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Yale graduate Keerthana Chari among 11 awarded UK fellowships
Chari has received the Paul Mellon Fellowship and will pursue an M.Phil. in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge.
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Pranavi Sharma - Fri, 04, Jul 2025
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Keerthana Chari / Yale
Keerthana Chari, a graduate of Yale College’s Class of 2025, is one of eleven recent Yale graduates awarded prestigious fellowships to pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
Chari has received the Paul Mellon Fellowship and will pursue an M.Phil. in the history and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge. She earned her B.S. in environmental engineering and a certificate in advanced Italian from Yale.
Her academic work at Yale covered a wide range of disciplines. As a Yale Climate Technologies Fellow, Chari conducted her senior thesis in the lab of Drew Gentner, associate professor at Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science. Her research focused on the atmospheric chemistry of non-urban air quality along Connecticut’s coast.
She also assisted in research on protein-lipid interactions in the lab of Kallol Gupta at the Yale School of Medicine. In 2024, she interned in the Department of Scientific Research at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she examined mechanisms of paper degradation.
At Cambridge, Chari plans to study “the historical development of scientific analysis in museums and how scientific tools have been used to examine material culture more broadly.”
Chari’s interdisciplinary work extends to literature as well. She collaborated with Deborah Pellegrino from Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences on the translation of Italian speculative fiction, a project that earned her the 2024 Undergraduate Research Prize from the Department of Italian Studies.
She also participated in campus life as a student guide at the Yale Center for British Art and as a violinist in the Davenport Pops Orchestra.
She hopes to draw attention to the critical role of science in museums and illuminate hidden voices in stories about science.
The 11 recipients — 10 of whom are from the Yale Class of 2025 — were awarded fellowships from various U.K. programs. Other awardees include Hannah Barrios, Simona Hausleitner, Maheen Iqbal, Calista Krass, Olivia Lombardo, Lucía Amaya Martínez, Jenesis Nwainokpor, Tony Potchernikov, Tyus Sheriff, and Michaela Wang.
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