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admissions.yale.edu *A Guide to Yale College, 2016–2017 A Guide to Yale College This is Yale. We’re glad you asked. p. 90 | Elm City p. 102 | State of the p. 114 | The Science Lives. Run. On a run Arts. From the digital Channel. Life outside from Old Campus to the classical, Yale’s the lab. p. 10 | Freshman to East Rock, one spectacular arts options. Diaries. Yale’s newest student explains p. 116 | Political students chronicle a why New Haven is p. 104 | The Daily Animals. Welcome week in the first year the perfect size. Show. A slice of Yale’s to the YPU, one of and give some advice. creative life during one Yale’s most enduring p. 92 | Here, There, spring weekend. institutions. Everywhere. Fourteen Yalies, where p. 106 | Shared p. 118 | Difference they’re from, and Communities. Makers. Through where they’ve been. Yale’s Cultural Dwight Hall, students Houses, religious find their own paths communities, and to service and leader- p. 14 | Anatomy of a a∞nity organizations ship in New Haven. Residential College. Pursuits. and centers. Delving into the layers of Yale’s unique p. 98 | Bulldog! residential college Bulldog! Bow, Apply. system (12 gorgeous Wow, Wow! stand-alone “colleges”). p. 46 | Eavesdrop-­ Playing for Yale— p. 122 | The Good Studies. ping on Professors. p. 68 | Connect the The Game, the mission, News about the Why being an amazing Dots. From start-up the teams, the fans, Cost of Yale. p. 34 | A Liberal place to teach makes capital and internships and, of course, Our financial aid policy Education. Yale’s Yale an amazing place to top fellowships Handsome Dan. p. 110 | ELIterati. eliminates the need educational philosophy, to learn. and a worldwide Why Elis are just for loans and makes more than 80 majors, network of alumni, so darned determined Yale a≠ordable for all. the meaning of breadth, Yale positions to publish. and some startling graduates for success p. 123 | The numbers. in the real world. p. 112 | Sustainable Particulars. U. Where Blue is How to apply, what p. 38 | College Green. we look for, and Meets University. visiting campus. An undergraduate road Places. map to the intersection p. 54 | A Hands-On of Yale College and Education. Learning the University’s gradu- by doing. p. 76 | ate and professional Inspired schools. p. 56 | Next-Gen by Icons. Knowledge. For Why p. 40 | Blue Booking. Yalies, one-of-a-kind architecture p. 24 | Bright When parties and resources make matters. College Years. shopping are academic. all the di≠erence. In many ways, friend- Plus: shopping lists p. 86 | Noah ship defines the and special programs. Webster Lived Yale experience. One Here. Bumping student sums it up: p. 44 | Two, Three, into history at Yale. “It’s about the people, Four, Five Heads not the prestige.” Are Better Than p. 88 | Nine Squares. One. Synergy p. 62 | Think Yale. The modern univer­- p. 28 | Breaking and study groups. Think World. Eight sity, the cosmopolitan News. A few of Elis define “global college town. the year’s top under- citizen” and share piv- graduate stories. otal moments abroad.

4 5 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)

8 | lives 9 Mallet Njonkem Preorientation Freshman Programs Counselors The Hometown Several optional Freshman Counselor Freshman Diaries. Richmond, TX preorientation programs (a.k.a. Froco) Program Anticipated Major give new students a was established in (Life in the first year) Economics, Engineering Sciences: Mechanical chance to meet each 1938 and has been other prior to the formal an intrinsic and Freshman Orientation. essential component of Yale’s advising From the moment they Cultural Connections system for freshmen arrive, freshmen are “While it may not be particularly (CC) introduces fresh- ever since. Each men to Yale’s cultural first-year student is able to dive into all that easy to excel at Yale, fnding resources and explores assigned a counselor Yale has to offer. In part the diversity of student who acts as a guide this is because so many out that there are many resources experiences on campus, through the transition programs are in place with emphasis on the to life at Yale. Frocos experiences of students are a diverse group specifically to welcome to help achieve goals was my of color and on issues of seniors who and guide first-year related to racial identity. are friends/mentors/ students— from pre- greatest surprise.” problem-solvers— Freshman Outdoor but not supervisors orientation to freshman Orientation Trips or disciplinarians. counselors (Yale seniors) (FOOT) are six-day and All freshmen except to Freshman Seminars On preorientation: I did On expectations: I was never four-day back­packing those in Timothy (small classes taught Cultural Connections and loved completely sure what I would want trips for all levels in Dwight and Silliman the mountains and live together on by some of Yale’s most it! I had a fantastic time going to study in college, so I knew that hills of Vermont, New Old Campus during prominent professors) on adventures, participating I wanted to go to a place where I Hampshire, New their first year, and to parties. We caught in stimulating discussions and could engage in several di≠erent York, Massachusetts, Frocos live among and Connecticut, led them. (Freshmen up with three freshmen conversations, and being ushered pursuits. The ability to easily by upperclassmen. are grouped in Old near the end of their into some of the finer aspects of switch majors or disciplines was Trip leaders have Campus residences second semesters. student campus life with things one of the main factors that drew extensive training in by college affiliation, Here they share advice like a talent show and poetry me to apply to private schools like keeping FOOTies safe which allows all and healthy in the freshmen no matter on preorientation, performances. I really benefited Yale in addition to my state’s flag- back­country and are their college affilia- independence, and First Year’s Classes from the program in that I felt a ship school. When I visited Yale experienced counselors tion to get to know schedules; reflect on A Tuesday > Comprehensive General sense of belonging and already during Bulldog Days—a three-day who offer a wealth of each other.) support, advice, and their own freshman in the life of Chemistry II had a network of friends before program for admitted students— > General Chemistry Lab II friendship. expectations; and record 9:30 am Wake up, shower, and (ideally) > Reading and Writing the Camp Yale even started. I’ve I was blown away by the fluidity a day in their lives get breakfast at Saybrook. Modern Essay heard similar experiences from and flexibility across several Harvest begins at the during the first year. > Introduction to Ethnicity, Race, friends who participated in FOOT. spheres in the school. It became Yale Farm, and then 10:30 Spanish in Linsly-Chittenden groups of freshmen and Migration I highly encourage incoming clear to me that integrating into (conveniently located between > Calculus of Functions of One led by upperclassmen Vanderbilt and Saybrook). Variable I and II students to consider one of Yale’s residential college communities, head off to spend > Introductory Microeconomics preorientation programs. extracurricular activities, and five days on family- 11:20 Rush to Hillhouse to make it > Introduction to Engineering, owned organic farms to my 11:35 calculus class. the larger Yale community would Innovation, and Design in the Northeast. On roommates: Whether by be seamless. And now that I’m 1:00 pm Grab lunch at Silliman with > Vikings pure coincidence or by Yale’s here, one of my most pleasant Orientation for a friend or two from math. > Elementary Spanish II complex room assignment system, surprises is that there are a ton International Students (OIS) is a four-day 3:00 Work out at Payne Whitney Activities I was matched with someone I of great resources such as o∞ce program designed to Gym, shower, and leave by 4. > Yale Black Men’s Union > Yale PALS Tutoring and had met and hit it o≠ with during hours, tutoring, review sessions, ease the transition of 6:00 Meet up at Chipotle or another Mentoring the college search process. After intelligent fellow classmates, international students to the United States, local eatery with fellow Black > Yale Undergraduate Diversified we got our suite assignments, etc., all around just waiting to Men’s Union members to work Investments and to acquaint them on a newsletter for alumni. > Science, Technology, and we texted each other in happy be utilized. with academic and Research Scholars surprise that we would be social life at Yale. It is 7:30 Weekly meeting with Cluster > Saybrook College Council rooming together. organized and led by Technicians at the Student Chair of the Dining Hall Committee international upper- Technology Collaborative. > Shaka at Yale Polynesian dance classmen with support group On Freshman Seminars: from the Office of 9:00 Watch TV for an hour. These are very popular classes International Students and Scholars. 10:00 Do homework with a friend at with limited sizes. I definitely Squiche (Saybrook’s buttery). recommend applying to them. 12:30 am Back to my room to get some sleep.

10 | lives 11 Eliza Dach A Wednesday Oscar Pocasangre A Thursday Hometown in the life of Hometown in the life of Washington, DC San Salvador, El Salvador 8:25 am Wake up and get ready for 9:00 am Comparative Latin American Anticipated Major Anticipated Major classes. Politics: Get ready to take a lot Chemistry (although I also want to Economics, Political Science of notes! explore Chemical Engineering) 8:45 Walk with my roommate to Branford for hot breakfast. 10:15 Breakfast. At Berkeley College, Our favorite day is chocolate I usually get a bagel, mu∞ns, First Year’s Classes chip pancake day. wa±e, or fruit and yogurt, and > Directed Studies: Literature 6:45 am. Wake up, shower, and walk orange juice. 9:25 Organic Chemistry class. With (both semesters) the help of giant styrofoam 10:30 I go back to my room and > Directed Studies: Historical models, we’ve been learning to Payne Whitney for archery practice. work on homework or an and Political Thought (both about synthetic mechanisms assigned reading. That is, semesters) and about how the smallest when I don’t end up talking > Directed Studies: Philosophy change in a molecule’s orienta- with people on the floor. (both semesters) tion can change its smell, > Quantitative Foundations of 11:35 French class: a small class look, reactivity, toxicity... General Chemistry where we practice French > Laboratory for Quantitative 10:15 Head to the Blue State co≠ee through class discussions of Foundations of General shop for an hour. Usually I di≠erent novels, short stories, Chemistry work on my chemistry problem and films. > Organic Chemistry set or review DS reading for 12:25 pm Run to lunch at one of the > Laboratory for Organic the afternoon section meeting. residential colleges, usually Chemistry I 11:35 DS Philosophy lecture. I love Berkeley. The cool thing about > Advanced Dance Composition DS lectures. Each professor eating at the dining halls is has a di≠erent area of expertise that you always meet up with Activities and eloquently synthesizes that a friend or someone you know. > Yaledancers week’s reading with the course > Yale team for the Solar 1:00 Statistics for Political Science: as a whole (especially useful if Decathlon Standard deviation? Multi- we’re reading Kant or Hegel). linear regression? Multicol- 12:25 pm Lunch in TD with a big group linearity among regressors? of DSers. These lunches are Yes, yes, and yes. We learn a hidden gem of DS: because about statistical tools that you “Directed Studies provides a valuable you spend so much time with a can apply to political studies, relatively small group, you end such as in election polls. foundation in the humanities and up making a lot of friends over 2:30 Have a co≠ee with a friend, go the course of the year’s lectures, to o∞ce hours, and/or work sections, and lunches. reminds me that science and the grading Spanish homework 1:00 O≠ to the discussion section assignments. humanities used to be intricately for DS Historical and Political 6:00  The Yale Globalist, meeting Thought. over dinner. We usually linked. Only recently did people start 2:15 Back to Old Campus to relax. discuss possible themes for the If it’s sunny, I sit out on the On adjusting: A di≠erent First Year’s Classes next issue, evaluate the previ- to consider them such separate felds.” benches and chat with friends culture, di≠erent weather, and > Microeconomics with ous issue, or talk with journal- who are passing by or playing Environmental Applications ists about how to improve the frisbee. Eventually I head to a di≠erent language, but the > Comparative Latin American magazine. my room or the JE library to transition was not hard because Politics 7:30 Time to go to the library to do fnish up the week’s DS paper > Intermediate and Advanced On orientation: FOOT is sections are at the heart of the of the help I got from the O∞ce problem sets or readings. a great way to kick o≠ your program: they let you engage or work on a lab report. of International Students and French > Introductory Statistics for 10:00 Hang out with friends, have 6:00 Dinner with my amazing freshman year! I did the four-day with the texts, the other students, other students. I also did Political Science random conversations, go to suitemates in JE. Afterward, we Appalachian Trail trip and made and the professors in a small an amazing preorientation for > Reading and Writing the a party, a play, or go to get a stop in the Froco’s suite for an Modern Essay late-night snack. an instant group of friends. group setting. impromptu dance party (or just International Students. > Political Psychology to grab a piece of candy). 1:30 am (Sometimes it’s 3 or 4 am) Go > The Modern Unconscious to bed and get some sleep! On Directed Studies (DS): The On extracurriculars: There 8:15 Jazz night at Yaledancers class. On Old Campus and Frocos: > Introductory Macroeconomics yearlong DS humanities program is such strong support for the Fun and tiring, YD classes are a Living on Old Campus with almost > Calculus of Functions of is unique to Yale and a wonderful arts on campus. I’ve been able to highlight of my week. all other freshmen gives you a great One Variable 10:00 Back to my dorm to shower, way to make sure you are taking keep up and improve my dancing way to know people from all the Activities talk with friends, and fnish up small seminars, having lectures and have had the chance to colleges. Frocos are freshman > The Yale Globalist whatever work I have left. with world-class professors, choreograph pieces of my own. counselors. They become friends International a≠airs magazine 1:00 am Bedtime. I pack up my books > International Student quickly improving your writing Most importantly, I’ve found a and notes for Thursday so who give great advice. The cool Organization skills, and reading the classics, community of amazingly talented that I don’t wake up my room- thing is that although you have > AIESEC We help find internships from ancient Greece through the dancers and friends who have mate when I leave for my 9 am your own Froco, you end up being all over the world for Yalies. twentieth century. Discussion defned my time at Yale so far. Literature class. helped by them all. > Yale Club Archery

12 | lives 13 The Courtyard The image of Vincent Scully, Rogers transformed the secret garden was architect Yale into a loose association of Anatomy of a Residential College. James Gamble Rogers’s inspiration “little paradises.” for the courtyards around which each residential college is designed. (Yale has no dormitories) According to legendary art historian and Yale professor emeritus

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

Yale’s college that had meant so much to system is him would diminish. In 1927 the early- Harkness and his friend, fellow 20th-century Eli and architect James Gamble brainchild of Rogers (B.A. 1889), made a philanthropist “secret mission” to England to and alumnus study Oxford and Cambridge Edward S. universities’ collegiate system. Harkness (B.A. 1897). Archi­ “The men came back convinced,” tecture critic Paul Goldberger writes Goldberger, that dividing tells us in Yale in New Haven: the undergraduate body into Architecture and Urbanism (Yale a 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 reputation important to them throughout and stature but worried that their lives. In the fall of 1933 as the University grew, the the first seven of the twelve close bonds between students colleges opened.

14 | lives 15 Home Suite Home FLOOR 2 FLOOR 1 Most freshmen live in Yale in Dean’s Office Dean’s suites in which four If a student is having Apartment BASEMENT students occupy two Miniature. Game Room di∞culty with a particular Dean Joel Silverman FLOOR 2 bedrooms and share course, the college dean can lives in Morse with his Head of (A tour of Conveniently a common living often help by talking with wife, Alba Estenoz, College’s Office located next to the room. The suites are the student’s instructor who is a professional The head of college is the Morse College) Morsel, the Game all female or all male, or with the relevant pastry chef; their son, chief administrative o∞cer Room is a social and the residence department’s director of Noah; and their dogs, and the presiding faculty hub where students halls are coed. After undergraduate studies, or Oreo and Lulu. presence in each residential get together to freshman year, there by referring the student college. During the year, watch TV or play are multiple possible BASEMENT to one of the programs that the head of college hosts pool, table tennis, room arrangements. Buttery o≠er tutoring assistance. lectures, study breaks air hockey, and Run by Getting to know each (especially during finals), foosball. From top: A common students, “The student as an individual and College Teas—intimate room in Branford Morsel” is open helps the dean to address gatherings during which College; a bedroom Sunday through concerns as personally students have the oppor- in Farnam Hall on Thursday from and e≠ectively as possible. tunity to engage with Old Campus; a 10:30 pm to 1 am. renowned guests from bedroom in Berkeley Hang out with the academy, government, College; a bed­room friends over the and popular culture. with built-in desk and popular Jim Stanley, bookshelves in Ezra a quesadilla with Stiles College; and chicken nuggets. a common room 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 o≠ers 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 full-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. windows illuminates the courtyard and outdoor dining patio.

16 | lives 17 Catherine Panter-Brick, A Head Start. a professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global A≠airs, has What really makes a residential multidimensional appreciation been the Morse head of college college a college versus simply of student life. It’s changed the since July 2015. She teaches a place to live is that each has its way I teach because I now share courses on health equity and own dean and head of college— with students more than the humanitarian interventions and publishes extensively on mental adults living among students classroom experience, so I make health, violence, and resilience in microcosms of Yale College as my relationships with students in adversity, having directed a whole. The head of college is as personal as possible.” more than forty interdisciplinary projects situated in Africa, Asia, the leader of his or her college, and the Middle East. She has responsible for the physical well- “In a residential college, students coedited seven books, most being and safety of students who grow as a community, and my role recently Pathways to Peace (2014) live there, as well as for fostering is to care for this community: to and Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice (2015), and shaping the college’s academic, create a welcoming space, to show and received the Lucy Mair intellectual, social, athletic, and love for college life, to pay attention. Marsh Medal for Applied artistic life. Head of Morse College When life is stressful, students Anthropology, an award that honors excellence in the active Catherine Panter-Brick is a fnd support and comfort in a recognition of human dignity. professor of Anthropology, Health, close-knit community, and when and Global A≠airs and, like all life is wonderful, fellow Morsels heads of college, preeminent in are happy to share their excitement. her field. “I love my college: it’s By providing a consistent space a family,” she says. “I’m with where we are present in each students in the dining hall, on the other’s daily lives, the residential sports feld, in the dance studio, college serves as an anchor point and for events in my own house. for how students navigate four This has defnitely given me a years of university life.”

Joel Silverman has served as the dean of Morse since 2007. A Dean of One’s Own. His research and teaching focus on the intersection of power Residential college deans serve as programs and fellowships,” says and persuasion in American law chief academic and personal advis- Dean Silverman. “But I’m also and literature. He is particularly ers to students in their colleges. a personal adviser to students. interested in the way in which Morse College Dean Joel Silverman When students are feeling home­ lawyers, doctors, and other specialists translate technical says the college system means he sick, when there are conflicts language for a general audience. sees students not just in class but with roommates, when a student Among the seminars he has at dinner, at social events, and in who has earned A’s her entire life taught are Censorship and U.S. Culture, American Biography, common areas and the courtyard. suddenly bombs a test—I counsel Early Cold War Culture, and He attends their concerts, competi- these students, too.” Writing Power. As a lecturer tions, and shows. “We strive to in English, he helps students create actual communities, where Dean Silverman says that deans are develop the analytical tools they need to write well-reasoned, people truly support one another part of a constellation of advising at well-supported, and persuasive and embrace di≠erences,” he says. Yale that includes heads of college, academic arguments. He is “It’s extremely important to me freshman counselors, tutors, and currently writing a book on the lawyer who defended Ulysses to help support a community in others. “A few years ago, I was on in 1933. which my family and I also feel my way to a panel for the parents of comfortable living.” new freshmen, and I ran into one of the seniors in Morse. I asked her “I advise students on anything and what one point she would want me everything related to academics, to convey to the parents of fresh- including selecting courses, men. She paused, thought about it, choosing a major, and exploring and then said, ‘Tell them that Yale the many amazing opportunities is a safe and healthy place for kids here at Yale, such as study abroad to transition into adulthood.’”

18 | lives 19 Debate This. (Pierson Dining Hall conversations in progress)

Alan Montes and Alex Kain are Students Eric Bank and Vikram talking about their recent trips to Jairam, with Rosalie J. Kenya and Venezuela for election Blunden, formerly associate monitoring and a journalism dean for finance and administra- fellowship, respectively. As they tion at Yale School of Public look toward next summer, Health, are debating the charisma they are weighing the benefits quotient of Barack Obama vs. and trade-o≠s between summer John F. Kennedy. internships vs. summer classes vs. staying at home.

