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2 lives | Home Difference p. 100 | p. 112 | Grown. Makers. Lives. How Yale’s Through Freshman p. 10 | sustain­ability project Dwight Hall, students Diaries. Yale’s newest is changing the world find their own paths Dispatches students chronicle a p. 86 | one campus at a time. to service and leader- from the World. week in the first year ship in New Haven. Shared and give some advice. Eight Elis define p. 102 | Communities. “global citizen” and Yale’s share their pivotal tradition of Cultural moments abroad. Houses and a∞nity organizations and Apply. The Good centers. p. 118 | News about the Keeping the Cost of Yale. p. 106 | Yale’s Anatomy of a Faiths. p. 14 | Pursuits. Nurturing new history-making Residential College. State of the p. 96 | the spiritual journeys financial aid policy Arts. Delving into the The epic story of all faiths. reduces the average layers of Yale’s unique of Yale arts through cost of sending Bulldog! residential college one spring weekend. p. 108 | a student to Yale Bulldog! Bow, system (12 gorgeous College by over 50%. Wow, Wow! stand-alone “colleges”). Playing College The p. 52 | for Yale—The Game, p. 119 | Meets University. Particulars. the mission, the teams, Studies. An undergraduate road Places. the fans, and, of course, How to apply, what A Liberal p. 34 | map to the intersection Handsome Dan. we look for, and Education, Part I. of Yale College and the visiting campus. Yale’s educational University’s graduate p. 66 | Inspired ELIterati. philosophy, more than and professional p. 98 | by Icons. 75 majors, the meaning schools. The proliferation of breadth, and some Why of publications at Yale Next-Gen startling numbers. p. 54 | architecture and why Elis are just Knowledge. For matters. so darned determined Blue Booking. p. 38 | Yalies, one-of-a-kind to publish. Noah When parties and resources make p. 80 | Webster Lived shopping are academic. all the di≠erence. Here. Plus: shopping lists Bumping and special programs. into history at Yale. Eavesdrop- Nine Squares. p. 42 | p. 82 | ping­ on Professors. The modern univer­- Why being an amazing sity, the cosmopolitan place to teach makes college town. Yale an amazing place Bright A Liberal Elm City p. 24 | to learn. p. 60 | p. 84 | College Years. Education, Part II. Run. On a run Two, Three, In many ways friend- p. 50 | The fruits of a liberal from East Rock to Four, Five Heads ship defines the education’s labor—a Old Campus, one Are Better Than Yale experience. One sampler of innovation student explains One. student sums it up: Synergy from the discovery of why New Haven is “It’s about the people, and study groups. vitamins to the inven- the perfect size. not the prestige.” tion of the artificial heart and the creation of FedEx overnight delivery. 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 | Brandon Sharp Preorientation Freshman Programs Counselors The Hometown Several optional Freshman Counselor OH Solon, preorientation programs (a.k.a. Froco) Program Freshman Diaries. Anticipated Major give new students a was established in (Life in the first year) chance to meet each 1938 and has been Political Science and International Studies 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 (CC) introduces fresh- ever since. Each men to Yale’s cultural first-year student is able to dive into all that One thing that surprised me resources and explores assigned a counselor Yale has to offer. In part was how well Yale handled the the diversity of student who acts as a guide this is because so many experiences on campus, through the transition programs are in place with emphasis on the to life at Yale. Frocos rooming. I certainly didn’t imagine experiences of students are seniors who specifically to welcome of color and issues are friends/mentors/ and guide first-year my roommate, from Dublin, related to racial identity. problem-solvers— students— from pre- but not supervisors Freshman Outdoor or disciplinarians. orientation to freshman Ireland, would become one of Orientation Trips All freshmen except counselors (Yale seniors) my best friends. (FOOT) offer six-day those in Timothy to Freshman Seminars and four-day back­ Dwight and Silliman (small classes taught packing trips for all live together on levels in the mountains Old Campus during by some of Yale’s most On preorientation: I had a other key factors, but ultimately and hills of New their first year, and prominent professors) York, Massachusetts, Frocos live among lot of help from upperclassmen the most important part of choos- to parties. We caught up and Connecticut, led them. (Freshmen friends in terms of getting adjusted ing a school was being comfortable by upperclassmen. are grouped in Old with three freshmen in and choosing classes, but I also with the people you will be around Trip leaders have Campus residences between their first and did Cultural Connections, which for the next four years of your life. extensive training in by college affiliation, second semesters. Here keeping FOOTies safe which allows all I thought was a great experience As for the classes, perhaps I got they share advice on and healthy in the freshmen no matter not just for people of color, but for lucky, but I thoroughly enjoyed back­country and are their college affilia- money, independence, everyone. I think it is the right way my classes first semester. The experienced counselors tion to get to know and schedules; reflect First Year’s Classes who offer a wealth of each other.) to be introduced to all that is Yale. professors I had were brilliant yet support, advice, and on their own freshman A Monday > Introduction to Political approachable and presented mater­ friendship. Ethnic expectations; and record Philosophy On Freshman Seminars: Counselors in the life of > International Ideas and ial in a challenging and interest- a day in their lives 10:45 am Harvest begins at the Every incoming Wake up and shower. Institutions: Contemporary I would recommend applying to ing manner. I have found that in Yale Farm, and then student of color who during the first year. Challenges the Seminars for the fall. From 11:35 this short semester I have grown groups of freshmen indicates his or her Political Philosophy (One > Elementary Modern Standard what I hear, they are amazing. led by upperclassmen ethnic background is of my favorites in which we Arabic (both semesters) significantly intellectually. head off to spend assigned an ethnic discuss great works by authors > Introduction to the Elements On extracurriculars: five days on family- counselor from such as Aristotle, Hobbes, of Music (intro music theory) Unlike owned organic farms one of Yale’s four and Tocqueville.) > Africa Since 1800 high school, you really can’t do in Connecticut. cultural centers 12:35 pm > Intensive Elementary Lunch with some friends from everything, so narrowing down (African American, Portuguese Pierson College who take early on what you want to do FreshPerson Asian, Latino, or > Calculus of Functions of Political Philosophy with me. Conference (FPC), Native American). One Variable II in terms of extracurriculars is a described as “summer Ethnic counselors, 1:30 WLH > Elementary Studies in Analysis good idea. Arabic and then run to camp for big kids,” is an additional part (William L. Harkness Hall) and Composition I (music) On expectations: organized by under- of the freshman for Music Theory because we Activities Many factors graduate students and counseling team, get out a little late. takes place at a nearby provide an extra layer > Shades A coed a cappella singing went into my decision to come camp in Connecticut. of informed support 2:30 group that focuses on African- Music Theory. to Yale, but the most important to students who wish American music; started in 1988 4:00 were the people and the culture. Orientation for to have it. Back to my room, talk to Matt, by a small group of Yale freshmen International Students my roommate. at the Cultural Connections First, I wanted a place that had a (OIS) is a program preorientation program. strong black community because 6:00 designed to ease Matt and I go to dinner at > Yale Black Men’s Union that was something I was missing the transition of inter­ Trumbull. > Club Squash national students to 7:00 > Black Student Alliance at Yale in high school. Second, I saw an Black Men’s Union meeting the United States, > Battell Chapel Choir Conducted underlying sense of humility in the where we have a guest speaker. and to acquaint them by graduate choral conducting culture of Yale that is uncommon with academic life 8:30 students; the choir sings for Sunday Club Squash practice. at schools of its caliber. The well- and culture at Yale. University Church services in 10:30 Back to the room for reading Battell. established music community and and sleep. International Studies major were

