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*A Guide to Yale College, 2022–2023

A Guide to Yale College
This is Yale.
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you asked.
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80 | State of the
Arts. From the digital
to the classical, Yale’s
8 | First-Year spectacular arts options.
Diaries. Yale’s newest
students chronicle 82 | The Daily Show.
a week in the first year A slice of Yale’s creative
and give some advice. life during one spring 92 | The Student
weekend. Voice. Student publi-
cations and political life.
84 | The Science
Channel. Life outside

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12 | Anatomy of a 95 | The Particulars.

Residential College. How to apply, what
Delving into the we look for, and
layers of Yale’s unique visiting campus.
residential college
system (14 gorgeous 96 | Affordable.

Studies. Places.
stand-alone “colleges”). 86 | Shared For Everyone. Our
Communities. financial aid policy
Yale’s Cultural Houses, eliminates the need
30 | Blue Booking. 62 | religious communities, for loans and makes
When parties Inspired and affinity organiza- Yale affordable for all.
are academic. Plus: by Icons. tions and centers.
course wish lists, Why
special programs, 46 | A Hands-On architecture 90 | Difference
and some startling Education. matters. Makers. Through
numbers. Learning by doing. Dwight Hall, students
70 | Cultural find their own paths
48 | Next-Gen Capital. The modern to service and leader-
Knowledge. For univer­sity, the cosmo- ship in New Haven.
Yalies, one-of-a- politan college town.
kind resources make
all the difference. 72 | Here, There,
Everywhere.
Fourteen Yalies,
36 | College where they’re from,
Meets University. and where they’ve
An undergraduate been.
road map to the inter- 52 | Think Yale.
22 | Bright College section of Yale College Think World. Five

Pursuits.
Years. In many ways, and the University’s Elis share their pivotal
friendship defines the graduate and profes- moments abroad.
Yale experience. One sional schools.
student sums it up: 56 | Connect the 76 | Bulldog!
“It’s about the people, 38 | Eavesdrop­ping Dots. From start-up Bulldog! Bow, Wow,
not the prestige.” on Professors. capital and internships Wow! Playing for
Why being an amazing to top fellowships and Yale—The Game, the
26 | Breaking News. place to teach makes a worldwide network of mission, the teams,
A few of the year’s Yale an amazing place alumni, Yale positions thefans, and, of course,
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Lives. Yale is at once a
tradition, a company
of scholars, a society
of friends.
Yale: A Short History, by George W. Pierson
(Professor, Yale Department of History, 1936–73)
First-Year Diaries. Nishanth Krishnan
HOMETOWN
San Diego, CA
Preorientation
Programs
Several optional
preorientation
Orientation for
International
Students (OIS) is
a four-day program
(Starting out at Yale) ANTICIPATED MAJOR programs give new designed to ease
Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology students a chance the transition
to meet each of international
other prior to the students to the
formal First-Year United States by
From the moment they
arrive, first-years are
“From the outside, Yale’s academic, Orientation. familiarizing them
with academic and
Cultural
cultural, and social opportunities felt
social life at Yale.
able to dive into all that
Connections (CC) It is organized and
Yale has to offer. In part introduces first- led by international
this is because so many a bit overwhelming. But once I started years to Yale’s
cultural resources
upper-level stu-
dents with support
programs are in place
specifically to welcome my first year, I found that my Yale and explores the
diversity of student
from the Office of
International Stu-
and guide them— from
preorientation to first-
experience is entirely in my hands.” experiences on cam-
pus, with emphasis
dents and Scholars.

on the experiences First-Year

year counselors (Yale
of students of Counselors The
seniors) to First-Year color and on issues First-Year Counselor
Seminars (small classes CLASSES samples bequeathed by the father related to racial (FroCo) Program
> Comprehensive University identity. was established
taught by some of of neurosurgery—and former
Chemistry I & II in 1938 and has
Yale’s most prominent
> General Chemistry Lab I & II
Yalie—Harvey Cushing. FOCUS on New been an intrinsic
professors) to parties. > The Real World of Food Haven takes first- and essential
We caught up with > Introduction to Psychology On extracurriculars: One of years on a six-day component of Yale’s
> Ancient Medicine and Disease exploration of the advising system
three first-years near the most memorable moments urban landscape for first-years
> Math Models in Biosciences I
the end of their spring > Psychology and the Good Life from my first semester was within and beyond ever since. Each
semesters. Here they > Biochemistry and Biophysics the extracurricular bazaar, where the Yale campus. first-year student
> Cell Biology and Membrane is assigned a
share advice; reflect on hundreds of student groups
Physiology First-Year Outdoor counselor who acts
their own expectations; introduce themselves to the first- Orientation Trips as a guide through
discuss their summer ACTIVITIES year class. I decided I wanted to (FOOT) are six-day the transition to
plans; and record a
A Tuesday 2:15 
I grab the shuttle to the med
school campus to monitor my > No Closed Doors be more involved in volunteering and four-day life at Yale. FroCos

day in their lives during in the life of cell cultures in an immunology > Yale Farm
> Yale Hunger and Homelessness
and the New Haven community,
back­packing trips
for all levels in the
are a diverse group
of seniors who are
research lab.
the first year.
8:30 am 
Wake up and walk to Silliman Action Project but that doesn’t preclude me mountains and friends/mentors/
for a hot breakfast. I usually 3:00 
At the New Haven Works > American Red Cross at Yale from joining a campus magazine hills of Vermont, problem-solvers—
Office, I volunteer with No > Immunology research at the New Hampshire, but not supervisors
take eggs, potatoes, fruit, and or an activism group if I pick
prodigious amounts of coffee. Closed Doors, working with Yale School of Medicine New York, Mas- or disciplinarians.
one or two unemployed
up new interests over time. sachusetts, and All first-years except
9:00 
First class of the day, Math New Haven residents to locate Connecticut, those in Timothy
Models in Biosciences I. We jobs online, call recruiters, On FroCos: I’m grateful that Yale On summer plans: In led by upper-level Dwight, Benjamin
work on a lot of intriguing build a résumé, and submit students who have Franklin, Pauli
ways to apply math to biology;
assigns every first-year a First-Year November, a friend invited me extensive training Murray, and Silliman
applications. The work has
recently, we figured out the been transformative, and I Counselor (FroCo). FroCos can to an event at the medical school. in keeping FOOTies live together on
safe dosage of a medication get to hear the incredible stories play any role—friend, confidant, At first, I felt out of place among safe and healthy Old Campus during
using differential equations to of locals. It motivates me to in the backcountry. their first year, and
adviser! I think all my first-year all the graduate students. But I
predict its breakdown in the do my absolute best to help FroCos live among
bloodstream. them and their families.
peers would agree that FroCos struck up a conversation with a Harvest begins them. (First-years
are invaluable, and they make the Yale professor and found out that at the Yale Farm, are grouped in Old
10:15 
To Science Hill, where I finish 5:00 
Unwind over dinner with and then groups Campus residences
transition far less intimidating. years ago he was also a first-year
chemistry homework in the friends. Sometimes we have a of first-years led by college affilia-
Marx Science & Social Science friendly debate over something
in TD! We got to know each other by upper-level tion, which allows
Library. one of us learned in class. On First-Year Seminars: I’m better, and I later interviewed students head off all first-years no

11:25 
Chemistry discussion section:
taking Ancient Medicine and to join his lab this summer, where to spend five days matter their college
6:00 
I take a coffee to go, set up on family-owned affiliation to get to
thermodynamics, partial camp in the TD library, and Disease. We’re a tight-knit group, I’ll be working on cutting-edge
organic farms in know each other.)
pressures, melting points— start my homework. which allows for personal, engag- immunology research. I’m Connecticut.
all that good stuff. ing conversations on the medical studying a process that allows
10:00 
After a run in the TD gym, I
1:00 pm I join nearly 1,200 students in shower and head to the buttery philosophy of antiquity. We’ve immune cells to produce diverse
Psychology and the Good Life, to replenish before going back explored surgical manuscripts antibodies to fight different
where Professor Laurie Santos to the library. from Egypt, flipped through pathogens. I’m excited to apply
enlightens us on the science of
well-being. If you see cameras, 1:15 am Back to my room. I browse fourteenth-century textbooks, concepts I’ve learned in class
it might just be the New York the web or watch SNL if I’m not and observed the archived brain to this project.
Times listening in with us. too tired. Lights out by 1:30.
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 Aïssa Guindo A Monday Madeleine Freeman A Thursday
Hometown in the life of Hometown in the life of
I move a lot, but right now, Montreal, QC Oklahoma City, OK
9:00 am  ake up, shower, and dress.
W 9:45 am Wake up and get ready for
Anticipated Major Anticipated Major
I usually heat some tea and the day.
Cognitive Science History (I’m also pre-med)
grab a granola bar for the road.
10:20 Make the trek up Science
9:50 Wake up my suitemate with Hill for Gen Chem.
my Pump Up Song of the Day.
11:20 It’s just a short walk through
Classes
> Calculus of Functions of
10:15 Catch the Yale Shuttle to the
Watson Center for Korean.
“From tough and rigorous courses, to Sterling Chemistry Lab to
my Chem discussion section.
an amazingly diverse population, to
One Variable I
> Elementary Korean I & II 10:30 After a quick vocab quiz, we 12:20 pm  Lunch with a friend at Ben
> Introduction to Cognitive jump right into new material Franklin College, where I
Science
> Selfhood, Race, Class,
with the help of dictations,
cultural lessons, and even some
Bulldog pride at the Yale-Harvard

reenergize with great pizza
and a nice serving of broccoli.
and Gender Studies
> Introduction to
K-pop songs and dances.
football game, Yale never disappoints.” 1:15 To York Street for my history
11:30 Lunch in Pauli Murray. I grab seminar on Native American
Microeconomic Analysis
a table in the back and review studies, one of my favorite
> Introduction to Psychology
class notes, or chat with friends topics to discuss and hear
> Shakespeare and Music
coming down from Science other opinions on.
Hill to eat.
Activities 3:30 Out of class and back to my
> Mixed Company (a cappella) 12:00 pm Head to the Sterling stacks to suite for a quick nap.
> Actress in Dreamgirls (Fall do readings or work on Econ
5:30 Meet up with a friend to grab
Mainstage Musical) and In the P-sets. Sometimes I take a break
some dinner.
Heights (Yale Drama Coalition) to read poetry scrawled on the
> Yale Children’s Theater walls of different study carrels. 7:30 Hang out at the NACC and
> Voice lessons at Yale School work on essays.
1:00 Intro to Psych. Even though it’s
of Music
a huge lecture, I always have 10:30 Back in my room to do some
> Yale Wellness Study
time after class to talk with my interesting readings for my
professor about the material, Sound seminar on Tuesday.
or sometimes chat about a cool
12:00 am A quick phone call to a family
“I’ve found a home in the thriving arts
optical illusion I saw online.
member or friend back
2:30 Shakespeare and Music in home to see how things are

community here and learn as much in Stoeckel Hall, a beautiful build-

ing to set the scene for this
going— and to catch up on
the latest gossip.

rehearsal as in lecture halls. I recommend

engaging First-Year Seminar.
1:00 Turn off the lights and hit
3:45 Back to Old Campus to take a the hay!

looking into the hundreds of student nap, watch Netflix, or chat with
friends in my entryway. Then I

groups—or starting your own!”

go to a friend’s suite to do some
more homework for the week.
5:30 Early dinner in Branford with On advising: I’ve been amazed fun times over hot chocolate or Classes
my wonderful FroCo group. by the amount of support I’ve discussing how classes are going. > General Chemistry I, II, & III
> General Chemistry Lab I
On preorientation: I loved the cultural houses have been 6:30 Usually rehearsal for a Dramat/ received at Yale. My adviser was I did not expect to find such > Colonial Period American
Cultural Connections, an amazing some of my favorite experiences. YDC/YCT show, a busy time very helpful when it came time wonderful people whom I would History
in the day depending on how
way to be introduced to cultural close we are to show week, but to choose classes and think about trust as much as I do. They are > Introduction to Psychology
> Race, Class, Gender, and
communities at Yale while making On summer plans: I’ll be always exciting. summer plans. She advised me to truly a group of women I can
American Cities
great friends right off the bat. interning at a pharmaceutical 8:30 Mixed Company rehearsal. As think about the future but focus ground myself to when times get > American Indian History
company in Seoul. Thanks to we go through our repertoire on the now and find what would tough. since 1890
On adjusting: I’ve never gone résumé-building resources at the and work on learning new be best for me currently, which > Writing Seminar: Sound
songs, I feel myself relaxing. > Painting Basics: Oil
to the same school for more than Office of Career Strategy and I’m currently working on my
was something I definitely needed On summer plans: My plans
three years, so I knew college Yale fellowship funding, I’ll gain own arrangements for the to consider. And whenever I was are still in the works. I’ll either Activities
would be a big adjustment. A hands-on experience working group, so after rehearsal some going through a difficult time, my use Yale’s Domestic Summer > Red Territory (drum group)
upper-level students help me > Association of Native
pleasant surprise was the diversity in the intersection of science sweet and caring FroCo was there Award (DSA) to work as an intern
work on the sheet music. Americans at Yale (graphic
of experiences of the students. and human resources at a major to talk me through my problems. with the Chickasaw Nation Arts designer)
10:00 Back to Vanderbilt to drink tea
Discussing differing political company, while practicing the with suitemates and finish the
He has truly become one of my and Humanities Department or > First-Year Liaison at the
views in our hometowns at dinner, language skills I learned in L1 best friends. take Physics at the University Native American Cultural Center
last of my homework. I often
(NACC)
drafting a statement on integating and L2 Korean. Then I’m back on stop by my FroCo’s suite to say of Oklahoma and hang out with > Taking Choctaw language
senior a cappella groups with campus as a Cultural Connections hi and grab a snack. On suitemates: Living with my my friends and family. classes in the Native American
Mixed Company, and participating counselor—coming full circle 1:00 am Choose tomorrow’s Pump Up three awesome suitemates has been Language Project
Song of the Day and head
in meaningful conversations at at the end of my first year at Yale. really easy, whether we’re planning
to bed.

10 | lives 11
Anatomy of a Residential College. The Courtyard The image
of the secret garden was archi­
tect James Gamble Rogers’s
inspiration for the courtyards
(Yale has no dormitories) around which each residential
college is designed.

Even before first- you can expect to see

years arrive they are roughly that percentage
assigned to one of Yale’s in each college.
fourteen residential Yalies identify with
colleges. More than mere their college throughout
dormitories, the colleges their lives, meeting one
are richly endowed another in far-off places
with libraries, dining not only as an Eli but as a
halls, movie theaters, Saybrugian, Sillimander,
darkrooms, climbing or Morsel as well. A
walls, ceramics studios, truly little-known fact
“butteries” a.k.a. snack is that while students
bars, and many other always have the option
kinds of facilities. Rather of switching colleges
than grouping students throughout their years
according to interests, at Yale, scant few do.
majors, or sports, each Read the over-the-top
college is home to its boostering by members
own microcosm of of each college in the
the student body as a first-year welcome issue
whole. So if a certain of the Yale Daily News
percentage of Yale’s and you’ll understand
students hail from the why— they all think
west coast or abroad, they’re the best!

Yale’s college him would diminish. In 1927

system is Harkness and his friend,
the early- fellow Eli and architect James
20th-century Gamble Rogers (B.A. 1889),
brainchild of made a “secret mission” to
philanthropist England to study Oxford
and alumnus and Cambridge universities’
Edward S. collegiate system. “The men
Harkness (B.A. 1897). Archi­ came back convinced,” writes
tecture critic Paul Goldberger Goldberger, that dividing the
tells us in Yale in New Haven: undergraduate body into a
Architecture and Urbanism (Yale series of residential colleges
University, 2004) that Harkness, “was the best route to preserving
like many alumni of his genera- the network of Yale-inspired
tion, took pleasure in Yale’s connections” that had been so
growing international reputa- important to them through­out
tion and stature but worried their lives. In the fall of 1933
that as the University grew, the the first seven of the fourteen
close bonds between students colleges opened.
that had meant so much to

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Home Suite Home
Most first-years Yale in FLOOR 2
Dean’s Office
FLOOR 1
Dean’s
live in suites in
which four students
Miniature. BASEMENT
If a student is having
difficulty with a particular
Apartment
Dean Angie Gleason FLOOR 2
occupy two bed-
Game Room
(A tour of Conveniently
course, the college dean can lives in the Morse Head of
rooms and share often help by talking with Dean’s Apartment, with College’s Office
located next to the
a common living Morse College) Morsel, the Game
the student’s instructor a beautiful view of The head of college is the
room. After the first or with the relevant the Lipstick and happily chief administrative officer
Room is a social
year, there are mul- department’s director of close to both the and the presiding faculty
hub where students
tiple possible living undergraduate studies, or buttery and the gym. presence in each residential
get together to
arrangements. by referring the student college. During the year,
watch TV or play
BASEMENT to one of the programs that the head of college hosts
pool, table tennis,
From top: Buttery air hockey, and
offer tutoring assistance. lectures, study breaks
A common room Run by Getting to know each (especially during finals),
foosball.
in Branford College; students, “The student as an individual and College Teas—intimate
a bedroom in Morsel” is open helps the dean to address gatherings during which
Farnam Hall on Old Sunday through concerns as personally students have the oppor-
Campus; a bedroom Thursday from and effectively as possible. tunity to engage with
in Berkeley College; 10:30 pm to 1 am. renowned guests from
a bed­room with Hang out with the academy, government,
built-in desk and friends over the and popular culture.
bookshelves in Ezra popular Jim Stanley,
Stiles College; and a quesadilla with
a common room chicken nuggets.
in Pierson College.
FLOOR 1
Morse House
FLOOR 1 Catherine Panter-Brick is
Art Gallery joined in Morse College
Artistic Morsels by her husband, Associate
can exhibit their Head of College Mark
latest work in this Eggerman, and their sons,
sophisticated venue. Dominic and Jannik.
FLOOR 1
Common Room
With comfortable
seating and ample desk Courtyard
space, the Common An outdoor room
Room is a welcoming for barbecues, leaf
place, whether you want and snowball fights,
to work on a problem and spontaneous
set, play the concert and formal events.
grand, or just hang out Or cool your toes
by the fireplace on a in Morse’s water
chilly night. feature, known as
“the Beach.”