Amira Valliani, Jeff Sun, and Chris Palencia are talking about new opportu- nities for U.S. travel to Cuba. Amira mentions a Yale professor doing research in Cuba over the summer and looking for students to help. Je≠ adds that the Chap- lain’s O∞ce led a community service trip to Cuba. That’s when they start talking about the Chaplain’s O∞ce, which they say is an amazing and unbelievably under-utilized study space. Turns out it also has food, they say with more than a little excitement. They may run out of your favorite they did that day and the answer “They have an ice cream freezer and a veggie-Caesar wrap, but no matter would be remarkable. So much rowboat filled to the brim with Swedish what time you arrive or whom you of my Yale education came from Fish and Sour Patch Kids!” says Amira. sit with, no dining hall will have a talking to people over dinner.” Says shortage of interesting conversa- another alum, “I only thought I was tion. “Dinner for me was something open-minded before Yale. Debating extraordinarily important,” says a an issue could turn my views upside recent alum. “I’d sit down across down in a single conversation. from someone and ask them what That was the fun of it.”

20 | lives 21 Decoding the Colleges. Spine-Tyngling Fun. (Residential College rundown) (Intramural sports)

So you played sports in high the college accumulating the Fall College Shield Architecture Style Points How We Boola Boola Also Known As school but aren’t quite hardcore greatest number of points through Golf Coed Football Men, Coed enough to suit up for the Bulldogs. intramural play, was first presented Berkeley Collegiate Gothic, Delicious reputation: as test Annual snowball fight, Berkeleyites Volleyball Coed with a touch of kitchen for Yale’s Sustain- North Court vs. South You’re in luck. The residential in 1933. The Tyng continues Tennis Coed Tudor; built in 1934 able Food Project, Berkeley Court college intramural scene o≠ers to be the most coveted of all intra­ Soccer Men, Women pioneered a sustainable a chance to continue your career mural awards, spawning com- Cross Country Men, Women menu for all the colleges Table Tennis Coed at a surprisingly high level of petitive rivalries that make IMs a Branford Collegiate Robert Frost described Independence Day, when Branfordians competition or to start playing a way of life for former high school Winter Gothic; opened our courtyard as “the most Branford declares its new sport—not to mention a way all-stars and P.E. dropouts alike. Squash Men, Women 1933; home beautiful college courtyard independence from Yale Hoops Men, Women to prove that your college reigns to Harkness in America” in a day of barbecues Much of the above first appeared in “Intramu- Volleyball Men, Women Tower and and parties supreme. The Tyng Cup, annually rals at Yale are spine-Tyngling fun” by Aaron Ice Hockey Coed its bells awarded for overall excellence to Lichtig (1999) writing for the Yale Herald. Inner-Tube Coed Water Polo Calhoun Collegiate Gothic; The Cabaret in the base- Trolley Night: Clang, ’Hounies Bowling Coed opened in 1933 ment, with hugely popular clang, clang goes the party; Swimming Coed student shows ’Hounfest Spring Davenport One of its facades The Gnome, who watches Davensports! D-porters Dodgeball Coed a.k.a. D’Port is Collegiate over us, when he’s not Badminton Coed Gothic, the other is being abducted; our Soccer Coed Georgian; opened own orchestra, the Ultimate Coed in 1933 DPops; late nights at Softball Coed the Dive grill Billiards Coed Golf Coed Timothy Georgian; opened Bluegrass music, art studio, TD’s motto and cheer is Volleyball Coed Dwight in 1935 beat poetry: the laid-back “Àshe!” which means “We a.k.a. TD alternative make it happen” in Yorùbá TD-ers

Jonathan Collegiate Gothic; Our amazing letterpress; Great Awakening Fall Spiders Edwards opened in 1933 Tyng Cup winners Festival; the formal More than Oolong. a.k.a. JE three years in a row Spider Ball; JE SUX! (College Teas) Morse Modern; designed Our sculpture, All-day Apple Bakefest Morsels by Eero Saarinen; Lipstick (Ascending) in the head of college’s College Teas are informal Q&A’s built in 1961 with a on Caterpillar Tracks, by kitchen; Great Morse hosted by the head of each 14-story tower and Claes Oldenburg Easter Egg Hunt no right angles residential college and often cohosted by campus organizations Pierson Georgian; Wrestling in the Jello Pit Tuesday Night Club, a Piersonites such as the Film Society or the built of Justice on Pierson Day; college-wide party to help in 1933 our cheer: P is for the P make it through the early Yale Daily News. The teas give small in Pierson College, I is for part of the week groups of students an intimate the I in Pierson College … opportunity to pick the brains of Saybrook Collegiate Gothic; We’re in a chase scene Party in the “12 Pack” Saybrugians world leaders, thinkers, and talents. completed in 1933 in the latest Indiana and always respond Members of the hosting college Jones movie; our own “Saybrook!” when asked, get first dibs on front-row seats. Chamber Orchestra “Say what?” (known as SYChO) Recent guests Internet personality; Nihad Awad, activist Timothy Dwight Deqo Mohamed, and executive director of the Council on physician and CEO of DHAF in Somalia; Silliman Varied: Collegiate Biggest college; biggest Sunday music brunch, a Sillimanders Trumbull Lois Lowry, author of The Giver; American-Islamic Relations. Alice Wells, U.S. ambassador to Jordan; Gothic; modified courtyard; winner of feast of sound and taste; Joan Acocella, dance and book reviewer Rahul Pandita, conflict journalist; Susan French Renaissance, cooking and spirit prizes the Ball on College and for The New Yorker; Biz Stone, co-founder Ezra Stiles Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize- Choi, novelist. Georgian; at Final Cut (Yale’s “Iron Wall, a spring classic of Twitter; Amy Brooks-Kayal, pediatric winning author and MacArthur Fellow; completed in 1940 Chef”) neurologist. Angélique Kidjo, singer-songwriter and Morse Unni Karunakara, international activist; Cesar Pelli, architect; Ed Norton, president of Médecins Sans Frontières; Mark Ezra Stiles Modern master- Our memorial Medieval (K)night Branford Jennifer Staple-Clark, founder Stilesians actor and director; Joann Lo, co-director of Penn, author of Microtrends and adviser to piece, designed moose mascot in the Festival; Baby Animal and CEO of Unite For Sight; Robert Pinsky, the Food Chain Workers Alliance. the Clintons, Tony Blair, and Bill Gates; by Eero Saarinen; Dining Hall; annual Petting Zoo in the former U.S. poet laureate; Chris Bridges, Bobby Lopez, composer and lyricist of opened in 1962 Student Film Festival courtyard a.k.a. Ludacris, rapper and actor; Paul Davenport Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Avenue Q; Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Farmer, co-founder, Partners in Health. Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; Carole Tipping Point and Blink. Trumbull Quintessential Yale/ Potty Court, where our Rumble in Trumbull the King, singer-songwriter; Mike Gordon, Silliman Denzel Washington, Academy Collegiate Gothic; gargoyle “Thinker” is (bounce-house “fights”); ’Bulls guitarist, Phish; Margaret Hamburg, fda Jonathan Edwards Katie Couric, journal- Award-winning actor, producer, and completed in 1933 enthroned and decorated Pamplona (running of commissioner; Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, ist; Jon Pareles, music critic; Michael Pollan, director; Brandon Scott Sessoms, gay every year the [Trum]Bulls around Doonesbury; Mukesh Kapila, humanitarian author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma; Gary blogger, celebrity commentator, and campus) and author of Against a Tide of Evil. Beach, Tony Award-winning actor. 22 | lives 23 Bright College Years. (Defining Yale through friendship)

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

24 | lives 25 Met at Yale

“The most important factor in my Bob Woodward and John Kerry closest friendships is how much we George W. Bush prioritize each other, even in the and Garry Trudeau Hillary Rodham Clinton face of homework or extracurriculars­ and Bill Clinton Allison Williams and or other life.” Kurt Schneider Sigourney Weaver Caroline and Meryl Streep Angela Bassett and Tony Shalhoub Frances McDormand and David Henry Hwang Jodie Foster and Jennifer Beals David Duchovny and Paul Giamatti Aaron and Edward Norton and Carlee (below) Jennifer Connelly met through a mutual friend Paul Sciarra the summer and Ben Silbermann before their freshman year, so Carlee remembers Aaron as her frst 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 (above) Sunday. he’d been working on. Mark got his Hometown trombone to play along, and after Brookline, MA fve 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 best lesson I’ve learned outside (above, second for hours about classes, despaired (a cappella), Caroline asked Jessica from right) intramural soccer of the classroom is to cherish about mountains of homework (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 their frst week of freshman year, and they’ve Major Mathematics for every moment to maximize midterms, watched each other’s been running together & Philosophy productivity and happiness, but incredible performances, had regularly ever since—even it’s just as important to let a meal Activities our hearts broken, tried new though Caroline says that was going to be an hour be Morse College Head things and met new people, made “Jessica is much more Freshman Counselor, athletic than I am!” 2+ hours if you’re having a truly Proof of the Pudding mistakes, and danced until our great conversation.” Aaron (jazz a cappella), legs couldn’t move any more. Kevin (above) Yale Dance Theater, We have found so much joy in and Danny Steppin’ Out (step compete team) president, learning more about each other.” Danny, Aaron, and together in Harvest preorienta- Caroline Kevin and Jessica met in a Carlee and Ethan know Deena Final Cut, a tion trip leader music history class and also Deena have through Yale Hillel, where university- took Roman Architecture been suite­ she was co-president in her wide and Opera Libretto: mates since junior year. They regularly “Iron Chef”- “subjects that were o≠ sophomore attend Friday night style culinary our radar but turned out year. Shabbat dinners together. competition. to be fascinating.”

26 | lives 27 Breaking News. (A few of the year’s top undergraduate stories)

Slam Kudos ence at Yale; this year’s theme in the year, Feinzig won the and work with writers to the support of a network of The latest stats was “The Miseducation: Chang- international Undergraduate develop more original material. like-minded peers and experts. on who goes to Yale Senior Emi Mahmoud won the ing History as We Know It.” Award in gender studies and This year’s undergraduate Individual World Poetry Slam Panels, workshops, and discus- anthropology for his paper Boola Boola projects include a bail-funding 1,364 28% Championship, an annual four- sions at the sold-out conference “Black Performativity, Reflexiv- start-up aimed at low-risk in a typical entering major in the Arts and day competition that attracts reflected on the history of the ity, and Reclaiming the Public The Yale Men’s Basketball team defendants; an easy-to-install class Humanities some of the world’s best poets. African diaspora and considered Sphere,” written for a History qualifed for the NCAA tourna- backyard ice rink; a portable Mahmoud frst learned about ways of creating a better future. seminar at Yale. ment for the frst time since 1962, infant respirator; and an 50 39% spoken-word performance In addition, a career fair and advancing to the second round interactive experience for states major in the Social Sciences at Yale’s Bulldog Days, which talks featured representatives Physics Matters with a win over 5th-seeded discovering new music. 60+ introduces admitted students from such companies as Gold- Baylor; senior Justin Sears was countries 32% and their families to Yale College. man Sachs, Google, and Jopwell. Junior Grace Pan was selected as named Ivy League Player of the Clean Sweep major in the Biological In addition to being crowned a Goldwater Scholar for 2016 by year. Freshman Isabella Hindley 51% and Physical Sciences the iWPS champion, Mahmoud Across the Pond the Barry Goldwater Scholarship was the high-point swimmer In this year’s Norman Mailer or Engineering will publish a book of her own Program, which was created to of the meet at this year’s Ivy Writing Awards, a national men 96% poems and travel on behalf of Seven seniors have been named encourage outstanding students conference championship, with competition administered by 49% Poetry Slam Inc. to teach poetry. Rhodes, Marshall, or Gates to pursue research careers in the victories in the 50-, 100-, and the National Council of Teach- graduate within five women years Cambridge Scholars, among the stem disciplines. Pan, who plans 200-yard freestyle events and ers of English, ten Yale College most coveted academic awards to pursue a doctorate in physics, four relays. After defeating students and recent graduates Yale in New Haven 41% 87% for postgraduate study. On studies the synthesis and char- Harvard to win the Ivy League swept the Four-Year College minority students live on campus Senior Jacob Wasserman was Rhodes scholarships at Oxford, acterization of materials with championship, the Yale Men’s Creative Nonfction category. honored with an Ivy Award in Global A≠airs major Mason Ji interesting topological proper- Squash team went on to win the Since the competition was 11% 59% April for his work connecting will seek an M.Phil. in interna- ties at Yale’s Energy Sciences CSA National Tournament, the established in 2009, half of all international students have jobs on campus Yale students to the New Haven tional relations; Ethics, Politics, Institute on the West Campus. program’s sixteenth national winners and more than 40% community. Wasserman runs and Economics major Jared title and its frst in twenty-six of all honorees have been Yale 57% 13% goNewHavengo, promoting Milfred will pursue an M.Phil. Tell Me a Story years; junior Kah Wah Cheong undergraduates. Winner Eric from public schools earn double majors nonautomotive transportation; in political theory; Applied clinched the victory in the fnal Boodman graduated in 2015. volunteers at New Haven Reads, Mathematics and Economics A team of three Yale College match of the competition. Yale’s 43% 47% a book bank and tutoring double-major Tim Rudner will sophomores—Henok Addis, Gymnastics team shone on the Out of This World from private or participate in program for elementary school study for an M.Sc. in applied Philip Esterman, and Jillian uneven bars at the ECAC champi- parochial schools community service students; is co-chair of the Ward statistics and an M.Sc. in math- Kravatz—won the second onships, with the top team score At the White House Astronomy 50% 80%+ 1 Democratic Town Committee; ematical modeling and scientifc annual Thorne Prize for Social in the event; and junior Tatiana Night in October, President receive need-based participate in and serves as an adviser to City computing; and History major Innovation in Health or Educa- Winkelman was named ECAC Obama recognized the Yale financial aid intercollegiate, club, or Atlas: New Haven, a new publi- Isaac Stanley-Becker will seek an tion. Their product, StoryTime, Scholar Athlete of the Year. Undergraduate Aerospace intramural athletics cation highlighting sustainability M.Phil. in economic and social promotes early literacy by using Association for its work on 95% e≠orts and initiatives. He has history. On a Marshall scholar- cellular technology to address Undergraduate developing an automated of incoming freshmen 90%+ also been a leader of Yale’s focus ship, History major Skyler Ross the “word gap” faced by many Entrepreneurs optical telescope. Motorized ranked in the top of science and preorientation program, which will pursue an M.F.A. in creative children in lower-income fami- and computer-controlled tenth of high school engineering majors graduating class undertake research helps sophomores get involved producing at the University of lies, who by age four are likely Yale undergraduates head many with software written by the with a faculty mentor with the city and local nonprofts. London’s Royal Central School to have heard 30 million fewer of the business ventures that students, the telescope will be 98% of Speech and Drama. And as words than peers from higher- have earned summer fellowships able to track celestial objects of freshmen return 50%+ Record Gates Scholars at Cambridge, income families. StoryTime from the Yale Entrepreneurial as they progress across the sophomore year of graduates ultimately Attendance Ethics, Politics, and Economics texts original short stories to Institute in 2016. The program, sky and be equipped to take earn M.D.s, J.D.s, major Joshua Feinzig will pur- parents who can then share which is geared toward scalable long-exposure photographs M.B.A.s, or doctoral degrees More than 750 undergraduates sue an M.Phil. in criminology, them with their children. The ideas with high-growth poten- of deep-space objects. The from more than ffty universities and Literature major William $25,000 prize will allow the trio tial, provides funding, mentors, YUAA was represented at the attended the student-run 21st Theiss will study for an M.Phil. to broaden StoryTime’s reach access to corporate partners, ceremony by Astrophysics annual Black Solidarity Confer- in early modern history. Earlier in New Haven to 800 families one-on-one pitch guidance, and major Lauren Chambers.

28 | lives 29 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

32 | studies 33 A Liberal Education. (Freedom to think)

Academically, Yale makes two broad demands of The mission of Yale College students: a reasonable diversity of subject is to seek exceptionally matter and approach, particularly in the early promising students of all years; and in the later years, concentration in one of the major programs backgrounds from across or departments. This style of education liberates the nation and around the the mind by developing the skills, creativity, and world and to educate them, broad familiarity with the world that can foster through mental discipline effective leadership. and social experience, to develop their intellectual, moral, civic, and creative capacities to the fullest. The aim of this education is the cultivation of citizens with a rich awareness of our heritage to lead and serve in every sphere of human activity.

34 | studies 35 Majors in German Studies Yale College Global Affairs African American Greek, Ancient & 80+ 3+3=breadth 1:1 15,000,000+ Studies Modern African Studies History There is no specific class you have to take at Classes range from Majors. Holdings in Yale’s library, making American Studies History of Art Yale, but students are required to learn broadly one-on-one tutorials Anthropology and deeply. Depth is covered in one’s major. to a small seminar to a History of Science, it the third-largest university library Applied Mathematics Medicine, & Breadth is covered by taking courses in three study lecture course of several Public Health Applied Physics areas (the humanities and arts, the sciences, and hundred students. Humanities system in the United States. Archaeological Studies the social sciences) and three skill areas (writing, Italian Architecture quantitative reasoning, and foreign language). Judaic Studies 6:1 Art Latin American 76% Astronomy Student-to-faculty ratio. Studies Astrophysics Of Yale College Linguistics Chemistry courses enroll fewer Literature 3:1 Number of foreign 60+ Classical Civilization than 20 students. Mathematics Creative and Classics (Greek, Latin, 200+ Mathematics & In STEM disciplines. 53 languages o≠ered. or Greek & Latin) Summer fellowships for performing arts Philosophy Cognitive Science undergraduate science and grants awarded to Mathematics & Physics 31% student playwrights, Computer Science engineering students each year. Modern Middle East dancers, writers, Computer Science & Studies Enroll fewer than 10. Mathematics musicians, and Molecular Biophysics flmmakers­ each Computer Science & & Biochemistry Psychology semester. Molecular, Cellular, 40 Computing & the Arts & Developmental East Asian Languages Biology + Approximate number & Literatures (Chinese Music 2,000 or Japanese) of the 2,000 courses Courses o≠ered each year in 80 Near Eastern that enroll more 800+ 24 7 East Asian Studies Languages & academic programs and departments. than 100 students. Science, math, and engineering / Ecology & Civilizations Evolutionary Biology labs at Yale College and the Hours the Center for Philosophy graduate and professional schools. Engineering Innovation Economics Physics and Design is Economics & Physics & Geosciences Mathematics open for student use. Physics & Philosophy Electrical Engineering Political Science & Computer Science Portuguese 96% 1,209 Engineering: Biomedical, Psychology Of tenured professors of the International study, research, and internship experiences Chemical, Electrical, Religious Studies 200,000+ Environmental, Faculty of Arts and Sciences regularly undertaken by Yale College students in 2014–2015. Russian 40%+ or Mechanical teach undergraduate courses. Objects in the Russian & East Engineering Sciences: European Studies Percentage of Yale College permanent collection Chemical, Electrical, students graduating with a STEM of the Yale University Environmental, Sociology $5,588,395 major who are women. Art Gallery. or Mechanical South Asian Studies* English Funding for international experiences in the Spanish Environmental Studies 2014–2015 academic year. Special Divisional 93% Ethics, Politics, & Major Economics Statistics Of undergraduate courses are 36/8 Ethnicity, Race, & Theater Studies taught by professors or lecturers. Migration Women’s, Gender, & Courses with a graduate student Film & Media Studies 64% 87% The degree requirements Sexuality Studies serving as the primary classroom French for graduation are 36 term *May be taken only instructor—chiefly in foreign Geology & Geophysics Of seniors in the most recent Medical school admission courses in eight terms, 98% as a second major. language instruction and freshman graduating class participated in rate for Yale College about a third in the major. Geology & Natural English—account for only 7% Freshmen who return Resources international study, research, graduates (national Students typically take four of courses o≠ered each year. sophomore year. German and/or internships while at Yale. average, 41%). or five courses per term.