10 lives 11 | Zuzana Culakova Oscar Pocasangre A Friday A Thursday Hometown Hometown NY, Rochester, by way of Slovakia in the life of San Salvador, El Salvador in the life of 9:15 am 9:00 am Anticipated Major Wake up, check email, get Anticipated Major Comparative Latin American ready for classes. Politics: Get ready to take a lot Chemistry (although I may change to Economics, Political Science 9:40 of notes! Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Walk to Commons, eat 10:15 or Chemical Engineering) breakfast, skim notes for chem. Breakfast. At Berkeley College, 10:30 I usually get a bagel, mu∞ns, First Year’s Classes Freshman Organic Chemistry, wa±e, or fruit and yogurt, and with Professor McBride, > Freshman Organic Chemistry orange juice. At Commons, who always gives interesting (both semesters) 6:45 am. Wake up, shower, and walk I get pancakes, hash browns, lectures. He usually has a demo > Lab for Freshman Organic and occasionally a soft-serve that goes with the lecture. One Chemistry (both semesters) to Payne Whitney for archery practice. ice cream. day, to demonstrate how much > Perspectives on Science 10:30 of a di≠erence there is between I go back to my room and (both semesters) isomers, he passed around vials work on homework or an > Linear Algebra and Matrix with the two di≠erent isomers assigned reading. That is, Theory of carvone—one smelled like when I don’t end up talking > Intermediate Microeconomics caraway and the other like with people on the floor. > French Advanced Language spearmint, even though they 11:35 Practice II French class: a small class only di≠er in the direction > Ordinary and Partial where we practice French in which one hydrogen atom Di≠erential Equations with through class discussions of is pointing. Applications di≠erent novels, short stories, 11:20 > Environmental Engineering: Walk back to my suite to finish and films. Aquatic Chemistry my Perspectives on Science 12:25 pm Run to lunch at one of the homework with my suitemate. Activities residential colleges, usually 12:45 pm Lunch in Silliman with some of Berkeley. The cool thing about > Ramona Club Ultimate Frisbee my friends and suitemates. eating at the dining halls is > Demos Volunteering to do 1:30 that you always meet up with a demos and to teach science to New Perspectives on Science discus- friend or someone you know. Haven elementary schoolers sion section. On alternating 1:00 weeks, lectures by Yale faculty Statistics for Political Science: about their current research, Standard deviation? Multi- and then discussions in smaller linear regression? Multicol- If you know that you are interested in sections. linearity among regressors? 2:45 PWG Yes, yes, and yes. We learn Rush over to (Payne about statistical tools that you Whitney Gymnasium) for science or research, Perspectives on can apply to political studies, Frisbee practice. Catch the bus such as in election polls. to the IM (intramural) fields. Science is an excellent way to explore 2:30 Cleat up and play—we Have a co≠ee with a friend, go usually practice throwing and to o∞ce hours, and/or work di≠erent fields and get a feel for what catching, drills and scrimmage. grading Spanish homework 6:00 assignments. Catch the IM bus back to you would like to study. On adjusting: First Year’s Classes 6:00 campus. Dinner with the team, A di≠erent The Yale Globalist, meet- usually in Pierson. culture, di≠erent weather, and > Microeconomics with ing over dinner. We usually 7:00 Environmental Applications discuss possible themes for the On orientation: Shower, chat with my One of the most The program pays for you to a di≠erent language, but the > Comparative Latin American next issue, evaluate the previ- suitemates and friends in the enjoyable and exciting parts of the do research with Yale faculty, transition was not hard because Politics ous issue, or talk with journal- adjoining suite, and try to get > Intermediate and Advanced ists about how to improve the year. Take advantage of this time letting you gain experience in a some work done. of the help I got from the O∞ce French magazine. 9:00 without academic responsibilities field that really interests you. Attend a performance. One of of International Students and > Introductory Statistics for 7:30 Time to go to the library to do to explore everything that Yale my friends is always perform- other students. I also did Political Science On dances: problem sets or readings. ing in something—Glee Club, > Reading and Writing the has to o≠er and to meet as many Every freshman an amazing preorientation for 10:00 people as you can. should attend at least one dance, opera, or Davenport Pops. International Students. Modern Essay Hang out with friends, have 12:00 am > Political Psychology random conversations, go to Every Friday at midnight fresh- like the fall semiformal where > The Modern Unconscious a party, a play, or go to get a On Perspectives on Science: men on my floor crowd into On Old Campus and Frocos: suitemates set each other up on > Introductory Macroeconomics late-night snack. our freshman counselor’s suite > Calculus of Functions of 1:30 am All of the lecture topics are fas- blind dates and devise awkward to catch up and eat pizza. Living on Old Campus with almost (Sometimes it’s 3 or 4 am) Go One Variable 1:00 to bed and get some sleep! cinating. We had lectures from and embarrassing ways for the Bedtime, especially if I have a all other freshmen gives you a great Activities a range of disciplines, including couple to meet. In the hours tournament on Saturday. way to know people from all the quantum computing, looking before the dance, Old Campus is colleges. Frocos are freshman > The Yale Globalist for new and novel microbes and a display of strangely clothed counselors. They become friends International a≠airs magazine. > International Student drugs in the rain forest, and tissue people, some serenading outside who give great advice. The cool Organization AIESEC engineering as it relates to repairing their date’s window or looking thing is that although you have > We help find internships spinal injuries. It also provides for their lost shoe (or other item your own Froco, you end up being all over the world for Yalies. > Yale Club Archery an opportunity for the summer. of clothing), Cinderella-style. helped by them all. 12 lives 13 | The Courtyard The image of Vincent Scully, Rogers transformed the secret garden was architect Yale into a loose association of James Gamble Rogers’s inspiration “little paradises.” for the courtyards around which Anatomy of a Residential College. 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 only as than mere dormitories, an Eli but as a Saybrugian, the colleges are richly Sillimander, or Morsel as endowed with libraries, well. A truly little-known dining halls, movie fact is that while students theaters, darkrooms, always have the option climbing walls, ceramics of switching colleges studios, “butteries” a.k.a. throughout their years at snack bars, and many Yale, scant few do. Read other kinds of facilities. the over-the-top boostering Rather than grouping by members of each students according to college in the freshman interests, majors, or sports, welcome issue of the Yale each college is home to Daily News and you’ll its own microcosm of the understand why—they all student body as a whole. think they’re the best! So if a certain percentage of Yale’s students hail from the west coast or abroad, you can expect to see roughly that percentage in each college.

Yale’s college students that had meant so system is much to him would diminish. the early In 1927 Harkness and his 20th-century friend, fellow Eli and architect brainchild of James Gamble Rogers, made a philanthropist “secret mission” to England to and alumnus study Oxford and Cambridge Edward S. Universities’ collegiate system. B.A. Harkness ( 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 a series of residential colleges (Yale University, 2004) that “was the best route to preserving Harkness, like many alumni of the network of Yale-inspired his generation, took pleasure connections” that had been so in Yale’s growing international important to them throughout reputation and stature but their lives. In the fall of 1933 worried that as the University the first seven of the twelve grew, the close bonds between colleges opened.

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Home Suite Home FLOOR 1 FLOOR 1 Most freshmen live Dean’s Office Master’s Office in suites in which four Yale in students occupy two If a student is having The master is the chief bedrooms and share a Miniature. di∞culty with a administrative o∞cer and common living room. (A tour of particular course, the the presiding faculty pres- The suites are all college dean can often ence in each residential female or all male and Calhoun College) help by talking with the college. During the year, BASEMENT FLOOR 1 the halls are coed. student’s instructor or with Art Studio the master hosts lectures, Master’s House After freshman year, the relevant department’s study breaks (especially there are multiple director of undergraduate Stocked with during finals), and Jonathan Holloway is possible room studies, or by referring art supplies, Master’s Teas—intimate joined in the Master’s arrangements. the student to one of the easels, and walls gatherings during which House by his wife, programs that o≠er tutor- designed for students have the oppor- Associate Master From top: A common ing assistance. Getting to painting displays. tunity to engage with Aisling Colón, their BASEMENT room in Branford know each student as an Artistic ’Hounies Darkroom renowned guests from daughter, Emerson, College; a bedroom in individual helps the dean can also store the academy, government, and their son, Ellison. Farnam Hall on Old to address concerns as their own supplies For the Annie and popular culture. Campus; a bedroom personally and e≠ectively and projects here. Leibovitz in you, with built-in desk and as possible. chemicals and FLOOR 1 bookshelves in Ezra equipment are Dean’s supplied. Stiles College; a bed- Apartment room in Berkeley Col- lege; a common room Dean Leslie Woodard BASEMENT in Calhoun College; lives in Calhoun with Laundry and, a common room her Shetland sheepdog Room Courtyard and kitchenette in named Jimmy Dean and the Swing Space. two cats. An avid dres- All the fixins for An outdoor room for sage rider, she wants to do-it-yourself naps, barbeques, leaf assure all that her horse flu≠ ’n’ fold. and snowball fights, Centares is stabled else- spontaneous and for- mal events, and the where. She comes from a BASEMENT family of mathematicians Game Room occasional hammock or tire swing. and scientists, but her BASEMENT own connection to such Music Rooms Music blaring and activities is limited to her the simultaneous being a big fan of Star Two soundproofed thwack of a good Trek. She is also a devotee practice modules: break on two pool of film, classical and jazz one contains a Stein- tables means a way upright piano game of Eight Ball music, and opera. BASEMENT and the other a drum is in the o∞ng. TV Room set and keyboard. Comfy sofas, a large- DVD screen cable TV, BASEMENT VCR Cabaret player, , PS2 console, and Dance A popular hangout Dance Revolution SUBBASEMENT after dinner, the Weight & pads make this a Calhoun Cabaret Exercise popular spot. showcases perform- Room ing groups. A fine Steinway piano is A full range of state- available for practice of-the-art equipment. when the room is free.

BASEMENT FLOOR 1 Buttery Dining Hall Run by students, SUBBASEMENT FLOOR 2 BASEMENT One of the social Squash Court “The Calhoun Saloon” Library Pottery centers in every is open Sunday Studio college. Throughout A flight of stairs through Thursday Open 24 hours a day, BASEMENT the year, ’Hounies descends into from 10 pm to 1 am the library has large Clay, three pottery Digital Video celebrate their college Calhoun’s nether- and serves every- tables, comfortable wheels, and a kiln. Editing Suite pride through vari- world and emerges thing from Boca couches, and carrels ous events organized in the subbasement, burgers to Oreo for studying, as well Fully stocked with jointly by the Master’s home of two squash shakes, mozzarella as a large collection all the hardware and O∞ce and the Din- courts with bonus sticks, Red Bull, of books and maga- software necessary ing Hall sta≠. basketball hoop, Snickers, and more. zines, several public for creating your tall punching bag, computers, and a own audiovisual and speed bag. printer. masterpieces. 16 lives 17 | Master Jonathan Holloway Mastering Life. is a professor of History, African American Studies, and What really makes a residential All of the twelve college masters American Studies and has been college a college versus simply are distinguished professors the master of Calhoun since a place to live is that each has its on the tenured faculty and leaders July 2005. He teaches courses on post-emancipation social, own dean and master—adults in their respective fields. After cultural, and intellectual history. living among students in micro­ he became a college master, he He is the author of Confronting cosms of Yale College as a whole. discovered a whole di≠erent aspect the Veil: Abram Harris Jr., E. The master is the head of his or her to his students’ lives. “I simply Franklin Frazier, and Ralph Bunche, 1919–1941 (2002), the college, responsible for the physical had no idea how busy they were editor of Ralph Bunche’s A Brief well-being and safety of students outside of the classroom. In fact, and Tentative Analysis of Negro who live there, as well as for they are busier outside of the Leadership (2005), and the co-editor of the anthology Black fostering and shaping the college’s classroom than they are inside!” Scholars on the Line: Race, Social academic, intellectual, social, He doesn’t teach di≠erently as Science, and American Thought athletic, and artistic life. Calhoun a result, but he understands how in the 20th Century (2007). He is Master Jonathan Holloway does complicated students’ lives can working on his next monograph, Jim Crow Wisdom: Memory, not think of Yale students as “kids.” be. An important part of what Identity, and Politics in Black But he does think of them as adults makes the residential colleges America, 1941–2000. in training. He advises his students “home,” he says, is that “adults live to explore widely, remember they alongside students, celebrating are investing in their futures, and their successes and helping them not to be afraid to make mistakes. navigate their challenges.” He sees “The very concept of having mentoring and counseling Yale a college master and dean exists students as his opportunity to because we know students are have a positive e≠ect on the future. going to make mistakes,” he says.