BASEMENT
Shared
Spaces FLOORs 1 & 2
Morse and neighbor With adjustable The Dance and The Exercise and Library
Ezra Stiles College tiered seating, a Aerobics Studio Weight Room Open 24 hours a day,
share several under- full-featured sound was designed for offers a full range BASEMENT the library has big
ground performance system, a sprung all types of dance, of state-of-the-art Student tables, comfort-
and activity spaces. floor, and theatrical from ballroom equipment including Kitchen able couches, and
But don’t let their lighting, the Cres- to classical Indian treadmills, ellipticals, All the tools you individual kiosks
location in the cent Underground bharatanatyam. free weights, punch- need, whether for studying, as well
basement fool you: Theater showcases ing bags, and weight you’re preparing as a large collec-
skylights flood these student-directed The Fabric Arts machines. a four-course tion of books and
rooms with light. and student- Studio has six dinner for friends magazines, from The
performed shows. looms, several There are also a fully FLOOR 1 or just heating Economist to People.
sewing machines, a equipped Digital Dining Hall some ramen.
The Music Suite knitting machine, Media Room and a One of the social
has three individual and more. Recording Studio. centers in every col-
practice rooms and lege. At night, light
one group rehearsal glowing from the
room, each with Dining Hall’s 40-
an upright or baby foot floor-to-ceiling
grand piano. windows illuminates
the courtyard and
outdoor dining patio.

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A Head Start. Catherine Panter-Brick,
the Bruce A. and Davi-
Ellen Chabner Professor of
What really makes a residential given me a multidimensional Anthropology, Health, and
college a college versus simply appreciation of student life. It’s Global Affairs, has been the
a place to live is that each has its changed the way I teach because Morse head of college since July
2015. She teaches courses on
own dean and head of college— I now share with students more
health equity and humanitarian
adults living among students than the classroom experience, interventions and publishes
in microcosms of Yale College as so I make my relationships with extensively on mental health,
a whole. The head of college is the students as personal as possible.” violence, and resilience in
adversity, having directed more
leader of the college, responsible than forty interdisciplinary
for the physical well-being and “In a residential college, students projects situated in Africa, Asia,
safety of students who live there, grow as a community, and my role and the Middle East. She has
coedited seven books, most
as well as for fostering and shaping is to care for this community: to
recently Pathways to Peace (2014)
the college’s academic, intellectual, create a welcoming space, to show and Medical Humanitarianism:
social, athletic, and artistic life. love for college life, to pay attention. Ethnographies of Practice (2015),
Head of Morse College Catherine When life is stressful, students and received the Lucy Mair
Medal & Marsh Prize for Applied
Panter-Brick is a professor of find support and comfort in a Anthropology, an award that
Anthropology, Health, and Global close-knit community, and when honors excellence in the active
Affairs and, like all heads of life is wonderful, fellow Morsels recognition of human dignity.
college, preeminent in her field. are happy to share their excitement.
By providing a consistent space
“I love my college: it’s a family,” where we are present in each
she says. “I’m with students in the other’s daily lives, the residential
dining hall, on the sports field, in college serves as an anchor
the dance studio, and for events in point for how students navigate
my own house. This has definitely four years of university life.”

Angela (Angie) Gleason has

served as the dean of Morse since A Dean of One’s Own.
2017. Her research and teaching
focus on the legal and social
Residential college deans serve concert, or a participant in IMs.
history of early medieval Europe, as chief academic and personal It’s a pleasure to live and work
primarily those areas outside advisers to students in their col- within the college, and a true
the former Roman Empire. She
leges. Morse College Dean Angela privilege to assist in the challenges
is particularly interested in how
kinship-based societies organized Gleason says the college system and share in the accomplishments
and kept order within customary offers a genuine and stable com- that happen every day.” But advis-
legal systems, and, perhaps munity in a world of constant but ing is the foundation of her job.
more interestingly, how they
spent their leisure time. Among
often virtual contact. The college
the seminars she has taught are system provides a means for “I advise students on nearly every
Civilization of the Early Medieval students to develop connections aspect of their academic life, from
West; Brehon Law; Language
and relationships not just in class selecting courses to choosing a
and Society of Early Ireland; and
the History of Sport. As a lecturer but at dinner, at social events, major to taking advantage of the
in History, she encourages and in the many common spaces seemingly limitless opportuni-
students to work with primary of the college such as the buttery, ties at Yale, such as study abroad
sources to investigate and
understand early societies in their
the library, and the courtyard. programs and fellowships,” says
own words. Her seminars are Dean Gleason. “I’m also a personal
also often writing-intensive, Whenever she can, Dean Gleason adviser to students, especially
with the aim of helping students
attends concerts, shows, and when things get in the way of
develop the analytical skills
to write well-reasoned, well- athletic competitions. “Perhaps academics, such as illness, loss,
supported, and persuasive because I grew up in a small conflicts with roommates, and,
academic arguments. community, I’m inclined to be perhaps most commonly, when
an avid and loyal fan, whether as hard work and the desire to do
a spectator at an athletic event, well don’t lead to the results the
an audience member at a student student expected.”

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 Debate This.
(Pierson Dining Hall conversations in progress)

Students Malini Wimmer and

Hannah Armistead are talking
with Professor Sandy Chang,
Meghanlata Gupta and Ethan
associate dean for science
Brown are comparing their
education, about paths to medical
research experiences and
school for students who major in
debating the ethics of informing
the humanities and social sciences.
human research subjects about
how their data might be used and
shared. Ethan relates the issue
to our expectations of privacy on
social media platforms.

First-year students Tasnim Islam,

Claudia Meng, and Diego Meucci
are talking about their plans for going
abroad during the summer. Tasnim
writes for the Yale Globalist, which is
sponsoring a reporting trip to Rwanda
to research girls’ education. Diego is
getting recommendations for his
upcoming French language program
from Claudia, who has dual citizenship They may run out of your says a recent alum. “I’d sit
with France. favorite veggie-Caesar wrap, down across from someone and
but no matter what time you ask them what they did that
arrive or whom you sit with, no day and the answer would be
dining hall will have a shortage remarkable. So much of my Yale
of interesting conversation. education came from talking
“Dinner for me was something to people over dinner.”
extraordinarily important,”

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Decoding the Colleges. Fun. Friends. Fame.
(Residential College rundown) (Intramural sports)

College Shield Architecture Style Points How We Boola Boola Intramurals at Yale are adreneline-­ toward the glorious Tyne Cup, Fall
pumping, rivalry-fueling, athlete- the prize bestowed upon the Flag Football Coed
Berkeley Collegiate Gothic, with As test kitchen for Yale’s Sustain- The legendary ThunderBrunch, Volleyball Coed
a touch of Tudor; able Food Project, Berkeley an over-the-top feast for all stu- forming competitions that bring college with the highest number Pickleball Coed
built in 1934 pioneered a sustainable menu for dents; Senior Oktoberfest in the sporty superstars and never- of intramural points at the Soccer Coed
all the colleges Head of College house garden seen-a-net-before newbies from end of the year. Will your college Cross Country Coed
Table Tennis Coed
Branford Collegiate Gothic; Robert Frost described our Independence Day, when the same residential college reign supreme? You’ll prove it
opened 1933; home to courtyard as “the most beautiful Branford declares its indepen- together as they form teams that in the arenas of Payne-Whitney Winter
Harkness Tower and college courtyard in America” dence from Yale in a day dominate on the field, court, and Gymnasium. Bulldogs are ready Hoops Men (A,B,C)
its bells of barbecues and parties Hoops Women
track. From ping pong to bocce to bring their A-game inside
Broomball Coed
Davenport One of its facades is Collegiate The Gnome, who watches Annual Louisiana crawfish ball to flag football, as colleges and outside the classroom. Inner-Tube Coed
a.k.a. D’Port Gothic, the other is Georgian; over us, when he’s not boil and Cajun music ball; win events, they work their way —By Ramsay Goyal, Morse College ’24. Water Polo
opened in 1933 being abducted Take Your Professor to Bowling Coed
Dinner Nights Swim Meet Coed

Timothy Georgian; opened in 1935 Chubb Lectures that have TD’s motto and cheer is Spring
Dwight included 4 U.S. presidents; the “Àshe!” which means “We Dodgeball Coed
a.k.a. TD most Tyng Cup wins (14) make it happen” in Yorùbá Badminton Coed
Hoops Playoffs Men (A,B,C)
Jonathan Collegiate Gothic; opened Hundreds of tulips planted each Great Awakening Fall Festival;
Hoops Playoffs Women
Edwards in 1933 year; Culture Draw, a raffle of the formal Spider Ball; The JE
Indoor Soccer Coed
a.k.a. JE tickets to Broadway and beyond Press
Golf Coed
Spikeball Coed
Benjamin Collegiate The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Mural painting in the basement;
Franklin Gothic; opened edited and published by the bike repair shop, ideal

More than Oolong.

in 2017 Yale scholars, have reached 43 for our location next to the
volumes, with four to go Farmington Canal Greenway

Grace Hopper Collegiate Gothic; opened Fascinating name change from September Soirée; the Hopper (College Teas)
in 1933 Calhoun to the iconic Grace Cabaret; Trolley Stop Buttery;
Hopper. Trident Ceremony
College Teas are informal Q&A’s
Morse Modern; designed by Eero Our sculpture, Lipstick Italian Night; The Call of the hosted by the head of each
Saarinen; built in 1961 with a (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, Walrus, a snow ceremony to ini- residential college and often
14-story tower and no right angles by Claes Oldenburg tiate Fresh-Morsels into Morse.
cohosted by campus organizations
Pauli Murray Collegiate Gothic; Our namesake was a Our college such as the Film Society or the
opened in 2017 scholar, lawyer, and civil mascot, the Yale Daily News. The teas give small
and women’s rights activist Lemur; the MY talent show; and
who helped change the land- our own sprung-floor theater groups of students an intimate
George Takei
scape of opportunity in the U.S. opportunity to pick the brains of
speaks at a
world leaders, thinkers, and talents. Pauli Murray
Pierson Georgian; built Our traditional letterpress Tuesday Night Club; our cheer:
in 1933 print shop, with six presses and P is for the P in Pierson College, Members of the hosting college College Tea.
1,000+ cases of hand type I is for the I in Pierson College … get first dibs on front-row seats.
Saybrook Collegiate Gothic; completed We’re in a chase scene in Most recent Tyng Cup Recent guests
Dreier, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist; Timothy Dwight TwoSet Violin, comedy
in 1933 Indiana Jones and the champions; always
Trumbull Lois Lowry, author of The Giver; Claudia Rankine, poet; Nicholas Payton, music duo and YouTube sensation; Deqo
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; respond “Saybrook!”
Joan Acocella, dance and book reviewer for Grammy-winning musician and activist. Mohamed, physician and CEO of DHAF in
our own recording studio when asked, “Say what?”
The New Yorker; Biz Stone, co-founder of Somalia; Clemantine Wamariya, author of
Ezra Stiles Amitava Kumar, author and
Silliman Varied: Collegiate Gothic, Biggest college; biggest Sillifest, a year-end carnival; Twitter; Karen Diver, former chair of Fond The Girl Who Smiled Beads.
journalist; Benjamin Grant, visual artist and
modified French Renaissance, courtyard; our own handbell The Acorn, a sustainable café; du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
founder of Daily Overview; Angélique Kidjo, Morse Madeleine Albright, former U.S.
Georgian; completed group, The Silliringers Silligloos in the courtyard Silliman Nihad Awad, executive director singer-songwriter and activist; Eli Kintisch, Secretary of State; Kevin Olusola, member
in 1940 of Council on American-Islamic Relations; science journalist and author of Hack the of Pentatonix; Robert S. Ford, former
Emily Anthes, science journalist and Planet; Cherríe Moraga, poet and playwright. U.S. ambassador to Syria; Ashley Edwards,
Ezra Stiles Modern masterpiece, Our memorial moose mascot Medieval (K)night Festival; author; David France, violinist and founder founder and CEO of MindRight Health.
designed by Eero Saarinen; in the Dining Hall; annual sidewalk Parisian bistro in the Davenport Conchita Cruz, founder and
of the arts-for-social-change initiative
opened in 1962 Student Film Festival spring co-director of Asylum Seeker Advocacy Branford Ai-jen Poo, director of National
Revolution of Hope; Tiffany Pham,
Project; Erin Morley, Metropolitan Opera Domestic Workers Alliance; Robert Pinsky,
founder and CEO of Mogul; Evan Wolfson,
Trumbull Quintessential Yale/Collegiate Potty Court, where our gargoyle Rumble in Trumbull (bounce- soprano; Daniel Ziv, documentary film- former U.S. poet laureate; Chris Bridges,
gay rights advocate.
Gothic; completed in 1933 “Thinker” is enthroned and house “fights”); Pamplona maker and social justice advocate; Tommy a.k.a. Ludacris, rapper and actor; Ira
decorated every year (running of the [Trum]Bulls Grace Hopper Simidele Adeagbo, Orange, author of There, There; Don Helfand, co-founder of Physicians for Social
around campus) Canadian-Nigerian Olympic athlete; Hannah Lemon, CNN anchor and correspondent. Responsibility.
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Bright College Years.
(Defining Yale through friendship)

“Time and change

shall naught
avail / To break
the friendships
formed at Yale.” Deena (left)
goes to every one
from “Bright College Years,” of Hannah’s
Yale’s alma mater performances
with TUIB, Yale’s
It’s no accident that folksinging
group. Over
playwright John Guare,
the years, she’s
who wrote Six Degrees learned the
of Separation (theo- words to all
their songs.
rizing that everyone
in the world is con-
nected by no more than
five friends of other
friends), went to Yale.
Deena and
As one senior put it, Danny (below)
that kind of connected- are involved
ness — which morphs “Deena, Caroline, and I have Hannah
in the Yale
Hunger and
into new friendships organized several late-night Untereiner Homelessness
and affects other Zumba-style dance parties. (above right) Action Project.
interactions down the Once we choreographed a dance Hometown
line —“is what Yale routine to “Countdown” by Takoma Park, MD
feeds on.” Recognizing Beyoncé. After about an hour Major
one’s unique impact on of teamwork and laughter at American Studies
people here and their “Going to a restaurant in New time a bunch of different stir-fry Lamthran how silly we looked in the dance Activities
impact on you is central Haven has become a favorite dishes and coordinate preparation “Hanoi” mirrors—after all, Caroline is the Whim ’n Rhythm
to the Yale experience. tradition. On birthdays it’s with five other people! In the Hantrakul only real dancer among us—we (a cappella),
Tangled Up in
These bonds very often Prime 16, a juicy burger place, end the dinner was a delicious (above center) recorded a video of our finished Blue (American
begin in the residential or Pepe’s, a New Haven pizza success. Sometimes late at night dance on Caroline’s computer. folksinging
hometown
colleges (you’ll soon classic. Whenever it’s Thai food, I go into the kitchen to cook my Bangkok, Thailand It’s fun to remember the moments group), Harvest
learn that all roads preorientation
I’m given full ordering power own food as a way to de-stress. majors of spontaneous goofiness that trip leader, French
lead to the residential for the family-style meal. Once I’ll call Richard to come and help Applied Physics, define our friendship.” Hannah language tutor,
colleges). The twelve I booked out the Morse kitchen me finish what I’ve made as a Music Morse College Richard,
friends on these pages Buttery manager Danny, and
to have a Thai cooking session fun study break. He’s a fan of my activities
Mark go
all belong to Morse with friends. Aaron, Ethan, Mark, Thai milk tea.” Hanoi Yale Jazz Ensemble,
Hanoi invited Richard sledding on
WYBC Radio,
College. Here they talk Caroline, and Hannah helped (right) to take an Electrical the big hill by
Asian American
about chance meetings, with the chopping. On the menu Cultural Center, Engineering class with the Divinity
him. Richard says it’s a School during
their impact on one were stir-fry vegetables with Salsa dancing, CEID
Hanoi, Mark (above left), course he “probably never snowstorms.
another, and friendship Workshop designer
oyster sauce, Thai-style omelet Ethan (above right), and would have considered,
at Yale. with fresh shrimp, green curry Aaron were assigned but it became one of my
to be suitemates in their favorite courses at Yale”
with eggplant, and rice I had
first year. They realized and inspired his participa-
brought from Thailand. It’s a they all played instruments tion in Bulldog Bots,
challenge when you’re trying to and started a band called Yale’s undergraduate
Suite Spot. robotics organization.

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“The most important factor in my Met at Yale
Bob Woodward

closest friendships is how much we and John Kerry

George W. Bush

prioritize each other, even in the and Garry Trudeau

Hillary Rodham

face of homework or extra­curriculars Clinton and Bill

Clinton

or other life.” Allison Williams

and Kurt Schneider
Caroline Sigourney Weaver
and Meryl Streep
Angela Bassett
and Tony Shalhoub
Frances McDormand
and David Henry
Hwang
Jodie Foster and
Jennifer Beals
David Duchovny
Aaron and and Paul Giamatti
Carlee (below) Edward Norton and
met through a Jennifer Connelly
mutual friend
the summer Paul Sciarra
before their and Ben Silbermann
first year,
so Carlee
remembers
Aaron as
her first Yale
friend. They
get dinner
together with Aaron “At 1 a.m. before a snow day, Hanoi
a group of Effron was showing everyone some music
friends every
Sunday.
(above) he’d been working on. Mark got his
Hometown trombone to play along, and after
Brookline, MA five minutes, he, Ethan, Hanoi, and
Major I were all playing our respective
Physics instruments. Then Ethan’s girl­
Activities friend joined in on the vocals, and Caroline “My friendships at Yale are amazing.
Society of Orpheus we jammed for two hours. The Andersson Together we have talked excitedly
and Bacchus
(a cappella),
best lesson I’ve learned outside (above, second for hours about classes, despaired
Caroline asked Jessica
of the classroom is to cherish from right) about mountains of homework
intramural soccer (above, second from left)
co-captain every moment with friends. It’s Hometown in those same classes, laughed and to go running with her
tempting to have a concrete plan Hudson, OH celebrated when we got through in the first week of
their first year, and they’ve
for every moment to maximize Major midterms, watched each other’s been running together
Mathematics &
productivity and happiness, but incredible performances, had regularly ever since—even
Philosophy
it’s just as important to let a meal our hearts broken, tried new though Caroline says
Activities “Jessica is much more
that was going to be an hour be Morse College Head
things and met new people, made
athletic than I am!”
2+ hours if you’re having a truly First-Year Counselor, mistakes, and danced until our
great conversation.” Aaron Proof of the Pudding legs couldn’t move any more.
Kevin (above) (jazz a cappella), We have found so much joy in
and Danny Yale Dance Theater,
compete Steppin’ Out (step learning more about each other.”
Danny, Aaron, and Ethan together in team) president, Caroline Kevin and Jessica met in a
Carlee and know Deena through Final Cut, a Harvest preorienta- music history class and also
Deena have Yale Hillel, where she was university- tion trip leader took Roman Architecture
been suite­ co-president in her junior wide and Opera Libretto:
mates since year. They regularly attend “Iron Chef ”- “subjects that were off
sophomore Friday night Shabbat style culinary our radar but turned out
year. dinners together. competition. to be fascinating.”

