Morse Fellows

Morse College is a vibrant community. We would love to count you among us. The Fellows meet a few times per semester at the Head of College’s house, to interact with friends from all parts of the University and from the broader community. Many play the role of Advisor for a student or two. We extend invitations to student functions such as performances and college-wide social events, welcome participation at intramural sports, provide dining privileges in the college at lunch or dinner, all so you can meet with students, faculty and friends. Please join us - we welcome you!

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Peggy Edersheim Kalb

Senior Editor, Yale Alumni Magazine

Biography

Peggy Edersheim Kalb is an ’86 Morse College graduate. Over more than three decades as a journalist, she has written for the Wall Street Journal and New York magazine among others, produced shows for CNN Business News and was Chief Editor for the G-20 when the meetings were held in South Korea.

She currently resides with her family in Greenwich, Connecticut.


Joshua Kalla

Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University

Biography

Joshua Kalla is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University with a secondary appointment as Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science. He was a Yale undergraduate (MC 2014) and received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley (2018). He studies political persuasion, prejudice reduction, and decision-making among voters and political elites, primarily through the use of randomized field experiments, often in partnership with political campaigns and non-profit organizations.

Offers assistance in:

Advising and mentoring for upperclassmen, Career advising, Connecting students to internships or other opportunities

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David L. Katz

Director, Prevention Research Center

Biography

David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP, FACLM is a specialist in Internal Medicine, Preventive Medicine/Public Health, and Lifestyle Medicine, with particular expertise in nutrition. He earned his BA at Dartmouth College (1984); his MD at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1988); and his MPH from the Yale University School of Public Health (1993).  
 
Katz is the founder and former director of Yale University’s Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (1998-2019); Past President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; Founder of the non-profit True Health Initiative; and Founder and CEO of Diet ID, Inc. He is a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine; the American College of Physicians; the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; and Morse College, Yale University. 
 
The recipient of numerous awards for teaching, writing, and contributions to public health, Katz was a 2019 James Beard Foundation Award nominee in health journalism, is a 2023 recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Doctors’ World Gala, and has received three honorary doctorates.  
 
He holds multiple US patents; has over 200 peer-reviewed publications; and has authored/co-authored 19 books to date including multiple editions of leading textbooks in nutrition, preventive medicine, and epidemiology.

Interests:

Dr. Katz is into health promotion, equestrian pursuits, creative writing, philosophy, carpentry, inventing, skiing, and journalism.

Offers assistance in:

Advising and mentoring for upperclassmen, Career advising, Connecting students to internships or other opportunities
I have had a very diverse career, with an emphasis on patient care (over 30 years) and clinical research (25 years), but also spanning media (2 years on air for Good Morning America), journalism, book writing, teaching (I was Medical Director of Public Health at Yale School of Medicine for a decade), and now- entrepreneurialism (I own and run a company founded on an invention of mine). So, happy to address choices and strategies across a range of career options in the health sciences. I am also very widely connected - in part by means of the diverse constituencies associated with these diverse career elements, and in part because I founded a non-profit that brings together influential leaders in health from nearly 50 countries (TrueHealthInitiative.org). This can be leveraged to explore internship and related opportunities.

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Paula Kavathas, PhD

Professor at Yale Medical School

Biography

Professor Paula Kavathas received her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin and was a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University before joining the Yale Medical School faculty in 1986. ).  She is currently Vice Chair for Diversity in the Departments of Immunobiology and of Laboratory Medicine. Her passions are research, science literacy, and gender equity.  Towards these goals: (i) she teaches two undergraduate Courses, MCDB 050 “Immunology and Microorganisms” and MCDB 109 “Immunity and Contagion”, (ii) is a member of the SWIM (status of women in medicine) executive board and (iii) collaborates studying acquired resistance in cancer immunotherapy.   She is also an institutional leader for Yale’s membership in a network of 40 universities called CIRTL working to train the next generation of science faculty in effective pedagogy for diverse learners.

Interests:

Sharing meals with family and friends, singing, and reading.

Pursuing a career in STEM

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Frank Keil

Professor

Biography

Frank Keil, former Master of Morse College, came to Yale after 21 years at Cornell University. He has been on the faculty in the Psychology department since 1998. Currently he is the Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Psychology and is the Chair of the department. After his BS at MIT in 1973, he went on to get his MA from Stanford in ‘75 and PhD in Psychology from University of Pennsylvania in ‘77. Professor Keil teaches an undergraduate lecture course in Developmental Psychology as well as undergraduate seminars in various topics in Cognitive Science. His recent work focuses on how children and adults grasp the causal structure of the world around them and how they cope with explanatory gaps.