36 | studies 37 Divinity School Institute of Sacred Take a walk to the Music Find yourself College Meets University. Sterling Divinity Quadrangle at the interdisciplinary center to enjoy the quiet Georgian- of the Divinity and Music (One of the world’s greatest research universities at your fingertips) style campus. The courtyard schools through the Institute’s is a great getaway when you concerts, art exhibitions, flms, want to read outdoors without literary readings, plays, and the distractions of central lectures. Hear world premieres School of Forestry campus. View an exhibition of new choral compositions. & Environmental Physically and philosophi- of the artifacts and documents Meet scholars debating divides Studies Take one of cally, Yale College for School of from the personal papers of between liturgical traditions. the School’s graduate-level undergraduates is at the Engineering & Law School Have Protestant missionaries who courses. Earn a fve-year Applied Science Join fellow lunch in the Law School served in China during the frst bachelor’s and master’s in heart of Yale University. creators from across Yale in dining hall with Constitutional half of the twentieth century. Forestry, Forest Science, An extraordinary commit- the Center for Engineering Law professor Akhil Amar. Environmental Science, or ment to undergraduate Innovation & Design to Listen to speeches by visiting Environmental Management. Partner with the School’s teaching sets Yale apart collaborate, create, and Supreme Court Justices. share functional solutions \\ Graduate School Wander the Law School stacks. School of grad students and faculty from other great research to meaningful problems. of Arts & Sciences The Law Library is also a Management on environmental initiatives universities in the world. Continue conversations from favorite study spot. Enroll for a course at SOM through Yale’s O∞ce of More than 80 depart- graduate-level seminars over and rub elbows with the Sustainability. Bookmark the co≠ee and mu∞ns at the Blue next generation of corporate School’s Web site to keep ments and programs Dog Café. Take graduate a five- and NGO leaders and entre- up with all of the events offer approximately 2,000 courses in science and engi- minute Science preneurs. Become a Silver happening each week, or tune walk undergraduate courses neering, almost all of which Hill Scholar—one of a select into the site’s weekly podcasts. handful of seniors who are each year—many of them are open to undergraduates. On Friday afternoons, join admitted to SOM directly taught by Yale’s most undergraduates and graduate from Yale College, some of distinguished historians, students in the Physics depart- whom are awarded a merit literary critics, scientists ment to eat pizza, and hear scholarship for the two and present weekly talks on years of study. and engineers, math- current research. Make heads ematicians, artists and School of Drama turn as you graduate wearing composers, poets, and Get a student season your yellow hood indicat- social scientists. Faculty pass to the Yale Repertory ing that you’ve earned both Theatre and see six plays a a bachelor’s and a master’s School of Music call it a stunningly vibrant year at one of America’s lead- degree in Molecular Biophysics Explore the resources Hillhouse intellectual atmosphere ing professional theaters. and Biochemistry. of the Gilmore Music Library, that can’t happen at Read original manuscripts with one of the largest collec- from Eugene O’Neill’s Long tions of music scores, sound School of Medicine undergraduate-only Day’s Journey into Night. Study recordings, and music research On Yale’s medical institutions or at research light plots from the original materials in the United States. campus, just three blocks from universities that do not production of Gershwin’s School of Take lessons for credit with the College, you don’t have to School of Music faculty. Attend be pre-med to take advantage focus on teaching. Porgy and Bess. Audition for Architecture Yale School of Drama and Yale Meet with professors and grad free concerts at Sprague Hall of the extraordinary research Cabaret shows. Put on student students in Rudolph Hall given by Music School students opportunities available to and visiting performers. undergraduates—in felds productions at the University (named for its architect, Paul Cross ranging from genetics to Theatre, with 96 feet of fly Rudolph, faculty 1958–65). Campus space and seating for 624. Check out student shows and biomedical engineering and curated exhibitions in the nanoscience, studying cancer, Architecture Gallery. Attend an neurological disorders, and evening lecture by one of the Old New cardiovascular disease. Take School’s professors, who are Campus Haven classes taught by medical luminaries in the field, includ- Green school professors, work in ing the dean, Deborah Berke. their labs, shadow doctors on their rounds, or volunteer at Yale-New Haven Hospital. School of Art Apply to do feldwork in Peru Discover the next with your biochem professor Chuck Close (M.F.A. 1964) a five- School of Nursing and perhaps discover new at the School’s open studios. minute Nursing’s new home species of fungi and bacteria walk Participate in group shows on West Campus is just a living in plant tissues. School of Public in the same gallery in Green 10-minute ride on the Yale Health Take a course Hall where master’s students Medical Shuttle. Sign up for Professor in epidemiology in conjunction mount their thesis shows. Center Ruth McCorkle’s popular with an independent research Attend a graduate painting course Living with Dying. After project you’re working on in a critique by visiting artists. some preparatory social science lab on Science Hill. a ten-minute course work, gain experience ride to West as a paid research assistant Campus interviewing patients for the Chronic Illnesses program. 38 | studies 39 Blue Booking. (When shopping and parties are academic)

Yale is one of the only 1:30 pm 11:35 am universities in the I sneak out of the professor’s I race to Sexuality and country that lets you amazing lecture because Religion with Kathryn I’ve agreed to meet my room- Lofton. Luckily, I get there on test-drive your classes mates in The American time: Professor Lofton always before you register. Novel since 1945. Our plays music before class, and During “shopping period,” former head of college, Amy the song selections’ theme the first ten days of each Hungerford, teaches the correlates to the day’s material. course, and we’re excited semester, students can to experience it together as visit dozens of classes proud “Morsels.” 1:00 pm that interest them to The afternoon brings more music. I submit an application decide which they will Evening for Sondheim & American actually take. Preparing Johanna Press We grab Indian food for a Musical Theater, even to shop is a much friend’s birthday at one of the though I’m unlikely to find anticipated ritual in and Hometown many tasty Indian restaurants room for this course in my Upper Dublin, PA in New Haven. Then I head schedule. Last year Sondheim of itself, called “Blue to Glee Club rehearsal, where himself made a guest appear- 8:00 pm Major Booking” (from the days we’re preparing to perform ance, so I figure it’s an Wednesday Some friends and I score Geology and Geophysics of hard copies only, when Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem in opportunity worth exploring. $10 student tickets to see a few months. I’m back on my bike, sticking world-renowned Romanian the blue-covered catalog Class Sophomore pretty close to Monday’s pianist Radu Lupu in Yale’s 2:30 pm schedule. But instead of stunning Sprague Hall. Next Before bed I shop Natural Resources Regional Perspectives Thursday he’s playing at I cram in some more Blue and Their Sustainability, on Global Geoscience, Carnegie Hall (no big deal). Booking, just to be sure aiming to narrow down the I check out Philosophy of 10:30 am 12:30 pm I haven’t overlooked any classes I’ll take in my major Religion—another keeper. Sunday I head to Hebrew, which I grab lunch at Slifka, Yale’s possibilities for tomorrow! this semester. I hope will come in handy center for Jewish life. Everyone Evening this summer—I’m applying is buzzing about courses, and Evening I’m just back from a tour for a fellowship to do I learn about a class called Time to hit the books. I’ve of the northeast with my environmental science research Sexuality and Religion that purchased some materials for a cappella group. Though at the Weizmann Institute of I’m excited to shop tomorrow. the courses I’m sure to take, listing approximately we did some Blue Booking Science in Rehovot, Israel. and I’ll borrow the rest from together on tour, I still haven’t friends while I finalize my 2,000 courses was nailed down my game plan for 1:00 pm schedule. dog-eared, highlighted, tomorrow. Neither have my 11:35 am I stop into The Psychology, Friday and Post-It flagged by roommates (who hail from I jet back up to Science Hill Biology, and Politics the start of shopping places as far-flung as Chicago (thankful for my bike!) of Food. I wrote a paper on and Burma and pursue majors to check out Regional sustainable food systems Thursday I run around getting my period). Today, Elis have ranging from American Perspectives on Global last semester after spending schedule signed by my been known to message Studies to Chemistry), so we Geoscience—a spring- part of the summer working Today’s schedule is much like departmental adviser and my each other around the gather around a few laptops semester course that on a farm, and this class Tuesday’s, with the addition residential college dean. In to prepare for a week of extends to summer fieldwork may be a neat way to expand of my first lab session for the end, I’ve decided to regis- world with word that the shopping. in Ireland. on this work. Observing Earth from ter for Renewable Energy, new Blue Book is online. Space. The director of Yale’s Hebrew, Philosophy of Blue Booking takes place Center for Earth Observation Religion, Observing Earth Evening is co-teaching the class, and he from Space, and The Per- around multiple screens, Monday Tuesday I audition for a class called introduces us to the satellite formance of Vocal Music. and the making of wish The Performance of imaging technology that we’ll lists of courses is done 9:00 am 9:00 am Vocal Music and get in! use throughout the semester. individually, in small I bike up to Science Hill Another early morning, Not only do I get to study Evening for a class called Renewable but I really want to take late-nineteenth-century I head to Slifka for Shabbat groups of friends, and Energy. As we discuss the Observing Earth from French and German art family-style dinner, a great en masse at parties. geopolitical implications of Space to learn more about songs with the supremely weekly gathering. It will be sustainable energy resources, satellite imagery. talented Richard Lalli, but nice to hear about friends’ I decide this course is a keeper. I’ll also get weekly private shopping periods and share coachings (for free) with our first Shabbat meal of 10:30 am an accompanist. the semester. Back to Hebrew!

40 | studies 41 Freshman STARS (Science, Preparing for Shopping Lists. Seminars are Technology, and Medical, Law, or small classes just for Research Scholars) Business School freshmen, with some provides undergradu- Yale students have an Yale’s “shopping period” at the of Yale’s most dis- ates an opportunity to outstanding record of start of every semester allows tinguished faculty combine course-based admission to top medi- students to visit classes they members. Some study, research, men- cal, business, and law seminars provide an torship, networking, schools, but we offer might want to take before introduction to a par- and career planning no pre-professional registering. Here, a few wish ticular field of study; in the fields of science degree programs. lists from recent semesters. others take an inter­ and technology. The Students here prepare disciplinary approach program is designed for entrance to profes- to a variety of topics. to support women, sional schools (e.g., All seminars provide minority, economicallly medicine, business, an intimate context underprivileged, and law) by choosing any for developing rela- other historically one of Yale’s under- tionships with faculty underrepresented stu- graduate majors and members and peers. dents in the sciences, working with a Yale engineering, and adviser who knows Directed Studies mathematics. More what is needed to is a selective fresh- than 100 students advance to the next man interdisciplinary each year participate level of education. So, program in Western in the academic year it’s not unusual to find civilization that and summer STARS an English or Political includes three yearlong programs. Science major going courses — literature, on to medical school philosophy, and International or an Environmental historical and political Study Understanding Studies or Chinese thought — in which the dynamics of a glo- major going on to law students read the balizing world begins or business school. central works of the in the classroom, with Western tradition. studies ranging from Academic Advis- international develop- ing is a collective Science and ment to statecraft and effort by the residential Engineering power, from ethnicity colleges, academic Undergraduate and culture to public departments, and Research Yale is one health. But Yale recog- various offices con- of the world’s foremost nizes that experience nected to the Yale research universities. abroad is essential College Dean’s Office. Independent scientific to preparing students Students’ primary research and engineer- for global citizenship academic advisers are ing research and design and leadership. Such their residential college projects are an integral experience may include deans, to whom they part of undergraduate course work in foreign may always turn for science education at universities, intensive academic and personal Yale. Science students language training, advice. College deans can begin conducting directed research, live in residential col- original research as independent projects, leges and supervise the early as the freshman internships, laboratory advising networks in year through access to work, and volunteer the college. Students Yale’s more than 800 service. (See pages also have a freshman faculty laboratories 62–67) adviser who is a Yale in 50+ degree-granting faculty member or programs in the administrator affili- Faculty of Arts and ated with his or her Sciences, Yale School advisees’ residential of Medicine, and Yale colleges. Each aca- School of Forestry & demic department also Environmental Studies. has a director of under- And Freshman Summer graduate studies (DUS) Research Fellowships who can discuss with provide support for students the depart- more than 100 science ment’s course offerings and engineering fresh- and requirements for men each year. majors.

42 | studies 43 Two, Three, Four, Five Heads Are Better Than One. (Why Yalies like to learn together)

“Working in a group, I learned a lot about the importance of communicating clearly to bridge di≠erences between disciplines and make the most of our potential. Sharing skills and knowledge, not just through this project or a class, but also in casual conversation in the dining hall, says a lot about the multifaceted community here. You can be chatting with the same people about papers one moment and problem sets the next. I don’t know a single one-dimensional Brigid Blakeslee with her senior dropped off a boat or dock. Our student—everyone has interests design project teammates (Joshua project benefited from our combined and passions outside of their major Ruck and Adam Goone) in the experiences—mine as an electrical new Center for Engineering Innova- engineer and my teammates’ as and values sharing in friends’ tion and Design. “We developed a mechanical engineers.” interests and passions.” Brigid robotic arm for retrieving objects

44 | studies 45 Eavesdropping on Professors. (Great minds talk about teaching)

One fall afternoon some People here always Each semester I enjoy in-class discus- of Yale’s (and the world’s) say Yale is devoted sions about immigration, California Mark Saltzman “There are 16 faculty members leading thinkers in history, to undergraduate politics, youth cultures, and Latino Stephen Pitti biomedical engineering, Q teaching. How can civil rights that carry over to my o∞ce in Biomedical Engineering and we have Professor of History and American Studies; Director evolutionary biology, reli- that be true? hours or long lunch sessions with 25 to 35 majors each year, so nobody is of the Center for the Study gious studies, literature, students in a residential college of Race, Indigeneity, and psychology, biochemistry, Stephen Pitti “I’ve always loved dining hall.” anonymous. Every student does research. Transnational Migration; astrophysics, political the fact that at Yale I can present the Head of Ezra Stiles College science, and philosophy newest research in my field to our Michael Della Rocca “I find that They all do a significant senior project. Professor Pitti teaches courses got together for a conver- undergraduates. And when I do, their myself. When I’m teaching, I’m not in Latino studies, U.S. history, sation. Some knew each feedback inevitably prompts me to just teaching philosophy. I’m doing They all take classes with most of the and related subjects. He is the author of The Devil in Silicon other and others did not, think di≠erently about what I’ve been philosophy with the students. I really faculty during their time here. When Valley: Northern California, but they came to similar writing, to change how I present advance my own research and we come Race, and Mexican Americans conclusions in talking material in future semesters and even to philosophical insights and conclu- I meet their parents at graduation, I (2003) and American Latinos about why they teach, the rethink my own research questions. sions together in the course. One of and the Making of the United States (2013), and he is cur- uniqueness of the Yale know something significant about each rently writing The World of undergraduate, and why César Chávez (forthcoming, common notions about student. That’s pretty rare.” Yale University Press). He served on the American Latino large research universities Scholars panel for the U.S. aren’t true here. Secretary of the Interior and has provided expert testimony on comprehensive immigration Karuna Mantena our biggest strengths in recruiting reform for the U.S. Congress. Associate Professor of professors here is the undergraduates. Political Science People love teaching them. It’s the Recent Courses Comparative Ethnic Studies; Professor Mantena has taught drawing card we stress whenever the Radical California; Mexicans courses on Indian politics, Philosophy department is trying to and Mexican Americans since empire and political thought, recruit a faculty member from another 1848; Latina/o Histories postcolonial political thought, and history and politics in the good institution.” Directed Studies program. Her research interests include Meg Urry “It’s not just how smart modern political thought, modern social theory, the they are or how hard they work—you theory and history of empire, can find that at other places—but it’s and South Asian politics and their cleverness, their thoughtfulness. history. Her first book, Alibis I teach an intro to physics class. Many of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism of the kids in my class are headed (2010), analyzed the transfor- for medical school, so physics isn’t mation of nineteenth-century their passion. But I can guarantee that British imperial ideology. Her current work focuses on at least once a week I get a question political realism and the politi- that is just incredibly creative, intro- cal thought of M.K. Gandhi. ducing an idea or thought that I have never had before, and this is from Recent Courses Gandhi, King, and the Politics people who aren’t even going to be of Nonviolence; Directed physicists.” Studies: Historical and Politi- cal Thought; Means and Ends Christine Hayes in Politics; Modern Political “When I think Philosophy; Indian Political about what I’m going to teach I often Thought think, ‘What do I want to study with a whole bunch of smart people?’”