24 | lives 25
Breaking News.
(A few of the year’s top undergraduate stories)

A Lifesaving Liam Elkind, who is majoring & Data Science major, earned tournament came down to the helps catalog and improve the The latest stats
App in ethics, politics, and econom-
ics, as well as global affairs,
the gold medal in men’s figure
skating at the 2022 Winter
last question, with Gerasimiuk’s
knowledge of the Chinese his-
University’s use of refrigerants
in dining halls, power plants,
on who goes to Yale
Junior Michael Chime and will pursue an M.Phil in politics Olympics in Beijing, China. tory text “Records of the Grand and dorm rooms. Tilden’s 1,789 95 %
classmates Dylan Gleicher and (comparative government); Sophomore runner Sean Kay Historian” winning the day. efforts are aided by a $25,000 Class of 2025 ranked in the top
(enrolled) tenth of high school
Neal Soni developed Prepared, Mary Orsak, majoring in earned a silver medal with grant from Yale Office of
graduating class
an app that offers potentially Russian, will study for an the Irish Under-20 Team at Facilities’ Student Green
Sustainable 48
lifesaving technology. The app M.Phil in Russian and East the European Cross Country Innovation Fund, which sup- 25 %
allows the user to send pictures, European studies; History Championship. In football, Solutions ports student projects that
states + D.C.
and Puerto Rico major in the Arts
GPS location, and live video major Shreeya Singh will work sophomore defensive end Clay help reduce the University’s and Humanities
right to first responders, 911 toward her M. Phil in South Patterson was selected by the A company founded and run greenhouse gas emissions. 68
dispatchers, or authorities Asian studies; and Kate Pundyk, Associated Press as a Third Team by sophomore Shervin countries 39%
in the area. Schools and cities who is pursuing an interdis- All-American. Kayley DeLay, a Dehmoubed earned the major in the
across the country are now ciplinary degree in political senior, also earned All-America Yale Center for Business and Athletic 55% Social Sciences

using this software. science and technology at Yale, honors in cross country, in addi- Environment’s (CBEY) Sabin Advice men
36%
will study for an M.S. in social tion to being named Northeast Sustainable Venture Prize,
data science and an M. Phil in Region Player of the Year and as well as the first-ever Yale Junior Ami Gianchandani, cap- 45% major in STEM

Winning socio-legal research. As a Gates first team All-Ivy. In women’s Innovators’ Prize. EcoPackables tain of the Yale Women’s Golf women
19%
Programs Cambridge scholar, Jennifer hockey, junior Emma Seitz was makes compost­able mailers Team, was appointed vice chair
51% hold double majors
Miao, who has been studying named Best Defenseman by made from corn starch and PBAT, of the NCAA Division I Student-
identify as members
A team of Yale undergraduates, molecular biophysics and the ECAC. Sophomore Jenna a bio-based polymer, that fully Athlete Advisory Committee
of a minority group 95%
Andrew Yuan, Deyuan Li, biochemistry, will pursue a Clark and junior Camilla biodegrades in less than 180 (SAAC). The committee assists graduate within
and Dion Ong has advanced to Ph.D. in biological science. Emsbo earned first team All-Ivy days. The company’s mission the NCAA by providing insight 12% five years
the 45th Annual International in women’s basketball, as did is to eliminate the use of virgin and input on rules, regula-
international
Collegiate Programming Imogen Davies in field hockey. paper and plastics in packaging. tions, policies, and the overall 59%
Radio
students
Contest (ICPC) World Finals. In men’s basketball, Azar Swain student-athlete experience. To have jobs on campus
The contest is organized into Reports was a unanimous pick for first top that off, Gianchandani was 16%
multiple levels, with the World team All-Ivy. A Good Read named 2022 Ivy League Player will be the first 66%
Finals at the top. The ICPC Junior Gavrielle Welbel’s efforts of the Year. She is also the CEO in their family to participate in
graduate from a community service
is the oldest, largest, and most to reduce greenhouse emissions Sophomore Coco Ma will be and co-founder of Accel Golf,
Quiz Popping
four-year college
prestigious programming and improve soil quality landed releasing a two-book series an app which provides statisti-
contest in the world, requir- her on National Public Radio’s entitled Deathlings, which will cal analysis to golfers hoping to
or university
80%+
participate in inter-
ing teams of three to invent Morning Edition. The piece Yale’s quizbowl team won be published by Viking. Her improve their game. 63% collegiate, club, or
trustworthy software systems focused on the study Welbel, two national championships newest series, which follows her from public schools intramural athletics
that solve a range of complex, who is majoring in Earth and in two weeks. Led by senior Shadow Frost trilogy, is based in non-COVID years

real-world problems. planetary sciences, is involved Matt Pecoraro, juniors in a near-future New York City, Not Just a 37%
in which replaces the limestone Daniel Sheinberg and Michal blending fantasy and reality Student from private or 67%
parochial schools of recent graduates
farmers usually use to combat Gerasimiuk, and first-year and featuring a diverse cast
Across the soil acidity for basalt, which does Arthur Delot-Vilain, the team of characters. Sophomore Mariam Khan
51%
report their
intention to pursue
Pond the same thing while sequester- followed their first-place finish was elected to a four-year term
receive a
an advanced degree
within five years,
ing more carbon. at the National Academic Quiz on the Board of Education in
Cool It
need-based Yale and 17% began an
Four seniors have been named Tournaments Intercollegiate Hamden, Connecticut. At just scholarship advanced degree
Rhodes Scholars, which is one Championship Tournament 19 years old, she is the young-
Boola Boola
immediately after
of the world’s oldest and most by taking the trophy at Seeking to address the effects est elected representative in the 17 % graduation
prestigious academic awards the Academic Competition of climate change, junior Board’s history and the first are Pell Grant
for graduate study. As Rhodes Five-time U.S. national cham- Federation’s national champi- Tilden Chao founded the Yale Muslim-American elected to recipients

scholars at Oxford University, pion Nathan Chen, a Statistics onship. The final game in that Refrigerants Initiative which office in Hamden.

26 | lives 27
Studies. Whether they major
in the social sciences,
humanities, or arts, in
science, mathematics,
or engineering, Yale
students graduate with
a thirst for learning,
a greater appreciation
for creativity, and a
respect for education
that they bring to
positions of leader­ship
and civic life.
Peter Salovey, President of Yale University
Blue Booking.
(Expect the unexpected in course selection)

At the start of each Evening rehearsal continues for the

semester, Yale stu- After dinner and rehearsal Spizzwinks. We’re refining
dents can visit classes with the Spizzwinks, I take some songs, and I stay late
a last look at my schedule to rehearse a dance with a
before finalizing for tomorrow. It’s pretty few other ’Winks that we put
their schedule. After straightforward, but I just in for one of them, Marvin
an early registration want to be sure. Gaye’s “I Heard It through
the Grapevine.”
process that helps
them gauge availability
Tuesday
of limited enrollment
courses, students
Wednesday
9:30 am
use the first week of I’m back at the School of Art 9:00 am
classes to confirm their for Introduction to Graphic Wednesday morning is
interest in courses, Design. Even though this is a repeat of Monday. After
TanTan Wang an introductory studio course, breakfast with my suite­-
discover unexpected
it’s still very intimate, with mates, I get ready for the
academic gems, com- Hometown only thirteen students. At second meetings of Asian
pare schedules with Warren, nj this first class meeting, the American History and 8:50 pm major. It’s also a course with
professor asks Information Security in the I sprint to Dwight Hall on both undergraduates and
friends, and add or Major
us to create four compositions Real World. Old Campus for the big graduate students. But its
drop classes from their Computing & the Arts
using just a few sheets of a cappella rush event, known meeting time partly overlaps
Class paper and a pair of scissors. as Dwight Jam. After new with Introduction to
Junior One needs to embody “Order,” 12:30 pm students listen to each group Graphic Design, so I can’t
one “Chaos,” one “Public,” I head back to central campus take both.
and one “Private.” The rules for lunch with a few friends.
are straightforward: we have After learning that Asian
to work in a predetermined American History is only 10:30 am

Sunday 11:30 am
Next I sit in on Information
12:45 pm
I grab lunch with friends at
grid in 90-degree angles,
but we can vary the length
taught every other year, I
decide to take it!
Deciding to save Computer
Graphics for next year,
Security in the Real World. Saybrook and learn about I confirm my spot in
Evening It seems really interesting, another interesting class, The Introduction to Graphic
preliminary schedules. I’m just back in New Haven covering topics that range Screenwriter’s Craft. But I Design and settle in for the
from a retreat with my from cryptography to social don’t think I’ll be able to fit second class meeting.
Preparing for the new
a cappella group, the Yale engineering to security it into my schedule. Oh well,
semester is a much- Spizzwinks(?), and it’s great breaches! Our professor maybe next year! perform, they rush to sign
anticipated ritual to finally see my Saybrook will be inviting a few guest up for auditions. I’m a rush 9:00 pm
College suitemates again and speakers over the course of manager for my group, so I After a Spizzwinks rehearsal,
called “Blue Booking”
catch up on what everyone the semester, including the 1:30 pm stay until the very end. some friends and I catch
(from the days of hard did over the summer. Some former deputy director of At the School of Art, I a movie at the local theater.
copies, when the blue- of us held internships in New the National Security Agency check out Typography, a It’s one we promised over
covered catalog listed York, while others traveled and a guest from Microsoft’s fascinating studio class that Late night the summer to see together.
abroad for language study. Digital Crimes Unit. And I’ll be taking for my major, It’s been a long night’s work,
about 2,000 courses).
We are a pretty diverse since the Blue Book is online, Computing & the Arts. The and I head over to the always
Today, Blue Booking
takes place around
bunch—half of us play on
an athletic team, and the
I was able to find out that
a bunch of my friends are
first project of the semester
involves working on visual
open Good Nature Market
with the other rush managers
Friday
other half participate in the taking the course as well. arrangements of type by hand. to grab a sandwich. Then off
multiple screens, and
Naval ROTC program. to bed! 9:30 am
making course wish After consulting with my
lists is done individu- and thickness of our lines. 1:30 pm academic adviser, residential
ally, in small groups of Monday I work hard on doing a
good job.
Back to Typography.
Thursday college dean, and suitemates,
I’ve decided to take Asian
friends, and en masse
American History, Junior
at Blue-Booking parties. 10:30 am 7:00 pm 8:00 am Art Seminar, Typography,
I hop across the street from Evening After dinner, I go to the first I head to Science Hill to check Information Security
Saybrook to the Loria Center It’s been a long time since meeting of the weekly Junior out another class, Computer in the Real World, and
for a class called Asian we’ve all been together, so Art Seminar, a required Graphics. It introduces Introduction to Graphic
American History. As the my suitemates and I go to a course for my major that I’m mathematical concepts related Design. I feel really good
lecture begins about what it favorite local restaurant to excited to take. It addresses to two- and three-dimensional about my final schedule
means to be Asian American, celebrate the official start of the role of art in visual culture computer graphics, and it’s and am excited about the
I’m instantly hooked. a new semester. After dinner, and other topics in art history. an important course for my semester ahead.
30 | studies 31
 First-Year Seminars are small health. But Yale recognizes that
Wish Lists. classes just for first-years,
with some of Yale’s most dis-
experience abroad is essential
to preparing students for global
tinguished faculty members. citizenship and leadership. Such
With more than 1,000 courses Some seminars provide an experience may include course
offered each semester, selecting introduction to a particular work in foreign universities,
field of study; others take an intensive language training,
just 4 or 5 is a challenge.
inter­disciplinary approach to a directed research, independent
variety of topics. All seminars projects, internships, laboratory
provide an intimate context for work, and volunteer service.
developing relationships with (See pages 52–55)
faculty members and peers.
Summer Awards Yale’s Sum-
Directed Studies is a selective, mer Experience Award (SEA)
inter-disciplinary program for supports undergraduates on
first-years. It includes three financial aid who are pursuing
yearlong courses — literature, unpaid or underfunded arts
philosophy, and historical and apprenticeships or internships
political thought — in which with nonprofits; NGOs; local,
students read the seminal state, federal, or tribal govern-
works of Western and Near ment entities; and laboratory
Eastern cultures. or other research facilities.
Students with an approved
Science and Engineering U.S.-based experience receive a
Undergraduate Research As $4,000 stipend. Those with an
one of the world’s foremost approved international experi-
research universities, Yale offers ence receive a $6,000 stipend.
countless opportunities for
independent undergraduate Preparing for Medical, Law, or
research projects. Students Business School Yale students
in the science and engineering have an outstanding record
disciplines can begin conduct- of admission to top medical,
ing original research as early business, and law schools,
as their first year through but Yale College offers no
access to Yale’s more than pre-professional degree pro-
1,200 faculty laboratories in grams. Students here prepare
50+ degree-granting programs for entrance to professional
in the Faculty of Arts and Sci- schools by choosing any one of
ences, Yale School of Medicine, Yale’s undergraduate majors
and Yale School of the Environ- and working with a Yale adviser
ment. And First-Year Summer who knows what is needed to
Research Fellowships annually advance to the next level of
provide support for more than education. So it’s not unusual
100 science and engineering to find an English or Political
first-years. Science major going on to medi-
cal school or an Environmental
STARS (Science, Technology, Studies or Chinese major going
and Research Scholars) provides on to law or business school.
undergraduates an opportu-
nity to combine course-based Academic Advising is a collec-
study, research, mentorship, tive effort by the residential
networking, and career plan- colleges, academic depart-
ning in the fields of science ments, and various offices
and technology. The program connected to the Yale College
is designed to support women, Dean’s Office. The residen-
minority, economicallly under- tial college dean serves as a
privileged, and other historically student’s primary adviser for
underrepresented students in all academic and personal
the sciences, engineering, and concerns. College deans live in
mathematics. More than 100 residential colleges and super-
students each year participate vise the advising networks in
in the academic year and sum- the college. Students also have
mer STARS programs. a first-year adviser who is a Yale
faculty member or administra-
International Study Under- tor affiliated with the advisees’
standing the dynamics of a residential colleges. Each
globalizing world begins in the academic department has a
classroom, with studies ranging director of undergraduate stud-
from international development ies (DUS) who can discuss the
to statecraft and power, from department’s course offerings
ethnicity and culture to public and requirements for the major.

32 | studies 33
 80+ 15,000,000+
Majors in Film & Media Studies

3+3=breadth 1:1
Yale College French
African American German Studies
Studies
Global Affairs
African Studies
Majors. There is no specific class you have to take at Classes range from American Studies
Greek, Ancient &
Modern
Yale, but students are required to learn one-on-one tutorials Holdings in Yale’s library, making Anthropology History

6:1
broadly and deeply. Depth is covered in one’s to a small seminar to a
major. Breadth is covered by taking courses lecture course of several it one of the largest university library Applied
Mathematics
History of Art
History of Science,
in three study areas (the humanities and
arts, the sciences, and the social sciences)
hundred students. systems in the United States. Applied Physics
Archaeological
Medicine, &
Public Health

79%
Studies Humanities
Student-to- and three skill areas (writing, quantitative

200+ 60+
Architecture Italian Studies
faculty ratio. reasoning, and foreign language).
Art Judaic Studies

2:1 Of Yale College

Astronomy Latin American

115
Astrophysics Studies
courses enroll fewer Chemistry Linguistics
First-Year Seminars
than 20 students. Classical Civilization Mathematics
Ratio of declared in 2020–2021, each
Classics Mathematics &

35%
STEM majors open only to fifteen or Summer fellowships for Creative and Philosophy
Cognitive Science
to STEM faculty. twenty first-years. undergraduate science performing arts grants Mathematics &
Comparative
and engineering students awarded to student Literature Physics

2,000+
each year. playwrights, dancers, Computer Science Modern Middle
Enroll fewer than 10. writers, musicians, East Studies
Computer Science
and film­makers each & Economics Molecular Biophys-

40
1,200+
ics & Biochemistry
semester. Computer Science
& Mathematics Molecular, Cellular,
& Developmental
Computer Science Biology
& Psychology

Courses offered each year in more than

Approximate number
of the 2,000+ courses
Science, math, and engineering
24 / 7 Computing &
Linguistics
Music
Near Eastern
Languages
Computing & the
70 academic programs and departments. that enroll more
than 100 students.
labs at Yale College and the Hours the Center for Arts
& Civilizations
Neuroscience
graduate and professional schools. Engineering Innovation Earth & Planetary
Sciences Philosophy
and Design is

1,000+
East Asian Lan- Physics

1,306
open for student use.
guages & Literatures Physics &
Geosciences

46%
East Asian Studies
Ecology & Physics & Philosophy

Faculty members in Yale’s

International study, research, and internship experiences
undertaken by Yale College students in 2018–2019.
300,000 Evolution­ary Biology
Economics
Political Science
Portuguese
Economics & Psychology
Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Objects in the Mathematics Religious Studies
Percentage of Yale College permanent collection Electrical Engineer- Russian

$10,500,000
students graduating with a STEM of the Yale University ing & Computer
Russian, East

65
Science
major who are women. Art Gallery. European, & Eurasian
Engineering: Studies
Bio­medical,
Fellowship and International Summer Award (ISA) funding Chemical, Electrical, Sociology

85%
for international study, research, and internship experiences Environmental, or South Asian Studies*
Mechanical

36/8
undertaken by Yale College students in 2018–2019. Spanish
Engineering Sciences: Special Divisional
Chemical, Electrical,
Languages Environ­mental, or
Major
Statistics &

62% 84% The degree requirements Mechanical

taught at Yale, for graduation are English
Data Science
Theater & Perfor-
from Akkadian Of seniors graduating in 2019 Medical school admission
36 term courses in eight
terms, about a third Percentage of students
Environmental
Studies
mance Studies
Urban Studies
to isiZulu. participated in international rate for Yale College in the major. Students in the Class of 2021
Ethics, Politics,
& Economics Women’s, Gender, &
study, research, and/or graduates (national typically take four who graduated with no Sexuality Studies
Ethnicity, Race,
internships while at Yale. average, 42%). or five courses per term. student debt. & Migration *May be taken only
as a second major.
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College Meets University.
Divinity School
Take a walk to the
Sterling Divinity Quadrangle

