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!

A (7) | B (11) | C (10) | D (5) | E (2) | F (3) | G (7) | H (3) | K (12) | L (4) | M (10) | N (2) | O (1) | P (7) | Q (1) | R (6) | S (15) | T (2) | V (3) | W (5)

Gena Lai

Director of Special Assets and Strategic Initiatives

Biography

Gena Lai is Director of Special Assets and Strategic Initiatives in the Yale Office of Development.  In this role, she conducts legal, financial, and other due diligence on proposed non-cash gifts to Yale; works with donors and front-line fundraisers to structure gift transactions for the donor’s and Yale’s mutual benefit; and facilitates compliance with tax and securities laws relating to the reporting and substantiation of charitable deductions and the transfer of securities gifts.  She also manages a multi-million dollar portfolio of a wide variety of assets, including private equity, hedge funds, limited partnership interests, real estate, oil and mineral interests, life insurance policies, intellectual property interests, and collectibles.  Prior to her current role, Gena worked at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, DC; Weil, Gotshal & Manges, a law firm in New York City; Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, NY; and the Yale Investments Office.  Gena graduated from Yale College with a B.A. in English literature and Fordham Law School with a J.D.  She is also a CFA charterholder.

Interests:

Shotokan Karate (4th degree black belt), Tai Chi Chuan, and grass roots political organizing. 

Offers assistance in:

Academic advising for first-year students, 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
I would also be able to introduce Morse students to internship/employment opportunities working directly with me in the Office of Development. Furthermore, as a mother of twin daughters, I am happy to speak with Morse students about balancing family and career. Although it may still be early to be thinking about balancing work and family, I remember anticipating that challenge as a Yale undergraduate.

Contact Information:

203-432-4677

Mary Alice Lee

Senior Policy Fellow

Biography

Mary Alice Lee is a member of the faculty of the Yale University School of Public Health. She is a Senior Policy Fellow with Connecticut Voices for Children, a non-profit organization that conducts research and public policy analysis to promote the well-being of Connecticut’s children, youth, and families. Dr. Lee also directs state-funded independent monitoring of enrollment trends and children’s health services in Connecticut’s HUSKY Program (Medicaid and CHIP).   

Interests:

Dr. Lee’s attention is on health of women and children, publicly-financed health insurance, the uninsured, and the implementation of Affordable Care Act.

Contact Information:


Becca Levy, PhD

Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences) and Psychology Biography

Biography

Dr. Levy’s research explores psychosocial factors that influence older individuals’ cognitive and physical functioning, as well as their longevity. She is credited with creating a field of study that focuses on how positive and negative age stereotypes, which are assimilated from the culture, can have beneficial and adverse effects, respectively, on the health of older individuals.Her studies have been conducted by longitudinal, experimental, and cross-cultural methods. 

She has received a Brookdale National Fellowship for Leadership in Aging, the Springer Award for Early Career Achievement in Adult Development and Aging from the American Psychological Association, the Scholar Award for Research Related to Disadvantaged Older Adults from the Gerontological Society of America and Senior Service America, the Margret M. and Paul B. Baltes Foundation Award in Behavioral and Social Gerontology, and the Ewald W. Busse Research Award in the Social Behavioral Sciences from the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics that is given once every four years. She is a consulting editor for Psychology and Aging, is on the founding editorial board of Stigma and Health, and serves on the editorial boards of GeroPsych and Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Science.

Dr. Levy has given invited testimony before the United States Senate on the effects of ageism and contributed to briefs submitted to the United States Supreme Court in age-discrimination cases. 

She received her Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University and held a National Institute on Aging postdoctoral fellowship at the Division of Aging and Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Her research has been supported by the National Institute on Aging, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the National Science Foundation, and The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Research Foundation.


Kristi Lockhart

Senior Lecturer, Psychology, Emeritus

Biography

Kristi Lockhart was the Associate Head of Morse from 2001-2012, and is now a Morse Fellow for life! She and her husband, former Head of College Frank Keil, introduced the Morse mascot, the walrus, and oversaw the 2009-2010 renovations. The latter included the implimentation of IM Pei like structure over the common room that brings in needed light, and installing the terraced deck of ipe wood extending from the dining hall, replete with a water feature. Dr. Lockhart also spearheaded the creation of the Fabrics Arts Studio and the hiring of the weaving instructor.

Kristi Lockhart was an associate research scientist and senior lecturer at Yale University having retired in 2021. She received her graduate degrees from Stanford University and University of Pennsylvania. A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Lockhart specialized in working with children and families, with a specific interest in depression and other severe mental disorders. Her research focused on children’s social-cognitive development, specifically children’s understanding of social convention, children’s optimism, as well as children’s beliefs about the origins and stability of traits. 

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Stacy A. Malaker

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Biography

Dr. Malaker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Yale University. Her laboratory is focused on establishing methods and technology to study mucins, a class of densely O-glycosylated extracellular proteins, by MS. Additionally, the laboratory studies mucins in a biological context, since these proteins play integral, yet poorly understood, roles in numerous diseases. Prior to her appointment at Yale, she received her B.S. from the University of Michigan in Biochemistry and Anthropology-Zoology. Dr. Malaker then went on to receive her PhD in Chemistry from the University of Virginia in the laboratory of Professor Donald Hunt. She continued to investigate the role of aberrant glycosylation in cancer as an NIH postdoctoral fellow in Professor Carolyn Bertozzi’s laboratory at Stanford University before starting at Yale in 2021. 

