Since she began her tenure as Graduate School Dean in 1998, Dr. Susan Hockfield has spearheaded a number of initiatives to improve services and support for graduate students and strengthen the sense of community within the Graduate School. Throughout her efforts, she has worked closely with members of the Graduate Student Assembly, students from a broad range of departments, faculty members, and other administrators. The dean said there would also be substantial stipend increases for doctoral students in the sciences, where the rates vary from field to field. During the 1998 summer, the Graduate School significantly improved its health care offerings. Graduate students enrolled in Ph.
All graduate students continue to receive free primary care services.
The funds will also cover consultation fees at the Yale University Health Services' travel clinic, which provides personalized health recommendations. Funding for colloquia and seminars To help graduate students share their research outside the classroom, Dean Hockfield established the Dean's Colloquium and Seminar Fund. The money supports departmental and program-based colloquia and seminars at which students and faculty can regularly discuss graduate students' work in progress. The Dean worked with University librarians to extend the loan period for non-reserve materials to six months for all graduate students. The program pays for lunch in the Hall of Graduate Studies dining room when one or two students invite a professor to join them.