46 | studies 47 Karuna Mantena “What makes students here Scott A. Strobel appealing to teach is their genuine Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and enthusiasm. I’ve also noticed how rarely Biochemistry; Professor of Chemistry

I receive late papers, which I take to Professor Strobel’s research focuses on biologically critical be a sign of responsibility and maturity. reactions catalyzed by RNA. His lab explores the recently These qualities allow one to focus on discovered class of RNA ribo- switches that regulate gene the substance of teaching—how to expression by binding small molecule metabolites. His work embraces biochemistry, think through important ideas, events, enzyme kinetics, X-ray crystal- lography, organic synthesis, problems, etc.—rather than on how and molecular biology.

to motivate interest in a topic.” Recent Courses Rain Forest Expedition and Laboratory; Principles of Biochemistry II

W. Mark Saltzman Why does teaching heard of before. Some of these students I came back and she had finished the Scott Strobel “The beauty of it is Goizueta Foundation these students in are not cut out for philosophy, but they entire summer’s project! She’d figured watching them take ownership of a Professor of Biomedical particular matter to Engineering and Chemical & all get into it.” everything out. She’d gotten it all to project and recognize that it’s theirs to Environmental Engineering; Q you? If you can find work. She’d collected all the data she work on creatively and independently. Professor of Cellular and smart, hardworking Meg Urry “I was not in a university needed. My jaw was hanging down. We have undergrads going toe to toe Molecular Physiology students at other places, then before coming here. I worked in the I thought, ‘Okay, now I have a better with grad students in the lab. You Professor Saltzman is the what makes these students a lab that ran the Hubble telescope for understanding of where Yale under- might say, ‘Well that’s only supposed founding chair of Yale’s Bio- “drawing card”? NASA, which was exciting. But when graduates are.’” to be available to grad students,’ but medical Engineering depart- I came here I felt like I had died and what I’ve seen over and over again ment. His research interests Meg Urry Christine Hayes include drug delivery to the “None of them are one- gone to heaven. I think I was born to “Which connects is that these Yale undergrads are John Merriman brain, materials for vaccine notes. They are exceptional in many teach and should have been teaching all to what was formulating in my own not afraid to take on hard projects Charles Seymour Professor delivery, and tissue engineer- areas. The diversity of their talents along. The quality of the Yale under- mind–they are able to do that deep and to take them on in a creative way. of History ing; he has published three makes them incredibly interesting to graduate was a big eye-opener for me. academic research and are also able to Last year, over spring break, we books and more than 250 Professor Merriman teaches research papers, and he has interact with.” We have Freshman Summer Research apply it to some real-world situation. took a group of students to study a and writes about modern ffteen patents in his fields. Fellowships that allow students to At some of the other places I’ve been, rain forest in Peru. Each was given France, modern European He has also received two David Bromwich “The students begin research early at Yale. My first there has been either too much inde- complete autonomy over identifying history, and urbanization. Teaching Materials Awards He has recently published from the Whitaker Founda- here have a high average of intellectual summer I thought, ‘Well, I’m going to pendence and arrogance or too much 15 to 20 plant samples they wanted Massacre: The Life and Death of tion for his work on text- alertness. With luck, they bring out get this freshman who doesn’t know need of hand-holding. We seem to to collect. They brought them back to the Paris Commune (2014) and books in tissue engineering that quality in one another, and sustain anything. It’s going to take a lot of attract kids who excel at many, many the lab and did amazing things with The Dynamite Club: How a and biomedical engineering it in their teachers.” my time, but that’s why I came to things. They have the right mix of them. On the whole, they discovered Bombing in Fin-de-Siècle Paris principles for freshmen. Ignited the Age of Modern university.’ So I laid out this project independent intellectual curiosity as several dozen di≠erent new species Terror (2009), as well as the Recent Courses Michael Della Rocca “I teach in for the student. It was about an area I well as the ability to work with others, of fungi, many of which have demon- third edition of A History of Physiological Systems; Directed Studies [a yearlong advanced wanted to look into but I hadn’t done to ask questions, to get help, to be part strated bioactivity against pathogens Modern Europe (2009). Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering; Engineering freshman course in Western civiliza- any work on myself yet. I told the of a team. You need both—the solitary in plants and humans. So these Recent Courses of Drug Delivery; Biological tion]. It’s just a lot of fun because student, ‘Why don’t you go and do research and the ability to bring it back students are able to make not just a European Civilization, 1648– and Physiological Determi- you get students with di≠erent back- a little research online and we’ll talk and put it together and make something creative impact on science but to 1945; Revolutionary France, nants of Health grounds taking subjects they’ve never about it when I come back in a week.’ bigger and better with other people.” actually discover things of importance 1789–1871; The Emergence of Modern Paris

48 | studies 49 Christine Hayes Robert F. and Patricia Ross Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica

Professor Hayes, a specialist in talmudic-midrashic stud- ies, was awarded a Yale Col- lege prize for distinguished and interest to a broad community. undergraduate teaching in When I described their work to School 2005. She is the author of Between the Babylonian and David Bromwich of Medicine faculty, the faculty lined Palestinian Talmuds; The Sterling Professor of English up to participate in the project with Emergence of Judaism: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Professor Bromwich is an these undergraduates.” Perspective; and Gentile authority on Romantic and Impurities and Jewish Identities: modern poetry and on the Karuna Mantena “The students Intermarriage and Conversion history of literary criticism. His have a kind of self-direction, the moti- from the Bible to the Talmud. books include The Intellectual Her most recent book, What’s Life of Edmund Burke: From the vation and capacity to really pursue Divine about Divine Law? Sublime and Beautiful to Ameri- ideas and concerns. Yale provides them Early Perspectives, won the can Independence; Disowned by with abundant resources to support 2015 National Jewish Book Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of Award in Scholarship. Profes- the 1790s; Moral Imagination: research, and we—hopefully—provide sor Hayes’s Introduction to the Essays; Politics by Other Means: them the encouragement to keep these Bible was published in 2012 Higher Education and Group projects going. Students use these by Yale University Press as Thinking, which examines the opportunities to do extraordinary part of the Open Yale Courses ideological debate over liberal publication series. arts education; and Skeptical research in Europe, South Asia, and Music: Essays on Modern Poetry. the Middle East.” Recent Courses He is also a frequent contribu- The Bible; Divine Law tor to academic journals, and Marvin Chun in Historical Perspective; his reviews and articles have “I really think the Exodus 32 and Its Midrashic appeared in The New York residential college system is what Development; Judaism: Times, The New Republic, and brings everything together—the small- Continuity and Change The New York Review of Books. college feel with world-class university

Recent Courses resources. Being the head of Berkeley Michael Della Rocca Major English Poets (English College has shown me that. It’s impos- Andrew Downey Orrick 125); Style, Purpose, and sible to describe in words, but it works Professor of Philosophy Persuasion in Literature; English Literature and the in a phenomenal way to ensure that each Professor Della Rocca’s areas French Revolution; Lincoln student receives individual attention.” of interest are the history of in Thought and Action; early modern philosophy and Shakespeare’s Political Plays; experience than at other places I’ve been quality of the undergraduate program. contemporary metaphysics. The Age of Johnson; Wallace John Merriman “Plenty of students come here He has published dozens Stevens; Interpreting Film where, if you’re an engineering or science You might think that the two stand in of papers in those fields, Masterpieces (with Dudley major, you’re studying the same kinds tension, but in fact they don’t. We not including “Causation Without Andrew); Empire and Modern without a clue what they want to do, and of things in the same kind of way that only have a very rich graduate program Intelligibility and Causation Political Thought (with Without God in Descartes” Karuna Mantena) 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 in A Companion to Descartes, ed. Janet Broughton and John because there are so many opportunities.” engineering majors. Here, students are and undergraduate students in classes, Carriero, and “Two Spheres, living among future historians, future outside of class, in activities–but we’re Twenty Spheres, and the economists, English majors, and political also situated within a larger univer- Identity of Indiscernibles,” Just like students arts education is that you’re required science majors, all bringing their own sity that has very active professional Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (2005). He is also the author looking at colleges, to take courses in all sorts of di≠erent brands of thought to questions and ideas.” schools. The institution I was at didn’t of Spinoza in the Routledge as a professor you things. For instance, we think it’s impor- have professional schools. Having the Philosophers series. had a lot of choices tant that our students study a foreign Christine Hayes “One of the things School of Architecture does wonderful Q Recent Courses too. What brought language as well as the social sciences. that has been so wonderful for me as things for Yale undergraduates. Having Modern Philosophy from you here? Taking di≠erent kinds of classes creates a teacher at Yale is the ability to teach a fantastic School of Music does Descartes to Kant; The a di≠erent sort of curiosity. Our stu- introductory courses but also seminars wonderful things for Yale undergradu- Philosophy of Spinoza; Action Mark Saltzman “There’s something dents bring that curiosity to the kinds of where graduate students and under- ates. And they’re all close by. That’s and Metaphysics; Directed Studies: Philosophy di≠erent about rigorous training in questions they’re asking and trying to graduates mix. Surprisingly enough, the something very special about Yale, 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 Professors Hayes and Della tradition. One of the features of a liberal ing research labs. It’s certainly a di≠erent has an extraordinary impact on the completely di≠erent kind of experience.” Rocca are married.

50 | studies 51 Marvin Chun Museum, Geology and Richard M. Colgate Professor Geophysics, and Forestry & of Psychology; Professor of Environmental Studies. The Neuroscience; 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 Recent Courses improve memory, attention, Michael Donoghue “A lot of it is about scale. Diversity of Life; Plant Diver- conscious perception, and sity and Evolution; Principles decision making. He has of Ecology and Evolutionary been awarded the American Yale is just that much smaller and Biology Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award more intimate than some of the other for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of universities where I’ve taught. So I find cognition and learning, and the Troland Research Award a lot better connection to students and from the National Academy of Sciences, often considered the most prestigious early-career integration across disciplines. I have honor that can be earned by an experimental psychologist. friends and colleagues spanning very At Yale, he received the Lex Hixon Prize for teaching excel- di≠erent parts of the University, and lence in the social sciences and Meg Urry the DeVane Award for Teach- that’s something that comes with the Israel Munson Professor of ing and Scholarship, the oldest Physics and Astronomy; undergraduate teaching prize. Director of the Yale Center for The presentation of the award territory of being smaller. Yale doesn’t Astronomy and Astrophysics began with “Marvin Chun is the man!,” praising Professor just talk about making connections and Professor Urry studies actively Chun for the clarity of his accreting supermassive black teaching and his devotion to integrating students into research—it holes, also known as Active his students. Galactic Nuclei (AGN), and actually happens here very e≠ectively.” the co-evolution of these black Recent Courses holes with normal galaxies. Introduction to Psychology; She came to Yale in 2001 Mind, Brain, and Society from her tenured position on the senior scientific sta≠ at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which runs Scott Strobel Michael Donoghue the Hubble Space Telescope “The opportunity to an environment where there is a clear “The other is what energizes me in the classroom. for NASA. Using deep imaging interact with and teach undergrads is a human application (via the School of thing that I think is so distinctive If something I teach lingers with with NASA’s three Great big reason I’m here. There are plenty of Medicine ) to the science that you do 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 as an undergraduate is quite unique.” museums and collections that are right thing outside of the classroom, charted the history of super- massive black hole growth do, and you sit in your lab and work here. We have actual physical objects that’s my reward.” throughout the universe. with grad students or postdocs and David Bromwich “I admired the that we’re very keen to use in teaching. Professor Urry has worked to never see an undergraduate. Beyond intellectual strength of the English You can read about things in a book, John Merriman “I’ve almost been increase the number of women in the physical sciences, Michael J. Donoghue that, Yale is also a place where you department. I thought Yale had the but to hand a kid a 60,000,000-year- wooed away to other universities organizing national meetings Sterling Professor of Ecology have tremendous colleagues. At a lot of virtues of a liberal arts college, along old fossil to study is pretty amazing.” three times. Once it came down to the and chairing the Committee and Evolutionary Biology; places the caliber of Yale, there is sort with the attractions, and not too wire and I was making my decision in on the Status of Women in Curator of Botany, Peabody of a silo mentality when it comes to lab many of the drawbacks, of a large Marvin Chun “I came for the the last hour or two. But there I was Astronomy for the American Museum of Natural History Astronomical Society. research. At Yale you have this amazing research university.” students. They’re not just smart, but teaching my modern French history Professor Donoghue is a lead- ability to collaborate with other labs well balanced in a way that makes it course to about 150 students, walking Recent Courses ing authority on biodiversity so that collectively you do everything Christine Hayes “It’s really the special to teach and do research here. up and down the aisle of the lecture University Physics; and the author of more than Advanced General Physics; 200 published papers and better. The other thing is that we have best of both worlds because you Whether I stand before a classroom hall as I often do, and I thought, ‘What Gravity, Astrophysics, and several books. He has helped a fantastic School of Medicine. The have this distinctive undergraduate full of students or meet with someone am I doing, I couldn’t possibly leave.’ Cosmology; Modern Physical to shape Yale’s Department department I’m in has joint faculty experience embedded in this larger one-on-one, I try to treat each student Each morning, I wake up and think, Measurement (co-taught); of Ecology and Evolutionary with the medical school. And med intellectual universe of people at as somebody who is going to do some- ‘God, I’m lucky because I get to go Perspectives on Science and Biology, providing links Engineering (co-taught) among E&EB, the Peabody school faculty host undergraduates all levels of academic inquiry and all thing very meaningful and influential and teach’ whatever the subject is that (continued in right column) doing research in their labs. To have stages of academic careers.” in life. Our alumni bear that out. This day. For me there’s just nothing like it.”

52 | studies 53 A Hands-On Education. (From theory to practice)

Yale celebrates innovation and the entrepreneurial spirit. Whether you are working 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 construction of an engineered system for a Yale client at the Center for Engineering Innovation & Design, you will find that teaching and learning here are evidence-based, hands-on, and focused on inspiring a deeper engagement with the subject. The Scientifc Enterprise.

In science and engineering class- rooms, Yale College students work at the cutting edge of collaborative research on projects that have the potential to advance the human condition. Trained to innovate with a sense of purpose, they not only gain fundamental knowledge of science and expertise in design- ing technological systems, but also cultivate a strong understanding of the complex social, political, economic, and environmental implications of developing com- plete solutions to global problems.

54 | studies 55 Next-Gen Knowledge. (One-of-a-kind Yale treasures inspire independent research)

Adding to what the Yale’s Peabody Museum world knows is not easy, of Natural History In the 1870s, especially when, at 19 O.C. Marsh led Yale College The Secret Collections of the Peabody students on expeditions into the or 20, you haven’t even of a Bird’s-Eye View Museum.” That year, Stoddard Wild West, and his discoveries been in the world that began two independent research of dinosaur and mammal fossils long yourself. But as captured the public’s imagina- Senior Mary “Cassie” Stoddard projects that gave her full access to a former student said, tion. As the Peabody’s first leader, learned early in her ornithology museum specimens and firsthand he and his colleagues were excep- “This is not a mediocre training that birds can see colors research experience in evolutionary tional naturalists who shared a place. Everywhere you invisible to humans. “A bird’s eye biology. One of her projects was keen ability to draw unexpected turn there’s something insights from material objects. has four types of color-sensitive on bird color in the ornithology Their collections and observa- incredible to attract cones, while humans only have lab of Professor Richard Prum. tions underpin today’s science, your eye. In a more ordi- three,” she says. This fourth cone “I have been hooked ever since,” with insights that still drive our nary place, you’re not understanding of Earth’s history, is sensitive to color in the ultra- she says. going to be so startled life, and cultures. Environmental violet range. As a result, “birds change brings new urgency to into thought.” From see an intense world of hues we She and Professor Prum used Marsh’s central questions—what paintings by Picasso to humans can only imagine,” says Stoddard’s TetraColorSpace species exist on Earth, where they pterodactyl remains to live, and how they have changed Stoddard. Stoddard’s design of program in their study of New over time—and Peabody curators 3D printers and tools for the TetraColorSpace computer World buntings, one of the first work with scientists around the photoelectron spectros- program, which analyzes bird projects to compare modes of world to describe not just species, copy, Yale pro­vides a but the entire “Tree of Life.” colors in a framework that color evolution in animals. She treasure trove through accounts for the four classes of presented their findings on avian Senior Mary “Cassie” which undergraduates photoreceptors in bird eyes, is one color at the North American Stoddard is the founder of the chase down new knowl- of the first tools to help under- Ornithological Conference in Yale Ecology and Evolutionary edge for themselves and Biology Undergraduate stand this evolutionary mystery. Veracruz, Mexico, and is also Group (YEEBUG), an o∞cial sometimes for the world. the first author of a paper docu- University organization that She traces her work back to her menting the research, published actively promotes undergraduate involvement in the New Haven freshman year and the Peabody by American Naturalist. community,­ largely through Museum. “In my very first volunteer work at the Peabody semester at Yale, I was introduced Awarded a Marshall Scholarship Museum. Last fall, YEEBUG to the Peabody’s extraordinary for graduate study in the United helped coordinate “The Natural History of Witches and Wizards: research collections through Kingdom, Stoddard will continue A Peabody Halloween,” an Professor Leo Buss’s freshman her research on avian color evolu- educational event that drew seminar course Natural History tion at Cambridge. hundreds of costume-wearing New Haven residents.

56 | studies 57 Katherine Lawrence did her research at Yale’s A.W. Wright Laboratory. Home to a broad Gothic Folly research program in nuclear, particle, and astrophysics, it Architecture in terms of its social o≠ers state-of-the-art facilities for research on neutrinos and agenda is what intrigues Andrew dark matter, including the study Lee about Strawberry Hill, the of neutrino properties, searches architectural folly on the outskirts for dark matter particles and of London he researched as the origin of matter-antimatter asymmetry, and related topics in part of an independent study with the physics of weakly interacting the Yale Center for British Art particles and fields. (YCBA). Lee describes Strawberry Outside of the lab, Katherine Hill as “an undistinguished Lawrence took several language farmhouse transformed into a classes for fun: Chinese, Korean, Gothic confection” by its owner, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. She Horace Walpole. Walpole, who was a member of the Yale Drop Team and quartermaster of also gave the world the Gothic the Yale Pistol Team, which novel, was the son of England’s competed in the national cham- first Prime Minister. He is credited pionships in Georgia. A native of Boulder, Colorado, she also in part with launching the Gothic enjoys snow sports, traveling, architectural revival of which and baking. Strawberry Hill is an iconic example. Opposite page: The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) houses the largest “Walpole was interested in the and most comprehensive role of style in the formation collection of British art outside of the United Kingdom. The of identity,” says Lee, “particularly center’s collection of paintings‚ national identity, given the ques- sculpture‚ drawings‚ prints‚ rare tion of whether Gothic or Classical books‚ and manuscripts reflects architecture was more appropri- the development of British art‚ life‚ and thought from the ate to Britain; and family identity, Elizabethan period onward. given eighteenth-century attitudes toward the aristocracy and Andrew Lee’s YCBA research was “the latest in a series of Walpole’s awkward position as a opportunities the museum has member of a politically prominent a≠orded me.” In addition to family.” Lee’s work became part of A Smashing Success of the tau lepton particle with coordinating training for the a major YCBA exhibition. Professor Sarah Demers, and she center’s student guides, he is helping stage a performance art Katherine Lawrence came to Yale was in attendance at the historic piece by the Interventionists at Hands-on in the extreme, the with an interest in experimental announcement of the discovery the YCBA, where the director YCBA course allowed Lee to view high-energy physics, but little of the Higgs boson. She says that “has been quite generous to us idea of what a working physicist’s “Professors Demers and Meg Urry and very enthusiastic about collections and work with people the idea.” he never would have met other- life might be like. That changed were important mentors through- wise. In one of two research trips, quickly. “Starting freshman year, out my years at Yale, especially as he spent time at Strawberry Hill I was able to join a lab and begin women in a male-dominated feld. with a curator of the Victoria and to see the daily reality of academic I’m most grateful for the strong Albert Museum, who curated the physics research. It was very sat- relationships I developed with YCBA exhibition. Until recently, isfying to see concepts from the Yale faculty members, who Lee was set to pursue a Ph.D. after classroom used in cutting-edge continue to inspire my goal of graduation, but the commercial research and to apply intuition pursuing an academic career.” art world beckons as well. After gained in lab to my own work.” working with the YCBA’s “seemingly Awarded a prestigious Hertz endless collections” and the contacts Lawrence spent two summers Fellowship at the end of her senior he’s made, he is ready either way. at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider year, Lawrence is now a doctoral in Geneva, Switzerland, study- student in Atomic, Molecular, and ing the production and decay Optical Physics at MIT.

58 | studies 59 Mentorship Matters

Jonathan Marquez came to Yale curious about science and eager to do research alongside some of the world’s most innovative biologists. Four years later, he credits Yale’s selective STARS program for providing an opportunity “to interact with mentors inside and outside of the lab.” One of these mentors is Martín I. García-Castro, an associate professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology. Working daily in García- Castro’s lab, Marquez participates in important discoveries about vertebrate development. “I am involved with several projects using electroporation, where I introduce several kinds of DNA constructs into early chicken embryos to then observe the e≠ects of this DNA in the development of the embryo.”