Dean Leslie Woodard became dean of Calhoun in July 2007. A Dean of She is a novelist and writer whose work has been anthologized One’s Own. in Streetlights: Illuminating Tales of the Urban Black Experience Residential college deans serve there are others who, until a week and in Men We Cherish: African as chief academic and personal before college begins, had a curfew American Women Praise the Men advisers to students in their col- and someone to make sure they in Their Lives. Her short story leges. Calhoun College Dean Leslie did their homework.” Her job is collection The Silver Crescent was recently published, and she Woodard says the college system to assist them with the process is currently at work on a novel means she sees students not just in of transitioning to independence. that is loosely drawn from class but at dinner, at social events, her decade-long experience as a professional dancer with the in the college’s hallways and court- “A lot of what I do is work with Dance Theatre of Harlem. Dean yard. She attends their concerts them to budget their time so they Woodard teaches poetry, drama, and gallery shows. “When I advise don’t get caught with ten things and fiction. Calhoun students about courses or due on Wednesday and it’s Tuesday majors or projects, because I have night and they don’t know what that personal relationship I can they’re going to do,” she says. point out things they might not have thought about—about how “Yale students are quite literally the this or that course would influence best and the brightest,” says Dean or relate to something else they Woodard. “It’s a wonderful thing are interested in,” she says. to be able to have a little bit of influence on how their incredible Dean Woodard says some new assets are applied. What I want Yale students get their acceptances, them to know is that somebody throw their clothes in a bag, hop has got their back. That’s really on a bus, and that’s it—they are how I look at it.” already very independent. “But 18 lives 19 | Debate This. (Pierson Dining Hall conversations in progress)

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

Amira Valliani, Jeff Sun, Chris and Palencia are talking about U.S. travel restrictions to Cuba. Je≠ suggests you could get there through Canada or Mexico, but someone says that could result in a hefty fine. They conclude the best way to go would be for academic purposes. 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 They may run out of your favorite they did that day and the answer the Chaplain’s O∞ce, which they say is an veggie-Caesar wrap, but no matter would be remarkable. So much amazing and unbelievably under-utilized what time you arrive or whom you of my Yale education came from study space. Turns out it also has food, sit with, no dining hall will have a talking to people over dinner.” Says they say with more than a little excitement. shortage of interesting conversa- another alum, “I only thought I was “They have an ice cream freezer and a row tion. “Dinner for me was something open-minded before Yale. Debating boat filled to the brim with Swedish Fish extraordinarily important,” says a an issue could turn my views upside and Sour Patch Kids!” says Amira. recent alum. “I’d sit down across down in a single conversation. That from someone and ask them what was the fun of it.”

20 lives 21 | Decoding the Colleges. Spine-Tyngling Fun. (Residential College rundown) (Intramural sports) Fall So you played sports in high the college accumulating the College Shield Architecture Style Points How We Boola Boola Also Known As Golf Coed school but aren’t quite hardcore greatest number of points through Football Men, Coed Berkeley Collegiate Gothic, Delicious reputation: as test Annual snowball fight, Berkeleyites enough to suit up for the Bulldogs. intramural play, was first presented 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 a to be the most coveted of all intra­ Soccer Men, Women pioneered a sustainable Cross Country Men, Women menu for all the colleges chance to continue your career mural awards, spawning com- Table Tennis Coed at a surprisingly high level of petitive rivalries that make IMs a Winter Branford Collegiate Robert Frost described Independence Day, when Branfordians Gothic; opened our courtyard as “the most Branford declares its competition or to start playing a way of life for former high school Squash Men, Women 1933; home beautiful college courtyard independence from Yale new sport—not to mention a way all-stars and P.E. dropouts alike. Hoops Men, Women to Harkness in America” in a day of barbecues Volleyball Men, Women to prove that your college reigns Much of the above first appeared in “Intramu- Tower and and parties Ice Hockey Coed supreme. The Tyng Cup, annually rals at Yale are spine-Tyngling fun” by Aaron its bells Inner Tube Coed awarded for overall excellence to Lichtig (1999) writing for the Yale Herald. Calhoun Water Polo Collegiate Gothic; The Cabaret in the base- Trolley Night: Clang, ’Hounies Bowling Coed opened in 1933 ment, which hosts the clang, clang goes the party; Swimming Coed hugely popular student ’Hounfest; the tire swing show “Six Feet Under” Spring Baseball Coed Davenport One of its facades The Gnome, who watches Davensports! D-porters Field Hockey Coed a.k.a. D’Port is Collegiate over us, when he’s not Soccer Coed Gothic, the other is being abducted; our own Ultimate Coed Georgian; opened orchestra, the Dpops; late Softball Coed in 1933 nights at the Dive grill Billiards Coed Coed Timothy Georgian; opened Master T throws rockin’ TD’s motto and cheer is Golf Coed Dwight in 1935 Master’s Tea with Capoeira “Ashé!” which means “We Volleyball a.k.a. TD dance lessons make it happen” in Yoruba TD-ers

Jonathan Collegiate Gothic; The coed “Men of JE” Wet Monday, the water JE-ers Edwards opened in 1933 like to sing and incite war; the formal Spider Ball a.k.a. JE mischief More than Oolong. (Master’s Teas) Morse Modern; designed Our sculpture, Casino Night, one of Yale’s Morsels Q&A by Eero Saarinen; “Lipstick (Ascending) biggest parties, once ranked Master’s Teas are informal ’s built in 1961 with a on Caterpillar Tracks” by in Rolling Stone’s Top 10 hosted by the masters of each 14-story tower and Claes Oldenburg College Parties (with the no right angles Stilesians) residential college and often cohosted by campus organizations Pierson Georgian; Wrestling in the Jello Pit Tuesday Night Club, a Piersonites built of Justice on Pierson Day; college-wide party to help such as the Film Society or the 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 in the Party in the “12 Pack” Saybrugians world leaders, thinkers, and talents. completed in 1933 new “Indiana Jones” movie; and always respond Members of the hosting college our own Chamber Orches- “Saybrook!” when asked, tra (known as SYChO) “Say what?” get first dibs on front row seats. Silliman Davenport Varied: Collegiate Biggest numbers, biggest Get silli at the ’80s-style Sillimanders Recent guests on American-Islamic Relations; Denzel Carole King, singer, song­ Gothic; modified courtyard; Intramurals Safety Dance; the Olympics Trumbull Washington, Academy Award-winning writer, activist; Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, Lois Lowry, author of The Giver; French Renaissance, domination: win-­ to welcome Sillifrosh actor, producer, and director. Doonesbury; Mike Gordon, guitarist, Joan Acocella, dance and book reviewer Georgian; ning the Tyng Cup Ezra Stiles Phish; Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex expert, for The New Yorker; mountain climber Cesar Pelli, renowned completed in 1940 three years running author, and talk show host; Daniel Yergin, Fred Beckey; Ashraf Swelan, adviser to the architect; Ed Norton, actor and director; chairman, Cambridge Energy Research Ezra Stiles Minister of Foreign A≠airs of Egypt. Howard Dean, former presidential candidate Modern master- Our memorial moose Casino Night (with the Stilesians Associates, Inc.; Margaret Cho, comedian. Branford and chair of the Democratic Party; Martha piece, designed mascot in the Dining Hall; Morsels); annual Arts Robert Pinsky, former U.S. poet Morse Stewart, designer, businesswoman, author, Malcolm Gladwell, author of The by Eero Saarinen; Silver Screen Film Society Festival; Ezra Stiles Day laureate; Seymour Stein, founder of Sire and television show host. Tipping Point and Blink; Bobby Lopez, opened in 1962 spring celebration Records, member of Rock & Roll Hall Calhoun composer and lyricist of Avenue Q; Mark Trumbull of Fame, along with fellow members of David Pogue, personal technology Quintessential Yale/ Potty Court, where our Rumble in Trumbull the ’Bulls Penn, author of Microtrends and adviser the Talking Heads. columnist for The New York Times; Collegiate Gothic; gargoyle “Thinker” is (bounce-house “fights”); to Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Bill Gates, and Silliman Debbie Biel, founder and director of Possee completed in 1933 enthroned and decorated Pamplona (running of Brandon Scott Sessoms, gay CEO Hillary Clinton. Foundation; Sue Morelli, , Au Bon every year the [Trum]Bulls around blogger, celebrity commentator, and Jonathan Edwards Pain; Fernando Aguerre, founder, Reef Surf Karyl Evans, campus) Internet personality; Nihad Awad, activist Apparel; Jason Moran, jazz pianist. filmmaker; Michael Pollan, author of and executive director of the Council The Omnivore’s Dilemma. 22 lives 23 | Bright College Years. (Defining Yale through friendship)

“Time and change shall naught Brett and Jamie avail / To break run together every the friendships morning. formed at Yale.” from “Bright College Years,” Yale’s alma mater Brett It’s no accident that has been friends playwright John Guare, since freshman Pat who wrote Six Degrees year with of Separation (theorizing (below), who that everyone in the world credits Brett with “encour- is connected by no more aging me to than five friends of other write for The friends), went to Yale. As New Journal, which I love.” senior Travis Nelson says, that kind of connected- ness — which morphs into new friendships and Brett Brown “Sophomore year Jamie asked me affects other interactions if I wanted to go on a run, which (above left) down the line —“is what Hometown was funny, because even the Yale feeds on.” Recogniz- ky shuttle races for the Presidential Murray, ing one’s unique impact Major Physical Fitness test were not Music on people here and their Activities my thing in elementary school. Yale impact on you is central to But she’s so cool, so I decided Herald, various the Yale experience. These Neil Chheda chamber groups, “My freshman year, my very first convinced me to come out to to run with her. Our sophomore music perfor- bonds very often begin in (at head of table) class was in the basement of a an information session for a year, we ran every morning. It mances, ran the residential colleges Hometown NYC Marathon building far away from everything consulting firm… mostly because NY was one of the best parts of the (you’ll soon learn all roads Great Neck, Neil last year Jamie else. I was lost, but found another it’d be fun to hang out over free meets day. We’d wake up at seven in stays at lead to the residential col- Major Pat freshman-looking wanderer (delicious) food at the Omni his Model the morning, and run for an hour ’s house in leges). The eleven friends Political Science outside the building. I took a Hotel in downtown New Haven Congress up to East Rock. It was never Boston during on these pages all live in Activities friends every the Harvard- chance and got lucky… he was in instead of going to the dining Wednesday anything that I would have done Yale game. Timothy Dwight College. Yale Model night at the same class, and we eventually hall. As it turns out, Matt and I Congress, Yale otherwise. And then we ran the Here they talk about Yorkside found the room together. It was both worked for that consulting Debate Association, New York Marathon. I hated her chance meetings, their restaurant. a small seminar, and so Matt and firm over the summer, and Yale World that day. She was loving it. She impact on one another, I became friends over the course have decided (not o∞cially yet, Fellows Program was in front of me the entire and friendship in the of the semester. That year, we though) to go back and work for time, saying, ‘Brett, isn’t this Ivory Tower. both decided to join Yale Model the same firm after graduation. awesome?’ And I’d be like, ‘Do Congress as a fun break from I think this just goes to show not talk to me.’” class. Over the years, it has that friendships at Yale happen Brett Freshman become a primary extracurricular anywhere in any situation… and Neil Jamie year, lived was TJ activity for both of us; he was can bring a turn of events that across the hall ’s (above) Brett president last year, I am this year. you never could have predicted. from and freshman TJ Neither of us had the slightest That rocks.” , who were dance blind interest in consulting, but Matt Neil roommates. date. 24 lives 25 | Met at Yale Bob Woodward and John Kerry George W. Bush and Garry Trudeau Jamie (right) Hillary Rodham Clinton Elise met and Bill Clinton (below) Sigourney Weaver even before and Meryl Streep freshman year Angela Bassett started, during FOOT and Tony Shalhoub , a preorientation Frances McDormand backpacking and David Henry trip. According Hwang to Elise, “Jamie Jodie Foster and basically car- Jennifer Beals ried/coaxed/ David Duchovny and encouraged me Paul Giamatti up the side of Mt. Washing- Edward Norton and ton, the tallest Jennifer Connelly peak in the Northeast, on one of the first days I’d ever Jamie met her. “One day freshman fall, about Redman She’s great!” eight of us decided to journey up (above) to Morse for our first Master’s Hometown WA Tea—I think it was the producer Spokane, of Sex and the City. However, we Major History of were quickly waylaid by what we Science, History of Medicine found in the courtyard. During the Activities night, TD’s huge gingko tree had Yale Women’s Crew completely changed colors, and (2007 National now the TD courtyard was covered Champions, with vibrant yellow leaves. We Undefeated Sea- had a little bit of extra time, so we son, First Team All-American, started an impromptu leaf fight. Academic Bit by bit, more people were drawn Jessica All-American) outside to join in the fun. Soon, “Jess” the entire courtyard was filled “Students at Yale are doing Notebaert with dozens of students laugh- Jess (above left) incredible work, they are ing, taking pictures, jumping, and became Through friends with Hometown mutual friends all-around frolicking in the bright Brett after NY involved in a million in Timothy yellow leaves. The Master’s Tea was New Hartford, frequently Dwight Major forgotten; two hours and several crashing History activities, but at the end of College who hundred pictures later, with leaves his “sibling Activities are admission lunches” with tour guides and stuck in our hair and clothing, Yale Daily News, the day, it’s the friend­ships STEP his older (Student Master’s Aide, we all trouped into the dining hall sister and their Task Force intramurals, that matter. It’s that sense for dinner.” friends. Environmental giving swim Partnership) Elise Jamie lessons (above) of priority that changes coordinators, Tori Jess and were became suitemates everything.” friends with Tori Jess Ayaska freshman year and Jess Jamie (by chance) lived in the says (center), an Jess and chose to same entryway she and admission tour be roommates freshman year “bonded play- guide, and Alice again their and on the ing intramural (right), STEP sophomore same floor Inner Tube a year. junior year. Water Polo.” coordinator.

