20th Annual Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education

The “Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity and Graduate Education” finds its origins in our treasured collaboration with Howard University. It has become a dynamic and increasingly recognized academic conference, drawing New Haven community residents, scholars, administrators, and graduate and undergraduate students from across the Nation. The conference is named for Yale University alumnus Dr. Edward Alexander Bouchet who, in 1876, became the first self-identified African American to earn a PhD in any discipline from an American university and the 6th person ever to earn a PhD in physics in the western hemisphere.