For Marquez, biology research means “endless creativity in pursuit Encounter at the Beinecke Sonia Delaunay’s abstract paint- ­ The Beinecke Rare Book of knowledge.” He also loves the ing, specifically painted for and and Manuscript Library—an architectural marvel constructed moment of discovery: “Seeing While taking Modernism and inspired by Cendrars’s poem. I was of translucent white marble that all the data come together and tell the Avant-Garde, Lisa Sun had fascinated by the collaboration of admits light but screens out a story about the role of specific a surprising experience among the two art mediums—the text the sun’s damaging rays—is one the Beinecke Library’s rare of the poem and the magnificently of the country’s most important genes in development is really centers for research in primary special, and the knowledge that you books. She tells the story like this: colored painting. The Cendrars sources for the humanities. were part of this process is exciting.” “One of the poems on the syl- piece reminded me of a piece labus for my Modernism class by Marcel Duchamp, which also Lisa Sun is a dancer in the company A Di≠erent Drum and “STARS creates a diverse community was Blaise Cendrars’s ‘La Prose worked within two mediums. I is training to be a Yale Art Gallery of student scientists,” says Marquez. du Transsibérien.’ I first read had several enlightening conversa- Guide. She is a double major “Mentoring others interested in the poem in a Xerox package of tions with my professor about the in literature and art history. assigned readings, but Professor Cendrars and Duchamp pieces. scientific research has also been Opposite page: a very rewarding part of my Poucel promised to show us an Ultimately, I wrote my final paper Professor Martín García-Castro’s experience.” Marquez is so invested original publication of it in the on the relationship between lab is in Kline Biology Tower in this community and his work Beinecke. I didn’t think much of ‘La Prose du Transsibérien’ and (KBT), Yale’s tallest building, which sits atop Science Hill. that he will remain in New Haven this opportunity, presuming that Duchamp’s Boîte Verte, which after graduation to complete the original publication would I also saw firsthand in the Prints Jonathan Marquez is from ongoing lab projects. After that, resemble all of the old, dusty and Drawings Department at the Spring, Texas. His main books I’d seen innumerable times YUAG (Yale University Art Gallery). extracurriculars are MAS (Math he hopes to pursue an M.D./Ph.D. and Science) Familias, “a group with the long-term goal of having before. But the day we visited the I found the paper to be rewarding focused on supporting minority his own lab and providing health Beinecke, Professor Poucel asked and successful, and it all began involvement in the sciences,” care to underserved communities. me to help him unfold the decep- with an unexpected encounter and working as a translator and nutritional counselor at Haven tive 4 x 6-inch book into a long, with Cendrars’s beautiful piece.” Free Clinic. poster-sized sheet. As it turns out, Cendrars’s original publication of ‘La Prose’ was featured alongside

60 | studies 61 Think Yale. Think World. (Study, research, intern around the globe)

A nontraditional “The summer after my freshman year Yalies Abroad approach to gaining I received Yale funding to go to Savai’i, 2014– 2015 international experience Western Samoa, and try to rediscover a Africa: 91 gives students here bird which had not been seen for more than Asia: 246 access to multiple 130 years. I found myself traveling to one Australasia: 21 opportunities to study, of the island’s most remote valleys with Europe: 626 research, and intern a pig hunter, Tagi’ilima Ioane, who spoke Latin America: 139 abroad during their four no English. Tagi’ilima and I spent five Middle East: 54 years. Over and above days together in the forest hiking up rivers. Multiple regions: 29 ordinary financial aid, At first we communicated entirely with North America: 3 Yale awards more than hand gestures, but by the final day I had Total: 1,209 $5.5 million for fellow- gleaned enough Samoan from my portable ships, internships, and dictionary to allow basic communication. relief from summer earn- Our final hike back was mostly occupied ings obligations in order with my attempts to describe various game to guarantee that every animals in the U.S. Trying to convey North student who wishes American wildlife, not to mention my daily will be able to work or life in New Haven, made me feel as though study abroad. Beyond I were describing life on a di≠erent planet. these hefty resources As we neared the village, Tagi’ilima told a is the sheer variety story of his own about how he had gone of global experiences into town and seen something important on students can undertake a television there. After much gesticulating during school years and frantic flipping through the dictionary, and summers: study I figured out what he was describing: at a major university the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. in another country; For me this moment was an amazing field-based or laboratory juxta­position of the vast distances between research; interning with John Mittermeier our life experiences and the increasing Yale alumni around the Hometown Abidjan, Côte links in a shared global identity.” world; Yale summer d’Ivoire (“Technically my home John session international address, although I’m never there. I spend most breaks traveling.”) courses taught by Yale faculty; or study, work, Samoa Major History or service projects Yale International Experience Summers in Samoa and in the of one’s own design. Amazonian rain forests of Students are encour- southern Suriname conducting aged to begin exploring The photos in this chapter were ornithological surveys and Suriname the globe the summer provided by the students featured, collecting specimens for Yale’s except for Yuefei Qin’s portrait, Peabody Museum. after their freshman year. which was taken by Lisa Kereszi. Here, eight Elis map Global Citizen “Someone who is conscious of the planet’s vast a glimpse of the world array of cultural, biological, and through pivotal moments economic communities and feels and personal definitions a deep attachment and allegiance to this global diversity.” of “global citizen.” Post-Yale Plan A fellowship to return to Suriname to continue his ornithological research.

62 | studies 63 Samuel Byrne Center for Research International The possibilities for Hometown Bala Cynwyd, PA and Professional international research Major Economics Experience are extensive. Students Yale’s Center for work with their resi- Yale International Experience International and dential college dean, Won a Kingsley Trust Association Brazil Professional Experience academic advisers, Summer Travel Fellowship to (CIPE) encourages and departments to study Brazilian music and dance. and supports safe, define projects. Many Global Citizen “Someone who extraordinary­ inter­ Yale students spend understands the problems and national experiences the summer following issues that confront people of every kind. their junior year throughout the world; someone abroad doing research who is educated about the world Study for a senior essay and has experienced it, who feels Yale programs include or thesis. comfortable interacting with Oman Yale in London; Yale a diverse group of people and & Morocco Summer Session Laboratory and can step out of the comforts of (most recently, courses Field Research in home with confidence.” “I went to the favela ‘Cidade de Deus’ Stephanie Brockman “My professor in Oman took all of us on were offered in Brazil, the Sciences and China, Croatia, Czech Public Health Post-Yale Plan “Undecided, (City of God) in Rio de Janeiro to visit their Hometown Thompson, ND a daytrip to explore the nearby mountains. Republic, Ecuador, Students can combine but eventually I’d like to work community center. After I observed dance It was in the middle of our rural home- Majors Near Eastern Languages France, Germany, international experi- for the World Bank.” and music classes, a volunteer and some and Civilizations with a stays, so I was dressed accordingly in a Italy, Morocco, Peru, ence with deepening of the local children o≠ered to give me a concentration in Arabic and long black abaya (the traditional robes for Russia, Singapore, their understanding tour of the favela. Strolling through the Islamic Studies women on the Gulf ) and a headscarf. I Spain, Swaziland, of science by spending and Tanzania); and a summer working Yale International Experience community,­ I saw terrible poverty and poor remember sitting on a park bench, texting year or term abroad in a laboratory at Spent a spring in the Sultanate infrastructure, but a vibrant culture and my host mom in Arabic, and worrying approved programs run an institution abroad, of Oman through a program by other institutions or or by participating in intelligent, charismatic children who sponsored by the School for about how scandalized my host family providers. a field-based project. deserve more opportunities. Despite the International Training; through would be if I was out past magrib, the Yale’s Auerbach and Grayson/ dilapidated homes and clear dichotomy evening call to prayer. And out of nowhere Internships Independent Leitner international internship, The Office of Career Initiatives of wealth in Rio, the energy of the people interned in Morocco. everything that was happening began to who guided me through the labyrinth sink in: I was thousands of miles from Strategy offers Yale- Students who are Global Citizen “The world sponsored internships ready to develop their streets of Cidade de Deus inspired me becomes more than just a list home, wearing something I had only seen in 22 countries around own activities abroad to continue pursuing my plans to work of places that you hear on the in pictures, and trying to live up to a set the world. These are encouraged to “As an international student from China, I to promote economic growth and hope­- news, but rather, a series of of expectations from a culture that didn’t internships provide discuss their plans reference points that correspond more than 200 oppor- with advisers and fully improve living standards of similar belong to me. I began to laugh uncontrol- always wondered how my Western educa- with places where your friends tunities to explore faculty, to register tion would fit into the Oriental traditions people in the future.” live and experiences that you lably. I realized how thoroughly I had career fields in an their travel and under­ and help me best contribute to my society. Samuel had and new opportunities immersed myself in a culture that had international environ- stand the support My experience at Intel China helped me to explore. It’s a certain way once seemed so mysteriously foreign ment, with support and provided by Yale, of looking at the world that oversight from Yale and and to use the institu- solve the puzzle. The Chinese market has makes it a very inviting place.” to me. That realization filled me with an from alumni networks. tion’s extraordinary very unique sociopolitical and economic Yuefei Qin incredible sense of accomplishment.” Placements reflect resources to make Post-Yale Plan “Either a the full range of the most of their characteristics, while Intel is a well-estab- Hometown Chongqing, China summer or a year of advanced Stephanie interests among Yale experience abroad. Arabic study abroad, followed lished Western company. Working with Majors Political Science and students, from journal- by law school. Right now, I’m both Chinese and American colleagues at Electrical Engineering ism to the arts, politics leaning toward the idea of to public health, and its headquarters in China, I witnessed Yale International Experience going into corporate law and finance to technology. how Intel has successfully tailored itself to Intel Corporation in Beijing, working with companies with Yale also partners with China, summer internship strong business ties to the fit into the unique Chinese market, while other organizations working as assistant to general Middle East. I have put so maintaining its Western identity and to provide many manager. “I worked directly much of myself into developing additional internship corporate conduct. I was therefore convinced with Intel China’s marketing my knowledge of Arabic and opportunities. that Western and Oriental cultures could managers in maintaining project can’t imagine not using that coexist harmoniously, and would in a way milestones and carrying out in the future.” campaigns to promote products.” rely on each other. I believe my education at Yale not only well prepared me for such a Global Citizen “One who looks upon every human being as demanding job, but also will build a solid his or her compatriot, regardless foundation for me to tackle challenges my of that person’s nationality, country and people might face in the midst complexion, religion, and so on.” China of an increasingly internationalized world.” Post-Yale Plan “After my Yuefei graduation from Yale, I wish to go to Oxford and pursue an M.Phil. degree in Politics or International Relations.”

64 | studies 65 Andrew Dowe “Last year I had the opportunity to travel Hometown Tampa, FL by myself through Europe and Asia. There Majors African American were several moments during my solo Studies; Women’s, Gender, & travels which made me feel very unrooted, Sexuality Studies independent, and free: ordering food Paris Yale International Experience in countries where I did not speak the Spent a fall semester studying in language; carrying all of my belongings Paris. on my back; sleeping overnight on trains Global Citizen “Global citizens and buses. There is something about strive to expand their perspec- tives beyond geographical traveling on a shoestring which makes you limitations through active reevaluate your priorities. You feel dirty engagement with other peoples and unkempt, but eventually that all goes and cultures.” away, and you care more about what you Post-Yale Plan “Spend a year see and less about how others see you.” teaching either in the U.S. or “The first time I traveled outside of France Lucas O’Connor Lucas abroad before applying to graduate school to earn a Ph.D.” while studying in Paris, the extreme discom- Hometown Rochester, NY fort of being unable to communicate with Majors Theater Studies and most of the people around me as well as the Literature

very perceivable cultural disconnect brought Yale International Experience me to realize how comfortable I had become Oxford, Studied at Oxford junior year, in Paris. At the same time, I was reminded of England traveled by Eurail pass through-­ the importance of self-conscious travel and out Europe for a month; received a summer fellowship to study understanding to developing more complete Chinese opera in Hong Kong; world views. One of the most significant toured the world with the Yale Whi≠enpoofs during the summer. lessons of studying abroad was the impor- Hong tance of exploring outside my comfort zones.” Kong Global Citizen “A traveler, Andrew or a nomad, unbounded by country lines. A global citizen has a responsibility to see and experience as much of the “I was monitoring elections in Mauritania Lauren Harrison world as he can.” Flora Elena Mendoza with another Yale student and a Mauritanian Hometown Orchard Park, NY Post-Yale Plan “To write and Hometown Milford, PA act, hopefully for films.” national who was working for the U.S. Majors African Studies and Major Latin American Studies Embassy. We were in a small town, sur- International Studies (now with Humanities Global A≠airs) rounded by miles and miles of sand, and Yale International Experience Argentina were spending the night in order to begin Yale International Experience Studied in Buenos Aires junior election monitoring first thing the following Conducted election oversight in year and won a fellowship that day. That next morning, we woke up before Mauritania; spent a month during “While the goals of the grassroots non- allowed her to participate in the summer after her sophomore local excursions and an extended the sun and arrived at the polls by 6:30 a.m., year in Morocco, then in Mali governmental organization where I volun- service trip with NGO LIFE a half an hour before they were scheduled to doing independent research; teered were noble, I got to see firsthand both Argentina. studied in Paris the fall semester open. The polling station was a one-room positive and negative aspects of not-for-profit Global Citizen “Someone who of her junior year. schoolhouse made out of old wooden boards, work. We were working with a village of is informed, contextualizes his located near the only paved road in the town. Global Citizen “In my mind, a about 500 Guarani natives. As volunteers we or her own experience in relation Mauritania, passion for learning about other to the rest of the world, and is Mali & As our SUV pulled up to the polls, I was countries, other languages, other were assigned to cook, distribute clothes and committed to the overall well-­ Morocco absolutely shocked by what I saw: almost cultures is what makes someone kitchenware, and take lice out of hair and being—political, environmental, a hundred men and women (but mostly a truly ‘global citizen.’” clip nails of villagers—I found the cooking socioeconomic, and ethical— of the earth and its inhabitants.” women), dressed in colorful robes, waiting Post-Yale Plan “A career in counterproductive and didn’t understand quietly in line to vote. The turnout was international diplomacy, though I why we weren’t working with villagers to Post-Yale Plan “I would like don’t quite know where my path to move to New York and work unbelievable, especially given the small size will take me. Most likely, I’ll work show them how to manage the lice and for some kind of foundation Paris of the village we were in, and made me for a year or two post-graduation clip nails for themselves. As foreigners, and or not-for-profit while pursuing reflect upon how seriously the Mauritanian before returning to graduate especially as students who go abroad with a performance career in opera people took their civic responsibilities. It school, perhaps for an advanced idealist intentions, we need to be very careful and musical theater.” (Flora is a degree in international relations mezzo soprano, who has sung was inspiring and I wished that I could take or diplomacy.” to avoid neocolonialist tendencies or to in ensembles at the Metropolitan some of the Mauritanians’ energy and patronize the people we mean to help. In Opera, on specials for NBC passion back with me to the United States.” essence, my experience redefined the term and CBS, and as back-up for Michael Bolton.) Lauren ‘sustainable development’ for me.” Flora 66 | studies 67 Connect the Dots. (Three seniors find their careers through Yale’s network of resources)

Yale students are sur- Recoding Student find alumni in those rounded by opportunities Gaining Perspective Education Entrepreneurs fields ready to network Aaron arrives at Yale with dual interests The Yale Entrepreneur- with you! from the moment they in politics and education, and the hope Aaron Feuer ial Institute (YEI) arrive on campus as to someday return to Los Angeles to Residential College supports student Top Fellowship freshmen—intellectual, “work toward a vision for the city.” Ezra Stiles ventures from idea to Producer entrepreneurial, artistic, But first he has to get some historical launch with education, Yale is consistently and global perspective. He takes a Major Political resources, and funding. a top producer of international, profes- freshman seminar with Cold War Science As a complement to Fulbright Fellowships. sional, and research historian John Gaddis and a seminar, more traditional Since 2010, in opportunities that Imagining the Iraq War, taught by New academic programs, addition to 148 Yorker journalist Sarah Stillman and which provide a concep- Fulbright Fellowships, launch them toward U.S. Army o∞cer Robert Chamberlain. Educational tual understanding and Yale students have both long-term ambi- “They took us on a whirlwind journey Programming related case studies of been awarded 27 tions and unforeseen of military tactics, philosophy, The summer after freshman new venture formation, Rhodes, 17 Marshall, year, Aaron combines his achievements. Yalies journalism, history, and politics. After YEI guides students in 15 Goldwater, 7 class every week, we went out for sushi commitment to education planning and executing Truman, and 21 leverage these oppor- and continued the conversation.” with a talent for coding and actual start-ups. YEI Gates Cambridge tunities in countless programming, building draws on a network of Scholarships, as impressive ways and a computer system, support that includes well as 180 National Classroom Compass, that in-house experts, a Science Foundation learn how to ask good will survey L.A. public 150+ Mentor Network, Graduate Research questions, seek out school students about their corporate partners, Fellowships. Just as the right mentors, and classes and provide feedback venture capitalists, and importantly, these to teachers. The project is graduate students from major awards only create experiences that Duty above Self funded through two Yale the Yale School of scratch the surface of Sophomore year, Aaron enrolls in are professionally and fellowships and occupies Management to guide the hundreds of other a seminar with retired U.S. Army personally rewarding. Aaron’s evenings while student teams. Since highly valuable, funded General Stanley McChrystal, who he works for an L.A. legal 2007 YEI has supported sources of support In this chapter, we “showed me what real devotion to services organization by day. the formation and that Yale students chronicle the trajecto- duty above self looks like.” With a growth of more than tap every single year. Yale community outreach group, ries of three soon-to-be 100 student-founded he teaches health education classes graduates who have ventures, which have 5 Graduate in the New Haven public schools “At Yale, I’ve taken seminars with raised over $150 Schools Most successfully connected while continuing to promote million of outside Attended use of Classroom Compass in L.A. the dots between a extraordinary people who pursued investment capital. When they enroll in Yale education and the These start-ups cover business, law, medical, Real World. Policy Practice public service from totally di≠erent many industries from or graduate school, Yale Aaron spends the summer in software and education graduates most often Washington, D.C., on a Yale-funded angles. That’s how I realized that to food, retail, and attend Yale, Harvard, internship with the House Committee green technology. Stanford, Oxford, and on Foreign A≠airs. Researching and running a start-up is a valid public Columbia. Grand Grill Session writing policy memos, he synthesizes Yale Connections As a junior, Aaron puts previous intellectual exposure to service path and, for me, the most Yale has more than Career Services this practical experience politics with some real-life practice. 160,000 graduates Whether you are just to good use in Grand e≠ective one.” and hundreds of starting to think about Strategy, Professor alumni groups all over career options or have Gaddis’s international the world, providing already started down unequaled networking a path, Yale’s Office policy course. “My group Within months, the Double Duty Panoramic Views opportunities, from an of Career Strategy is presented a radical Panorama team garners Aaron finds himself a college senior online career network, equipped to support proposal for responding to Aaron recruits three students $50,000 in funding and CEO of a fast-growing start-up. to mentoring programs you at every stage of the Arab Spring: funding to help overhaul Classroom through the Yale By March, Panorama Education for students, to the career process. The high-tech start-ups as a Entrepreneurial Institute. is collaborating with three state Compass and founds an regional and campus office offers workshops, vehicle for cultural change. This serious sum allows governments, a number of major events for alumni. networking events, and Halfway through our education technology start-up, them to work full-time over school districts, and Teach for Whatever you are internships. And presentation, Senator Panorama Education. He also the summer, expanding America. Following graduation, interested in—social through its on-campus John McCain walked beyond L.A. to envision Aaron hopes to grow the team gains faculty support from justice, sustainability, recruiting program, in and started grilling us. a product that might help to nine full-time employees education expert John Bryan entertainment, law, more than 140 That was fun.” schools nationwide and is looking ahead to a new journalism, media, employers conduct Starr, who will become his identify opportunities platform that will further entrepreneurship, over 2,700 student senior project adviser. for improvement. transform how schools use data. technology—you will interviews every year. 68 | studies 69 Global Healing Journalist “At dinner with my writing class, the World Starting Out Summer in Swaziland Arriving at Yale, Omar Omar wins a Yale Summer Sanjena Sathian author Gay Talese told me that ‘the Omar Njie looks toward a career as a Research Fellowship to intern Residential College Residential College doctor. But that goal doesn’t at the Swaziland Ministry Morse definitive New Yorker article on Nepal Silliman pigeonhole him academically. of Health, where he helps “I knew early on that I did not develop a five-year plan Major English Major Global A≠airs want to take the traditional to market HIV-prevention has not yet been written. You should pre-med route and major and counseling resources in biology or chemistry.” to public sector employees. write it.’ I realized then that my He leans toward psychology proclivity for going places and caring but keeps his options open.