26 lives 27 | Who Goes to Yale Sarah Sarah and (below 1,320 in a typical Travis became right) is a entering class friends freshman member of Students from all year playing Low Strung, a 50 states soccer in the TD cello ensemble courtyard. that plays 73 countries classic rock. 50% men According to Jamie 50% women , “Every concert since 35% minority students freshman 9% international year, we go students to Sarah’s 55% students from concerts, sit public schools en masse, and give her 45% from private or a standing parochial schools ovation after 65% receive financial her solos.” aid in some form 95% of incoming freshmen ranked in the top tenth of high school graduating class Travis Tori (center) and 99% of freshmen return TJ Sarah and are were sophomore year die-hard roommates 43% major in the Arts intra­mural junior year. and Humanities players, vying When they ran for IM glory into each other 37% major in the in the name on York Street, Social Sciences of Timothy Sarah intro- 20% major in the Dwight duced Tori to Biological and Physical College. her friend. Sciences 95% graduate within Travis Victoria “When I got here I thought, ‘I will and it’s what I love about this “Yale friends are family. Since we five years Nelson “Tori” Tate learn everything at once.’ Against place. People ask me do I have any are all away from home, we are 87% live on campus the advice of my college dean I complaints about Yale? And the (above center) essentially each other’s love and (above center) 49% have jobs on Hometown Hometown campus took the hardest classes I could only one is it gets cold here in the OR support—the kind you usually CA and kind of burnt myself out. winter. Because I can’t imagine a Coos Bay, would get at home, except better, Compton, 30% earn double Major Major majors But throughout the year I started better group of people to spend Math because there’s no one to tell you Molecular, and Philosophy Cellular, and Over 80% participate these four years with. Each person to learn that that’s actually not Activities when to brush your teeth or when Developmental in community service what Yale is all about. It’s the is such an integral part of the to go to bed. I have formed closer Biology Intramural Over 70% participate Activities classes, yes. And the skill set for community. You’ll run into groups sports, Master’s relationships with people here in intercollegiate or your studies—all that happens. here or there. Two groups will Aide, Freshman than I ever have before. My life is Freshman intramural athletics Travis TJ , , But the people skills—that’s come together at some random Counselor, better and blessed because of the Counselor, Delta 45% study abroad Neil and all something I don’t think you can point, meet, and new friendships various band relationships that have formed over Sigma Theta during the semester or stu≠ (personal, Sorority Inc., during spring and/or had the same get anywhere else. The learning to will be made. Some won’t be kept the past four years. I know that I Freshman not a∞liated Visions of Virtue summer break with Yale) Mentoring Counselor, interact in this whole Ivory Tower up, but you’ll run into that person will be friends with them for the 19% of graduates Group, Women’s “an amazing environment is just phenomenal later on or that interaction will rest of my life.” ultimately earn M.D.s, Water Polo guy named a≠ect the next interaction. All that Tori J.D.s, M.B.A.s, and Len Cho,” Ph.D.s says Travis. kind of mixing and interaction is “Now TJ and what Yale really feeds on.” Jerry I are following (right) Travis Travis in his footsteps cuts ’s as Freshman hair. Actually, Counselors.” since freshman Brett Tori Brett year he’s been met and Jess Travis cutting all and became friends Travis the guys’ hair. work because Travis freshman year He says it’s a together as had a crush because he was good way to Master’s Aides on a girl who close friends catch up with and IM secre- lived upstairs with her his friends. taries for TD. from him. suitemates.

28 lives 29 | Studies. The student must be thrown upon the resources of his [or her] own mind . . . Yale Faculty, 1828

32 studies 33 | A Liberal Education, Part I. (Nothing to do with politics)

Academically, Yale makes two broad demands of “Yale’s liberal education is an education students: a reasonable meant to increase in young people a diversity of subject matter and approach, sense of the joy that learning for the sake particularly in the early of learning brings, learning whose goal years; and in the later years, concentration in is not professional mastery or technical one of the major programs capacity or commercial advantage, but or departments. This style of education liberates the commencement of a lifelong pleasure the mind by developing in the human exercise of our minds, the skills, creativity, and broad familiarity with the our most human part. It is an educa- world needed to become tion whose spirit is designed to remind an effective leader. us that education is lifelong and will be the means, far more than a job or career, to forge those links with family, neighbor, community, and country that will allow each to sustain the other. It is also an education in the development of that most practical of human activities, which is thinking—analytically, cre- atively, humanely—and in expressing the results of that thinking, in speech and in writing, with clarity, logic, and grace. In the fundamental acts of think- ing and expressing, the fundamental human parts of ourselves are initially shaped and then shared, and that shap- ing and sharing starts in what we call a liberal education, an education in the making of those orders whence freedom derives and by which it is defended.”

A. Bartlett Giamatti, president of Yale from 1978 to 1986, addressing the Class of 1986. Excerpted here from the Yale College Freshman Handbook

34 studies 35 | Major History of Science, Departments History of Medicine and Programs Humanities African American International Studies* Studies Italian 3+3=breadth 1:1 African Studies There is no specific class you have to take at Classes range from Japanese American Studies Yale, but students are required to learn broadly one-on-one tutorials 12,500,000+Holdings in Yale’s libraries, making Judaic Studies Anthropology Student-to- and deeply. Depth is covered in one’s major. to a small seminar to a Latin American it the second-largest library Applied Mathematics 7:1 Breadth is covered by taking courses in three study lecture course of several Studies faculty ratio. Applied Physics areas (the humanities and arts, the sciences, and hundred students. system in the United States. Linguistics the social sciences) and three skill areas (writing, Archaeological Studies Literature quantitative reasoning, and foreign language). Architecture Mathematics Art Mathematics Astronomy & Philosophy 75%Of Yale College Astronomy & Physics Mathematics & Physics courses enroll fewer In impact#1 of published Chemistry Molecular Biophysics Number of foreign than 20 students. Chinese research in engineering. & Biochemistry Classical Civilization Majors. languages o≠ered. Science, math, and engineering Molecular, Cellular, + labs at Yale College and the graduate Classics (Greek, Latin, & Developmental 75 or Greek & Latin) Biology and professional schools. 52 800+ Cognitive Science Modern Middle Enroll29% fewer than 10. Computer Science East Studies In impact#2 of published Computer Science Music research in all sciences & Mathematics Near Eastern combined. Computer Science Languages & Psychology & Civilizations Approximately40 40 Computing and Philosophy 200 the Arts Physics of the 2,000 courses East Asian Studies Courses o≠ered each year in 70 academic o≠ered enroll more Nearly 200 summer fellowships for Physics & Philosophy Ecology & undergraduate science students per year. Political Science programs and departments. than 100 students. Evolutionary Biology 150 Portuguese + Over the last five years Economics Psychology 150 faculty members have Economics & , Religious Studies 2 000 Mathematics published research with Renaissance Studies undergraduates. Electrical Engineering Students who & Computer Science Russian Engineering: Russian & East double-major. Biomedical, Chemical, European Studies Electrical, Environ­ Sociology All tenured professors of the mental, or Mechanical Faculty of Arts and Sciences teach 70 South Asian Studies* 100% 30% 95%+Undergraduate Undergraduates each Engineering Sciences undergraduate courses. Spanish year for the last five years English science majors who do have co-authored Special Divisional Environmental Studies Major published research. research with faculty. Ethics, Politics, Theater Studies Students65% who participate & Economics Women’s, Gender, International study, research, in international study, Ethnicity, Race, & Sexuality Studies 1,092 & Migration* and internships undertaken research, and/or by Yale undergraduates in the internships. Film Studies *May be taken only as a second major. Courses with a graduate student most recent academic year. French serving 7%as the primary classroom Geology & Geophysics instructor—chiefly in foreign language Germanic Languages instruction and freshman English— The 36/8degree requirements & Literatures accounted for 7 percent of courses for graduation are 36 term German Studies during the last school year. That 90%+Admission rate for Yale courses in eight terms, about Greek, Ancient $3,742,000 Freshmen who return means 93 percent of all undergraduate Funding for international College graduates to a third in the major. Students & Modern sophomore year. courses are taught by professors activities in the most recent medical schools (national typically take four or five History 99% History of Art or lecturers. academic year. average 49%). courses per term.