School of the
Environment
Take one of the School’s
to enjoy the quiet Georgian- graduate-level courses. Earn
(One of the world’s greatest research universities at your fingertips) style campus. The courtyard a five-year bachelor’s and
is a great getaway when master’s in Forestry, Forest School of
you want to read outdoors Science, Environmental
Management
without the distractions of Science, or Environmental Enroll for a course at SOM
central campus. View an Management. Partner with and rub elbows with the
Physically and philo- exhibition of the artifacts the School’s grad students next generation of corporate
sophically, Yale College School of and documents from the and faculty on environmental and NGO leaders and entre-
personal papers of Protestant initiatives through Yale’s preneurs. Become a Silver
for undergraduates Engineering & Law School Have
Applied Science  Join fellow lunch in the Law School missionaries who served in Office of Sustainability. Scholar—one of a select
is at the heart of Yale China during the first half Bookmark the School’s handful of seniors who are
creators from across Yale in dining hall with Constitutional
University. An extraor- the Center for Engineering Law professor Akhil Amar. of the twentieth century. website to keep up with admitted to SOM directly
dinary commitment Innovation and Design to Listen to speeches by visiting the many events happening from Yale College, some of
collaborate, create, and share School of Music Supreme Court Justices. each week. whom are awarded a merit
to undergraduate scholarship for the two
functional solutions to Explore the resources Wander the Law School stacks.
teaching sets Yale years of study.
meaningful problems. of the Gilmore Music Library, The Law Library is also a
apart from other great with one of the largest collec- favorite study spot.
research universities tions of music scores, sound
recordings, and music research Jackson School
in the world. More a five- of Global Affairs 
materials in the United States.
than 70 departments minute Here, students grapple with
Take lessons for credit with walk Science
and programs offer School of Music faculty. Attend Hill some of the world’s most
free concerts at Sprague Hall pressing concerns. Take a
approximately 2,000
given by Music School students seminar on foreign policy
undergraduate challenges or listen to a
and visiting performers.
courses each year— lecture on cybersecurity by
a former ambassador or
many of them taught
Secretary of State. Apply to be
by Yale’s most distin- a World Fellows liaison and
guished historians, School of Drama get to know emerging leaders
literary critics, scien- Get a student season Graduate School from all over the world.
of Arts & Sciences
tists and engineers, pass to the Yale Repertory
Theatre and see five plays a Continue conversations from
mathematicians, graduate-level seminars over
year at one of America’s lead-
artists and composers, Hillhouse coffee and muffins at the School of Medicine
ing professional theaters.
newly renovated Humanities On Yale’s medical
poets, and social Read original manuscripts
from Eugene O’Neill’s Long Quadrangle on York Street. campus, just three blocks
scientists. Faculty Take graduate courses in from the College, you don’t
Day’s Journey into Night. Study
call it a stunningly light plots from the original science and engineering, have to be pre-med to take
vibrant intellectual production of Gershwin’s School of almost all of which are open advantage of the extraordi-
Porgy and Bess. Audition for Architecture
to undergraduates. On Friday nary research opportunities
atmosphere that afternoons, join undergradu- available to undergradu-
Yale School of Drama and Yale Meet with professors and grad
can’t happen at ates and graduate students in ates—in fields ranging from
Cabaret shows. Put on student students in Rudolph Hall
under­graduate-only productions at the University (named for its architect, Paul the Physics department for genetics to biomedical engi-
Cross pizza and talks on current neering and nanoscience,
institutions or at Theatre, with 96 feet of Rudolph, faculty 1958–65).
Campus
fly space and seating for 640. Check out student shows and research. Make heads turn as studying cancer, neurological
research universities you graduate wearing your disorders, and cardiovascular
curated exhibitions in the
that do not focus Architecture Gallery. Attend an yellow hood indicating that disease. Take classes taught
on teaching. evening lecture by one of the Old New you’ve earned both a bachelor’s by medical school professors,
School’s professors, who are Campus Haven and a master’s degree in work in their labs, shadow
luminaries in the field, includ- Green Molecular Biophysics and doctors on their rounds,
ing the dean, Deborah Berke. Biochemistry. or volunteer at Yale New
Haven Hospital. Apply to
do fieldwork in Peru with
School of Art School of Nursing your biochem professor and
Nursing’s home on West perhaps discover new species
Discover the next
Chuck Close (M.F.A. 1964) a five- Campus is just a 10-minute of fungi and bacteria living
minute ride on the Yale Shuttle. Its in plant tissues.
at the School’s open studios.
walk one-year GEPN program for
Participate in group shows
School of Public in the same gallery in Green college grads with no previous

Health  Take a course Hall where master’s students Medical nursing education prepares
in epidemiology in conjunction mount their thesis shows. Center them to pursue a master’s in
with an independent research Attend a graduate painting Nursing. GEPN students
project you’re working on in a critique by visiting artists. develop observational and
a ten-minute auscultative skills at the Yale
lab on Science Hill. ride to
West Center for British Art and the
Campus School of Music.

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Eavesdropping on Professors.
(Great minds talk about teaching)

Q
One fall afternoon People here always Each semester I enjoy in-class discus-
some of Yale’s (and say Yale is devoted sions about immigration, California “There are 17 faculty members
Mark Saltzman
the world’s) leading to undergraduate politics, youth cultures, and Latino
thinkers in history, teaching. How can civil rights that carry over to my office in Biomedical Engineering and we have Stephen Pitti
Professor of History and
American Studies; Director
biomedical engineering,
evolutionary biol-
that be true? hours or long lunch sessions with
students in a residential college
about 30 majors each year, so nobody is of the Center for the Study
of Race, Indigeneity, and
ogy, religious studies, Stephen Pitti “I’ve always loved dining hall.” anonymous. Every student does research. Transnational Migration;
former Head of Ezra Stiles
literature, psychology, the fact that at Yale I can present the
biochemistry, astro- newest research in my field to our Michael Della Rocca “I find that They all do a significant senior project. College

physics, earth and undergraduates. And when I do, their myself. When I’m teaching, I’m not
planetary sciences, feedback inevitably prompts me to just teaching philosophy. I’m doing They all take classes with most of the Professor Pitti teaches courses
in Latino studies, Western his-
tory, immigration history, civil
and philosophy got
together for a conver-
think differently about what I’ve been
writing, to change how I present
philosophy with the students. I really
advance my own research and we come
faculty during their time here. When rights, and related subjects.
He is the author of The Devil
sation. Some knew each material in future semesters and even to philosophical insights and conclu- I meet their parents at graduation, I in Silicon Valley: Northern
California, Race, and Mexican
other and others did rethink my own research questions. sions together in the course. One of
not, but they came to know something significant about each Americans (2003) and Ameri-
can Latinos and the Making of
similar conclusions in
talking about why they student. That’s pretty rare.” the United States (2012), and he
is currently writing a book on
César Chávez. He is an editor
teach, the uniqueness
of the Politics and Culture
of the Yale undergradu- in Modern America series and
ate, and why common a member of the California
History editorial board.
notions about large Ruth Blake our biggest strengths in recruiting
research universities Professor of Earth and professors here is the undergraduates. Recent Courses
Planetary Sciences
aren’t true here.
and Environmental
People love teaching them. It’s the Race, Radicalism, and
drawing card we stress whenever the Migration in Latinx History;
Engineering; Professor in the
Comparative Ethnic Studies;
School of the Environment Philosophy department is trying to Radical California; Mexicans
recruit a faculty member from another and Mexican Americans since
Professor Blake teaches
courses in geochemistry, good institution.” 1848; Latina/o Histories
environmental geomicrobiol-
ogy, minerals, and human Meg Urry “It’s not just how smart
health/medical geology. Her
research focuses broadly on
they are or how hard they work—you
the co-evolution of Earth can find that at other places—but it’s
and life. Her motto is, “where their cleverness, their thoughtfulness.
there is life, there is phos-
I teach an intro to physics class. Many
phorus,” and recent work has
focused on development of of the kids in my class are headed
new geochemical tools and for medical school, so physics isn’t
biomarkers to study microbial their passion. But I can guarantee that
phosphorus cycling in the
deep oceans and beneath the
at least once a week I get a question
seafloor, and to detect early that is just incredibly creative, intro-
life. She has participated in ducing an idea or thought that I have
several ocean exploration and
never had before, and this is from
research expeditions and was
chief scientist on the explora- people who aren’t even going to be
tion vessel E/ V Nautilus. physicists.”
Recent Courses
Minerals and Human Health;
Christine Hayes “When I think
Environmental Geomicrobi- about what I’m going to teach I often
ology; Introduction to Geo- think, ‘What do I want to study with
chemistry; Extremophiles:
a whole bunch of smart people?’”
Life on the Edge

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 “Students here do not
Marta Figlerowicz

merely want to do well within preexisting Scott A. Strobel

Henry Ford II Professor of
Molecular Biophysics and
systems; they want to question how the Biochemistry; Professor
of Chemistry; Provost
world works, and eventually to change it. Professor Strobel’s research

The atmosphere this perspective creates focuses on biologically critical

reactions catalyzed by RNA. His

in the classroom is incredibly stimulating. lab explores the class of RNA

riboswitches that regulate gene
expression by binding small
It’s a space where everyone is challenged molecule metabolites. His
work embraces biochemistry,
and constantly learning. At Yale, more than enzyme kinetics, X-ray crystal-
lography, organic synthesis,

anywhere else I’ve been, my research and and molecular biology.

my teaching feel inseparable.” Recent Courses

Rain Forest Expedition and
Laboratory; Biology, the
World, and Us; Methods and
Logic in Molecular Biology

Q
W. Mark Saltzman Why does teaching backgrounds taking subjects they’ve I came back and she had finished the Scott Strobel “The beauty of it is
Goizueta Foundation these students in never heard of before. Some of these entire summer’s project! She’d figured watching them take ownership of a
Professor of Biomedical
Engineering and Chemical &
particular matter to students are not cut out for philosophy, everything out. She’d gotten it all to project and recognize that it’s theirs to
Environmental Engineering; you? If you can find but they all get into it.” work. She’d collected all the data she work on creatively and independently.
Professor of Cellular and smart, hardworking needed. My jaw was hanging down. We have undergrads going toe to toe
Molecular Physiology
students at other places, then Meg Urry “I was not in a university I thought, ‘Okay, now I have a better with grad students in the lab. You
Professor Saltzman’s research what makes these students a before coming here. I worked in the understanding of where Yale under- might say, ‘Well that’s only supposed
is motivated by the desire to “drawing card”? lab that ran the Hubble telescope for graduates are.’” to be available to grad students,’ but
create safer, more effective NASA, which was exciting. But when what I’ve seen over and over again
medical and surgical therapies.
He focuses on tissue engineer-
Meg Urry “None of them are one- I came here I felt like I had died and Christine Hayes “Which connects is that these Yale undergrads are John Merriman
notes. They are exceptional in many gone to heaven. I think I was born to to what was formulating in my own not afraid to take on hard projects Charles Seymour Professor
ing and on creating better
of History
methods for drug delivery. areas. The diversity of their talents teach and should have been teaching all mind–they are able to do that deep and to take them on in a creative way.
He has published three
makes them incredibly interesting to along. The quality of the Yale under- academic research and are also able to Last year, over spring break, we Professor Merriman teaches
textbooks and more than 250
research papers. In 2009 he interact with.” graduate was a big eye-opener for me. apply it to some real-world situation. took a group of students to study a modern European urban and
social history. In 2019 he
was awarded Yale’s Sheffield We have First-Year Summer Research At some of the other places I’ve been, rain forest in Peru. Each was given
won the DeVane Medal for
Teaching Prize for excellence Ruth Blake “As bright as they are, Fellowships that allow students to there has been either too much inde- complete autonomy over identifying distinguished undergraduate
in the classroom, and his
course Frontiers of Biomedi-
the ‘aha’ moments that come when they begin research early at Yale. My first pendence and arrogance or too much 15 to 20 plant samples they wanted teaching. Among his many
are presented with new knowledge summer I thought, ‘Well, I’m going to need of hand-holding. We seem to to collect. They brought them back to publications are the second
cal Engineering is available
edition of The Dynamite Club:
worldwide through the online they find fascinating, or upon figuring get this first-year who doesn’t know attract kids who excel at many, many the lab and did amazing things with How a Bombing in Fin-de-
Open Yale Courses program.
something out on their own after anything. It’s going to take a lot of things. They have the right mix of them. On the whole, they discovered Siècle Paris Ignited the Age of
Recent Courses mastering new skills, are priceless.” my time, but that’s why I came to independent intellectual curiosity as several dozen different new species Modern Terror (2016) and the
fourth edition of A History of
Frontiers of Biomedical university.’ So I laid out a project about well as the ability to work with others, of fungi, many of which have demon-
Modern Europe (2019).
Engineering; Biotransport Michael Della Rocca “I teach in an area I wanted to look into but hadn’t to ask questions, to get help, to be part strated bioactivity against pathogens
and Kinetics; Biological and
Physiological Determinants
Directed Studies [a yearlong advanced done any work on myself yet. I told of a team. You need both—the solitary in plants and humans. So these Recent Courses
first-year course in Western and Near the student, ‘Why don’t you go and research and the ability to bring it back students are able to make not just a European Civilization, 1648–
of Health
1945; Revolutionary France;
Eastern civilizations]. It’s a lot of fun do a little research online and we’ll talk and put it together and make something creative impact on science but to The Dark Years: Collaboration
because you get students with different about it when I come back in a week.’ bigger and better with other people.” actually discover things of importance and Resistance in Vichy France

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 Marta Figlerowicz
Associate Professor of
Comparative Literature
and English

Professor Figlerowicz teaches

courses on philosophies of
the self, literary and critical
theory, modernism, and
and interest to a broad community. world cinema. Her research
When I described their work to School articulates a counter-tradition
to aesthetic individualism that
Christine Hayes of Medicine faculty, the faculty lined
has been present in Western
Sterling Professor of Religious up to participate in the project with art and literature at least
Studies in Classical Judaica
these undergraduates.” since the seventeenth century,
and which has particular
Professor Hayes, a specialist
resonance in today’s digitally
in talmudic-midrashic studies, Marta Figlerowicz “The students mediated environments. Her
was awarded a Yale College
here are ambitious and diligent, like publications include Flat
prize for distinguished under-
graduate teaching. Her most many other students, but they also Protagonists: A Theory of Novel
Character (2016) and Spaces of
recent book, What’s Divine think in terms of the ‘big picture.’
Feeling: Affect and Awareness
about Divine Law? Early Perspec- Undergraduates are also at the heart in Modernist Literature (2017).
tives, won the 2015 National
Jewish Book Award in Scholar-
of Yale’s public-facing intellectual life. Among her current projects
Some of the most fascinating events is a book on global histories
ship; and her Introduction to the
of selfhood.
Bible was published in 2012 by I have attended here, such as a poetry
Yale University Press as part
performance by Andrea Gibson, were Recent Courses
of the Open Yale Courses series.
organized and led by student groups.” Six Pretty Good Selves;
Selfhood, Race, Class, and
Recent Courses
Gender; How to Compare;
Interpreting the Bible in Marvin Chun “I really think the Internet Cultures, Histories,
Antiquity; Divine Law in
Historical Perspective;
residential college system is what Networks, and Practices;
brings everything together—the small- World Cinema; Readings
Elementary Biblical Hebrew
in English Poetry I and II;
college feel with world-class university Introduction to Narrative;
resources. Being the head of Berkeley Feminist and Queer Theory
College has shown me that. It’s impos-
sible to describe in words, but it works
in a phenomenal way to ensure that each
student receives individual attention.”

“Plenty of students come here

John Merriman
experience than at other places I’ve been
where, if you’re an engineering or science
quality of the undergraduate program.
You might think that the two stand in
Michael Della Rocca
Sterling Professor of
without a clue what they want to do, and major, you’re studying the same kinds
of things in the same kind of way that
tension, but in fact they don’t. We not
only have a very rich graduate program
Philosophy
then all these doors open up for them other students around you are studying. in my field–one in which there is a
You’re also living with other science and great deal of mixing among graduate
because there are so many opportunities.”
Professor Della Rocca’s areas
of interest are the history of engineering majors. Here, students are and undergraduate students in classes,
early modern philosophy and
living among future historians, future outside of class, in activities–but we’re
contemporary metaphysics.
He has published dozens of economists, English majors, and political also situated within a larger univer-

Q
papers in those fields and is Just like students arts education is that you’re required science majors, all bringing their own sity that has very active professional
the author, most recently, of looking at colleges, to take courses in all sorts of differ- brands of thought to questions and ideas.” schools. The institution I was at didn’t
Parmenidean Ascent (2020).
as a professor you ent things. For instance, we think it’s have professional schools. Having the
Recent Courses had a lot of choices important that our students study a Christine Hayes “One of the things School of Architecture does wonderful
The Philosophy of Spinoza; too. What brought foreign language as well as the social sci- that has been so wonderful for me as things for Yale undergraduates. Having
Modern Philosophy from
you here? ences. Taking different kinds of classes a teacher at Yale is the ability to teach a fantastic School of Music does
Descartes to Kant; Directed
Studies: Philosophy; creates a different sort of curiosity. Our introductory courses but also seminars wonderful things for Yale undergradu-
Knowledge and Action Mark Saltzman “There’s something students bring that curiosity to the kinds where graduate students and under- ates. And they’re all close by. That’s
different about rigorous training in of questions they’re asking and trying to graduates mix. Surprisingly enough, the something very special about Yale,
Professors Hayes and Della
Rocca are married.
engineering embedded in a liberal arts answer in science classes and engineer- presence of a strong graduate program and it gives the Yale undergraduate a
tradition. One of the features of a liberal ing research labs. It’s certainly a different has an extraordinary impact on the completely different kind of experience.”