Write and Think about communities that other people Developing Interests Freshman year, a course called Sophomore year connects Omar with Professor Understanding Bollywood don’t necessarily flock to gives me Kaveh Khoshnood, whose seminar on tropical connects Sanjena with her disease campaigns “helped to spark my interest Indian background, an a lot of power and responsibility to in ‘macro’ health issues, especially those important mentor, and her that a±ict citizens of developing nations.” true desire to become a writer. tell those stories.” In the spring, he applies for the Global A≠airs “My professor, visiting scholar major and the Global Health Fellows Program. Ashish Chadha, told me, And he runs for vice president of the Yale ‘I think you’re the kind of College Council (YCC). All three pan out. person who’s either going to be a journalist or an academic.’ That sounds reductive, but it wasn’t. It was so clarifying. In Later that year, Sanjena high school, teachers would attends a College Tea say, ‘you’re smart, be a lawyer.’ and dinner with Louise World Health Or, ‘you have really sharp Story, Yale alumna and opinions on politics, go do award-winning business The Global Health Fellows Program that.’ But Professor Chadha reporter for the New sponsors Omar’s ten-week summer just looked at me and said, York Times. Having only internship with the Tropical Health and ‘you like to write and think.’” recently joined the Yale Daily News, Sanjena is Education Trust (THET) in London, new to journalism, but which works to strengthen health “I remember thinking systems in the developing world. how much I respected the way Story was Off She Goes talking about the world.” Sanjena has landed a coveted summer at Big Man on Campus the Boston Globe—a Junior year brings big YCC reporting opportunity duties. Meanwhile, Omar made possible by her Going Global gains clarity on his future He also gains admission to the Humanities and experience at the Post- Sophomore year, in medicine. “My image of Medicine Program at the Icahn School of Medicine Gazette. Afterward, she Sanjena leaves the YDN pursuing a career in medicine at Mount Sinai, which guarantees medical school is considering a move to for the Yale Globalist, a changed as I took more global acceptance to 30 college juniors. Omar spends the India to pursue a career in magazine that reports health and public health summer in an eight-week intensive study program at foreign correspondence. on international issues. courses.” He is accepted into Icahn, exploring science and clinical disciplines and She is also likely to “The Globalist was the five-year B.A./B.S./M.P.H. getting to know the other students in his cohort. continue work with her my perfect home: it program, which enables creative writing adviser, melded writing and students to leave Yale with author John Crowley. travel, literariness, and a both a bachelor’s degree and a fascination with global master’s degree in public health. Making Connections politics.” A spring- Humility As a junior, Sanjena takes a seminar break outreach trip to Back on campus, Omar Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, completes his senior project for Just for Fun with author Anne Fadiman and talks yields a Globalist story the Global A≠airs major. And “Because Yale o≠ers so many Sanjena wraps up two at length with New Yorker writers Ian on the tiny indigenous because senior year is a great senior essays: a creative Frazier, Adam Gopnik, and Gay Talese. Aymara community. opportunity to take those “just interdisciplinary programs, like fiction piece and a After a Globalist trip to for fun” classes, he enrolls in research paper on Zadie Come spring, the Globalist sta≠ travels Turkey in May, Sanjena Humility, taught by New York Smith. (One required, to Chile, where Sanjena reports on the spends the summer Times columnist David Brooks. Global Health Fellows, I’ve the other just for fun!) mining industry. She also wins a Yale studying gender There may be no more fitting developed the skills necessary to fellowship to intern at the Pittsburgh disparity and economic description for the attitude he development in rural maintains and will no doubt Post-Gazette that summer. “It cemented Nepal on a Yale Summer continue to maintain every apply diverse, creative strategies my interest in reporting.” Research Fellowship. step of the way. to pressing global concerns.” 70 | studies 71 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

74 | places 75 Harkness Memorial Tower by James Gamble Rogers and is the height of tradition at Yale (216 completed in 1921, Harkness holds a Inspired by Icons. feet and 284 steps to the roof). The 54-bell, 43-ton carillon rung daily by tower’s cornerstone was dedicated students in the Yale University Guild in 1917 exactly 200 years after the of Carillonneurs. Statues of Elihu (Why architecture matters) first stone for the first Yale building Yale and others plus four student- in New Haven was placed. Designed gargoyles keep watch from on high.

“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

76 | places 77 Old Campus Students begin and end their time at Yale where Yale itself began. Most freshmen live here in the residences that border Old Campus, which is also where their commencement takes place four years later.

78 | places 79 Completed in 1930, Sterling fifteen stack levels and eight floors Yale University Art Gallery masterwork designed by Louis Kahn Memorial Library was designed of reading rooms, offices, and work One of the country’s oldest college (faculty 1947–57). It was the first by James Gamble Rogers, who areas. A just-completed restoration art museums got its start in 1832 notable design of Kahn’s career called the building “as near to of the nave has revealed long hidden with 100 Revolutionary War paint- and sits across the street from his modern Gothic as we dared to make decorative details and updated ings. Now it’s noted for the depth final work in the United States, the it.” Devoted primarily to the humani- programmatic areas to better and range of its collections. The Yale Center for British Art. ties and social sciences, it has support the needs of today’s users. main building is itself a modernist

80 | places 81 Connecticut Hall The oldest Malone Engineering Center of Architecture, houses under­ building on campus, a Georgian Built in 2005 according to state- graduate teaching labs and among the Gothic, opened as a of-the-art sustainable building the University’s Department of dorm in 1752 and is a National standards, Malone adds considerably Biomedical Engineering. Historic Landmark. Nathan Hale to Yale’s engineering facilities. (B.A. 1773)—that’s him, on The building, designed by Cesar guard outside —was one of its Pelli (of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects), early residents. a former dean of the Yale School 82 | places 83 84 | places 85 Noah Webster Lived Here. (Bumping into history at Yale)

It’s where presidents Silliman College (left) marks the past and possibly future spot where word-meister Noah mingle with the inventor Webster’s house once stood. Webster, B.A. 1778, who roomed of the submarine, film in Connecticut Hall as a student, stars, Nobel Prize winners, formed the first musical band great thinkers, and that at Yale, which lasted one week until “artistic di≠erences” involv- grouchy boss from The ing a long march with George Simpsons. You’ll never Washington to Cambridge broke walk alone on Yale’s them up. campus, because more than 300 years of alums Osborn Memorial Labs (below are right there with right) now occupy the nineteenth- century castle where Professor you. Sometimes they E.L. Tatum and his young leave an obvious sign. graduate student, Joshua Sometimes you just find Lederberg, made the discoveries about recombinant genes that the connections on your won them a share of the 1958 own. Attend a party in one Nobel Prizes and opened the way of the two courtyards at for the biotech industry. Davenport College, where cartoonist Garry Trudeau Branford College (below center) decorates its entries with and President George the names of famous Yalies, W. Bush served on a including James Fenimore D’port party committee as Cooper, who was admitted at students and later defined 13 and expelled a few years later after several pranks, possibly the yin and yang of their including a donkey and a generation’s politics. Or professor’s chair. (Maybe he check out the doors of couldn’t help it—Cooper’s older brother was expelled from Yale Law School. Over Princeton after “someone” blew them are sculptures up a campus hall.) of snoring professors and drunken lowlifes; through them went future presidents (Ford and Clinton), Supreme Court justices, and authors (including Stephen L. Carter, who now teaches After Webster, Eli Whitney and Samuel Morse lived there). Or you could just in Connecticut Hall (right), stand in the middle of built in 1750–52; another Old Campus, think of historic roommate was Nathan Hale, B.A. 1773, executed as a all those past students spy and known for having said, brushing by on their way “I only regret that I have but one to changing the world, life to lose for my country.” and figure what intriguing mark you’ll leave behind.

86 | places 87 Eating Out. Nine Squares. (When you need a (Yale and the city) break from the dining halls)

The great debate: Sally’s vs. Pepe’s New Haven’s Wooster “Downtown New Haven has been Street is well known for its Yale Campus delicious pizza. Lines outside its

transformed over the last five years Yale has been in New Haven since 1716, and its most popular establishments relocation fifteen years after its founding was due in large are often 20 people long. from Yale’s mundane backyard into part to New Haven’s belief that a college was essential to its own success. All of Yale University is involved East Rock a vibrant neighborhood of shops, in the city and the cultural, recreational, and political Park Louis’ opportunities it o≠ers. Thousands of New Haven Lunch theaters, and restaurants.” children and teens participate in intensive academic and Credited enrichment programs at Yale. And more than 2,000 Yale by The New York Times, 2005 Broadway College students participate as volunteers, interns, and some National brand-names tend work-study employees in New Haven schools, hospitals, with For well over a decade, politan college town, to congregate here: Apple Store, community organizations, and businesses. inventing the hamburger in 1903. Yale and New Haven they would recognize J. Crew, Urban Outfitters, Barnes & Science (Just don’t ask for ketchup!) Noble (a.k.a. the Yale Bookstore). Hill have been creating the the cooperation between Bring your Yale ID for some good Ninth Square template for the 21st- the two neighbors as For a more discounts. Busy with students elegant night out, Ninth Square, century city, investing Yale moves into its fourth day and night, Broadway and a short walk from campus, o≠ers together in a new biotech century. In the words of intersecting York Street are also the the upscale and hip spots. place to go for a late-night snack. industry and partnering former Yale President Hillhouse Coffee or Koffee? in an urban renaissance Richard C. Levin, a thirty- Ave that has become a five-year resident of New Whitney Avenue New Haven has You can cover a lot of its share of great national model. While Haven, this city is “large Grove St intellectual ground traveling this independent co≠ee the founders of New enough to be interesting, avenue. It borders the Audubon shops where Audubon Haven and Yale might yet small enough to be Arts District, always worth a students can study or catch up with not recognize the modern friendly.” Welcome to ramble. And at 170 Whitney, the Howe St friends. Whitney Ave world-class collections of the university or the cosmo­ the new New Haven. Cross Campus Peabody Museum of Natural Chapel Street History provide a remarkable Ashley’s Ice Cream For decades In counterpoint to big record of Earth’s history, life, a New Haven favorite, located Broadway, Chapel Street is jam- Old and cultures. on York Street, and voted “New packed with local bookstores, Campus Haven’s Best” by the local press. boutiques, cafes, and restaurants that range from student-budget New Haven to upscale. In between shopping Mory’s: Green and noshing, visit the newly A Yale renovated and expanded Yale Tradition University Art Gallery and the Founded Yale Center for British Art. Orange St in 1861, Mory’s is

College St a unique Yale dining experience—­ Ninth City Hall / Amistad membership in this supper club Square Memorial is open to Yale students, faculty, and alumni. Mory’s is known Church St City Hall is on the southeast side of the Green. Next to it is the especially for its toasting nights Amistad Memorial to the African and entertainment by superb Yale captives who rebelled against a cappella groups including Yale’s Medical slavery. Yale professors, students, most famous, the Whi≠enpoofs. Center and alumni argued their case A textbook case of city leaders of future generations. The New Haven Green in court. The sculpture stands International Fare Walk just planning Nine perfect squares: pattern held true: their college The center of the city’s original grid, the 17-acre on the site of the jail that held a few blocks from campus for a geometry of profound faith. New would become paramount in Green is bordered by Yale, New Haven government o∞ces, the rebels. any food you crave—American, Haven was planned by founders preparing leaders, amid a setting Chapel Street shops, and a lot of history. The Yale Daily Ninth Square Chinese, Cuban, Ethiopian, who believed in the recurring pat- carefully planned as a tangible News calls it the city’s epicenter and says, “Whenever It may be the ninth square, French, Greek, Indian, Irish, tern of Providence. In 1639, they expression of the power of something major comes to New Haven, it shows up on the but it’s turning into a blockbuster Long Island Italian, Jamaican, Japanese, laid out a grid of blocks around the mind and soul. See Yale in Green,” from festivals to concerts to protests. It’s the stage for upscale nightlife, thanks to a Sound Korean, Malaysian, Mexican, a central commons, a tangible New Haven: Architecture and for the New Haven Jazz Festival and other concerts—and it’s continuing retail and residential Middle Eastern, Moroccan, expression of their belief. The next Urbanism (Yale University, 2004). where the bodies are buried (in the Center Church Crypt, boom. Spanish, Thai, Turkish, or step was a college to train the an historic cemetery with gravestones from 1687 to 1812). Vietnamese.

88 | places 89 Elm City Run. “I’m never more aware of how much New Haven has to o≠er than when I’m on a run. Because I’m on the track team, I run a lot. Every run, we basically circle the entire city. So the city’s size is manageable enough that if you want to go to East Rock, or even West Rock, you can leave the city for your run and then return. On a single run you can pass the neighborhoods that are nicest if you go down Hillhouse. Then you can go out to Dixwell and come back around. You can go by the port and the receiving terminal that smells like asphalt, so that’s really indus- trial. You can go by hayfields and cows, clubs and museums. You can find trails to run on. Some parts are fantastic, and other ones present you with a challenge, but either way it’s really fun. Because the city is this perfect size, you see this whole image of so many kinds of life and landscape. You can leave campus and return with renewed vigor, because you see so many things along the way.” Dan

Senior Dan Serna runs Varsity Rock neighborhood; crossing the Mill Track and Field. Left to right: River; entering Hamden, CT; at the Leaving Timothy Dwight College; top of East Rock Park (also above). Whitney Avenue shopping district; fresh flowers on Whitney; ascending Science Hill; East 90 | places 91 Here, There, Everywhere. (Fourteen students, two simple questions, thirty countries on six continents)

Where are you from? Where have you been? One beautiful spring day a random sampling of students walking through campus were asked these questions. Their answers reveal Yale as a cosmopolitan crossroads “I’m from Marietta, Georgia. “I’m from Chicago, Illinois. “I’m from Washington, D.C. “I’m from Owensboro, Kentucky. “I am from Austria. I’ve also lived “I’m from Irving, Texas. The “My current home city is Durban, The summer after my During the summer after my The summer after freshman year, I spent a year and a half studying in Germany and Connecticut­­ . I summer after my sophomore South Africa, but I was born where students receive sophomore year, I was a project sophomore year, I studied abroad I interned with a Ugandan in Beijing through the Yale-Peking went to boarding school in the year, I studied film in Paris, in Rwanda. I’ve also lived in an education in global supervisor in Mexico for the in New Zealand and Australia microfinance company. After University joint program, as well United Kingdom and took my Munich, and London. I also Kenya, the Democratic fluency. Yalies become NGO Amigos de las Américas. with a rainforest conservation sophomore year I had an as a summer Richard U. Light gap year in Shanghai, China. went to Japan to study the Republic of Congo, Mozam- highly skilled at crossing The next summer I interned in and natural resource manage- internship at the British Fellowship. While I was there I Since coming to Yale, I did the language during my first Yale bique, and Swaziland. While Seoul, South Korea, at a social ment program.” Parliament in London. Next hosted a television show and met Yale-Peking University program summer. Next fall, I will spend at Yale, I studied French in Paris boundaries. They speak welfare center, working with Emmanuel Ramirez, fall, I will spend the semester Herbie Hancock and Hillary during my spring semester the semester at the Film and the summer after my junior year. multiple languages and North Korean refugees. Then Psychology Major studying in Copenhagen.” Clinton among other guests.” sophomore year. Next fall I will Television School of the Academy This coming summer I will go quickly adapt to new I spent my spring semester Kate Aufhauser, History/ Kevin Olusola, East Asian spend the semester in Paris.” of Performing Arts in Prague.” to Malawi to conduct research junior year in Jordan studying Political Science Major Studies Major Olympia Arco, Political Science Jason Cody Douglass, Film Major on the perceptions of health environments. The global Arabic language and culture.” Major and health care among refugees is made local for under- Elizabeth Kim, American in a refugee camp there.” graduates here. The wide Studies Major Sandra Giramahoro, History of world becomes accessible, Science/History of Medicine Major known, experienced. With such experience Yalies can pursue any ambition anywhere in the world.

“I’m from New York City. “I’m from Holliston, Massachu- “I’m from Los Angeles, “I was born in Amman, Jordan, “I’m from McAllen, Texas. “I’m from Redlands, California. “I’m from Buffalo, New York, Spring break of my freshman setts. During my freshman California. The summer before but now my family lives in Illinois. This summer I will be studying I’ve studied Italian in Italy on but I’ve also lived in the year I got to tour and perform in spring break, I led workshops in my junior year I won the John The summer after my junior year, Portuguese and delving into Yale’s Summer Study Program, Philippines. I’ve spent two Milan, Lugano, and Zurich literacy and theater for children in Thouron Prize for Summer I went to the UK to study public the vibrant culture of Brazil and next fall I will be going summers in St. Petersburg as a member of the a cappella Guatemala City, Guatemala. Study—an eight-week fellowship health policy, Gothic architecture, while living in Rio de Janeiro to Pune, India, taking courses studying Russian language singing group Yale Alley Cats.” This summer, I’m going to Japan to Pembroke College, Cambridge and art at Cambridge University. through a Yale Summer and doing research in environ­ and culture.” Sho Matsuzaki, Computing on a grant to do a monthlong University, in the UK. My I also went to Port-au-Prince, Study course.” mental studies.” Joe Bolognese, Economics and the Arts Major intensive in traditional Japanese research focused on inter­- Haiti, to work with Haitians Stephanie Carrizales, Victoria Montanez, and Math Major dance and theater.” national finance and business.” displaced by the earthquake.” American Studies Major Environmental Studies Major Laurel Durning-Hammond, Brandon Levin, Ethics, Politics, Osama Zayyad, Molecular Theater Studies Major and Economics Major Biophysics and Biochemistry Major 92 | places 93 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

96 | pursuits 97 Yale’s first gym was Mission Recent Ivy League built in 1826. By the “Yale student athletes... Championships undertake the challenge of Basketball (M) mid-1800s an athletic a high-level education while Heavyweight Crew tradition “dominated the proudly representing Yale Field Hockey undergraduate horizon, University in the pursuit of Ice Hockey (M) Lacrosse (M) and epic victories were championships. Through exceptional facilities and Coed Sailing celebrated with bonfires coaches, Yale Athletics Squash (M) under the elms, as the ensures that our students Tennis (W) Volleyball (W) classes roared out their learn the important values of leadership, integrity, glees from their appointed discipline, and teamwork. 12 Nationally perches on the old Yale The aspiration is that in the Ranked Teams Heavyweight Crew fence,” wrote George course of preparation and Lightweight Crew competition, students enter Pierson in his history Crew (W) a co-curricular laboratory Fencing (M and W) of Yale. The Bulldogs of for learning that will fit Ice Hockey (M) today—both men and them to lead in all of their Lacrosse (M) future endeavors.” women — compete on 35 Coed Sailing — Excerpted from the Yale teams (of which 29 are Sailing (W) Athletics Mission Statement NCAA Division I) made Squash (M and W) Tennis (W) up of junior-varsity-level players to All-Americans. “The Game” Even for those who Yale also offers student- don’t count themselves run club sports and one as sports fans, “The of the most extensive Game” is one of the most anticipated and popular intramural events every year. programs in the country. Since 1875, the And the fans roar their Yale Bulldogs and glees (that’s fight song Harvard Crimson have met more than 130 in modern parlance) — times in this annual including Cole Porter’s Yale-Harvard football “Bulldog!”— as loud game. Held the first weekend of Thanks- as ever. ­giving break, the game alternates between the Yale Bowl and Harvard Stadium.

