yale BBS Diversity and Inclusion Collective (YBDIC) is committed to fostering the intellectual and personal growth of underrepresented backgrounds in the BBS. Our central mission focuses on a four-pronged approach: engagement, empowerment, outreach, and advancement.

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The student engagement division aims to increase the representation of underrepresented scholars in BBS by advancing progressive recruitment initiatives coupled with student outreach to engage the next generation of scientists.

The student empowerment division tackles the historical legacy of patterns and practices that have led to the exclusion of underrepresented students in STEM. Through this division, we aim to both empower underrepresented students and address and alleviate historical and psychological burden that comes with being underrepresented in STEM. Through the appointment of dedicated YBDIC fellows for each track in BBS, we aim to create more inclusive training environments throughout the BBS program – and we believe this will culminate into institutional change.

The student outreach division focuses on providing access to science education and science communication opportunities and resources, available at Yale and within Yale's networks, to engage, empower, and advance underrepresented, disadvantaged, and marginalized individuals in the biological and biomedical sciences to increase career readiness.

The student advancement division is committed to preparing underrepresented students in BBS to successfully navigate the next stage of their academic career and transition into non-academic or academic sectors. By creating a dedicated faculty mentoring network and leveraging our alumni relationships, we will be able to provide underrepresented students with models and mentors as they traverse the next stage of their academic career. Collectively, through the concerted efforts of each branch we aim to foster individual empowerment and lasting institutional change.

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Yale Biomedical Chinese Students and Scholars Association is an organization for intellectual exchange and resource sharing between hundreds of Chinese students and scholars in the biomedical field.

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We bring together European students and European culture enthusiasts at the graduate and professional level at Yale for the purpose of fostering friendships, networking, and discussion. This group serves both as an informal and formal way to network, meet speakers, and have conversations about topics related to Europe.

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The Graduate Society of Women Engineers (gradSWE) is a forum to connect grad students interested in the inclusion of women in engineering within the broader engineering community. Through our activities, we seek to provide both personal and professional development, in order to support female engineering students on the path to an advanced degree and in their careers after graduating.

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We are a community of Christians who encourage one another in developing our gifts, education and passions to glorify God in our current scholarship and future professions. We seek to engage other graduate students and the broader Yale and New Haven communities with Christ's message of God's love that renews and redeems the world.

As an affiliated chapter of the Graduate and Faculty Ministry (GFM) of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, we also embrace their mission statement, which is: The mission of GFM is to encourage and equip graduate students and faculty to follow Christ as they seek to be a redeeming influence among the people, ideas, and structures of the university and professions.

We invite you to join our e-mail list to stay informed about our activities: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/ygcf

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The Yale Graduate Student Debate Association is now open! Join our community of debaters from across Yale for our biweekly debates on critical issues and monthly speaker training workshops. If you've ever wanted to debate or have years of debating experience this is the group for you. See you at our next event!

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