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Marvin Chun among E&EB, the Peabody
Richard M. Colgate Professor Museum, Earth and Planetary
of Psychology; Professor of Sciences, and the School
Neuroscience; former Dean of of the Environment. The
Yale College; former Head Donoghue lab team includes
of Berkeley College undergraduate and graduate
students and postdocs, and
Professor Chun is a cognitive focuses primarily on plant
neuroscientist whose research diversity and evolution.
uses functional brain imag-
ing to understand how to
improve memory, attention,
“A lot of it is about scale.
Michael Donoghue Recent Courses
Diversity of Life; Plant
conscious perception, and
decision-making. He has
Yale is just that much smaller and Diversity and Evolution;
Principles of Ecology and
been awarded the American
Psychological Association’s more intimate than some of the other Evolutionary Biology

universities where I’ve taught. So I find

Distinguished Scientific
Award for Early Career
Contribution to Psychology
in the area of cognition and
learning, and the Troland
a lot better connection to students and
Research Award from the
National Academy of Sci-
integration across disciplines. I have
ences, considered the most
prestigious early-career honor friends and colleagues spanning very
different parts of the University, and
for an experimental psycholo-
gist. At Yale, he received the
Lex Hixon Prize for teaching
excellence in the social sci-
ences and the DeVane Award
that’s something that comes with the Meg Urry
Israel Munson Professor of
for Teaching and Scholarship.
The presentation of the award
territory of being smaller. Yale doesn’t Physics and Astronomy;
Director of the Yale Center for
began with “Marvin Chun is
the man!,” praising him for just talk about making connections and Astronomy and Astrophysics

integrating students into research—it

the clarity of his teaching and Professor Urry studies actively
his devotion to his students. accreting supermassive black
holes, also known as Active
Recent Courses
Introduction to Psychology;
actually happens here very effectively.” Galactic Nuclei (AGN), and
the co-evolution of these black
Mind, Brain, and Society holes with normal galaxies.
She came to Yale in 2001
from her tenured position on
the senior scientific staff at
the Space Telescope Science
Institute (STScI), which runs
Scott Strobel “The opportunity to an environment where there is a clear Michael Donoghue “The other is what energizes me in the classroom. the Hubble Space Telescope
interact with and teach undergrads is a human application to the science that thing that I think is so distinctive If something I teach lingers with for NASA. Using deep imaging
with NASA’s three Great
big reason I’m here. There are plenty of you do as an undergraduate is unique.” is Yale’s resources in terms of the students so that it helps them do the
Observatories, her group has
good schools where research is all they museums and collections that are right thing outside of the classroom, charted the history of super-
do, and you sit in your lab and work Ruth Blake “Yale offers tremendous here. We have actual physical objects that’s my reward.” massive black hole growth
with grad students or postdocs and support and freedom to pursue inde- that we’re very keen to use in teaching. throughout the universe.
Professor Urry has worked to
Michael J. Donoghue never see an undergraduate. Beyond pendent research and develop novel You can read about things in a book, John Merriman “I’ve almost been increase the number of women
Sterling Professor of Ecology that, Yale is a place where you have courses that incorporate real research but to hand a kid a 60,000,000-year- wooed away to other universities in the physical sciences,
and Evolutionary Biology; tremendous colleagues. At a lot of materials and data. I especially enjoy old fossil to study is pretty amazing.” three times. Once it came down to the organizing national meetings
Curator of Botany, Peabody and chairing the Committee
Museum of Natural History
places the caliber of Yale, there is sort teaching lab-based courses where wire and I was making my decision in on the Status of Women in
of a silo mentality when it comes to lab students get hands-on, discovery- Marvin Chun “I came for the the last hour or two. But there I was Astronomy for the American
Professor Donoghue is a lead- research. At Yale you have this amazing based learning opportunities.” students. They’re not just smart, but teaching my modern French history Astronomical Society.
ing authority on biodiversity
ability to collaborate with other labs well balanced in a way that makes it course to about 150 students, walking
and the author of more than Recent Courses
200 papers and several books; so that collectively you do everything Marta Figlerowicz “My work is special to teach and do research here. up and down the aisle of the lecture Expanding Ideas of Time and
several current projects focus better. The other thing is that we have interdisciplinary, and it matters a lot to Whether I stand before a classroom hall as I often do, and I thought, ‘What Space; University Physics;
on elucidating the evolution a fantastic School of Medicine. The me that all of the departments it relates full of students or meet with someone am I doing, I couldn’t possibly leave.’ General Physics Laboratory;
of Viburnum. He has helped Modern Physical Measure-
to shape Yale’s Department
department I’m in has joint faculty to are of the highest caliber here. And one-on-one, I try to treat each student Each morning, I wake up and think,
ment (team-taught)
of Ecology and Evolution- with the medical school. And med I’m impressed by the university’s readi- as somebody who is going to do some- ‘God, I’m lucky because I get to go
ary Biology, providing links school faculty host undergraduates ness to give new ideas and teaching thing very meaningful and influential and teach’ whatever the subject is that
(continued in right column)
doing research in their labs. To have methods room to grow.” in life. Our alumni bear that out. This day. For me there’s just nothing like it.”

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A Hands-On Education. Senior design project team-
mates and Engineering majors
Joshua Ruck, Brigid Blakeslee,
Design, where they developed
a tele-operated robotic arm
for retrieving objects dropped
and Adam Goone in the Center off a boat or dock.
(And why six hands are better than two) for Engineering Innovation and

Yale celebrates
innovation and the
entrepreneurial spirit.
Whether you are work-
ing on a problem
set in your “flipped”
Chemistry class,
meeting with a writing
tutor to discuss
topic sentences and
supporting quotes
for a History paper,
studying the language
of color and the
articulation of space in
Introductory Painting,
or collaborating with
classmates on the
design and construc-
tion of an engineered
system for a Yale
client at the Center for
Engineering Innova-
tion and Design, you
will find that teaching
and learning here
are evidence-based,
hands-on, and focused
on inspiring a deeper
engagement with
the subject.

“For me, engineering demands an

energizing combination of the
creative and the concrete. We took
theory that we’d learned through
course work, made it our own by
applying it to design development,
and saw it all come to fruition as
a working device—one that could
improve someone’s quality of life.
This is a great feeling.” Brigid

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Next-Gen Knowledge.
(One-of-a-kind Yale treasures inspire independent research)

Adding to what the The collections of the Yale

world knows is not University Art Gallery
number almost 300,000 objects
easy, especially when,
representing world cultures
at 19 or 20, you haven’t from ancient times to the pres-
even been in the world ent. Recent exhibitions include
Ceremonial Dress from Southwest
that long yourself. But
China, celebrating a recent gift
as a former student to the museum; Matthew Barney:
said, “This is not Redoubt; and Place, Nations,
a mediocre place. Generations, Beings: 200 Years of
Indigenous North American Art.
Everywhere you turn
there’s something Alana Thyng, an alumna of
incredible to attract the Directed Studies program
for first-years, dances with the
your eye. In a more
Rhythmic Blue and Yaledancers
ordinary place, you’re groups on campus and is a
not going to be so staff photographer for the Yale
startled into thought.” Daily News.

From paintings by
Opposite page:
Picasso to pterodactyl At the Peabody Museum
remains to 3D printers of Natural History, which
recently celebrated its 150th
and tools for photo-
anniversary, curators work with
electron spectroscopy, scientists around the world to
Yale pro­vides a advance our understanding of
treasure trove through Earth’s history, life, and cultures.

which undergradu-
Junior Cesar Garcia Lopez has
ates chase down new spent the past two summers in
knowledge for them- Tanzania, studying the impact
of humans on wildlife; and
selves and sometimes Environmental Intersections in Panama, studying the chytrid
for the world. fungus, an infectious disease
Cesar Garcia Lopez works in the Eyes Wide Open summer researching Oceanic art that affects amphibians world-
Peabody Museum laboratory of in England and Germany for her wide. On campus, he enjoys the
community at La Casa Cultural,
Professor David Skelly, where he As a first-year, Alana Thyng senior thesis. And as a fellow at Yale’s Latino cultural center.
uses the museum’s vertebrate zool- planned to study French literature the YUAG, she was able to design And as a member of Math and
ogy collection in his research on or Classics. But when she went an avant-garde film installation for Science (MAS) Familias, he
mentors a group of New Haven
how suburban landscapes affect to the Yale University Art Gallery the exhibition Everything Is Dada.
first graders studying snail habi-
frog morphology. Cesar was born (YUAG) to examine Greek vases “It was an incredible opportunity tats in a local nature preserve.
in Mexico and grew up in Watson- for a course on Plato, Aristotle, to see my vision come entirely to Cesar plans to enroll in the
ville, California, where his parents and Euripides, she was immedi- life. These experiences have been joint-degree program with the
School of the Environment and
worked in agriculture. “I saw a ately interested in the material vital in cultivating my skills as earn a Master of Environmental
constant battle between environ- aspect of history—“the way that an art historian and in preparing Management degree in a fifth
mentalists who want to protect objects provide a sense of what me for the collaboration and year at Yale.
the wetlands and the people who life was like in previous periods.” practical planning necessary to
depend on agriculture to make a complete projects in the workforce
living. I’m interested in bridging Alana became a History of Art beyond college.”
that divide and hope to have a major and had unique opportuni-
career that combines environmen- ties through Yale to work for a After graduation, Alana will be
tal education and field research.” summer at the National Gallery pursuing her passion for art
of Copenhagen, study at the École at the auction firm Sotheby’s in
du Louvre in Paris, and spend a New York.

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 A Smashing Success

Katherine Lawrence came to Yale

with an interest in experimental
high-energy physics, but little
idea of what a working physicist’s
life might be like. That changed
quickly. “Starting in my first year,
I was able to join a lab and begin
to see the daily reality of academic
physics research. It was very sat-
isfying to see concepts from the
classroom used in cutting-edge
research and to apply intuition
gained in lab to my own work.”

Lawrence spent two summers

at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
in Geneva, Switzerland, study-
ing the production and decay
of the tau lepton particle with
Professor Sarah Demers, and she
was in attendance at the historic
announcement of the discovery
of the Higgs boson. She says that
“Professors Demers and Meg Urry
The Beinecke Rare Book Performance at the Beinecke Kwasi says, “the Beinecke allows were important mentors through-
and Manuscript Library, sound to propagate and echo in
constructed of translucent marble out my years at Yale, especially as
that admits light but screens out
Kwasi Enin, who is majoring in an extremely satisfying way. We women in a male-dominated field.
the sun’s damaging rays, is an Molecular, Cellular, & Develop- are privileged to be able to use it.” I’m most grateful for the strong
internationally acclaimed center mental Biology, had never sung relationships I developed with
for research in the humanities.
early music prior to coming to “It really doesn’t get any better for Yale faculty members, who
Kwasi Enin sings with the Yale Yale. But when a friend and fellow a singer at Yale,” Kwasi adds. “I continue to inspire my goal of
Glee Club and the Society of a cappella group member suggested love how open the chords are in pursuing an academic career.”
Orpheus and Bacchus, and will Grant Herreid’s course Analysis early music. And I enjoy learning
join the Yale Whiffenpoofs,
America’s oldest collegiate a
and Performance of Early Music about the origins of everything Awarded a prestigious Hertz
cappella group, in his senior year. as a fun music elective that would we sing. For example, the ‘Federal Fellowship at the end of her senior
A pre-med student, he has also help improve his sight-reading Overture,’ which involves interplay year, Lawrence is now a doctoral
worked on several research proj-
skills, he decided to dive in. between male and female voices student in Atomic, Molecular, and
ects at the School of Medicine.
Students in the class form the as well as the orchestra, expresses Optical Physics at MIT.
Opposite page: nucleus of the Yale Collegium political rivalries of the 1780s
Wright Laboratory is home Musicum, directed by Herreid. through music. And we spent half
to a broad research program in
nuclear, particle, and astro­physics,
a semester preparing for a concert
with state-of-the-art facilities The Beinecke Rare Book and about the medieval manuscript
for research on neutrinos and Manuscript Library serves as both Roman de Fauvel, an allegory
dark matter.
an academic resource and perfor- designed to shame the corrupt
Outside of the lab, Katherine mance venue for the Collegium, French nobility by depicting them
Lawrence took several language offering students the opportunity as a fallow-colored horse that
classes: Chinese, Korean, and to see, touch, and study musi- represented such major vices as
Egyptian hieroglyphs. She was a
member of the Yale Drop Team
cal manuscripts and prints from vanity and avarice. The expression
and quartermaster of the Yale as early as the fourteenth and ‘to curry favor’ comes from the
Pistol Team, which competed in fifteenth centuries. And when it Roman, which had the nobles cur-
the national championships.
comes to performing in the space, rying Fauvel to gain his approval.”

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Think Yale. Think World.
(Study, research, intern around the globe)

A nontraditional
approach to gain-
ing international
experience gives Yale
students access to
multiple opportunities
to study, research, and
intern abroad. Over
and above ordinary
financial aid, Yale
provides more than
$10.5 million annually
through fellowships,
internships, and
summer awards to
guarantee that every
student who wishes
will be able to work or
study abroad. Beyond
these resources is the
sheer variety of global
experiences students “I spent six unforgettable weeks in South
can undertake during Africa and Swaziland with the Yale Summer
school years and sum- Session class Visual Approaches to Global
mers: study at a major Health. Both countries have some of the South
university in another highest rates of HIV/AIDS in the world. In Africa &
country; field-based or the wake of that epidemic, our task was to Swaziland;
France
laboratory research; find a public health issue that we were
Yale Summer Session “The summer before sophomore year, the hopes and dreams it represented, Andrew passionate about exploring—be it domestic
courses taught by I received the Yale Summer Experience I realized the value of a central identity, Siaw-Asamoah violence, mental health, or the orphan Sarah Naco
Yale faculty abroad; or Award to sponsor my trip to Bilbao, and the privilege I have in mine, as a Hometown Buffalo, ny crisis—and to represent it in the form of Hometown Canberra, Australia
study, work, or service a colorful port city in the Basque Ghanaian American. In the end, I left Spain; Major Applied Mathematics
a documentary film. In Mbabane, Swazi- Major History of Science,
projects of one’s own region of northern Spain. Classroom with more than I came with, my own United land’s vibrant capital, we visited NGOs, Medicine, & Public Health
Yale International
design. Students are learning was fun and enriching, and web now inter­connected with theirs.” Kingdom
Experience Summer in
UNICEF, government agencies, and Yale International Experience
encouraged to begin the professors from the University of Andrew Europe studying Spanish hospitals, talking to physicians and patients Spent one week in Johannesburg
exploring the globe Deusto met us with open arms, language and culture in about the struggles of living with HIV and and five weeks in Mbabane on a
Bilbao through the Yale Yale Summer Session scholarship.
the summer after their personally introducing us to their Summer Session Study
the effects it has had on the community. After my first year, had a Summer
first year. Here, five beautiful home. In learning the history Abroad Program, in addition I learned that the power of stigma can Experience Award for study in
Elis map a glimpse of of Bilbao and meeting its residents, I to studying economics unravel seemingly sound and effective Paris.
the world through encountered the web of culture that and finance at the London policies to deliver free treatment to all. Post-Yale Plan “Taking a few
School of Economics.
their experiences as connected them all. There was a certain Successful interventions require a nuanced weeks for a road trip across the
Post-Yale Plan “Either USA, then traveling with my
global citizens. Bilbao force of character, a stubborn understanding of the local culture and
pursuing an M.D./Ph.D. boyfriend to Australia (his first
resilience that kept the city alive even with a research focus in traditions, and for policy makers to listen time!). Afterwards, I intend to
after its manufacturing industries epidemiology, or an M.D./ and not merely dictate. I will carry this pursue a career in documentary
moved away, replacing the iron heart M.B.A. with interests in insight with me as I pursue a career filmmaking, focusing on public
hospital management, health health and scientific issues.”
with one of art, music, and food. As a care entrepreneurship,
in public health policy post-Yale.” Sarah
visitor walking through the halls of the and health care nonprofits.”
Guggenheim Museum, internalizing

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 Jenna Salameh Yalies Abroad Summer
2018– 2019 Internships
Hometown Orland Park, IL
Africa: 105 The Office of Career
Major Neuroscience Strategy assists
Asia: 270 students seeking
Jordan Yale International Experience India &
Canada: 3 internship experi-
Spent the summer in Amman, South
Europe: 694 ences throughout
Jordan, studying Arabic and Africa
the globe. In 2019,
Middle Eastern culture through Latin America & students spent
the CET Intensive Language Caribbean: 133 the summer in 119
Summer Program, funded by a
Middle East: 43 countries outside
Yale Summer Experience Award.
Multiple regions: 37 the United States
Post-Yale Plan “Going to exploring careers
Brazil Oceania: 21
medical school and hopefully in a global environ-
exploring more of the world Total: 1,306 ment. Internship
while learning new languages opportunities
along the way.” Center for reflect the full
International and range of inter-
“In Wadi Rum, a desert valley in southern Grace Alofe “In the rural South African township of Professional ests among Yale
Jordan, we camped out in the middle of the Zwelethemba where we stayed for ten Experience students, from jour-
Hometown Union, Nj
Yale’s Center for nalism to the arts,
valley with local Bedouins. After sharing Majors Molecular, Cellular,
days, there was no Internet access, and for International politics to public
a traditional dinner cooked underground & Developmental Biology; the first time in my life, I was genuinely and Professional health, and finance
in an oven buried in the sand, we all sat Ethnicity, Race, & Migration disconnected from the larger world. Experience (CIPE) to technology.
encourages and
around drinking tea while enjoying tunes Yale International Experience The first couple of days were tough, I’m
supports safe, Laboratory and
played on a stringed instrument called the Spent the fall semester of junior ashamed to say. Then, my study abroad extra­ordinary Field Research in
year as one of thirty students
rebab. After sunset, we lay under stars that studying public health care
group started playing soccer with kids inter­national experi- the Sciences and
covered every inch of the sky, one of the in the area, hanging out at each others’ ences of every kind. Public Health
systems and conducting field
Students can com-
most incredible views I’ve ever seen. I spent research in urban and rural host homes, and attending local gumboot Study bine international
the entire night sharing and hearing life settings in India, South Africa, dancing class in the community center. Yale programs experience with
and Brazil with the School for
stories with people I had met only a few International Training. A man named Jazz, who was incredibly include Yale in deepening their
London; Yale understanding of
weeks back, in a language that I had been active in the larger community, taught
Post-Yale Plan “Before going to Summer Session science by spending
studying for only a year. That moment medical school, I would love to the classes about this historical dance (in 2019, courses a summer working
“After sophomore year, I took a gap year highlighted how, in such a short time, spend two years working in form and spent so much time making us were offered in in a laboratory at an
to study Mandarin in China. There was a my life had been enriched with so much marketing in California or with comfortable in Zwelethemba. One day he Brazil, Croatia, institution abroad,
Médecins Sans Frontières in Czech Republic, or by participating
monthlong break between my two language knowledge and so many new friendships a Spanish-speaking country.”
gave some of us a walking tour, pointing Ecuador, Eswatini in a field-based
programs, so I stuffed my backpack, that I will carry with me forever.” Jenna out structures that have changed since the [Swaziland], France, project.
hopped on a train, and spent the next four end of apartheid and how that affected his Germany, Italy,
Japan, Morocco, Independent
weeks making my way 1,600 miles through lived experience. We still had classes and
Russia, Spain, and Initiatives
western China by myself. The first week, I homework during that time, but it felt Tanzania); and year Students who are
decided to hike Emei Shan, one of the Four Arizona Greene so freeing to be fully present in my inter­- or term abroad ready to develop
Sacred Mountains of Buddhism. I stayed at actions with my host family, my peers, approved programs their own activities
Hometown Carrollton, GA
run by other institu- abroad are encour-
one of the monasteries along the trail, and Major Applied Mathematics
and community members like Jazz. By the tions or providers. aged to discuss their
as I was sitting in the courtyard one of the end of our stay, I was so grateful to have plans with advisers
Yale International Experience
monks sat next to me and motioned for me Was awarded a Richard U. Light been forced off the digital grid; I can’t Research and faculty, to
The possibilities register their travel
to cross my legs and meditate with him. Fellowship to study Mandarin imagine having been distracted at all from
for international and under­stand the
Afterwards, we talked for a while about his in Beijing and Harbin, China, such a remarkable community.” Grace research are support provided
for seven months; worked in
life at the monastery. Then he reached into Nicaragua for a summer on a
extensive. Students by Yale, and to use
his robes, whipped out his smartphone, work with their resi- the institution’s
Thomas C. Barry Travel
dential college dean, extraordinary
and added me on WeChat (the Chinese Fellowship.
academic advisers, resources to make
equivalent of Facebook). I set out for China Post-Yale Plan “Pursuing a and departments the most of their
with less than a year of Mandarin under my Ph.D. in applied mathematics to define projects. experience abroad.
with a focus in computational Many Yale students
belt, and I learned a ton in my language
linguistics, but only after taking spend the summer
classes. But the most enriching and memo- advantage of post-graduation following their
rable moments all came from interacting fellowships at Yale to continue junior year abroad
with people, many of whom I still keep in my language study abroad.” doing research
for a senior essay
touch with today.” Arizona or thesis.
China Nicaragua