Interests:

Traveling, sports, and live music.

Offers assistance in:

Advising and mentoring for upperclassmen, Career advising, Serving as a reader for students preparing CVs and job or fellowship applications
I can advise students who are interested in attending grad school.

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Yoshiko Maruyama

Senior Lector - Emeritus in East Asian Languages and Literatures - Yale

Biography

EDUCATION
1990 M.A.     Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
Field of specialization:  Applied Linguistics
 
1971 B.A.      International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
Field of specialization:  Cultural Anthropology
 
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
July, 1998 – June, 2019
Senior Lector, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures @ Yale University
 
July 2006 – June 2014
Coordinator for Japanese Program, East Asian Languages and Literatures Yale University
 
July, 1993 – June, 1998
Lector, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures Yale University
 
July, 1990 – June 1993
Lecturer, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures @ Columbia University

Interests:

Music, & Golf

Offers assistance in:

Advising and mentoring for upperclassmen

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Matthew Daniel Mason

Processing Archivist of Visual Resources, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Biography

Matthew Daniel Mason is an archivist responsible for processing photographs and other visual resources at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. He has also worked in archives at the Wisconsin Historical Society and at Montana State University as well as received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Memphis (2008) and a Master of Arts in Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Library and Information Studies (2003). In addition to his more than two decades of archival work, Dr. Mason teaches courses in American history and the history of photography at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut.  He is also a co-author of People of the Big Voice: Photographs of Ho-Chunk Families by Charles Van Schaick, 1879-1942 (Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2011) and Through a Woman’s Eye: The Early 20th Century Photography of Alabama’s Edith Morgan (New South Books, 2015).

Interests:

Photography and Material Culture.

Offers assistance in:

Academic advising for first-year students

Contact Information:

203-432-1078

Linda C. Mayes, MD

Arnold Gesell Professor of child psychiatry, pediatrics, and psychology Yale Child Study Center, Yale School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Linda Mayes is the Arnold Gesell Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology and Director of the Yale Child Study Center. She is also Special Advisor to the Dean in the Yale School of Medicine focusing on scientific conduct and academic integrity. A graduate of the Sewanee: The University of the South as a member of the first class of women, Dr. Mayes received her medical degree from Vanderbilt University where she also completed a residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in neonatology.   Dr. Mayes joined the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine in the Yale Child Study Center where she established a research laboratory focusing on the neuropsychological development of young children growing up in adverse circumstances.  She has followed children exposed to drugs prenatally for over two decades well into these individuals becoming parents themselves.  Given her work with children at significantly high-risk for developmental impairments because of exposure to biological and environmental adversity, Dr. Mayes also studies how adults transition to parenthood, especially when substance abuse is involved, and the basic neural circuitry of early parent-infant attachment. She and her colleagues have developed a series of interventions for parents including an intensive home-based program called Minding the Baby. Dr. Mayes’s research programs are multidisciplinary, not only in their blending basic science with clinical interventions but also in the disciplines required including adult and child psychiatry, behavioral neuroscience, obstetrics, pediatrics, and neuropsychology.   Her work is published widely in the developmental psychology, pediatrics, and child psychiatry literature.   Dr. Mayes is also trained as an adult and child psychoanalyst and provides clinical care to young children and their parents.  She teaches and supervises clinical fellows in child psychiatry, social work, psychology and pediatrics as well as mentors research fellows work in her laboratory, many of whom have gone onto their own research and clinical careers in academic centers.  Finally, Dr. Mayes is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor in psychology at Sewanee: The University of the South where she is working on intervention programs to enhance child and family resilience and teaches about child and family development in rural Appalachia.

Interests:

Pediatrics, child behavioral health, stress and trauma in children.   

Offers assistance in:

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

Contact Information:

203-785-7211

Scott J. Miller

Irénée duPont Professor of Chemistry

Biography

Scott Miller received his B.A. (1989), M.A. (1989), and Ph.D. (1994) from Harvard University, where he worked as a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellow. Subsequently, he traveled to the California Institute of Technology where he was a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Robert Grubbs until 1996. For the following decade, Professor Miller was a member of the faculty at Boston College, until joining the faculty at Yale University in 2006. In 2008, he was appointed as the Irénée duPont Professor of Chemistry. From 2009-2015, he served as the Chairperson of the Chemistry Department, and from 2015-2017 as the Divisional Director for Science.

Interests:

Prof. Miller is fascinated by most things, but perhaps, especially those that are considered scientific.

Offers assistance in:

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

Anna Moldawa-Shetty

Senior Lector in the English Language Program

Biography

Anna Moldawa-Shetty is a senior lector in the English Language Program at Yale University. She teaches academic English courses for graduate students, visiting scholars, and post-docs, and provides English language support for faculty and students through one-on-one instruction. 
 
A native of Poland, Anna has considerable experience living and working abroad including curriculum development and instruction at a teacher training college in Mozambique, programming for at-risk youth in Denmark and England, and teaching business English courses in Poland.  
 
Anna holds an MA in TESOL from American University. She serves on National Screening Committees for the Fulbright U.S. Student Program and supports Fulbright Teaching Assistants in her courses at Yale.

Interests:

Anna’s teaching interests include pronunciation, pragmatics, Teaching Fellows training, and assessment. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, skiing, and exploring New Haven.