Interests:

Prof. Keil pursues cognitive science, science education, cognitive development, concepts and conceptual change. He also enjoys a lifelong interest in all aspects of sailing.

Offers assistance in:

Advising and mentoring for upperclassmen, Career advising, Connecting students to internships or other opportunities, Serving as a reader for students preparing CVs and job or fellowship applications

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Cate Kellett

Catalog and Government Documents Librarian

Biography

Ms. Kellett graduated from Cornell University in 2005 with a B.A. in Spanish, History, and Latin American Studies. She earned her M.A. in Spanish Linguistics and Applied Linguistics from SUNY Albany in 2007. She then went on to graduate from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2010 with a JD/M.A. in Library and Information Science. Currently she works as a Catalog and Government Documents Librarian at Yale Law School, and is the personal librarian to 40 Morsels each year.

Interests:

Ms. Kellett is interested in Native American Law and yoga.

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Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, MPH

Associate Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases), Yale School of Public Health

Biography

Kaveh Khoshnood, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Yale School of Public Health and an executive committee member of the Yale Council on Middle East Studies.  He is co-founder of Yale Violence and Health Study Group and a faculty member of the Program on Conflict, Resiliency and Health at the Yale McMillan Center.  Dr. Khoshnood is trained as an infectious disease epidemiologist and has more than two decades of domestic and international experience in HIV prevention research among drug users and other at-risk populations, including its ethical aspects.  Dr. Khoshnood is the Principal Investigator of a NIH/Fogarty International Center Research Ethics Training and Curriculum Development Program with China. Dr. Khoshnood is actively engaged with several research projects in Lebanon with a broad focus on the epidemiology and prevention of HIV/AIDS and substance use among Lebanese-born and displaced populations.  Dr. Khoshnood teaches a course at Yale School of Public Health titled: Responding to Violent Conflict: Epidemiological Methods & Public Health Interventions which focuses on how epidemiological methods are applied to understand specific health consequences of violent conflicts, including infectious diseases, mental health, maternal/child health, and chronic health problems.  The course has a focus on the Middle East and North Africa region.

View department profile here: https://ysph.yale.edu/profile/kaveh-khoshnood/


David Khoudour

Senior Development Economist and Human Mobility Expert

Biography

David Khoudour (he/him) is a Senior Development Economist and Human Mobility Expert with more than 20 years of experience conducting policy-oriented research and advising decision-makers. As Global Human Mobility Adviser within UNDP’s Crisis Bureau in New York (2020-24), David spearheaded the organization’s work on migration and forced displacement. Prior to this, he worked as Regional Human Mobility Adviser at the UNDP Regional Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean in Panama (2019-20) and as Adviser for Migration and Development at the UNDP Colombia Office (2018-19), supporting the Presidency of the Republic of Colombia in its response to the Venezuelan displacement crisis. 
 
Before joining UNDP in 2018, David was the Head of the Migration and Skills Unit at the OECD Development Centre, in Paris, where he managed several policy-oriented research initiatives in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Until 2010, he was a researcher at CEPII, a French economic think tank, and a lecturer at HEC Paris, the University Paris Nanterre and Sciences Po, from where he holds a Ph.D. in Economics. David was also a Fulbright scholar at the University of California-Berkeley, as well as a professor of economics and the head of the Observatory on international migration at the Universidad Externado de Colombia in Bogota.

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Eugene Kimball

Recording Engineer/Lecturer Yale University School of Music - Retired

Biography

Attended Yale University School of Drama and School of Music
Recorded primarily Classical and Jazz music for 45 years

Taught the Art of Recording for 35 years as a lecturer

Interests:

Music, cabinet making, and photography

Offers assistance in:

Advising and mentoring for upperclassmen

Contact Information:

203-314-4218

Anthony (Tony) Koleske

Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry

Biography

Anthony J. Koleske studies the biochemical mechanisms that control changes in cell shape and movement, with a specific interest in cells in the brain called neurons. He joined the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 1998 and has a joint appointment in the Department of Neurobiology. Dr. Koleske really enjoys teaching the first module (Biol 101) in the introductory Biology series. He is married to Ruth Koleske, a mathematics instructor, and they have 16 year old twins Ben and Emily. 

Interests:

Dr. Koleske was the director of admission for our PhD program in MB&B for nearly 10 years and has just begun as the Director of our Combined PhD program in Biological and Biomedical Sciences.

Offers assistance in:

Career advising, Serving as a reader for students preparing CVs and job or fellowship applications