36 studies 37 | Blue Booking. (When shopping and parties are academic)

Yale is one of the only universities in the country that let you test-drive your classes before you register. During “shopping period,” the first ten days of each semester, students can visit dozens of classes that interest them to decide which they will actually take. Preparing to shop is a much anticipated ritual

in and of itself, signaled by the arrival of the Blue Book, Yale’s catalog of approximately 2,000 courses. During the summer Elis have been known to instant message Zach Marks Shops Fall Courses each other around the world with word that the Thursday, September 6 Hometown new Blue Book is online, PA Philadelphia, and second-semester Major rumors of new courses Ethics, Politics, and Economics send excited ripples through campus. “Blue Booking”— perusing the 10:00 am 10:30 11:30 12:45 pm 1:30 3:00 4:00 new catalog and making I start o≠ the day a bit later than The first class I make it to I run from one lecture to the I have time to grab a quick bite I sneak out of Con Law a bit I hop from one seminar to There are still so many classes wish lists of courses to usual because the night before, is Twentieth-Century Archi- next, checking out New York from the Law School cafeteria, early with my friend Edwina, the next, catching the end I’d love to shop but I have to EP&E take — is done individually, my friend Ryan and I went to the tecture. I’m concentrating Mambo, a cool class about where I make myself a salad to who’s also an major, to of Urban Politics and Policy. run to work at the Admissions U.S. Open Quarterfinals. When in Urban Studies within my Black and Latino music and its bring into Constitutional Law, check out Moral Choices in I’ll probably end up asking O∞ce, where I coordinate the in small groups of we got back to campus, I grabbed major—Ethics, Politics, and African roots. The professor is taught by Akhil Amar, one of Politics. It’s one of the seminars the professor to advise me Student Ambassador program, friends, and en masse a slice of pizza with some Economics—so I figure the the master of Timothy Dwight the world’s preeminent legal which really draw people to in writing my senior thesis. which sends Yalies during EP&E at parties, from which friends who told me about their class might give me a better College and known for his minds. One minute you see him apply for , and by the time breaks to high schools that once-crisp catalogs summer working in Singapore perspective on city planning. wild antics both in and out testifying before the Senate on we get there the room is filled. have great students but haven’t and traveling through Southeast of the classroom. C-Span, the next he’s teaching On the walk over we chat traditionally sent many to Yale. emerge dog-eared, Asia, so I didn’t get to bed until you in class. about her summer working highlighted, and Post-It 4:30. Needless to say, I sleep at a think tank in Paris and through the 9:30 class I had my summer working at a think flagged as Elis ready planned to shop on the history tank in D.C. for strategic shopping. of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 38 studies 39 | Freshman can begin conducting Preparing for Shopping Lists. Seminars are original research as Medical, Law, or small classes just for early as the freshman Business School Yale’s “shopping period” at the start freshmen, with some year through access to Yale students have an of every semester allows students of Yale’s most dis­ Yale’s more than 800 outstanding record of to visit classes they might want to tinguished faculty faculty laboratories admission to top medi­ members. Some in 43 degree-granting cal, business, and law take before registering. Here, a few seminars provide an programs in the schools, but we offer wish lists from one fall semester. introduction to a par­ Faculty of Arts and no pre-professional ticular field of study; Sciences, Yale School degree programs. others take an inter­ of Medicine, and Yale Students here prepare disciplinary approach School of Forestry & for entrance to profes­ to a variety of topics. Environmental Studies. sional schools (e.g., All seminars provide medicine, business, an intimate context STARS (Science, law) by choosing any for developing rela­ Technology, and one of Yale’s under­ tionships with faculty Research Scholars) graduate majors and members and peers. provides undergradu­ working with a Yale ates of every year adviser who knows Directed Studies with an opportunity what is needed to is a selective fresh­ to combine research, advance to the next man interdisciplinary course-based study, level of education. So, program in Western and development it’s not unusual to find civilization that of mentorship skills. an English or Political includes three yearlong The program offers Science major going courses — literature, research opportuni­ on to medical school philosophy, and ties and support to or an Environmental historical and political students historically Studies or Chinese thought — in which underrepresented in major going on to law students read the the fields of natural or business school. central works of the science and quantita­ Western tradition. tive reasoning, such Academic Advis- as racial and ethnic ing is a collective Perspectives on minorities, women, effort by the residential Science is a lecture and the physically colleges, academic and discussion challenged. More departments, and course for selected than 100 students various offices con­ freshmen who have each year participate nected to the Yale exceptionally strong in the academic year College Dean’s Office. backgrounds in and summer STARS Students’ primary science and math­ programs. academic advisers are ematics. The yearlong their residential col­ course explores a International lege deans, to whom broad range of top­ Study While an they may always ics, exposes students understanding of turn for academic to questions at the the dynamics of a and personal advice. frontiers of science, globalizing world can College deans live in and connects first-year be gained in part residential colleges students to Yale’s from the rich variety and supervise the scientific community. of course offerings advising networks in Each year, about 75 at Yale, experience the college. Students freshmen are selected abroad is an invalu­ also have a freshman based on outstanding able complement to adviser who is a Yale admissions records academic training. faculty member or in mathematics and Such experience may administrator affiliated science. include course work with their advisees’ in foreign universities, residential colleges. Science and intensive language Each academic Engineering training, directed department also has a Undergraduate research, independent director of undergradu­ Research Yale is projects, internships, ate studies (DUS) one of the world’s laboratory work, who can discuss with foremost research uni­ and volunteer service. students the depart­ versities. Independent (See page 86) ment’s course offerings scientific research and and requirements engineering research for majors. and design projects are an integral part of undergraduate science education at Yale. Science students 40 studies 41 | Eavesdropping on Professors. (Great minds talk about teaching)

One fall afternoon some People here always  was, but I find evidence to the contrary of Yale’s (and the world’s) say Yale is devoted Michael Donoghue in my seminar. It’s not only that they leading thinkers in to undergraduate “I may be highly unusual in Alexander Nemerov care about the material and can inhabit evolutionary biology, reli- teaching. How can it, but they can contribute to my own this–being a scientist–but at least half the Professor of History of Art, gious studies, literature, that be true? American Art understandings of it.” psychology, biochemistry, Q good ideas I’ve ever had have grown out Professor Nemerov teaches and astrophysics, art, history, Alexander Nemerov Michael Della Rocca “I have “I find that writes about American visual and philosophy got culture from the eighteenth to never understood the notion that one’s myself. When I’m teaching, I’m not of teaching. Where you’re faced with some together for a conversa- the mid-twentieth century. He teaching is separated from one’s just teaching philosophy. I’m doing has focused primarily on paint- tion. Some knew each question out of the blue from a student and research. One of the courses I teach is philosophy with the students. I really ing but lately has turned more other and others did not, an undergraduate seminar on the visual advance my own research and we come and more to the study of film, but they came to similar you say, ‘Well, I’ve never thought about theater, and sculpture. His culture of the Second World War. Now to philosophical insights and conclu- conclusions in talking writing often analyzes fiction it’s said that people who are 20 years sions together in the course. I’m the it that way.’ And two weeks later you’re and poetry alongside works of about why they teach, the old have lost touch with what that war chair of the Philosophy department visual art. He is now at work uniqueness of the Yale thinking, ‘Wow, I should really think about on two projects: a study of a undergraduate, and why single night’s performance of Macbeth during Abraham Lin- common notions about it that way–that’s really interesting.’ So coln’s Presidency; and a study large research universities of the artistic relationship aren’t true here. there is a lot of feedback into the research of his father, the poet Howard Nemerov, and his aunt, the end for me.” photographer Diane Arbus.

Recent Courses Alyssa Mt. Pleasant and one of our biggest strengths in The Visual Culture of the Assistant Professor of History recruiting professors here is the under- American Home Front, 1941– and American Studies graduates. People love teaching them. 1945; American Art in the Democratic Age, 1830–1860; Professor Mt. Pleasant teaches It’s the drawing card I stress whenever American Photographs, broadly in American Indian I’m trying to recruit a faculty member 1839–1971; American Painting history and o≠ers courses and Sculpture from Copley in American Indian Studies. from another good institution.” to Pollock; Western Art from Her research focuses on Meg Urry Giotto to David Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) “It’s not just how smart history and American Indians they are or how hard they work— in the Northeast. She has two forthcoming essays about you can find that at other places— Indian-missionary relations. but it’s their cleverness, their thought- She is currently at work fulness. I teach an intro to physics on a manuscript about the Bu≠alo Creek reservation, class. Many of the kids in my class are and is developing a project headed for medical school, so physics about Seneca women in the isn’t their passion. But I can guarantee nineteenth century. that at least once a week I get a ques- Recent Courses tion that is just incredibly creative, Introduction to American introducing an idea or thought that Indian History; Land, Home- I have never had before, and this lands, and American Indian Histories; Northeastern is from people who aren’t even going Native America to 1850 to be physicists.” Christine Hayes “It’s what Michael [Donoghue] said. When I think about what I’m going to teach I often think, ‘What do I want to study with a whole bunch of smart people?’” 42 studies 43 | Alyssa Mt. Pleasant

“What bowls me over is their Scott A. Strobel Professor of Molecular enthusiasm. They get an idea and pursue Biophysics and Biochemistry it as far as they possibly can. I taught a and of Chemistry Professor Strobel’s research focuses on biologically critical seminar last semester in which a student, RNA reactions catalyzed by . His lab explores the recently discov- who was interested in tribal land manage- RNA ered class of riboswitches that regulate gene expression ment, ended up having her paper win by binding small molecule metabolites. His work takes an award from the New England American a multidisciplinary approach that includes biochemistry, Studies Association. It dealt with a hot enzyme kinetics, X-ray crystal- lography, organic synthesis, button issue in Montana, and Senator Jon and molecular biology. Recent Courses Tester actually asked for a copy of it so Rain Forest Expedition and Laboratory; Principles of he could read it to understand the issue.” Biochemistry II