98 | pursuits 99 Varsity Teams Equestrian 800+ Baseball Field Hockey (coed) Men’s Basketball Figure Skating Yalies who participate Women’s Basketball Fishing in varsity athletics Men’s Crew (Heavy Golf each year. and Light) Gymnastics (coed) Women’s Crew Men’s Ice Hockey 2,400+ Men’s Cross Country Indoor Climbing Women’s Cross Country Karate (Shotokan) Students who Men’s Fencing Kendo participate in intramural­ Women’s Fencing Men’s Lacrosse games through the Field Hockey Women’s Lacrosse residential colleges. Football Muay Thai Men’s Golf Pistol 80% Women’s Golf Polo Women’s Gymnastics Powerlifting The percentage of Men’s Ice Hockey Rifle the student body Women’s Ice Hockey Road Running participating in some Men’s Lacrosse Men’s Rugby form of athletic Women’s Lacrosse Women’s Rugby activity each year. Coed Sailing Skeet & Trap Women’s Sailing Skiing (Alpine) Men’s Soccer Skiing (Nordic) Women’s Soccer Men’s Soccer 200+ Olympians 2012 Summer Softball Women’s Soccer Facilities Johnson Field More than 200 Yale Games in London by Men’s Squash Squash (coed) A 750-seat synthetic players and coaches one coach and seven Women’s Squash Swimming Payne Whitney turf complex housing have taken part in alumni athletes, Men’s Swimming Table Tennis Gymnasium the field hockey team. modern (post-1896) including Taylor and Diving Tae Kwon Do At 12 acres, the largest It is adjacent to the Olympic competition, Ritzel ’10, who won Women’s Swimming Men’s Tennis gym in the nation and William O. DeWitt winning 114 medals, gold rowing on the and Diving Women’s Tennis the second-largest in Jr. ’63 Family Field, 55 of them gold. At U.S. women’s eight Men’s Tennis Triathlon the world (second only home of Yale softball. the 2008 Summer team; Ashley Women’s Tennis Men’s Ultimate to a gym in Moscow Games in Beijing, Brzozowicz ’04, who Men’s Track and Field Women’s Ultimate that was modeled Championship fencer Sada Jacobson won silver with the Women’s Track and Men’s Volleyball after Yale’s). Golf Course Yale’s ’06, who won silver Canadian women’s Field Women’s Volleyball own championship and bronze medals eight; and Charlie Women’s Volleyball Men’s Water Polo David S. Ingalls golf course, voted #1 for the United States, Cole ’07, who won Women’s Water Polo Rink seats more College Golf Course in was one of six Elis bronze with the U.S. Club Sports Wrestling than 3,000 and is America by Golfweek competing. At the men’s four team. Archery home to Yale’s varsity magazine in 2015, is a 2010 Winter Games Most recently, at the Badminton Intramurals men’s and women’s short distance from the in Vancouver, Natalie 2014 Winter Games Ballroom Dance See page 23 hockey teams. The other athletic facilities, Babony ’06 skated in Sochi, Phoebe Men’s Baseball rink is also available in the Westville section on the Slovakian Staenz ’17 won Men’s Basketball for recreational ice of New Haven. women’s ice hockey bronze as a member Women’s Basketball skating and instruction, team. Yale was of the Swiss women’s Cricket and intramurals. Gilder Boathouse represented at the ice hockey team. Cycling The Gilder Boat­­house, Yale Bowl a 22,000 square foot Conferences Handsome Dan A spectacular football state-of-the-art facility Yale takes pride in (1889–present) stadium seating more on the Housatonic its broad-based inter­­­­ Yale was the first than 60,000, the River, stretches south collegiate athletic university in the United Bowl is surrounded by to the finish line of program that includes States to adopt a first-rate facilities for Yale’s 2,000-meter competition in the Ivy mascot, and to this indoor and outdoor race course. League Conference and date, none is better tennis, lacrosse, rugby, the Eastern College known than Handsome soccer, field hockey, The McNay Family Athletic Conference Dan. The tradition softball, baseball, and Sailing Center (ECAC). Most of Yale’s was established by a track and field. at Yale University intercollegiate contests young gentleman from Home to Yale’s coed are against traditional Victorian England, who Reese Stadium and women’s varsity east coast opponents attended Yale in the With seating for more sailing teams, the with emphasis on 1890s. The original’s than 1,700, Reese center houses a fleet of winning the Ivy League 16 successors have is home to the men’s twenty-four 420 racing title. All sports, been the intimates of and women’s soccer dinghies, as well as with the exception deans, directors, and teams in the fall, and FJs, Lasers, and five of football, have coaches. One was to the men’s and safety launches. the ultimate goal of tended by a head women’s lacrosse qualifying for NCAA cheerleader who went teams in the spring. and affiliated post-­ on to become the season championships. Secretary of State.

100 | pursuits 101 Known as the Dramat, the Yale Really Trying at the Yale School of Dramatic Association is the second- Drama’s University Theatre, one State of the Arts. oldest college theater association of many superb performance venues in the country and the largest under- open to undergraduates. graduate theater organization at (Playing a major role whether you’re an arts major or not) Yale. Here, the group performs How to Succeed in Business Without

Whether you want to become a professional artist, continue a passion, Emily Jenda of Saybrook College try something new, or David Martinez belongs to is majoring in Psychology and simply immerse yourself in Trumbull College and is majoring Theater Studies. In addition to appreciating great theater, in Political Science and Music. participating in Heritage Theater His extracurricular activities Ensemble and the Yale Dramat, music, dance, films, and include theater, a cappella, and she is involved with the Afro- exhibitions, a spectacular swimming. American Cultural Center. array of options awaits you at Yale. Major or take courses in Architecture, Kelsey Sakimoto is a Chemical Engineering major in Ezra Stiles Art, Computing and the College. He partici­pates in the Arts, Film Studies, Music, Will Turner is in Timothy Yale Concert Band, Yale Precision Yael Zinkow is from Bexley, or Theater Studies. Tap Dwight College and is from Marching Band, Ezra Stiles Ohio, and belongs to Saybrook Tampa, Florida. He is a member College Wind Ensemble, College. She sings in the coed into the extraordinary of the Baker’s Dozen, an Daven­port Pops Orchestra, and a cappella group Mixed Company resources of Yale’s Digital a cappella group. Yale University Jazz Collective. and is freshman coordinator of Media Center for the Arts, Yale Slifka Center. Yale University Art Gallery, Yale Center for British Michael Knowles of Davenport Mark Sonnenblick of Silliman Art, and world-class College is a contributing reporter College participates in the improv professional schools of Art, for the Yale Daily News and a group Purple Crayon and The Architecture, Drama, and member of the Yale Dramat and Yale Record. He also started an Music. Outside the class- the Freshman Class Council. He undergraduate rock band. is also a sta≠ writer for Insider’s room there are some 50 Guide to the Colleges. to 60 officially registered Sam Tsui is a Classical Studies campus-wide arts groups, major in Davenport College. troupes, ensembles, He participates in the a cappella group the Duke’s Men, Yale societies, and publications. Baroque Opera Project, and These organizations cater the Dramat. He is also a Yale to such disparate interests tour guide. as belly dancing, classical chamber music, Chinese Isabel Siragusa is a Theater calligraphy, and fashion Studies major in Davenport Mallory Baysek of Branford design. Many—like the College. She participates in the College is majoring in Classics Yale Glee Club, the Yale Dramat, Yale Drama Coalition, Ming-Toy Taylor is in Timothy and Humanities. Her extracur- Dramatic Association (the Eating Concerns Health and Dwight College and is undecided riculars include theater, serving Outreach, and Reach Out— about her major. She participates on the Yale Dramat Board, and Dramat), the Yale Concert the Yale College Partnership for in theater, tutoring, Roosevelt working at Yale’s Marsh Botanical Band, and the a cappella International Service. Institution, and intramurals. Garden. groups—are part of the long-established, deeply rooted history and lore From the digital to the classical, of Yale College. Within from the academic to the extra­ curricular, from private lessons to this vibrant creative life, group ensembles, from beginning students have the freedom painting to professional exhibitions— to create something totally Yale arts offer every opportunity. new even as they become part of Yale’s legendary arts tradition.

102 | pursuits 103 Or DIY by acting, Film Redhot & Blue performing, singing, Bulldog Productions Shades staging, writing, The Daily Show. East Asian Film Society Singing Group Council producing, presenting, improvising, creating, Undergraduate Film Society of Orpheus and (A slice of Yale’s creative life during one spring weekend not so long ago) designing, and getting Society Bacchus laughs through more Yale Student Film Something Extra than 100 (and count- Festival ing) student choirs, The Spizzwinks(?) Yale Film Alliance Records show that the Be hip at the show and menu at the Yale troupes, clubs, groups, Sur et Veritaal

Friday Yale Belly Dance Cabaret, where Yale School of ensembles, associa- first appearance of Music Tangled Up in Blue Society “Hips Drama performers are never tions, organizations, a band at Yale was in Undergraduate Choral Lose yourself in the art of against Hunger: more than a few feet away, and societies, and collec- Berkeley College Society 1775, when a militia the book at the exhibitions 3rd Annual where your waiter one week tives including: Orchestra

band of Yale students “The Passover Haggadah: Gala Show.” might be on stage the next. Black is the Color The Whiffenpoofs Modern Art in Dialogue Afterward, stop Art/Design accompanied George Blue Feather Drum Whim ’n Rhythm with an Ancient Text,” “Art by the Morse Washington to Cambridge, Anime Society Group Yale Russian Chorus Is Where You Find It,” and Crescent Design at Yale Massachusetts. They “Collaboration: The Art of Theater Saturday Concordia Flute Yale Slavic Chorus found it “not to their Working Together,” all at at Morse Design for America Yale Ensemble Theater liking” and returned to Sterling Memorial Library. College to check Get an early start with a Digital Arts Society Coup de Brass out the band your Froco morning of music at the Guild of Bookmakers Davenport Pops The Control Group New Haven one week is managing and a spoken Woolsey Concerto Competi- Heritage Theatre later. From those humble word performance by the tion, where School of Music Undergraduate Student Krolik Saxophone Ensemble roots have sprung the Yale Slam team. instrumentalists and singers architect Frank Gehry’s talk Or sleep in and join the Yale Artists Collective Ensemble compete for the opportunity two nights ago, but make FX Crew for an afternoon Opera Theatre of Yale Concert Band, the Vita Bella! Low Strung to appear as soloists with a plan to come back next of practice. Yale College YaleMakes New Music Cooperative Yale Symphony Orchestra, Explore the ethical conse- the Philharmonia. Make it a Tuesday for SOA’s Film Series REVUE quences of murder with “wry marathon and head to Sprague “The Future is Asian.” Yale Native American Pan, Jam, and Lime and the incomparable Society for More Face your fears at the School irony and consummate skill” Hall in the afternoon to watch Revisit your childhood and Arts Council Steel Band Yale Precision Marching Musical Theater of Architecture’s symposium through two films: Monsieur the broadcast—live in HD— see your suitemates perform Saybrook College Band. Such is Yale’s epic Dance “Mobile Anxieties,” featuring Verdoux and Le Boucher, of the Metropolitan Opera’s Pick up subsidized tickets for New Haven’s youngest at Orchestra Yale Children’s Theater arts story, peopled by keynote address “Mobility, directed by Charles Chaplin performance of Stravinsky’s provided by your residential the Yale Children’s Theater Ballet Folklórico 1701 Records Yale Drama Coalition Security and Creativity: The and Claude Chabrol, respec- The Rake’s Progress. college and head into New performance of Robin Hood. icons (Thornton Wilder, Mexicano Yale Dramat Politics and Economics of tively, and loosely based York with friends to see the Or step on stage yourself in Tiny Baroque Orchestra Paul Newman, Maya Ballroom Dance Team Global Creative Cities.” What on real-life scandals. Every American Ballet Theatre’s afternoon rehearsals of the of Pierson College Comedy/Improv Lin, Jodie Foster, Lupita are the precedents for mobility weekend, and in special confer- production of Fokine’s Les Dramat’s production of Tony Belly Dance Society Yale Baroque Opera Nyong’o) and satisfying in architecture and how are ences and festivals, Films at Sylphides. Or enjoy a night of Kushner’s Angels in America: Damhsa Project The 5th Humour they related to a general sense the Whitney helps foster theater right here on campus Millennium Approaches pretty much any artistic Danceworks Yale Concert Band Just Add Water of unease? Yale’s dynamic film culture at the Yale Repertory (one of 200 student theatrical Lux Improvitas desire any day of the with free screenings at the Theatre, where lords and productions each year). A Different Drum Yale Klezmer Band week. We picked one Whitney Humanities Center ladies are gathering for Oscar Groove Dance Yale Precision The Purple Crayon Channel your inner Indiana auditorium. Wilde’s comedy of serial Marching Band weekend in spring. Jashan Bhangra Team Red Hot Poker Jones at the Peabody seducers and moralizing Close the weekend with an Yale Symphony Sphincter Troupe Museum’s special exhibition monogamists, A Woman of No eclectic mix of live music: the Konjo! African Dance Orchestra “Las Artes de México,” with If that’s too highbrow for your Importance. annual Stan Wheeler Memo- Monstraasity The Viola Question artifacts from more than a mood, start your night with Take the Masterpiece Tour rial Jazz Concert at the Law Yale Undergraduate Phoenix Dance Troupe The Yale Exit Players dozen pre-Columbian cultures. the all-ages show at Toad’s at the Yale University Art School; a student Choral Jazz Collective The Yale Record Place, then head over to the Gallery (YUAG), stopping Conducting Recital at Battell Rhythmic Blue Yale Undergraduate

Criterion Cinema’s exclusive into the special exhibitions Chapel; the Great Organ Sabrosura Society of Conductors Spoken Word Soothe your soul with Insomnia Theater film series, “Colorful Impressions: The Music series at Marquand Shaka Polynesian Yale University Guild Mendelssohn’s Elijah which “brings the best cult Printmaking Revolution Chapel. Or learn some new ¡Oye! Dance of Carillonneurs performed by Yale’s classics back to the big screen!” in 18th-Century France” and steps in a Swing & Blues Jook Songs Philharmonia Orchestra, Or shake o≠ Le Boucher “Master Drawings from the Dance Practicum at the Afro- Steppin’ Out Singing Groups Teeth Slam Poets Camerata, and Glee Club. (literally) with the late-night Yale University Art Gallery.” American Cultural Center. Swing & Blues After lunch at Atticus Café The Alley Cats Telltale Tango Club across the street, return for Asempa(!) WORD Performance student guide Susan Morrow’s Enjoy a concert to benefit Taps The Baker’s Dozen Poetry talk “Angles on Art.” children’s literacy given by the Undergraduate Ballet Sunday Whiffenpoofs, the world’s Company The Duke’s Men Unique oldest and best-known Yale Dance Theater Gospel Choir Aerial and Circus Arts Or gallery-hop from the As a member of the Gospel collegiate a cappella group. Living Water Collective School of Art’s Senior Choir, sing at Sunday The Whi≠s are one of Yale Rangeela: Fusion Thesis Show Paintings Part I services. more than a dozen Dance Magevet Anti-Gravity Society (see Part II on Sunday) to the a cappella groups Yaledancers Mixed Company The Bad Romantics Architecture Gallery for and have Ya-Le Chinese Dance The New Blue of Yale “Painting the Glass House: Help your friend set up her become one Y Pop-Up Artists Revisit Modern Archi- paintings at the Despierta of Yale’s most Out of the Blue Fashion tecture.” As you move through Boricua’s art opening. Come celebrated Pitches & Tones Yale Magic Society the gallery, you and your date back for the reception at La and hallowed Berkeley Knitting Club Proof of the Pudding Yale Wushu rue the fact that you missed Casa later in the afternoon. traditions. Y Fashion House 104 | pursuits 105 Shared Communities. (Identity, culture, gender, religion, and politics sheltered and nurtured)

Some say Yale is a place of reinvention, but others say the undergraduate experi- ence here is about becom- ing 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 organizations that make up a microcosm of the world’s views and beliefs. The best part is the friends, traveling com- panions, and guides that students find through these centers and organizations to help them on their way. Alumna Billie Gastic ’98 says, “The work that I did with other Latino students to bring about positive Where House change in our communities Means Home. played a tremendous part (Cultural centers at Yale) in my identity development and paved the way for the Yale’s four Cultural Houses include work that I will continue the Afro-American Cultural Cen- to do for a lifetime.” ter, the Asian American Cultural Center, the Latino Cultural Center (La Casa Cultural, pictured here), and the Native American Cultural Center. All are modeled after the Afro-American Cultural Center (a≠ectionately 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 doz- ens of a∞liated organizations from fraternities and sororities to dance companies, publications, and social action and political groups.

106 | pursuits 107 Athletes in Action Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel Black Church at Yale and Center Chabad at Yale Secular Student Christ Presbyterian Alliance Church Students Slifka Center for Episcopal Church Jewish Life at Yale Trinity Baptist Students Hindu Students Council Afro-American La Casa Cultural Asian American Native American Undergraduate Cultural Center Host to countless cultural, schol- Cultural Center Cultural Center InterFaith Forum Buddhist Sangha Afro-America House—known arly, and social events, La Casa What can you do at the AACC? The Association of Native International Church Undergraduate as “the House”—opened in 1969 Cultural is an important focus Just about anything: study in Americans at Yale (ANNAY) was at Yale Humanist Society as a locus for political, cultural, of Latino student social life at the library, cook for friends, founded in 1989 with the aim Jews and Muslims Unitarian- and social activities, continu- Yale and a tremendous source of enjoy the widescreen television, of attracting Native American at Yale Universalist Student ing earlier Yale gatherings that student-community interaction. play Ping-Pong. Established in faculty and scholars; expand- Latter-Day Saints Fellowship brought black students together Founded in 1974 as Casa Boricua, 1981, the center promotes Asian ing course o≠erings to include Keeping the Faiths together on a remarkable journey Inc., it acquired its present name Student Association The University Church to discuss issues pertinent to the American culture and explores Native American history and Yale students come from more of spiritual awakening and human black community. With these three years later. Within the the social and political experience cultural studies; increasing Luther House Yale Christian 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- Meor at Yale Fellowship 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 freshmen live, Muslim Students Yale Faith and Action and early sixties gave way to the plan activities, cook together in organizations are a∞liated with quarters for the group. Many of tion with a Protestant vocation, the Chaplain’s O∞ce coordinates Association vigorous exchange of ideas now a fully equipped kitchen, and the AACC. Students of Chinese, those goals have been achieved, Yale Hillel Yale today welcomes those of any religious life at Yale, supporting seen at the House. The com- create a warm and robust com- Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South including the establishment New Haven Friends Yale Sangha 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 Orthodox Christian a Latino and Latin American Yale Students for Christ confidence, and consciousness Nepalese, Pakistani, Sri Lankan), Center. ANNAY and the center nurture all in their spiritual jour- faith traditions. It partners with Fellowship that students, faculty, the New topic library, computer room, Taiwanese, Thai, Vietnamese, promote Native American cul- Young Israel House neys. “We consider ourselves quite centers for specific faiths and with Reformed University Haven community, and the organizational o∞ces, student and other Asian backgrounds ture and explore issues Native at Yale Fellowship University administration have lounges, and meeting spaces. It is work together to address pan- Americans face today. Programs blessed,” says University Chap- a∞liated community service orga- Youth Evangelical open to New Haven Latinos and Rivendell Institute shown in making the Afro- Asian American issues as well as include speakers, dinners, lain Sharon M. K. Kugler, “to be nizations, and it o≠ers pastoral Fellowship American Cultural Center vitally community-based ESL programs provide programs that focus on study breaks, and movie nights. part of a community of scholars, support and social and educational St. Mary’s Roman and more essential to Yale, New Haven, for non-English speakers. individual ethnic group issues. Catholic Church and beyond. seekers, and believers walking programs throughout the year.