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Connect the Dots.
(Three seniors find their careers through Yale’s network of resources)

Yale students are Raising Tsai CITY

surrounded by oppor- First-Year Pitch the Bar The mission of the Tsai Center for
Matt comes to Yale interested in the Innovative Thinking at Yale is to inspire
tunities from the Matt Czarnecki
biological sciences and dives into and support students from diverse
moment they arrive biology and chemistry classes. He back­grounds and disciplines to seek
Residential
on campus as first- quickly becomes friends with Dylan College innovative ways to solve real-world
Gastel, a fellow Davenport first-year. problems. It organizes work­shops,
years—intellectual, Davenport
The two find themselves thinking mentor­ship and fellowship programs,
entrepreneurial, up business ideas late into the night Major start-up and nonprofit accelerators,
artistic, international, in their common room. In the spring, Molecular Biophysics leaders’ and founders’ labs, co-curricular
at the Yale Youth2 Business Forum & Biochemistry projects, hackathons, and experimental
professional, and
at the School of Management, Matt collaborations across disciplinary lines.
research opportuni-
meets a visiting project manager from
ties that launch them Google who helps him come up with Yale Connections
toward both long- his first pitch. “It was my first real Yale has more than 160,000 graduates
experience with entrepreneurship and and hundreds of alumni groups all over
term ambitions and
it felt like the best day of my life.” the world, providing unequaled
unforeseen achieve- networking opportunities, from an
ments. Yalies leverage online career network, to mentor­ing
these opportunities in programs for students, to regional and
campus events for alumni. Whatever
countless impressive Launch you are interested in — social justice,
ways and learn how In the fall of sophomore sustainability, entertainment, law,
to ask good questions, year, Matt and Dylan journalism, media, entrepreneurship,
create Yale Launch, an technology — you will find alumni in
seek out the right Recipe for Success
undergraduate group those fields ready to network with you!
mentors, and create Fellow Yale Launch members André
designed to help students
and Bennett hear the pitch and want in.
experiences that are go from “virtually Career Services
The three experiment with caffeinated
professionally and nothing to a business Yale’s Office of Career Strategy offers
energy bar recipes in the Saybrook
idea.” The group hosts a career advising, professional school
personally reward- and Davenport student kitchens. As
pitch-day competition at advising, employment and internship
ing. In this chapter, demand grows, they rent the kitchen of
the end of the semester. opportunities, and career development
we chronicle the
beloved New Haven bakery Katalina’s
Cupcakes on weekends, baking
Matt lands on his idea
after spending $6 for a
“I never thought I would be an resources. The office works with
students and alums to clarify career
trajectories of three
entrepreneur, but this experience
hundreds of bars from 7 pm to 2 am.
coffee and granola bar aspirations, identify opportunities, and
soon-to-be graduates study break. Why not offer support at every stage of career
who have successfully
connected the dots
combine the two? Verb
energy bars are born. helped me find what I’m really development.

6 Graduate Schools Most Attended

between a Yale educa-
tion and the real world.
passionate about: building things When they enroll in business, law,
medical, or graduate school, recent Yale

Angel Investment
from the ground up.” graduates have most often attended
Cambridge, Columbia, MIT, Oxford,
At a college Stanford, and Yale.
tea in JE given by Internet
entrepreneur and Yale Hit the Accelerator Top Fellowship Producer
Yale is consistently a top producer of
alum Kevin Ryan, Matt Verb is selected to participate Living the Dream
hands Ryan a Verb bar. Senior year, Matt closes a round of nearly fellowships. Since 2010, in addition to
in the Tsai CITY Summer more than 240 Fulbright Fellowships,
A week later, Ryan calls $1 million in seed capital as Verb CEO. André (now CTO)
and asks, “What do Accelerator, a ten-week has built a text-to-purchase platform, and the company uses Yale students have been awarded
you need to get started?” fellowship program for a space provided free by Tsai CITY. In January, Verb wins a 48 Rhodes, 23 Marshall, 32 Goldwater,
He provides some of the $35,000 grant in Connecticut’s CTNext All-Stars Competition. 15 Truman, and 35 Gates Cambridge
student ventures that Scholarships, as well as 360 National
company’s initial capital. The company has sold more than 100,000 bars to customers in
Verb officially launches
combines a $15,000 grant with all fifty states. After graduation Matt and André will move to Science Foundation Graduate Research
in the spring of Matt’s mentoring and workshops led Boston to continue growing Verb: “We’ve found our dream Fellowships. Just as importantly, these
major awards only scratch the surface
junior year, focused by experienced entrepreneurs jobs and become best friends along the way.”
on selling to college of the hundreds of other highly valuable,
in the Yale network. funded sources of support that Yale
students. They sell out
of their first 10,000 students tap every single year.
bars in thirty days.

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Community
Scholar
“Before Yale, I mostly thought of Stepping
in to STEM Starting Out Seila is thinking of
The summer before majoring in Molecular
Haylee Kushi ‘Native’ as Hawaiian. Becoming Seila De Leon her first year, Seila attends
the First-Year Scholars
Biophysics and
Biochemistry. Through
Residential
friends and co-workers with people
Residential
College College
at Yale program. Here, she the Science, Technology
Timothy Dwight Branford finds support for the First- and Research Scholars

Major Indigenous to various parts of the Major

Generation, Low-Income
(FGLI) community at Yale,
(STARS) Program,
which hosts networking

Americas made me realize how much

Ethnicity, Race, Molecular, Cellular, & and also finds community and mentorship
& Migration Developmental Biology through La Casa, Yale’s Latino opportunities, Seila
Cultural Center. enjoys seeing familiar
Native people across the world have faces from STARS events
in her lectures, labs,
in common. This was vital to joining and around campus.

my most important community at

Finding Community Yale, to my political consciousness, Adjusting Course

and to my academic career.”

(and a Major!) After meeting the person who will eventually
As a first-year, Haylee lands an become her adviser, Maria Moreno,
on-campus job at the Native a professor in Molecular, Cellular and
American Cultural Center, Developmental Biology (MCDB), Seila realizes
which “became my community her heart really lies with MCDB and heads
for the rest of my time at Yale.” down the pre-medicine track.
That spring, she takes the
seminar United States Wars
in the Pacific, her first class in “For a bit, I explored
Ethnicity, Race, & Migration. the possibility of
She writes a paper about journalism as a mode
the political importance of of doing the same work
one of her favorite Hawaiian raising awareness about
A Pivotal Project
songs—originally titled “Mele Indigenous politics. Seila’s final project for
‘Ai Pōhaku” and popularly I took Bob Woodward’s an engineering course
known as “Kaulana Nā Pua”— Journalism class in
finds her and a group
starting her on a path toward my sophomore year and
scholarship in ethnic studies. wrote pieces about of fellow students
ethnic studies at Yale paired with a client in
and Indigenous activism need of the students’
for the ydn, Broad
Recognition, down
engineering skills.
Magazine, and Yale Seila’s group works
Herald.” with the Yale School
Next Chapter of the Environment,
Haylee will enroll in
Brown University’s
which needs a
Ph.D. program in device to test carbon
American Studies to
continue researching and
Called to Lead
“At Yale, I realized how much in soil samples.
writing about the power
dynamics and potential
Junior year, Haylee
works with fellow mentorship really does
members of the
for allyships among
Kānaka Maoli and other
Association of Native
Americans at Yale
impact the path you take.”
people of color living
(ANAaY) to plan the
in Hawai‘i. Seila and a partner decide
annual Ivy Native
Plans Fulfilled Summit. Elected to continue devloping
president of the ANAaY the device they created
Haylee writes her senior thesis on East
in the spring, she heads Future Plans
for their engineering
Asian racial formation in Hawai‘i in the planning for a Yale project. They receive a
In her junior and senior years, Seila continues
relationship to settler colonialism and Indigenous Peoples’ in the STARS II Program, which supports her CEID Summer Design
Kānaka Maoli (Indigenous Hawaiian) Day celebration and also lab research. On her mentor’s recommendation Fellowship to continue
leads the Henry Roe she applies to the National Institue of Health their efforts. In her
cultural identity. “I went to an all sophomore year, Seila
Cloud Conference and to continue her research. Seila is currently
Native high school and came to Yale Powwow, which bring working there and will attend medical school works with Tsai CITY’s
hoping to do research about the political Native alums for a M.D./Ph.D. after her time at the NIH. Accelerator to
back to campus and develop the device. She
context of my Hawaiianness. My Yale
build a genealogy founds agriCORE LLC.,
experiences pushed me to think about of Yale Native allowing her to patent
my Indigeneity in a global context.” community members. and sell her device.

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Places. Yale, like Ulysses, is
part of all that she has
met, part of all the
scholars and students
who have trod paths
of learning across her
campus, of their ideals
and accomplishments,
and of their lives
and times . . .
Whitney Griswold, President of Yale University, 1950–1963
Inspired by Icons. Harkness Memorial Tower
is the height of tradition at
Yale (216 feet and 284 steps to
the roof). Designed by James
students in the Yale University
Guild of Carillonneurs. Statues
of Elihu Yale and others plus four
student-gargoyles keep watch
(Why architecture matters) Gamble Rogers and completed from on high.
in 1921, Harkness holds a 54-bell,
43-ton carillon rung daily by

“Among the nation’s oldest

universities, Yale is the one most
firmly embedded in its city and
defined by its architecture. Our
campus is a living history of the
architecture and urbanism of its
three centuries in New Haven, and
home to the work of some of the
world’s greatest architects. From
the modest red brick college of the
eighteenth century to the secret
courtyards and gardens of James
Gamble Rogers and the great
modern works of Louis I. Kahn,
Eero Saarinen, Philip Johnson,
Cesar Pelli, and Frank Gehry,
the struggle to balance collective
identity and individual expression
is represented in Yale’s buildings,
which in their totality represent
the essential struggle of life in a
democracy.”
Robert A. M. Stern
J. M. Hoppin Professor of
Architecture

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Completed in 1930, Sterling levels and eight floors of Yale University Art Gallery masterwork designed by Louis
Memorial Library was designed reading rooms, offices, and work One of the country’s oldest Kahn (faculty 1947–57). It was
by James Gamble Rogers, who areas. The recent restoration college art museums got its the first notable design of
called the building “as near to of the nave has revealed long start in 1832 with 100 Revolu- Kahn’s career and sits across
modern Gothic as we dared hidden decorative details and tionary War paintings. Now it’s the street from his final work
to make it.” Devoted primarily updated programmatic areas noted for the depth and range in the United States, the Yale
to the humanities and social to better support the needs of its collections. The main Center for British Art.
sciences, it has fifteen stack of today’s users. building is itself a modernist

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Connecticut Hall The oldest Malone Engineering Center the Yale School of Architecture,
building on campus, a Georgian Built in 2005 according to state- houses under­graduate teaching
among the Gothic, opened as of-the-art sustainable building labs and the University’s
a dorm in 1752 and is a National standards, Malone adds consid- Department of Biomedical
Historic Landmark. Nathan erably to Yale’s engineering Engineering.
Hale (B.A. 1773)—that’s him, facilities. The building, designed
on guard outside —was one of by Cesar Pelli (of Pelli Clarke Pelli
its early residents. Architects), a former dean of

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Cultural Capital. Eating Out.
(The “#1 Foodie City
(Yale and the “Greatest Small City in America”) in America”*)
*As ranked by Livability.com

“Apizza” Fiercely debated, often

“New Haven…has been reemerging imitated, never replicated, New
Haven-style pizza (or “Apizza”;
as a culinary wonderland, a cultural pronounced “ah-beetz”) is its
own culinary tradition. Try
center, breeding ground for new Pepe’s (est. 1925), Modern (est.
East Rock 1934), and Sally’s (est. 1938) to
theater, a hotbed of cross-promotion, Park find your favorite, and then be
and one of only a few places in the prepared to defend your choice.

world where you can stand within Broadway East Rock Park
Louis’
Lunch
inches of an intact Gutenberg Bible; National retailers like Apple, Rising 350 feet above the historic
Credited
J. Crew, Patagonia, and L.L. Bean neighborhood that shares its name,
all within a very compact and mix with New Haven originals like East Rock is a New Haven landmark
by some
with
Junzi Kitchen—serving Northern and a must-visit spot for all Yale Science
walkable downtown.” Chinese chun bing—and Crêpes students. Run, hike, bike, or climb Hill inventing
the hamburger in 1903. (Just
Choupette, started by a French to the summit for stunning views of
The Huffington Post, 2012 don’t ask for ketchup!)
immigrant who sold crepes from a downtown New Haven and the Long
Proud New Haveners restaurants, and more cart attached to his bike. A Yale ID Island Sound. Located two miles
nets discounts at most stores. from campus, the park is a popular Whitney Avenue Coffee or Koffee?
tag social media posts than 380 years of his- destination for Yalies looking to stay Skyscrapers mix with Independent cafés
with #GSCIA for tory, the city delights fit while enjoying the outdoors. historic brownstones on one Koffee? and Blue
“Greatest Small City in Yalies as well. New of New Haven’s most eclectic State Coffee draw
Hillhouse
streets. Turn the corner into hundreds of thirsty
America.” With two Haven combines the Ave
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the award-winning Audubon Yalies a day; or
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whose collections and exhibitions
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award-winning college
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bookstores, clothing boutiques,
In warm and wintry weather
coffee shops, and restaurants that Old
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range from student-budget (Shake Campus bing a cone of locally-made
CMY Shack) to upscale (Union League
New Arethusa ice cream or sharing
Cafe). Visit the Yale Art Gallery and
K
Haven massive sundaes servied in
the Yale Center for British Art, then
Green frisbees at Ashley’s.
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serves as one of 30 elected Mory’s is
urc
Ch officials on the Board of Alders. known for its toasting traditions
Yale Next to City Hall, a memorial and nightly entertainment by
Medical stands where 54 African captives undergraduate singing groups,
A Haven for the Arts Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Center who sought their freedom aboard including Yale’s most famous,
Few cities can claim one Prize-winning Wit, and the Amistad were imprisoned in the Whiffenpoofs.
world-class theater. New Pulitzer-winning works by New Haven Green Yale New Haven Hospital 1839 while awaiting trial.
Haven has three. The Shubert, August Wilson. Fortunately Since 1639, the 17-acre Green has been at the center Just steps away from
À La Cart For a quick bite
Long Wharf, and Yale Rep for Yalies, all three offer of New Haven. In its more than 380-year history, the Green the residential colleges, YNHH
between classes, nothing
theaters have produced student tickets. In June, New has served as a pasture, a burial ground, a Revolutionary provides countless opportunities
beats New Haven’s food carts.
dozens of shows that went Haven hosts the International War training ground, and the site of a campaign speech for undergraduates to engage in
Long Island Scattered all around town, carts
on to Broadway, including 11 Festival of Arts & Ideas, which by Abraham Lincoln. These days the Green hosts major research, clinical work, service,
Sound dish out Bengali, Caribbean,
Richard Rodgers musicals, the boasts almost 200 (mostly events like the New Haven Jazz Festival and the New Haven and medical training at one of the
Colombian, Ethiopian, Indian,
world premiere of A Streetcar free) events, drawing tens Road Race as well as a popular weekly Farmer’s Market. country’s premier medical centers.
Japanese, Mexican, Middle
Named Desire (starring a then of thousands of visitors to
Eastern, Peruvian, Russian, and
unknown Marlon Brando), the Elm City.
Thai specialities for $6 or less.

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Here, There, Everywhere.
(Fourteen students, two simple questions, thirty-five countries on five continents)

Where are you from?

Where have you
been? One spring day,
fourteen students
walking around the
campus were asked
these questions. Their
answers reveal Yale as
a cosmopolitan cross- “I’m from Harare, Zimbabwe. I “I’m from Athens, Ohio. I’m from Los Angeles. The “I’m from the suburbs of “I’m from Auburn, Washington. “I’m from Washington, D.C. I “I’m from a rural small town,
traveled to Turkey to represent I’ve visited Argentina, Chile, summer after my first year, I New York City. Last summer, I spent a summer in Bilbao, spent a term abroad in Nepal, Deep Gap, North Carolina. I
roads where students
Yale at a conference of AISEC, Iceland, Morocco, South studied in Valencia, Spain. This I interned in Geneva, Spain, studying Spanish Jordan, and Chile with an studied in Germany, Austria,
receive an education in the world’s largest youth-run Africa, and the UAE with winter, I traveled to Ghana Switzer­land, at the Stop TB language and culture. It International Human Rights and the Czech Republic after
global fluency. Yalies organization. This summer my a cappella group, the on a trip sponsored by the Afro- Partnership, a UN global inspired me to study Spanish program. This summer I’ll my first year and planned
become highly skilled I’ll be learning Italian in Italy Yale Spizzwinks(?). This American Cultural Center. health organization, with political science and do a project be in Morocco for a research Model UN conferences in
through Yale Summer Session, summer we’ll be performing I also traveled to Cuba during support from a Yale fellowship.” for an urban studies class project through the Women’s Hungary and Taiwan with the
at crossing boundaries. then traveling to Kenya, Ghana, in China, Myanmar, spring break for my Cuban Karen Jiang, Economics and about public space in Bilbao. Global Empowerment Initiative, Yale International Relations
They speak multiple and Zimbabwe to serve as an Singapore, and Thailand. History course. Statistics & Data Science Major Marty Chandler, Theater & founded by a Yale Law student. Association. Recently, I traveled
languages and quickly instructor in the Yale Young Derek Demel, Biomedical Uzo Biosah, Ethics, Politics, Performance Studies Major and Naiya Speight-Leggett, African to Israel with the Slifka Center
African Scholars Program.” Engineering Major & Economics Major Psychology Major American Studies Major and to Puerto Rico with La
adapt to new environ-
Phyllis Mugadza, Mechanical Casa Cultural. This summer
ments. The global is Engineering Major I’ll be interning in South
made local for under- Africa with support from Yale
graduates here. The fellowships.”
Max Schlenker, History Major
wide world becomes
accessible, known,
experienced. With such
experience Yalies can
pursue any ambition
anywhere in the world.