Michael J. Donoghue Why does teaching Scott Strobel  heard of before. Some of these students I came back and she had finished the “The beauty of it is these students in G. Evelyn Hutchinson are not cut out for philosophy, but they entire summer’s project! She’d figured watching them take ownership of a Professor of Ecology and particular matter to all get into it.” everything out. She’d gotten it all to project and recognize that it’s theirs to Evolutionary Biology; you? If you can find Director, Peabody Museum work. She’d collected all the data she work on creatively and independently. smart, hardworking Meg Urry of Natural History “I was not in a university needed. My jaw was hanging down. I We have undergrads going toe to toe students at other places, then before coming here. I worked in the thought, ‘Okay, now I have a better with grad students in the lab. You Professor Donoghue is a lead- Q what makes these students a lab that ran the Hubble telescope for understanding of where Yale under- might say, ‘Well that’s only supposed ing authority on biodiversity “drawing card”? NASA and the Director of Yale’s , which was exciting. But when graduates are.’” to be available to grad students,’ but Peabody Museum of Natural I came here I felt like I had died and what I’ve seen over and over again History. The author of over Meg Urry Christine Hayes John Merriman one hundred and seventy “None of them are one- gone to heaven. I think I was born to “Which connects is that these Yale undergrads are not published papers, and several notes. They are exceptional in many teach and should have been teaching to what was formulating in my own afraid to take on hard projects and Charles Seymour Professor books, he has helped to shape areas. The diversity of their talents all along. The quality of the Yale mind–they are able to do that deep to take them on in a creative way. of History Yale’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, makes them incredibly interesting to undergraduate was a big eye-opener academic research and are also able to Last year, over spring break, we took a Professor Merriman teaches EEB providing links among , interact with.” for me. We have this Perspectives apply it to some real world situation. group of students to study a rain forest and writes about modern the Peabody Museum, Geol- on Science program for freshmen At some of the other places I’ve been, in Peru. Each was given complete France, modern European David Bromwich ogy and Geophysics, and “The students that can involve research. My first there has been either too much inde- autonomy over identifying 15 to 20 history, and urbanization. Forestry & Environmental He has recently completed Studies. He came to Yale in here have a high average of intellectual summer I thought, ‘Well, I’m going pendence and arrogance or too much plant samples they wanted to collect. Police Stories: Building the 2000 from Harvard, where alertness. With luck, they bring out to get this freshman who doesn’t need of hand-holding. We seem to They brought them back to the lab and French State, 1815–1851 (Oxford he was a professor in the that quality in one another, and sustain know anything. It’s going to take a lot attract kids who excel at many, many did amazing things with them. On the University Press, 2006). He Department of Organismic is at work on The Dynamite and Evolutionary Biology. it in their teachers.” of my time, but that’s why I came things. They have the right mix of whole, they discovered several dozen Club: How a Bombing in Fin- to university.’ So I laid out this project independent intellectual curiosity as di≠erent new species of fungi, many de-Siècle Paris Ignited the Age The Donoghue lab team Michael Della Rocca includes undergraduate and “I teach in for the student. It was about an area well as the ability to work with others, of which have demonstrated bioac- of Modern Terror (Houghton graduate students and post- Directed Studies [a yearlong advanced I wanted to look into but I hadn’t to ask questions, to get help, to be part tivity against pathogens in plants and Mi±in Harcourt, 2009). docs, and focuses primarily on Recent Courses plant diversity and evolution. freshman course in Western civiliza- done any work on myself yet. I told of a team. You need both—the solitary humans. So these students are able tion]. It’s just a lot of fun because the student, ‘Why don’t you go and do research and the ability to bring it back to make not just a creative impact on European Civilization, 1648– Recent Courses you get students with di≠erent back- a little research online and we’ll talk and put it together and make something science but to actually discover things 1945; France since 1871; The Diversity of Life Dark Years: Collaboration and grounds taking subjects they’ve never about it when I come back in a week.’ bigger and better with other people.” of importance and interest to a broad Resistance in Vichy France 44 studies 45 | Christine Hayes Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica

Professor Hayes came to Yale from Princeton University where she was Assistant Professor of Hebrew Studies in the Department of Near community. When I described their Eastern Studies. Her book work to Medical School faculty, the Between the Babylonian and David Bromwich Palestinian Talmuds (Oxford faculty lined up to participate in the University Press, 1997) Sterling Professor of English project with these undergraduates.” received the Salo Baron Prize, awarded by the American Professor Bromwich is an Alyssa Mt. Pleasant Academy for Jewish Research. authority on Romantic and “Part of it has Her second book, Gentile modern poetry and on the to do with the wealth of opportunities Impurities and Jewish Identities: history of literary criticism. Intermarriage and Conversion His books include Hazlitt: and resources here. Last year, several from the Bible to the Talmud The Mind of a Critic, about the Native American undergraduates (Oxford University Press, moral philosopher, critic, and wanted to take a group of students to 2002) was a 2003 National essayist William Hazlitt; Dis- the Cheyenne River Reservation during Jewish Book Award finalist. owned by Memory: Wordsworth’s Hayes spent 2005–2006 at Poetry of the 1790s; A Choice of the summer. Through a little bit of the Yale Law School, working Inheritance: Self and Community research they figured out they could on a third book, provisionally from Edmund Burke to Robert do it by tapping into Yale’s Summer entitled Rabbinic Authority, Frost; Politics by Other Means: Rabbinic Anxiety. Higher Education and Group Reach Out Program. And that’s just one Thinking, which examines the small example. There are any number Recent Courses ideological debate over liberal of opportunities like that in which Introduction to the Hebrew arts education; and Skeptical students can have the kernel of an idea, Bible; Religion and Law in Music: Essays on Modern Poetry. Historical Perspective Hazlitt was a National Book talk to a couple of friends, a professor, Critics Circle finalist, and or an adviser, and quickly and e∞ciently Skeptical Music won the 2002 Michael Della Rocca PEN put that plan–however small or ambi- Spielvogel-Diamonstein Professor of Philosophy Award as the year’s best book tious it might be–into action. And these of essays by an American. opportunities begin almost immedi- Professor Della Rocca chairs Professor Bromwich is also a ately. One of my sophomore advisees the Department of Philosophy. frequent contributor to aca- is spending her second semester in His areas of interest are demic journals, and his reviews the history of early modern and articles have appeared in London. And another spent six weeks philosophy (particularly such publications as The New after his freshman year in Japan.” rationalism), metaphysics, and York Times, The New Republic, philosophy of mind. He has and The New York Review of published dozens of papers Books. He is currently working John Merriman introductory courses but also seminars Yale undergraduates. Having a fantastic on Descartes and Spinoza, on an intellectual biography where graduate students and under- School of Music does wonderful things “Plenty of students come here including “Causation Without of Edmund Burke. graduates mix. Surprisingly enough, for Yale undergraduates. And they’re all Intelligibility and Causation Recent Courses without a clue what they want to do, and the presence of a strong graduate situated close by. That’s something very Without God in Descartes” in A Companion to Descartes, Major English Poets (English program has an extraordinary impact special about Yale and it gives the Yale ed. Janet Broughton and John 125); Stevens and Frost; 18th- then all these doors open up for them undergraduate a completely di≠erent on the quality of the undergraduate Carriero, and “Rationalism Century Prose; Shakespeare’s program. You might think that the kind of experience.” Run Amok: Representation Political Plays; Directed Studies because there are so many opportunities.” and the Reality of Emotions in history/politics; Lincoln two stand in tension, but in fact they Michael Donoghue in Spinoza,” in Interpreting (co-taught); Critical Judgment don’t. We not only have a very rich “The other Marvin Chun Just like students Spinoza, ed. Charles (co-taught in Law School) “I really think the resi-  graduate program in my field–one in thing that I think is so distinctive are looking at colleges, Huenemann (Cambridge dential college system is what brings which there is a great deal of mixing the resources that we have in terms University Press). as a professor you everything together—the small-college among graduate and undergraduate of the museums and the collections had a lot of choices Recent Courses feel with world-class university resources. students in classes, outside of class, that are here. We have actual physical too. What brought Modern Philosophy from Being a master at Berkeley College has in activities–but we’re also situated objects that we’re very keen to use in you here? Descartes to Kant; The shown me that. It’s impossible to describe Q within a larger university that has teaching. To be able to expose students Philosophy of Spinoza in words, but it works in a phenomenal very active professional schools. The to real stu≠ is a blast. You can read Christine Hayes Professors Hayes and Della way to ensure that each student receives “One of the things institution I was at didn’t have profes- about things in a book, but to hand a Rocca are married. individual attention.” that has been so wonderful for me as sional schools. Having the School of kid a 60,000,000-year-old fossil to a teacher at Yale is the ability to teach Architecture does wonderful things for study is pretty amazing.”

46 studies 47 | Marvin Chun Professor of Psychology; Master of Berkeley College

Professor Chun is a cognitive neuroscientist who teaches in the Department of Psychology, the Interdepart- mental Neuroscience Program, and the Cognitive Science Michael Donoghue Pro­gram. His research is in human cognition, especially “A lot of it is about scale. Meg Urry the analysis of processes at the Israel Munson Professor of interface of attention, percep- Yale is just that much smaller and Physics and Astronomy; tion, and memory. His lab uses Director of the Yale Center for neuroimaging and behavioral more intimate than some of the other Astronomy and Astrophysics techniques to study how people perceive and remember Professor Urry chairs the visual information. He has universities where I’ve taught. So I Physics department.­ She been awarded the American studies actively accreting Psychological Association’s find a lot better connection to students supermassive black holes, Distinguished Scientific Award also known as Active Galactic for Early Career Contribution AGN and integration across disciplines. I Nuclei ( ), and the to Psychology in the area of co-evolution of these black cognition and learning, and have friends and colleagues spanning holes with normal galaxies. received the Troland Research She came to Yale in 2001 Award from the National from her tenured position on Academy of Sciences, often very di≠erent parts of the University the senior scientific sta≠ at considered the most presti- the Space Telescope Science gious early-career honor in and that’s something that comes with the Institute (STScI), which runs the field that can be earned by the Hubble Space Telescope an experimental psycholo- NASA territory of being smaller. Yale doesn’t for . Her recent research gist. He has also received the obtained the deepest multi­ DeVane Award for Teaching just talk about making connections and wavelength images of a quasar and Scholarship, the oldest jet to date, in the famous undergraduate teaching prize NASA quasar 3C273, using ’s in Yale College, awarded by integrating students into research—it three Great Observatories, the undergraduate members the Spitzer Space Telescope, of Phi Beta Kappa. The pre- actually happens here very e≠ectively.” the Hubble Space Telescope, sentation of the award began and the Chandra X-Ray with the words “Marvin Chun Observatory. Professor Urry is the man!” praising Professor David Bromwich “I admired the of a silo mentality when it comes intellectual universe of people at Once it came down to the wire and I has worked to increase the Chun for the clarity of his number of women in the teaching, the excellence of intellectual strength of the English to lab research. At Yale you have this all levels of academic inquiry and all was making my decision in the last physical sciences, organizing his explanations and demon- department. I thought Yale had the amazing ability to collaborate with stages of academic careers.” hour or two. But there I was teaching national meetings on women strations, and his devotion to virtues of a liberal arts college, along other labs so that collectively you do my modern French history course in astronomy in 1992, 2003, his students. Marvin Chun with the attractions, and not too everything better. The other thing is “I came for the to about 150 students, walking up and 2007. She also led the U.S. Recent Courses many of the drawbacks, of a large that we have a fantastic Medical School. students. They’re not just smart, but and down the aisle of the lecture hall delegation to the first inter- national meeting on Women Introduction to Psychology research university.” The department I’m in has joint faculty well balanced in a way that makes as I often do, and I thought, ‘What in Physics in Paris in 2002, with the Medical School, so we have it special to teach and do research here. am I doing, I couldn’t possibly leave.’ Scott Strobel and chaired the Committee “I had some nice faculty who are in the Graduate School Whether I stand before a classroom full Each morning, I wake up and I think, on the Status of Women in options so it was very much a choice. of Arts and Sciences who are actually of students or I meet with someone ‘God, I’m lucky because I get to go Astronomy for the American Astronomical Society. But Yale has a combination of things housed down at the Medical School. one-on-one, I try to treat each student and teach’ whatever the subject is that that is somewhat unique: Opportunities And Medical School faculty also host as somebody who is going to do some- day. For me there’s just nothing like it.” Recent Courses to interact with and teach undergrads, undergraduates doing research in their thing very meaningful and influential Advanced General Physics; which I see as my mission for being labs. To have an environment where in life. Our alumni bear that out. This Gravity, Astrophysics, and Cosmology a professor, is a big reason I’m here. there is a clear human application is what energizes me in the classroom. There are plenty of good schools (via the Medical School) to the science If something I teach lingers with where research is all they do and you that you do as an undergraduate is students so that it helps them do the sit in your lab and you work with quite unique.” right thing outside of the classroom, graduate students or postdocs and you that’s my reward.” Christine Hayes never see an undergraduate. Beyond “It’s really the John Merriman that, it’s also a place where you have best of both worlds because you “I’ve almost been tremendous colleagues. At a lot of have this distinctive undergraduate wooed away to other universities places the caliber of Yale, there is sort experience embedded in this larger three times during my 30 years here. 48 studies 49 | Two, Three, Four, Five Heads Are Better Than One. (Why Yalies like to learn together)

