News

March 10, 2023
Many of our members are graduate students recruited through the BBS Track; our president and vice president have been advertising to incoming students with a poster...
March 7, 2023
Yale Student Science Diplomats partnered with the Office of Career Strategy to host Dr. Shanta Whitaker (PhD ‘08, Microbiology), current vice president at the health policy...
February 16, 2023
From January to February 2023, YSSD hosted testimony writing sessions for members to learn how to write testimony and then submit their written testimonies to the CT...
December 14, 2022
Members of the YSSD Executive Board drafted a microgrant application that was successfully funded by Research!America, a non-profit medical and health research advocacy...
December 13, 2022
To begin our advocacy programming, YSSD hosted Dr. Robert Klee, former Commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP). Dr. Klee...
May 20, 2022
YSSD hosted our first Science Policy Week in May. The week started off with an Introduction to Science Policy (led by our YSSD leadership team), followed by two career Q&...
December 10, 2020
In collaboration with the 500 Women Scientists chapter in New Haven, we hosted our first Introduction to Science Policy Memo Writing with expert panelists Adriana Bankston,...