“I’m from Danville, California. I I’m from Columbia, South “I’m from Albuquerque, New “I was born outside of São Paulo, “I’m from Palo Alto, California. “I’m from Accra, Ghana. “I’m from Braintree,
received a Light Fellowship for Carolina, but also lived in Mexico. I studied in Italy with Brazil, and lived in Venezuela This summer, I will spend I spent the summer after my Massachusetts. Last spring
a ten-week language program in Washington, D.C. After my the Summer in Rome Humanities and Panama before my family six weeks in Nice, France, sophomore year in Paraty my a cappella group, Mixed
Seoul, South Korea. Although first year, I received the Georg program and in China on a Light settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. I complet­ing a physician and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Company, performed in four
I’m a heritage Korean speaker, Leitner Fellowship from Yale’s Fellowship. The Brady- spent the summer after my first shadow­ing program and taking Learning to speak Portuguese cities in China. This summer
it was my first time living MacMillan Center to work Johnson Program in Grand year in Recife, Brazil, as a two classes related to health care: with Brazilians was one of we will be traveling to Morocco.
in Korea. This year I studied for an NGO in Amsterdam, Strategy funded my research in marketing intern at a local Public Health in France, and my favorite aspects of the trip, After that I will be studying
Philosophy at Oxford, and The Netherlands. Japan, Taiwan, and Korea on education NGO serving kids in Literature and Medicine.” but I also loved the music, public health in Amsterdam.
it was a great taste of what Louis DeFelice, English Major East Asian politics.” the favelas.” Chloe Sales, Molecular, Cellular, food, and dancing!” Emma Rutan, Psychology Major
graduate school might feel like.” Phil Wilkinson, History/ Ana Barros, Political Science/ & Developmental Biology Major Edwin Edem, Political
Sarah Joo, Philosophy Major Global Affairs Major Education Studies Major Science Major
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Pursuits. . . . and the youthful
society thus formed
had promptly and
enthusiastically set
to work to create
its own system of
self-improvement,
a second or social
curriculum.
Yale: A Short History, by George W. Pierson
Yale’s first gym was Mission Recent Ivy Titles
Yale student athletes Baseball
built in 1826. By the
“undertake the challenge of Basketball (M)
mid-1800s an athletic a high-level education while Heavyweight Crew
tradition “dominated proudly representing Yale Football
University in the pursuit of Golf (M)
the undergraduate
championships. Through Gymnastics (w)
horizon, and epic exceptional facilities and Lacrosse (M)
victories were cele­ coaches, Yale Athletics Coed Sailing
brated with bonfires ensures that our students Soccer (M)
learn the important values Swimming/Diving (w)
under the elms, as
of leadership, integrity, Volleyball (w)
the classes roared discipline, and teamwork. Nationally Ranked
out their glees from The aspiration is that in the Basketball (M)
course of preparation and Crew (w)
their appointed
competition, students Fencing (M, w)
perches on the old Yale enter a co-curricular labora- Football
fence,” wrote George tory for learning that will Ice Hockey (w)
fit them to lead in all of Lacrosse (M)
Pierson in his history
their future endeavors.” Sailing (Coed, W)
of Yale. The Bulldogs Soccer (M)
Excerpted from the Yale Athletics
of today— both men Mission Statement Squash (M, w)
and women — compete
on 35 teams (of which
“The Game”
29 are NCAA Division
Even for those
I) made up of junior- who don’t count
varsity-level players themselves as
to All-Americans. Yale sports fans, “The
Game” is one of
also offers student-
the most anticipated
run club sports and events every year.
one of the most Since 1875, the Yale
Bulldogs and
extensive and popular
Harvard Crimson
intramural programs have met more
in the country. And the than 130 times in
fans roar their glees this annual Yale-
Harvard football
(that’s fight song in
game. Held the
modern parlance) — first weekend of
including Cole Porter’s Thanks­giving
break, the game
“Bulldog!”— as loud
alternates between
as ever. the Yale Bowl and
Harvard Stadium.

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800+ Varsity Teams
Baseball
Club Sports
Archery
Yalies who participate Men’s Basketball Badminton
in varsity athletics in Women’s Basketball Ballroom Dance
non-COVID years. Men’s Crew (Heavy Baseball (M)
and Light) Basketball (M, w)

2,400+ Women’s Crew

Men’s Cross
Cricket
Cycling
Students who Country Equestrian
participate in Women’s Cross Field Hockey (coed)
intra­mural games Country Figure Skating
through the Men’s Fencing Fishing
residential colleges Women’s Fencing Golf
in non-COVID years. Field Hockey Gymnastics (coed)
Football Ice Hockey (M)

80% Men’s Golf

Women’s Golf
Indoor Climbing
Kendo
The percentage Women’s Lacrosse (M, w)
of the student body Gymnastics Muay Thai
participating in Men’s Ice Hockey Pistol
some form of Women’s Ice Polo
athletic activity in Hockey Powerlifting
non-COVID years. Men’s Lacrosse Rifle
Women’s Lacrosse Rugby (M, w)
200+ Olympians Coed Sailing Running Facilities Carol Roberts Field
More than 200 Yale players and coaches Women’s Sailing Skeet & Trap House opened
have taken part in modern Olympic Men’s Soccer Skiing (Alpine) At 12 acres, in 2018 and is the
competition, winning 115 medals, 57 of Women’s Soccer Skiing (Nordic) Payne Whitney first Yale athletic
them gold. Yale was represented in London Softball Soccer (M, w) Gymnasium is the facility dedicated
in 2012 by seven alumni athletes and one Men’s Squash Squash (coed) largest gym in the exclusively to
coach, including Taylor Ritzel ’10, who won Women’s Squash Swimming nation and the women’s sports
gold with the U.S. women’s eight and Men’s Swimming Synchronized second-largest in teams: softball
Ashley Brzozowicz ’04, who won silver with and Diving Swimming the world and field hockey.
the Canadian women’s eight. In 2014 in Women’s Swimming Table Tennis
Sochi, Phoebe Staenz ’17 won bronze with and Diving Tae Kwon Do David S. Ingalls Yale’s own
the Swiss women’s ice hockey team. Eight Men’s Tennis Tennis (coed) Rink seats more Championship Golf
Elis competed in Rio in 2016, in crew, Women’s Tennis Triathlon than 3,000 and is Course, named #1
fencing, sailing, and track and field; and four Men’s Track and Ultimate (M, w) home to Yale’s College Golf Course
reached the quarterfinals with the U.S. Field Volleyball (M, w) varsity men’s and in America by
men’s ice hockey team in Pyeongchang in Women’s Track Water Polo (M, w) women’s hockey Golfweek magazine
2018. At the 2022 winter olympics in and Field Wrestling teams. The rink is in 2020, is a short
Beigjing, Nathan Chen ’24 brought home Women’s Volleyball Wushu also available for distance from the
the gold in men’s figure skating while Brian and more recreational ice other athletic
O’Neill ’12 and Kenny Agostino ’14 skating and facilities, in the
representing Team USA in men’s ice hockey Intramurals instruction, and Westville section of
and Staenz again skating for the Swiss intramurals. New Haven. It will
in women’s ice hockey. See page 21 host the NCAA
A spectacular regional final in 2022.
Handsome Dan Conferences football stadium
(1889 – present) Yale takes pride in seating more than The Gilder
Yale was the first its broad-based inter­­­­ 60,000, the Yale Boathouse, a
university in the United collegiate athletic Bowl is surrounded 22,000-square-foot
States to adopt a program that includes by first-rate state-of-the-art
mascot, and to this competition in the Ivy facilities for indoor facility on the
date, none is better League Conference and and outdoor tennis, Housatonic River,
known than Handsome the Eastern College lacrosse, rugby, stretches south to
Dan. The tradition was Athletic Conference soccer, field hockey, the finish line of
established by a young (ECAC). Most of Yale’s softball, baseball, Yale’s 2,000-meter
gentleman from intercollegiate contests and track and field. race course.
Victorian England, who are against traditional
attended Yale in the east coast opponents With seating for Home to Yale’s coed
1890s. The original’s with emphasis on more than 1,700, and women’s varsity
18 successors have winning the Ivy League Reese Stadium is sailing teams, the
been the intimates of title. All sports, with the home to the men’s McNay Family
deans, directors, and exception of football, and women’s soccer Sailing Center
coaches. One was have the ultimate goal teams in the fall, houses a fleet of
tended by a head of qualifying for NCAA and to the men’s 420 racing dinghies,
cheerleader who went and affiliated post­- and women’s FJs, Lasers, and five
on to become the season championships. lacrosse teams in safety launches.
Secretary of State. the spring.

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State of the Arts. Known as the Dramat, the Yale
Dramatic Association is the
second- oldest college theater
association in the country and
Sweeney Todd at the Yale
School of Drama’s University
Theatre, one of many superb
performance venues open
(Playing a major role whether you’re an arts major or not) the largest undergraduate to undergraduates.
theater organization at Yale.
Here, the group performs

Whether you want to

become a professional
artist, continue a pas- Tavi Wolfwood is Rebecca Salzhauer is a Matthew Pettus is a Neuroscience
sion, try something a Sociology major sophomore in Saybrook College. major in Saybrook College. He works
and Global Health She is a member of the improv with the Public Health Coalition,
new, or immerse
Scholar in Pauli group Purple Crayon and works writes for the Yale Global Health
yourself in the arts, a Murray College. He as a Peer Wellness Champion. Review, and sings with the Baker’s
spectacular array of is a member of the Dozen. Matthew also does research
options awaits you Spizzwinks(?) and in a neuroscience lab at the medical
the Glee Club and a school and volunteers with the
at Yale. Major or take producer for original Hypertension Awareness and Preven-
courses in Architec- musical theater. tion Program at Yale (HAPPY).
ture, Art, Computing
and the Arts, Film
and Media Studies,
Music, or Theater and
Performance Studies.
Tap into the extraor-
Simone Williams is an Astrophysics
dinary resources
major in Branford College. Her
of Yale’s Center for extracurriculars include club gymnas-
Collaborative Arts and tics, the Black Women’s Coalition,
Media, Yale Univer- and Black Students at Yale. Simone is
also a recruitment coordinator for the
sity Art Gallery, and
Undergraduate Admissions Office.
world-class profes-
sional schools of Art,
Architecture, Drama,
and Music. Outside
Bradley Nowacek is a first-year
the classroom there
in Morse College who plans to
are more than 100 double major in English and
officially registered Theater & Performance Studies.
campus wide arts LiMei Vera is a Kyra Gee is major- He is a member of the comedy
Political Science and ing in English and group Tilting at Windmills.
groups, ensembles,
American Studies Theater & Pefor-
societies, and publica- major in Silliman mance Studies. A
tions catering to such College. She serves Catherine Alam-Nist is a first- Ale Campillo is a junior in Jonathan sophomore in Pauli
on the board of the year in Grace Hopper College. Edwards College pursuing a dual Murray College, she
disparate interests as
Yale Hunger and She’s also an active member of the degree in Theater & Performance works at Sterling
hip-hop, Chinese cal- Homeless­ness Yale College Democrats. Studies and Ethnicity, Race, & Library and rock
ligraphy, and fashion Action Project and Migration. Ale is also the assistant climbs with the Yale
design. Many—like the volunteers for musical director of the a cappella Climbing Team.
Project Homeless group Shades and a student
Yale Glee Club, Yale
Connect. coordinator at La Casa Cultural.
Dramatic Association,
and the a cappella
groups—are part of
the deeply rooted From the digital to the classical,
history and lore of from the academic to the extra­
curricular, from private lessons
Yale College.
to group ensembles, from
beginning painting to profes-
sional exhibitions —Yale arts
offer every opportunity.

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The Daily Show. Yale boasts more
than 130 student
choirs, troupes,
clubs, ensembles,
Music
Berkeley College
Orchestra
Yale Russian Chorus
Yale Slavic Chorus
Yale Undergraduate

(A slice of Yale’s creative life during one spring weekend not so long ago) associations, Davenport Pops Choral Society
organizations, and Guild of
societies including: Carillonneurs Theater
Low Strung The Control Group
Art/Design
Records show that
the first appearance of
Friday II on Sunday), to the Archi-
tecture Gallery in Rudolph
traditional Korean folk music
played “sitting down.”
Amoriem Labs
Music Makers
Red Territory
Heritage Theater
Ensemble
Hall for Japan, Archipelago Art Exhibition Opera Theatre of
a band at Yale was in Students at Yale Synth Labyrinth
Enjoy a screening of the docu- of the House, which seeks to Yale College
Collective
1775, when a militia mentary Charm City, presented contextualize the develop- See your suitemates perform Crafternoons
Undergraduate Yale Children’s
band of Yale students by the Yale Film Study ment and design of the for New Haven’s youngest at
Design for America Music Production Theater
Center and the Yale African contemporary Japanese house. the Yale Children’s Theater
accompanied George Yale Association Yale Drama
American Affinity Group, performance of Sir Aveline, the
Washington to Cam- followed by a community- Brave. Or step on stage your- Guild of Bookmakers Yale Concert Band Coalition
bridge, Massachusetts. driven conversation with Pick up subsidized tickets self in afternoon rehearsals of Yale Art History Yale Folk Music Yale Dramat
Kalfani Nyerere Turè of Yale’s provided by your residential the Dramat’s production of Group
They found it “not Collective
Urban Ethnography Project. college and head to New Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s
to their liking” and Yale College Anime Yale Handbell Comedy/Improv
York with friends for a sugar The Little Prince (one of 200
Society Ensemble The Cucumber
returned to New Haven high at American Ballet student theatrical productions
Be inspired by women who Theatre’s production of each year). YaleMakes
one week later. From Yale Hip-Hop The Exit Players
blazed trails as musicians, Alexei Ratmansky’s Whipped Yale Undergraduate
those humble roots Yale Klezmer Band The Fifth Humour
composers, and philanthro- Cream. Or enjoy a night of Photography
have sprung the Yale
Concert Band, the Yale
pists well before coeducation
at Yale College at the exhibi-
with performances ranging
from the Viennese waltz
Saturday theater right here on campus
at the Yale Repertory
Society Yale Precision
Marching Band
The Good Show
Just Add Water
tion Musical Daughters of to the tango. Then stop by Theatre, where you’ll be Yale Symphony
Symphony Orchestra, Dance Lux Improvitas
Eli: Women Pioneers at Yale, the Crescent Underground Get an early start with a morn­ blown away by a vibrant Orchestra
and the incomparable including a YDN article about Theater at Morse College ing of music at the Woolsey Afro-futurist production of A Different Drum The Odd Ducks
Yale Undergraduate
Yale Precision March- New Blue, Yale’s first female to check out the jazz band Concerto Competition, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Alliance for Dance The Opening
Chamber Orchestra
ing Band. Such is Yale’s a cappella group, all at your FroCo is managing. Or where School of Music instru-
Ballet Folklórico Yale Undergraduate The Purple Crayon
Sterling Memorial Library. head to the Afro-American mentalists and singers compete
epic arts story, peopled for the opportunity to appear as
Mexicano Jazz Collective Red Hot Poker
Cultural Center for an Enjoy a concert to benefit
by icons (Thornton open mic slam with WORD soloists with the Philharmonia. children’s literacy given by the Dzana Dance Yale Undergraduate Sphincter Sketch
Wilder, Paul Newman, Performance Poetry. Make it a marathon and head to Whiffenpoofs, the world’s Groove Dance Piano Collective Comedy
Sprague Hall in the afternoon oldest and best-known colle-
Maya Lin, Jodie Foster, Jashan Bhangra Tilting at Windmills
to watch the broadcast—live giate a cappella group. The
Lupita Nyong’o) and Kalaa Singing Groups The Viola Question
Bring friends for popcorn and in HD—of the Metropolitan Whiffs are one of more than
satisfying pretty much a movie, Ava DuVernay’s Selma, Opera’s performance of Verdi’s a dozen a cappella groups MonstRAASity The Baker’s Dozen
followed by a conversation La Traviata. and have become one of Spoken Word
any artistic desire Rhythmic Blue C#

any day of the week.

about the historical context
of the civil rights march with
Sunday Yale’s most celebrated and
hallowed traditions. Sabrosura Cadence of Yale Jook Songs
Teeth Slam Poets
We picked one Channel your inner geologist African American Studies Shaka Contour
weekend in spring. at the Peabody Museum’s associate professor Crystal As a member of the family- Doox of Yale Telltale
Steppin’ Out
exhibition California Gold: Feimster. It’s all part of the oriented Gospel Choir, sing Close the weekend with an WORD
Taps Gospel Choir
Modern Marvels from the Golden Whitney Humanities at Sunday services. eclectic mix of live music: the
State, with one of the finest Center’s Democracy in annual Stan Wheeler Memo- Unity Korean Drum Hangarak Unique
collections of specimens on America Film Series, designed rial Jazz Concert at the Law & Dance Troupe Living Water Aerial & Circus Arts
display anywhere in the world. to foster Yale’s dynamic film Help your friends set up the School; a student Choral
Yale Ballroom Dance Magevet Collective
culture with free screenings Beading & Bonding inter­ Conducting Recital at Battell
Team Mixed Company Ambient Sounds
and discussions every weekend. cultural event at the Native Chapel; the Great Organ
Soothe your soul with a hidden American Cultural Center, Music series at Marquand Yale Breakers The New Blue Society
gem in the tuba repertoire, Take the Masterpiece Tour sponsored by NACC and Yale Chapel. Or learn new steps Yale Danceworks Chocolate & Confec-
Out of the Blue
Arild Plau’s Concerto for Tuba If that’s too highbrow for your at the Yale University Art African Students Association. and lighten your mood in a tionary Artisans
Yale Movement Pitches & Tones
and Strings, performed by mood, start your evening with Gallery, stopping into the Or sleep in and join the Swing, Blues, and Fusion
Yale Rangeela Ink & Vellum:
Yale’s Philharmonia the all-ages show at Toad’s special exhibitions A Nation Yale Unity Korean Drum DJed dance practicum at the Proof of the Pudding Undergraduate
Orchestra and featuring Place, then head over to the Reflected: Stories in American Troupe for an afternoon of Slifka Center. Yale Undergraduate Redhot & Blue Architecture Society
soloist and recent School of Criterion Cinema’s exclusive Glass and Matthew Barney: Ballet Company
Music graduate Jake Fewx. Insomnia Theater film series, Redoubt. After lunch at Atticus Shades Maison de Beauté
Yaledancers
which “brings the best cult Cafe across the street, head to Society of Orpheus The Whistlepoofs
classics back to the big screen!” Hastings Hall for the after- & Bacchus
Film Yale Anti-Gravity
Swing by Off Broadway Or unwind with the late-night noon session of the School of
Bulldog Productions Something Extra Society
Theater for lineup and munchies at the Architecture’s symposium
the late seating Yale Cabaret, where School Clouds, Bubbles, and Waves. Yale Undergraduate The Spizzwinks(?) Yale Magic Society
of the Yale of Drama performers are Film Alliance Tangled Up in Blue Y Pop-Up
Ballroom never more than a few feet
The Whiffenpoofs Yale Students
Dance Team’s away, and where your waiter Or gallery-hop from the Fashion
Whim ’n Rhythm Immersive Media
spectacular one week might be on stage School of Art’s Senior Thesis
Y Fashion House and more
Spring Show, the next. Show, Paintings Part I (see Part The Yale Alley Cats