“Each study group I’ve been in at Yale has been eclectic. That’s the best part. Although we may be going over a problem set in biochemistry, talk of art exhibi- tions, bike races, and other classes is constantly going on in the background. Each person brings a di≠erent perspective to the group. It’s an exchange of ideas and information on so many levels. Sometimes, you learn more from the times when you’re completely sidetracked than when you’re Jocelyn Traina’s biochem study study of nucleic acids and proteins. focusing on homework. That’s the group (Ben Ofori-Okai, Micah We meet every Monday night at Ziegler, Jocelyn Traina, nine. Today we’re working on gene advantage of working together— Abigail Coplin, Nicole transfer, complementation and the synergy is almost sentient.” Brenner, and Geoff Calkins). recombination of mutations in Jocelyn “The course is a comprehensive bacteriophage.”

50 studies 51 | Divinity School Institute of Sacred Music Take a walk to the Find yourself Sterling Divinity Quadrangle at the interdisciplinary center College Meets University. 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, films, want to read outdoors without literary readings, plays, and School of Forestry the distractions of central lectures. Hear world premieres & Environmental campus. View an exhibition of new choral compositions. Physically and philosoph- Studies of the artifacts and documents Meet scholars debating divides Take one of School of ically Yale College for from the personal papers of between liturgical traditions. the School’s graduate-level Engineering & Law School undergraduates is at the Have Protestant missionaries who courses. Earn a five-year Applied Science heart of Yale University. As a lunch in the Law School served in China during the bachelor’s and master’s in Mechanical Engineering dining hall with Constitutional first half of the twentieth Forestry, Forest Science, An extraordinary commit- student, help design a hybrid Law professor Akhil Amar. century. Environmental Science, or ment to undergraduate race car to compete in the Listen to speeches by visiting Environmental Management. SAE (Society of Automotive Supreme Court Justices. Partner with the School’s teaching sets Yale apart Graduate School School of Engineers) Formula Hybrid \\ Wander the Law School stacks. grad students and faculty from other great research of Arts & Sciences Management International. The Law Library is also a on environmental initiatives SOM universities in the world. Continue conversations from favorite study spot. Enroll for a course at through Yale’s O∞ce of Over 70 departments 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 and programs offer a five- NGO Dog Cafe. Take graduate and leaders and entre- up with all of the events minute Science approximately 2,000 courses in science and engi- walk preneurs. Become a Silver happening each week, or tune Hill undergraduate­ courses neering, almost all of which Scholar—one of a select into the site’s weekly podcasts. are open to undergraduates. handful of seniors who are each year—many of them SOM On Friday afternoons, join admitted to directly taught by Yale’s most undergraduates and graduate from Yale College, some of distinguished historians, students in the Physics whom are awarded a merit literary critics, scientists department to eat pizza, and scholarship for the two and engineers, math- hear and present weekly talks years of study. on current research. Make School of Drama ematicians, artists and heads turn as you graduate composers, poets, and Get a student season wearing your yellow hood social scientists. Faculty pass to the Yale Repertory indicating that you’ve earned Theatre, and see six plays both a bachelor’s and a call it a stunningly School of Medicine a year at one of America’s master’s degree in Molecular Hillhouse vibrant intellectual atmo- leading professional theaters. Biophysics and Biochemistry. Take courses taught School of Music sphere that can’t happen Read original manuscripts by Med School professors. at undergraduate-only from Eugene O’Neill’s Long Volunteer at Yale-New Haven Take advantage of full Day’s Journey into Night. Study Hospital and shadow one of access to the Irving Gilmore institutions or at research light plots from the original your professors making her Music Library with 70,000 School of universities that do production of Gershwin’s rounds. Apply to do fieldwork scores and parts for musical Architecture not focus on teaching. Porgy and Bess. Audition for in Peru with your biochem performance and study; Yale School of Drama and Yale Meet with professors and grad professor, and perhaps 45,000 pieces of sheet music; Cabaret shows. Put on student students in Rudolph Hall discover new species of fungi 50,000 books about music; productions at the University (named for its architect, Paul Cross and bacteria living in plant 25,000 LP recordings and Theatre, with 96 feet of fly Rudolph, faculty 1958–65). Campus tissues. compact discs; 7,500 micro- space and seating for 624. Check out student shows and films of music manuscripts curated exhibitions in the and scores. Take lessons for

Architecture Gallery. Attend credit with School of Music an evening lecture by one of Old New faculty. Attend free concerts Campus Haven the School’s professors who at Sprague Hall given Green are luminaries in the field, by Music School students

including the dean, Robert 8 and visiting performers. A.M. Stern. Earn a paid choir position with world-famous choral School of Art conductor Simon Carrington

Discover the next or choral conducting students. M.F.A. Chuck Close ( 1964) a five- (Some students earn these minute School of Nursing at the School’s open studios. coveted spots all four years.) walk Participate in group shows Sign up for Professor School of Public in the same gallery in Green Ruth McCorkle’s popular Health Medical Take a course Hall, where master’s students Nursing course Living with Center in epidemiology in conjunc- mount their thesis shows. Dying. After some prepara- tion with an independent Attend a graduate painting tory social science course research project you’re work- critique by visiting artists. work, gain experience as ing on in a lab on Science Hill. a paid Research Assistant interviewing patients for the Chronic Illnesses program.

52 studies 53 | Next-Gen Knowledge. (One-of-a-kind Yale treasures inspire independent research)

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

54 studies 55 | The A. W. Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory

WNSL Gothic Folly ( ) houses the world’s most powerful stand-alone tan- dem Van de Graa≠ accelerator, capable of terminal voltages WNSL Architecture in terms of its social up to 20 MV. has active agenda is what intrigues Andrew in-house research programs Lee about Strawberry Hill, the in nuclear structure, nuclear architectural folly on the outskirts astrophysics, and relativistic heavy ion physics. of London he is researching as Elise Novitski part of an independent study with says experimen- the Yale Center for British Art tal science necessarily involves YCBA) frustration and setbacks, but ( . Lee describes Strawberry she’s weathered enough of them Hill as “an undistinguished farm- to have a sense of the combina- house transformed into a Gothic tion of ingenuity, flexibil- confection” by its owner, Horace ity in approach, patience, and determination that is required Walpole. Walpole, who also gave to overcome them. When she’s the world the Gothic novel, was not in the lab, you might find the son of England’s first Prime her playing bridge or on the Ultimate field. Minister. He is credited in part with launching the Gothic architec- Opposite page: The Yale Center for British tural revival of which Strawberry Art YCBA) Hill is an iconic example. ( houses the largest and most comprehensive collection of British art outside “Walpole was interested in the of the United Kingdom. The role of style in the formation center’s collection of paintings‚ sculpture‚ drawings‚ prints‚ rare of identity,” says Lee, “particularly books‚ and manuscripts reflects national identity, given the ques- the development of British tion of whether Gothic or Classical art‚ life‚ and thought from the architecture was more appropri- Elizabethan period onward. Andrew Lee YCBA ate to Britain; and family identity, ’s research is given eighteenth-century attitudes “the latest in a series of opportu- toward the aristocracy and nities the museum has a≠orded me.” In addition to coordinating Walpole’s awkward position as a training for the center’s student member of a politically prominent guides, he is helping stage family.” Lee’s work will be part of a a performance art piece by The YCBA Physics’s Noble Cause YCBA major exhibition next year. a lot of pressure to accomplish Interventionists at the , where the director “has been something fast,” says Novitski. YCBA quite generous to us and very Hands-on in the extreme, the Elise Novitski had never done any Because she started early, she enthusiastic about the idea.” course has allowed Lee to view “real lab work” until she spent the knows the areas of physics she collections and work with people summer after her freshman year likes and what interesting ques- he never would have met other- in Yale’s A.W. Wright Nuclear tions are common to multiple wise. In one of two research trips, Structure Laboratory. “Once I saw subfields. After earning a summer he spent time at Strawberry Hill what people were doing, I knew grant to work on accelerator phys- with a curator of the Victoria and physics was what I wanted to do in ics at Cornell, Novitski received Albert Museum, who will curate life.” She says the toughest thing is funding from Yale through the end YCBA the exhibition. Until recently, to get that first research experience. of her senior year to “try to make Lee was set to pursue a Ph.D. after “What’s di≠erent about Yale is fluids unmix using a laser.” She graduation, but the commercial they help you start as a freshman says research is di≠erent from a lot art world beckons as well. After and give you money to do it,” she of other extracurricular activities. YCBA working with the ’s “seem- says. That flexibility early in one’s “You’re part of a team, it’s intellec- ingly endless collections” and the undergraduate career is a big deal tually engaging, and it has a noble contacts he’s made, he is ready because a lot of students go into goal—to improve life.” either way. grad school having done only one type of research. “They’re afraid to try di≠erent things because there’s 56 studies 57 | Molecule in a Haystack

Raul Navarro says, “If you don’t love the science you’re doing, research can be a mundane process.” Lucky for him, the frontiers of organic chemistry he explores in Professor Glenn Micalizio’s lab have become his passion.