Intercultural

Afro-American NAACP (Yale chapter) La Casa Cultural MEChA Chinese Adopted Sibs Student Association Affairs Council Cultural Center of Thais at Yale National Society Alianza ¡Oye! Program for Youth “One of our generation’s major of Black Engineers Taiwanese American Alpha Phi Alpha Amigas Sabrosura: Latin Chinese American challenges is to determine how Society New Haven African Dance Team Students Association Arab Student Association of individuals, communities, or Dance and Drumming Tibetan Cultural Association Salvadoreñas Yale Students of Mixed Disorient cultures become marginalized as Association Omega Psi Phi Heritage and Culture Asempa(!) Ballet Folklórico HAPA the Other, and to actively resist Vietnamese Students Black Church at Yale Pan, Jam, and Mexicano Yale Mexican Student Hindu Students this process,” is how members of Association (ViSA) Lime Steel Band Organization Council Black Men’s Union Brazil Club the Intercultural A≠airs Council and more Shades a Cappella Yspaniola Japanese American Black Solidarity Cuban-American of Yale College framed a recent Women’s Center LGBTQ Student Co-op Students Union Conference Steppin’ Out Undergraduate and more Native American series of events and discussions The center’s mission is to improve The Co-op is an umbrella student Jashan Bhangra Black Student Students of Mixed Student Association Cultural Center Asian American focused on “otherness.” The IAC the lives of all women, especially organization that works to foster Alliance at Yale Heritage and Culture De Colores Jook Songs Cultural Center American Indian strives to support an inclusive at Yale and in New Haven. As part community among all LGBTQ- Black Women’s Students of Nigeria Despierta Boricua KASAMA: The Filipino Science and ALIVE (A Learning and diverse campus environ- of a broader feminist movement, identified people on campus. It Coalition Undergraduate Black Club at Yale Engineering Society Dominican Student and Interactive ment that engages in community it works to ensure equal and full hosts weekly meetings and several Pre-Law Association Korean American (Yale chapter) Delta Sigma Theta Association Vietnamese Students at Yale dialogue; promotes cultural opportunity for all, regardless high-profile events throughout Dominican Student Urban Improvement Hispanic Scholars Experience) Association of Native Corps Korean Literature Americans at Yale awareness, respect, and appre- of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, the year and provides support for Association Foundation (Yale Alliance for Southeast Club DOWN Magazine Yale African Students chapter) Asian Students Blue Feather Drum ciation; and challenges bias on nationality, sexual orientation, other LGBTQ organizations. Association Malaysian and Group Heritage Theatre Lambda Upsilon Anjali the basis of race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, back- Athletes and Allies Queer Peers Yale Christian Lambda Singaporean Indian Health gender, religion, sexual orienta- ground, religion, ability, or age. Ensemble Asha for Education Fellowship Association (MASA) Initiative De Colores Resource Alliance for Hip Hop Alliance Latin American tion, disability, social class, or Asian American Campus Action Interns Undergraduate Gender Equity Yale Gospel Choir Students Organization Muslim Students Yale Native American IvyQ Kappa Alpha Psi Students Alliance other distinction. Association Arts Council Fierce Advocates Women in Science Sappho Yale West Indian Latina Women at Yale Not-So-Straight Frosh Konjo! African Dance Bridges (English WYSE Students Organization Phoenix Dance Yale Sisters of All Non-Mon/K Trans@Yale Latino Business language lessons) PRISM Minority Association Coalition Troupe Nations Yale Black Women’s and more Reproductive Rights Q Magazine W{holy} Queer of Pre-Medical Building Bridges Coalition Math and Science Rangeela and more Action League Students Queer+Asian and more (MAS) Familias South Asian Society and more

108 | pursuits 109 Publications Accent Multilingual Magazine ELIterati. Amicus Undergraduate Law Magazine (Why Yalies are so darned determined to publish) Broad Recognition: A Feminist Magazine The Bullblog China Hands Dimensions Art Journal DOWN Magazine Fiat Lux Flourish Journal Helicon Undergraduate Journal of Classics Her Campus Journal of Political Thought Kalliope Logos La Madrugada The New Journal Paprika! P.H.: The Yale Journal of Public Health The Politic Q Magazine Rumpus (humor tabloid) These Fifty States Vita Bella! Yale Banner The Yale Daily News The Yale Daily News Magazine “Yale publications are like one of Yale Economic Review those giant 40-flavor containers Yale Entrepreneur of jelly beans. The possibilities The Yale Epicurian are endless, as new publications The Yale Free Press are dispersed seemingly daily Yale Global Health throughout all the residential Review colleges. There are a few more The Yale Globalist general, universally popular The Yale Herald publications—the cherry, lemon, The Yale Historical Review or watermelon jelly beans of Yale Journal of the bunch—as well as a handful Economics that will really please a certain Yale Journal of niche—the cappuccino and roasted Medicine & Law marshmallow flavors. No matter Yale Literary Magazine what your taste, if you look hard The Yale Philosophy enough, you’ll find something to Review suit your mood.” The Yale Record Members of the Yale Daily best of what the University has Yale Review of News editorial board. Tapley to offer: dedication, intensive Sam Dubo≠ for the Yale Daily News International Studies Stephenson, editor-in-chief teamwork, a vast range of Originally appeared in the YDN. Reprinted (back row, third from right), thinks experiences, and the desire to have by permission. Yale Scientific Yale’s publications “represent the one’s thoughts read and discussed.” The Yale Turnip and more

110 | pursuits 111 The sustainability experience at Yale on a family-owned organic farm. can start even before the first semes- Sustainability is evident in all areas Sustainable U. ter begins. Each year, 400 incoming of student life at Yale, from options students participate in Freshman in the dining halls to work on the Outdoor Orientation Trips (FOOT), Yale Farm, from bike sharing and (Where Blue is Green) and Yale Harvest allows incoming 20% biodiesel shuttles to Spring freshmen to spend five days working Salvage and sustainable athletics.

Yale’s path to sustain- Student Groups ability began more than Bulldog Sustainability

100 years ago with the Engineers Without establishment of one of Borders the first forestry schools Fossil Free Yale in the country. Today, New Haven Action the University is inter- Project Bright nationally recognized as Social Justice a sustainability leader Network at Yale in both curriculum and Sustainability institutional practices. Service Corps Yale is home to faculty in Yale Freshman cutting-edge fields such Outdoor Orientation as green chemistry and Trips engineering, sustainable Yale Harvest landscape management, Yale Outdoors and business and the Yale Student environment. Students Environmental have been instrumental Coalition in building a culture of Yale Undergraduate sustainability across the Energy Club campus. Their enthusi- asm and energy have led the University to estab- lish several academic programs, a sustainable food project, and more.

Yale’s O∞ce of Sustainability is created; today it has 7 sta≠ members and engages more than 50 student assistants. Two Yale College The Yale Sustain­ Students launch a bike sharing program; and graduates, Gi≠ord The Yale Student Environmental Coalition able Food Project Yale’s president commits Yale composting is introduced into the dining halls. Pinchot and Henry hosts the Campus Earth Summit, a student is founded by stu- to a GHG reduction target of S. Graves, establish conference with representatives from 120 dents, faculty, and 43% below 2005 levels by 2020. Yale opens Kroon Hall, the eighth leed- Yale becomes the frst the Yale Forest School Alumnus Aldo American and 29 international universities. sta≠ with support certified building on campus. With leed university to join the and pioneer forest Leopold’s seminal Yale College launches Participants draft “The Blueprint for a Green from President Yale completes the Class of 1954 Platinum status, Kroon generates 25% of its international Carbon management in the A Sand County the Environmental Campus,” which is distributed nationally to Richard Levin and Chemistry Research Building, own electricity and uses 50% less energy Pricing Leadership United States. Almanac is published. Studies major. environmental groups and legislators. chef Alice Waters. its first LEED-certified building. than a comparable building of its size. Coalition.

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Alumnus George Bird Students initiate a recycling program. Environmental issues receive Students break Sustainable food options become available Yale unveils its Sustainability Strategic Plan, Grinnell founds one heightened attention when ground on in all residential college dining halls. a comprehensive set of goals and tactics of the first environ- The School of Forestry expands its a group of undergraduates the Yale Farm, for enhancing sustainability in all areas mental organizations research and teaching to incorporate produces the “Yale Green Plan” transforming a Students help to launch Spring Salvage, of campus life. Major goals accomplished by in the world—the broader environmental issues and and submits its findings and brambly acre an initiative to capture reusable 2015 include a 41.1% waste diversion rate, a Audubon Society. changes its name to the Yale School of recommendations to Yale into a productive goods from students moving out of 12% reduction in campus GHG emissions, and Forestry & Environmental Studies. College administrators. market garden. the residential colleges. a 15% increase in plant-based food purchases.

112 | pursuits 113 Student Groups P.H.: The Yale Journal of Public Health American Indian The Science Channel. Science and Project Insight Engineering Society Public Health (Life outside the lab) American Institute of Coalition Chemical Engineers Remedy at Yale American Society of Student Association Mechanical Engineers (RYSA) In the early nineteenth Arnold Air Society Simplex Sciences century, Yale College Bee Space Society of Physics became the first school in Students Bioethics Society America to offer a modern Society of Women Biomedical Engineers science course—chemis- Engineering Society Student Partnerships try. Today, you can major Bulldog Bots for Global Health or take courses in twenty- Bulldogs Racing eight STEM disciplines, Summer Science Catalyst: A Community Research Institute from Applied Mathemat- of Engineers Sustainability Service ics to Biomedical Engi- Club Geo Corps neering to Physics. And Coalition for Mental Synapse with 60+ student STEM Health and Well-Being Tau Beta Pi organizations on campus, Colleges Against TEDx Yale the opportunities for Cancer Undergraduate Community Health extracurricular activities Energy Club Educators are limited only by your Undergraduate Design for America interests and imagina- Pre-Veterinary Society Diversity in STEM tion. Join the editorial Undergraduate Society Task Force staff of Yale Scientific, the for the Biological Ecology and Sciences nation’s oldest college Evolutionary Biology Undergraduate science publication. Be Undergraduate Group Women in Science one of more than 1,200 Engineering World Women Active in Health at Yale coders participating in Computer Science Y-Hack, the national Engineers Without at Yale Borders hackathon established by Women in Physics Environmental three Yale undergradu- Yale Anti-Gravity Engineering Society ates. Earn certification as Association an EMT through the stu- Yale Data Science “Being a part of YUAA has been Float Undergraduate dent-run Yale Emergency Yale Drop Team an incredibly formative and fun Gamers@Yale Medical Services. Travel Yale EMS experience. I went from being hackHEALTH to Cameroon with the Yale iGEM Team a freshman who didn’t know the HackYale Yale chapter of Engineers YaleMakes first thing about engineering to HAPPY Without Borders to work Yale Scientific part of the team that won second Institute of Electrical on a water distribution Magazine place in the Intercollegiate Rocket and Electronics project. Tutor New Haven Engineers (Y-IEEE) Yale Sight Savers Engineering Competition’s pay­- elementary- and middle- Math and Science Yale STEAM load competition for our rocket, school students in math. (MAS) Familias Yale Student Chronos, and our experiment Join the Undergraduate Math Society Environmental to test for e≠ects of special and Coalition Aerospace Association, MathCounts Outreach general relativity. Now, as one of Yale Undergraduate featured here, and work Medical Professions the organization’s co-presidents, Aerospace Association in teams to build and fly Outreach Yale Undergraduate I’m learning about the manage- Medicine in the Arts rockets, planes, quadcop- Science Olympiad ment of engineering projects and Humanities ters, and UAVs. Or create and working to create a larger Collective Yale Undergraduate a new organization and Intelligent Vehicles community of people excited about MedX Students make your own mark on Yale Undergraduate engineering and science at Yale.” Minority Association of life outside the lab at Yale. STEM Society Genevieve Fowler Pre-Medical Students and more National Society of Black Engineers

114 | pursuits 115 Retired General Stanley A. McChrystal, former Commander Political Animals. of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, led a discussion with Yale Political Union members on “Resolved: (Today’s and tomorrow’s leaders converge at the nation’s oldest debating society) Yalies have a duty to enter national service.”

Are we by nature political Notable YPU animals, as Aristotle Alumni said? Members of Yale’s Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar Political Union—the largest undergraduate Former Social Security Administration commis- organization on cam- sioner Michael J. Astrue pus—are more likely Journalist and author to prove the point than John Avlon argue it. They’ll save Former ambassador to their debates for the the U.N. John Bolton most crucial issues of the University of Oklahoma president David L. day, sparring with visiting Boren Supreme Court justices, Author William F. elected officials, and Buckley, Jr. political firebrands. Author Maggie Gallagher Founded in 1934, Former Council of the Yale Political Union Economic Advisers chair Austan Goolsbee invites a prominent national figure to deliver U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry an address before the Oberlin College presi- Yale community each dent Marvin Krislov week. Students tradition- EDF president Fred ally sit with their parties, Krupp arranged from the most Former U.S. Represen- liberal party on the left tative David McIntosh side of the auditorium to Former Attorney the most conservative General Edwin Meese party on the right—seven Journalist Dana Liberal Party Party of the Left Independent Party Federalist Party Conservative Party Tory Party Party of the Right Milbank parties in all. Over tea, Former U.S. ambassa- dinner, wine, late-night dor to Chile John pizza, or in formal debate, Known for challeng- The Party of the Left As the largest party The Federalist Party The Conservative The Tory Party is the As the oldest party O’Leary ing political assump- seeks to develop its in the Union, the is the youngest party Party occupies a party of “reasoned on the right, the YPU members engage Former Governor tions and pushing members as people Independent Party is in the Union. It is a right-of-center posi- conservatism” at Yale. Party of the Right and challenge world lead- George Pataki the Union to the left, and leaders and to the only one that party for conserva- tion within the Union Founded in 1969, it is was founded by ers, as well as each other. the Libs don’t use develop a new vision does not align itself tives who seek to cul- but is short of the known for its thriv- members dissatisfied Former presidential Huffington Post founder parliamentary proce- of the American Left. with either the Right tivate a knowledge of “hard right.” It takes ing alumni network with the lack of true speechwriter Ray Price and editor-in-chief dure or dress up for As such, the party or the Left. Instead, the ideas, cultural issues seriously, and its fondness for conservatism in the Former U.S. ambas- our own weekly dis- provides an open we are a party of practices, and institu- considering ideas speeches delivered Union. It has been sador to East Timor Arianna Huffington was cussions. Rather, we atmosphere for independent thinkers. tions that are essen- important, and logic, with wit and levity. described in the Yale Grover Rees III so impressed with the engage seminar- rigorous debate on Our motto is “Hear tial to preserving the practicality, and prag- The party requires Herald as “at once Former Governor style with each other topics that divide All Sides.” We believe United States. It matism essential. It members to identify flamboyant, intellec- debates when she spoke Bob Taft on philosophical and the Left, bringing that openness of stands for a vigorous seeks guidance from as “conservative,” but tually elitist, aggres- that she now features political topics. And “discourse to the mind is the truest but limited govern- the lessons of history does not maintain sive, mischievously Former U.S. Supreme YPU events on her news we put our beliefs to outside world, mark of genuine ment, a public and aims to make any party line. subversive, eccentric, Court justice Byron and opinion site. work with regular and the outside intelligence. strength born not of its own debates and and maniacally eager White activist projects. world to discourse.” size but of conviction. discussions an intel- to challenge anyone Author Lauren Willig lectually enriching and everyone.” Former U.S. deputy experience for all. Treasury secretary Neal S. Wolin Journalist Fareed Zakaria

116 | pursuits 117 Through clubs and The Musical Cure organizations devoted Myanmar Project to musical cures, Di≠erence Makers. New Haven REACH developing clean (Yale’s incubator of impact and leadership—Dwight Hall) energy, sharing Open Doors community service PALS Tutoring and methods, social Mentoring entrepreneurship, Peace by PEACE or even scientific Leadership and service research, Yalies pursue Public Health Coalition to society seem inex- the greater good. Reach Out

tricably linked at Yale. Ready Set Launch Community Nowhere is that more Service Student Rotaract Club apparent than at Dwight Groups RYSA Hall, the Center for AIDS Walk New Haven SMArT (Science and Public Service and “When I came to Yale, I had no idea American Red Cross Math Achiever Teams) Social Justice founded that I would have so many oppor- Amnesty International Splash at Yale by undergraduates in tunities to serve others and to rise Animal Welfare Alliance Squash Haven 1886. Dwight Hall is the as a leader. Students design and AskNot Student Environmental only nonprofit umbrella implement strategic service and Best Buddies Coalition campus volunteer orga- advocacy projects, come together Black Student Alliance Student Global Health and AIDS Coalition nization in the country as a community of friends, and Bookmarks/Summer Students for Autism run entirely by students. Buds explore the intellectual possibilities Awareness Students develop new Bridges ESL and palpable opportunities of a life Students Organize for Building Bridges initiatives in response of service. I serve on the nonprofit Syria Camp Kesem at Yale to community needs board of directors and have been Synapse Circle of Women and provide resources, elected to co-lead the student cabi- Teaching Peace training, and other net. Work at Dwight Hall is much College Council for Initiative CARE support services for more more than volunteering. It’s a job Thi[NK] Colleges Against than 80 groups ranging and a commitment.” Uganda Hope Network Cancer in scope from tutoring to Amy Rothschild Ulysses S. Grant Community-Based political activism. With Foundation Learning Dwight Hall’s support, Undergraduate Associ- Community Health ation for African Peace Yale undergraduates have Educators and Development founded many significant “Through the Yale Hunger DEMOS Undergraduates at CT community agencies that and Homelessness Action Project ElmConnect Hospice have become a perma- (YHHAP) I have learned how Elmseed Enterprise Unite for Sight nent part of New Haven’s to e≠ect change with others. Engineers Without Universities Allied for social service network. YHHAP has broken down my Borders Essential Medicines It’s the kind of impact preconceptions about hunger and Fierce Advocates Urban Debate League they continue to have homelessness. I’ve learned that FOCUS on New Haven Urban Improvement post-Yale as they answer poverty is nuanced in its causes The Future Project Corps the call to serve and and its potential solutions. I am Girls Swim Volunteers around the World lead in ways that are continually blown away by the Global Brigades Women and Youth uniquely their own. energy and compassion that Global Zero “It’s one thing to take classes on experience I have had here. It is Supporting Each Other drive my fellow YHHAP members. Habitat for Humanity world issues and philanthropy and a three-year program that allows Yale Refugee Project Dwight Hall allows me to feel Hear Your Song community involvement theory, me to have a sustained mentoring Yale Sight Savers like a citizen of New Haven—more Hemispheres but through Dwight Hall I’ve relationship with a student at a Yale Undergraduate educated about its flaws and gotten a pragmatic idea about local elementary school. I plan to Hunger and Homeless- Prison Project appreciative of its many opportu- ness Action Project issues that exist in New Haven, go into finance post-Yale and then Yale Undergraduates nities than I ever anticipated.” across the country, and around the work to improve the education Instrumental for UNICEF Eliza Schafler Connection world. I am a co-coordinator of system either by running for o∞ce and more It Ends Today the Dwight Hall Academic Mentor- or starting a nonprofit.” Peer Counseling Jewish Social Action ing Program. Without question Bradford Williams Collective Mind Matters it has been the most rewarding A Leg Even Peer Health Educators MathCounts Outreach Peer Liaisons MEChA Walden 118 | pursuits 119 Apply. The Good News The Particulars. about the Cost of Yale.

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