McDougal Graduate Student Center

Founders Hall, 135 Prospect St., upper level, 203.432.BLUE (2583), mcdougal.center@yale.edu

http://gsas.yale.edu/life-yale/mcdougal-graduate-student-center

A generous gift from Alfred McDougal ’53, and his wife, Nancy Lauter, enabled Yale to create the McDougal Graduate Student Center in 1997. The McDougal Center provides space and programs for building intellectual, cultural, and social community, as well as facilitating professional development activities across the departments of the Graduate School. The McDougal Center endowment supports the facilities of the center and the appointment of more than sixty McDougal Fellows in five offices who create programs and services for the graduate community through five collaborating offices of Development and Diversity, Career Strategy, Graduate Student Life, and the Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning’s Graduate Writing Lab and Graduate Teaching Program.

Graduate Student Life

Jennifer Mendelsohn, Director, McDougal Center; Founders Hall, 135 Prospect St., upper level, Rm. 186, jennifer.mendelsohn@yale.edu

http://gsas.yale.edu/life-yale/graduate-student-life-office
http://yaleconnect.yale.edu

The Office of Graduate Student Life is responsible for student life programs in the McDougal Center and student services in the Graduate School. McDougal Graduate Student Life Fellows and staff produce a wide array of student life programs annually, including arts, literary, music, sports, and cultural events; health and wellness programs; outings; family activities and resources; international student events; public service opportunities; and dances and other social events. Graduate Student Life advises and supports more than seventy graduate student organizations, which sponsor events at the center, on and off campus. Activities are announced in the weekly email McDougal Graduate Student Life Notes, on social media, and on the Yale Connect site listed above. This office also oversees the facilities and general services of the McDougal Center, assists with departmental recruitment activities, and organizes new student orientation and Graduate School Dean’s social events.