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The Science Channel. Student Groups
American
Indian Science &
Society of Physics
Students
Society of Women
Engineering Society Engineers
(Life outside the lab) American Institute STEM & Health
of Chemical Equity Advocates
Engineers Student Partner-
American Society ships for Global
At Yale College you of Mechanical Health
can major or take Engineers Synapse
courses in twenty- Amoriem Labs Tau Beta Pi
nine STEM disciplines, Biomedical TEDx Yale
Engineering Society
from Applied Mathe- Undergraduate
Black Pre-Health
matics to Biomedical Cognitive Science
Students at Yale Collective
Engineering to Neuro-
Boat-Building Club Undergraduate
science. And with 70+
Bulldogs Racing Mathematics
student STEM organiza- Society
Code for Good
tions on campus, your
Code Haven Undergraduate
extra-curricular oppor- Pre-Veterinary
Community Health
tunities are many. Join Society
Educators
the staff of Yale Scien- Undergraduate
Data4Humanity Women in STEM
tific, the nation’s oldest
Dimensions United Against
college science publi-
Engineers Without Inequities in Disease
cation. Be one of more Borders User Experience
than 1,200 coders par-
Environmental Society
ticipating in YHack, Education Volunteers around
the national hackathon Collaborative the World
established by Yale FIRST at Yale Women & Gender
undergraduates. Travel Girls in Science Minorities in CS
to Cameroon with the Global Initiative Women in
Yale chapter of Engi- for Biomedical Chemistry
Innovation Women in Physics
neers Without Borders
Grace Hopper Coali- Y-BioIncubator
to work on a water
tion of Stu­dents in
distribution project. Technology Yale Computer
Society
Join the Undergraduate GREEN
Yale Funbotics
Aerospace Associa- HackYale Student
tion, featured here, and Group Yale Genetics Club

work in teams to build “Being a part of YUAA has been Health & Education Yale Helix Group

and fly rockets, planes, an incredibly formative and fun Advocates for Yale iGEM Team
experience. I went from being Refugees Yale Math
quadcopters, and UAVs.
a first-year who didn’t know the MathCounts Competition
Or create a new orga-
Outreach Yale Student
nization and make your first thing about engineering to
Medical Profes- Environmental
own mark on life out- part of the team that won second sions Outreach Coalition
side the lab at Yale. place in the Intercollegiate Rocket
MedSci Yale Student
Engineering Competition’s pay­- Mental Health
National Society of
load competition. Now, as one of Black Engineers Association
the organization’s co-presidents, Neuroscience Yale Summer
I’m learning about the manage- Education Under- Science Research
graduate Research Institute
ment of engineering projects
Organization Yale Undergraduate
and working to create a larger Aerospace
Out in STEM
community of people excited about Association
Project Bright
engineering and science at Yale.” Yale Undergraduate
SheCode
Genevieve Fowler HOSA
Simplex Sciences Yale Undergraduate
Society of Hispanic Science Olympiad
Professional YHack
Engineers
and more
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Shared Communities.
(Identity, culture, gender, religion, and politics sheltered and nurtured)

Some say Yale is a place

of reinvention, but others
say the undergraduate
experience here is about
becoming more of who
you already are. Many
students find the most
personal routes on this
journey through Yale’s
Cultural Houses, the
Women’s Center, religious
communities, political
activism and groups, and
sexual identity organi-
zations that make up a
microcosm of the world’s
views and beliefs. The
best part is the friends,
traveling companions,
and guides that students
find through these cen-
ters and organizations to
help them on their way.
In the words of one alum,
Where House
“The work that I did with Means Home.
other Latino students
(Cultural centers at Yale)
to bring about positive
change in our communi- Yale’s four Cultural Houses include
ties played a tremendous the Afro-American Cultural
part in my identity devel- Center, the Asian American
opment and paved the Cultural Center (pictured here),
way for the work that the Latino Cultural Center (La
I will continue to do for Casa Cultural), and the Native
a lifetime.” American Cultural Center. All are
modeled after the Afro-American
Cultural Center (affectionately
known as “The House”), founded
in 1969. The four centers nourish
a sense of cultural identity and
educate people in the larger
community. They are also home
base for dozens of affiliated
organizations from fraternities
and sororities to dance companies,
publications, and social action
and political groups.

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 Adventist Campus The Rivendell
Fellowship Institute
Black Church at Yale Saint Thomas More
Chabad at Yale Undergraduate
Council
Chi Alpha Christian
Fellowship Sikhs at Yale

Christ Presbyterian Slifka Center for

Students Jewish Life
Afro-American La Casa Cultural Asian American Native American Thomistic Institute
Christian Union Lux
Cultural Center Host to countless cultural, schol- Cultural Center Cultural Center at Yale
arly, and social events, La Casa Episcopal Church
Afro-America House—known What can you do at the AACC? The Association of Native Trinity Baptist
Cultural is an important focus at Yale
as “the House”—opened in 1969 Just about anything: study in Americans at Yale (ANNAY) was Students
as a locus for political, cultural, of Latino student social life at the library, cook for friends, founded in 1989 with the aim First Love Yale
Yale and a tremendous source of Undergraduate
and social activities, continu- enjoy the widescreen television, of attracting Native American Hindu Students
student-community interaction. Deacons
ing earlier Yale gatherings that play Ping-Pong. Established in faculty and scholars; expand- Organization
Founded in 1974 as Casa Boricua, United Church of
brought Black students together 1981, the center promotes Asian ing course offerings to include Keeping the Faiths together on a remarkable journey Ichthys
to discuss issues pertinent to the Inc., it acquired its present name American culture and explores Native American history and Westville
three years later. Within the Yale students come from more of spiritual awakening and human InterFaith Forum
black community. With these the social and political experience cultural studies; increasing United Church on
gatherings, the isolation students three-story, 19th-century red of Asians in the United States. Native American recruitment; than thirty religious and spiritual flourishing.” Located on Old Cam- International the Green
had experienced in the late fifties brick house, students socialize, More than forty undergraduate and creating a permanent head- traditions. Founded as an institu- pus, where most first-years live, Church at Yale
plan activities, cook together in The University
and early sixties gave way to the organizations are affiliated with quarters for the group. Many of tion with a Protestant vocation, the Chaplain’s Office coordinates
a fully equipped kitchen, and Jewish Christian Church
vigorous exchange of ideas now the AACC. Students of Chinese, those goals have been achieved,
seen at the House. The com- create a warm and robust com- Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South including the establishment
Yale today welcomes those of any religious life at Yale, supporting Bible Study W{holy} Queer
mon thread is the commitment, munity. The center also includes Asian (Bangladeshi, Indian, of the Native American Cultural or no faith tradition and seeks to worship services and rituals across LuMin at Yale Yale Buddhist
a Latino and Latin American
confidence, and consciousness Nepalese, Pakistani, Sri Lankan), Center. ANNAY and the center nurture all in their spiritual jour- faith traditions. It partners with Muslim Students Sangha
that students, faculty, the New topic library, computer room, Taiwanese, Thai, Vietnamese, promote Native American cul- Association
organizational offices, student neys. “We consider ourselves quite centers for specific faiths and with Yale Hillel
Haven community, and the and other Asian backgrounds ture and explore issues Native
lounges, and meeting spaces. It is blessed,” says University Chap- affiliated community service orga- Orthodox Christian Yale Students for
University administration have work together to address pan- Americans face today. Programs
open to New Haven Latinos and Fellowship Christ
shown in making the Afro- Asian American issues as well as include speakers, dinners, lain Sharon M. K. Kugler, “to be nizations, and it offers pastoral
American Cultural Center vitally community-based ESL programs provide programs that focus on study breaks, and movie nights. Progressive Young Israel House
for non-English speakers.
part of a community of scholars, support and social and educational Christian Students
essential to Yale, New Haven, individual ethnic group issues. at Yale
and beyond.
seekers, and believers walking programs throughout the year. Organization
and more

Afro-American National Society CAFE: Central Asian American Jashan Bhangra Unity Korean Drum
Cultural Center of Black Engineers Americans for Health Advocates Jook Songs & Dance Troupe
Arab Students Nigerian Students Empowerment Asian American Vietnamese
Kalaa
Association Association CAUSA Students Alliance Students
Kasama Association (ViSA)
Black Church at Rhythmic Blue Club Colombia Asian-ish
Korean American Yale Movement
Yale Shades a Cappella Club Venezuela Bridges ESL Students at Yale
Black Men’s Steppin’ Out Contigo Perú C# a Cappella and more
Malaysian &
Student Union
Students of Mixed De Colores Chinese American Singaporean Native American Women’s Center Office of LGBTQ Resources
Black Solidarity Heritage Students Association
Conference Despierta Boricua Cultural Center The center’s mission is to improve The Office of LGBTQ Resources
Teeth Slam Poets Association (MASA)
Black Student Dominican Student American Indian the lives of all women, especially works to create a visible LGBTQ
Undergraduate Association Chinese MonstRAASity Science &
Alliance at Yale Undergraduate
at Yale and in New Haven. As part community that includes
Association for La Unidad Latina Muslim Students Engineering
Black Women’s African Peace & Students Association Society (Yale
of a broader feminist movement, students, faculty, and staff with a Belonging at Yale
Coalition Development Latina Women at Hangarak Negative Space chapter) it works to ensure equal and full wide variety of life experiences. Yale’s work to enhance diversity,
Yale
BlackOut Undergraduate Hanppuri Association of opportunity for all, regardless It sponsors and host events, support equity, and promote
MEChA Queer+Asian
Caribbean Stu- Gospel Choir Himalayan Native Americans of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, meets one-on-one with students, a welcoming environment of
dents Organization Mexican Student Rangeela at Yale
Urban Improve- Students nationality, sexual orientation, and supports the student-run inclusion and respect are coor-
Delta Sigma Theta ment Corps Organization Association Sikhs at Yale DOWN Magazine socioeconomic status, back- LGBTQ Co-op. dinated through the Belonging
Dominican Student WORD Sabrosura Hindu Students South Asian Henry Roe Cloud
Society
ground, religion, ability, or age. at Yale initiative. Visit belong.
Association Sube Organization Conference & BlackOut Prisme LGBT+
Yale African yale.edu to learn about Yale’s
Sri Lankans at Yale Powwow Black Women’s Women Every­ De Colores in New Haven
DOWN Magazine Students and more Hong Kong
Association Students Student Muslim Students Coalition where Believe Queer+Asian
antiracism work, review campus
Dzana Dance DOWN Magazine
Asian American Association Association of Association action plans, and explore sup-
and more Broad Recognition Women’s Athletic Engender Supporting
Heritage Theater Cultural Center Indonesia Yale Thais at Yale Red Territory Council Student-Athletes port systems that help every
Ensemble Circle of Women Harbor Scholars
La Casa Cultural A Leg Even Association Taiwanese Students of Mixed Women’s at Yale student feel safe, supported,
J.M. Bolin Program Dimensions Ichthys
Ballet Folklórico Alliance for Japanese American American Heritage Leadership Trans@Yale and seen.
Muslim Students Society Reproductive Initiative at Yale Out in STEM
Mexicano Southeast Students Union and more and more
Association Justice Action
Brazil Club Asian Students and more Pride Corp
League (RALY)

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Difference Makers. Community
Service Student
Groups
MedSci
Migration Alliance
at Yale
A Leg Even
(Yale’s incubator of impact and leadership—Dwight Hall) AIDS Walk New
Miracle League
Dance
Haven Moneythink
AISEC at Yale Music Makers
Alzheimer’s Buddies New Haven REACH
Leadership and
American Red Cross PALS Tutoring &
service to society are
Animal Welfare Mentoring
inextricably linked at “When I was thirteen, I started incredible, and I found a perfect Alliance Peer Liaisons
Yale. Nowhere is that a nonprofit organization, Love fit for my interests. When I’m Arnold Air Society Period @ Yale
more apparent than at for the Elderly, that has grown working with kids, I’m also Black Student Peristalsis Dance
Dwight Hall, the Center beyond my wildest dreams. I hanging out with my best friends. Alliance Group
for Public Service and knew service would be a big part It’s a social endeavor that makes Bridges ESL Project Access
Social Justice founded of my college experience, and I everyone involved happier. Building Bridges at Yale
by undergraduates wanted to join a community that When you are passionate about Camp Kesem Yale RALY
in 1886. Dwight Hall truly valued acts of kindness. something and see the impact Campus Girl Scouts Restaurant Rescue
is America’s only The dozens of options for doing you’re having, it’s amazing.” Project
Challah for Hunger
nonprofit umbrella service through Dwight Hall are Jacob Cramer RISE
Circle of Women
campus volunteer Yale Rotaract Club
organization run CityStep Yale SheCode
entirely by students. Code4Good SNUGS Yale
Yalies develop new Code Haven Splash at Yale
initiatives in response
Community Health Student Partner-
to community needs Educators ships for Global
and provide resources, Crisis Text Line Health

training, and support Elm City Echo Synapse Outreach

to more than 80 Elmseed Enterprise Timmy Global
groups that range from Fund Health

tutoring to political Engineers Without Undergraduates at

Borders CT Hospice
activism. With Dwight
Environmental Urban Fellows
Hall’s support, Yale
Education Program
undergraduates have
Collaborative Urban Improvement
founded many orga- Corps
Estamos Unidos
nizations that have Asylum Project Urban Philanthropic
become a permanent Expressive Arts Fund
part of New Haven’s Therapy Vida Volunteer
social service network. Fair Haven Tutoring Volunteers around
For more than twenty Females for Finance the World

years, members of the First-Years in Sup- Walden

“I think most Yale students would
Yale Children’s Theater, port of New Haven Yale Children’s
agree that we learn as much by Theater
showcased here, have Flyte Scholastics
giving to others as we do pursuing
engaged kids with the Funbotics Yale Education
our intellectual interests. For me, Tutoring Initiative
dramatic arts through Girls on the Run
service is just as important as doing Yale Effective Altru-
student-written shows, HAPPY
“Children’s Theater is a serious the kids put on their own show. homework. Performing with the ism Student Group
workshops, and story- Harbor Scholars
commitment, but it’s also a great They are excited and nervous Yale Children’s Theater has been Yale EMS
reading programs at Hear Your Song
break from the rest of college life. and proud, and their parents love one of my favorite experiences. I Yale Under­graduate
local schools. Hunger & Home- Legal Aid
When I’m running a workshop seeing their children having fun. love connecting with the children,
lessness Action Association
with students or leading a ‘read The experience confirmed my and I hope they are inspired to
Project Yale Undergraduate
aloud’ at a local elementary school, interest in becoming an educator pursue the arts and think about
Immigrant History Prison Project
it doesn’t feel like I’m doing and helped me make important the ideas embedded in our stories, Project Yale Undergradu-
service. I could spend all day doing connections in New Haven.” like friendship and loyalty.” Living History ates for UNICEF
this work. The best part is when Jackson Richmond Jessica Magro Project Y2Y New Haven
MathCounts and more
Outreach

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The Student Voice. Retired general Stanley
McChrystal leading a Yale
Political Union discussion. And,
left to right: an editorial board
the Yale Daily News office;
the staff of the Yale Scientific,
America’s oldest college science
publication; getting the shot for
(Overheard at Yale—politics and publications) meeting at DOWN Magazine, YTV; a brainstorming session
an online publication by and for for the next issue of the Politic,
students of color; at work in a journal of politics and culture.

Speaking up and Political/Advocacy Publications

Organizations
speaking out are Yale Accent Multilingual
Black Students for Magazine
traditions, as you’ll
Disarmament at Yale Azure
see if you pick up a
Choose Life at Yale The Boola
copy of the Yale Daily
The Conservative Broad Recognition
News (America’s old-
Party China Hands
est college daily) or
Disability Empower- Distilled
attend a debate hosted ment for Yale
DOWN Magazine
by the Yale Political The Egalitarian
Elm City Echo
Union. Opportunities Society
Her Campus at Yale
for discussion and Every Vote Counts
Hippopotamus
expression outside the The Federalist Party Literary Magazine
classroom are limitless The Independent Journal of Literary
here. Write about bio- Party Translation
ethics and healthcare J Street U Light & Truth
economics for the Yale Party of the Left The Logos
Journal of Medicine The Progressive The Politic

& Law. Or hone your Party Rumpus

talent for satire at the ReformAmerica Symposia

Yale Record, the coun- Stand with The Yale Daily News
“Comfort Women”
try’s oldest college Yale Economic
Students for Carbon Review
humor magazine. In
Dividends Yale Global Health
politics, Yale students Review
Students for Sensible
identify as staunch Drug Policy at Yale The Yale Globalist
conservatives, radical Thi[NK] at Yale The Yale Herald
liberals, diehard mon- The Tory Party The Yale Historical
archists, and nearly Review
William F. Buckley,
everything in between. Jr. Program at Yale Yale Journal of
But even when they Behavioral Economics
Yale College
Yale Journal of
disagree, a strong Democrats
Human Rights
sense of community Yale College
Yale Journal of
allows them to engage Republicans
Medicine & Law
each other in vigorous Yale Debate
The Yale Layer
Association
debate. It’s easy to Yale Literary
Yale Depolarization
see why so many Yale Magazine
Initiative
alums have gone on to The Yale Literary
Yale International Review
shape conversations Relations Association
The Yale Phoenix
on the national and Yale Israel Public
The Yale Record
international level. Affairs Committee
The Yale Review of
Yale Model Congress Disability Experience
Yale Political Union Yale Scientific
Yale Socialist Party Magazine

Yale Student Envi- Yale State & Local

ronmental Coalition Policy Review

Yale Undergraduate Yale Undergraduate

Women’s Health
Young Democratic
Journal
Socialists
and more
and more

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