The lab’s ultimate goal is to facilitate the process of drug discovery. According to Professor Micalizio, the classic “needle- in-a-haystack” approach to drug discovery can be influenced by dramatically altering the type of “hay” that is screened. “We aim to shape the process by making collections of complex molecules easier to synthesize,” he says.

Though Navarro’s daily routine in the lab doesn’t vary a lot, thinking about “what I can possibly uncover” keeps him very excited about the Encounter at the Beinecke The Beinecke Rare Book Sonia Delaunay’s abstract paint-­ research even when the chemistry and Manuscript Library ing, specifically painted for and —an isn’t working out. “I think you architectural marvel constructed While taking Modernism and inspired by Cendrars’s poem. I was learn a lot more when something of translucent white marble that the Avant-Garde, Lisa Sun had fascinated by the collaboration of admits light but screens out completely unexpected happens, or a surprising experience among the two art mediums—the text the sun’s damaging rays—is one when you make a simple mistake— of the country’s most important the Beinecke Library’s rare of the poem and the magnificently one you hope never to make again.” centers for research in primary books. She tells the story like this: colored painting. The Cendrars He says the lab has definitely sources for the humanities. “One of the poems on the syl- piece reminded me of a piece created new knowledge. “It may Lisa Sun labus for my Modernism class by Marcel Duchamp, which also is a dancer in the not be the biggest discovery of company A Di≠erent Drum and was Blaise Cendrars’s ‘La Prose worked within two mediums. I the century, but it provides the is training to be a Yale Art Gallery du Transsibérien.’ I first read had several enlightening conversa- Guide. She is a double major information we need to make that the poem in a Xerox package of tions with my professor about the in literature and art history. big discovery.” assigned readings, but Professor Cendrars and Duchamp pieces. Opposite page: Poucel promised to show us an Ultimately, I wrote my final paper Professor Glenn Micalizio’s lab is Raul Navarro discovered his Class original publication of it in the on the relationship between in the new Yale University fascination for research through the of 1954 Chemistry Research STARS Beinecke. I didn’t think much of ‘La Prose du Transsibérien’ and Building CRB summer research program. ( ), a model of this opportunity, presuming that Duchamp’s Boîte Verte, which Next year he will begin his Ph.D. sustainable design that is part of the original publication would I also saw firsthand in the Prints the billion-dollar renovation in chemistry at Caltech. After that resemble all of the old, dusty and Drawings Department at the of Yale’s Science Hill. he may become a professor himself YUAG books I’d seen innumerable times (Yale University Art Gallery). Raul Navarro or work in the pharmaceutical is from Baldwin before. But the day we visited the I found the paper to be rewarding industry. Park, California. His main Beinecke, Professor Poucel asked and successful, and it all began extracurriculars are Alianza, me to help him unfold the decep- with an unexpected encounter “an organization that celebrates Latin culture at Yale,” and tive 4 x 6 inch book into a long, with Cendrars’s beautiful piece.” working on La Fuerza, Yale’s poster-sized sheet. As it turns out, Latino student magazine. Cendrars’s original publication of ‘La Prose’ was featured alongside 58 studies 59 | A Liberal Education, Part II. (Everything to do with innovation)

It’s often said that a Eli Whitney Lee De Forest Henry R. Luce Recent Nobel William Vickrey B.A. ph.b. ph.d. B.A. Laureates (B.S. 1935): Co-winner liberal education teaches ( 1792), inventor ( 1896, ( 1920) founded in 1996, for contribu­ you how to think, not of the cotton gin. 1899), inventor of Time with Briton B.A. John Fenn (Ph.D. tions to the economic the triode, which Hadden ( 1920), what. For three centuries 1940, faculty 1962 theory of incentives made commercial Life, Fortune, and to 1994): Co-winner under asymmetric a Yale education has also radio broadcasting Sports Illustrated. in 2002, for applying information, especially led to some remarkable feasible. Forrest Mars W. Edwards mass spectrometry his work on taxation, “whats”— from the August B.s. Deming Ph.D. to analyze proteins, modern auction theory, ( 1928), creator ( discovery of vitamins Hollingshead broadening under­ and congestion pricing, of M&Ms. 1928), creator A. C. Gilbert standing of the now considered a and fractals to the (faculty 1947–75), of “total quality Peter Salovey m.D. Elias Loomis processes of life, and tactic against climate invention of the artificial sociologist who ( 1909), inven- management.” Ph.D. B.A. leading quickly to warming. ( 1986, faculty coined the term tor of the Erector Set ( 1830), creator heart and Morse Code, William H. Sewell, development of new 1986 –present, “youth subculture” in 1913 (after win- of the first weather Jr. M.D. AIDS drugs and Eric Wieschaus to the founding of the current Dean of in his study ning the Olympic maps, which led to ( 1949) and William Glenn efforts toward earlier (Ph.D. 1974): Co-winner Peace Corps, to the Yale College), co- of New Haven gold medal for pole the establishment cancer diagnoses. in 1995, for studies developer of tests to neighborhoods. vaulting in 1908). of the U.S. Weather (faculty 1948–74), birth of new disciplines Eric Fossum of embryonic develop­ measure “emotional Bureau. builders of the like limnology and Francis S. Ph.D. Raymond Davis ment that opened the intelligence,” a term ( 1984), first artificial heart Collins Ph.D. (Ph.D. 1942): way to more effective neurosurgery. There he and colleagues ( inventor of the pump from an CMOS Co-winner in 2002, for research on human really is no telling what coined to describe 1974), director image sensor Erector Set. Glenn blazing new trails in development and congen­ the ability to of the Human used in most cell- also developed a the next century of astrophysics through ital malformations. process and under- Genome Project. phone cameras and heart bypass proce- the detection of solar innovators will contribute stand emotional cameras for special dure still called and cosmic neutrinos; Alfred G. Gilman to what we know information. e≠ects and motion the Glenn shunt. Marian his discoveries helped (B.S. 1962): Co-winner analysis. and the way we live. Donna William E. Boeing Wright Edelman open a new field, in 1994, for discovery

Dubinsky ll.b. Lafayette B. neutrino astronomy, of G proteins that are (UGrad 1903), ( 1963), founder B.A. Mendel B.A. Samuel F.B. Harvey Cushing important to elemen­ the switchboard in ( 1977), co-founder of of the Children’s ( 1891, Ph.D. Morse B.A. B.A. tary particle physics, how cells in the body co-creator of the Boeing Aircraft. Defense Fund. 1893), first ( 1810), ( 1891, faculty Othniel astrophysics, and communicate — or Palm Pilot. identified vitamins telegraph pioneer 1933–39), father R. Sargent Charles Marsh cosmology. miscommunicate—with and helped to and inventor of of neurosurgery. F. Herbert Shriver, Jr. B.A. B.A. each other. The work ( ( 1860, faculty establish modern Morse code. Bormann Paul B. 1938, LL.B. 1941 George A. Akerlof led to research on how (faculty ), 1866–99), America’s concepts of MacCready B.s. (B.A. 1962): Co-winner disease can be targeted 1966–92), founder ( organizer and first first vertebrate nutrition. in 2001, for landmark at the cellular level. of modern eco­ 1947), pioneer of director of the paleontologist. Benoit research on how systems ecology. solar-powered flight. Peace Corps. William Frederick Mandelbrot markets malfunction Sidney Altman Poole B.A. when buyers and (faculty 1971–present): ( 1849) (faculty 1999– sellers have different Co-winner in 1989, compiled the first present), creator of Cole Porter information. The for the discovery subject index to fractal geometry. B.A. analyses—based on of RNA enzymes or periodical literature ( 1913) wrote Thorstein Veblen the market for “lemon” “ribozymes.” while an under- some of the most Ph.D. used cars —advanced graduate. recognizable tunes ( 1884) coined modern information in American music. the term “conspicu- G. Evelyn economics. ous consumption” Hutchinson Grace Hopper Walter Camp in The Theory of the Garry Trudeau Dr. Benjamin Ph.D. B.A. David M. Lee (Ph.D. (faculty 1928–71) Leisure Class, pub- ( 1934) ( 1880) devel- B.A. 1970, M.F.A. Spock B.A. 1959): Co-winner ( ( 1925, created the field lished in 1899. helped invent oped American 1973 m.D. COBOL in 1996, for discovery ), winner of 1929) of limnology, the program- football out of J. Willard Gibbs of superfluidity in the Pulitzer Prize in revolutionized child study of fresh- ming language. the rough game b.a. Ph.D. helium-3, a break­ 1975 for Doonesbury, psychology. water ecosystems. ( 1858, 1863) of rugby. George Bird through that greatly which evolved from devised much of the Fred Smith Grinnell B.A. broadened the Bull Tales, a satirical theoretical founda- ( B.A. Ph.D. study of quantum comic strip that ( 1966) started tion for chemical 1870, 1880), mechanical effects. Trudeau created for overnight delivery thermodynamics founder of the Noah Webster the Yale Daily News and founded and physical Audubon Society. Ellery J. Chun B.A. while he was an Federal Express. ( 1778) pub- chemistry. ph.b. undergraduate. ( 1931), lished the dictionary creator of the Aloha that changed how Hawaiian shirt. Americans spell.

60 studies 61 | Places.

62 lives | 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, Yale University President, 1961

64 places 65 | Harkness Memorial Tower by James Gamble Rogers and The height of tradition at Yale (216 completed in 1921, Harkness holds a 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 Inspired by Icons. 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 Dean and J.M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture

66 places 67 | 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.

68 places 69 | Sterling Chemistry Tower was designed by Pritzker Laboratory and Kline Biology Prize laureate Philip Johnson. Both Tower Sterling, pictured on the buildings stand on Science Hill, left, was designed by William where they are part of a billion- Adams Delano (B.A. 1895, B.F.A. dollar renovation and expansion of 1907) and his partner Chester Yale’s science facilities. Holmes Aldrich. Kline Biology

70 places 71 | © Jeff Goldberg /Esto. Malone Engineering Center Architects), a former dean of the Built in 2005 according to state- Yale School of Architecture, houses of-the-art sustainable building undergraduate teaching labs standards, the Center adds and the University’s Department considerably to Yale’s engineering of Biomedical Engineering. facilities. The building, designed by Cesar Pelli (of Pelli Clarke Pelli

72 places 73 | Sterling Memorial Library year. Completed in 1930, the library houses four million volumes—out was designed by alumnus James of the University’s total collection of Gamble Rogers, who remarked it more than 12 million books, maps, was “as near to modern Gothic as manuscripts, and other documents. we dared to make it.” The library Its well-appointed study areas attract has fifteen stack levels and eight students, faculty members, and thou- floors of reading rooms, offices, and sands of visiting researchers each work areas. 74 Places 75 | Connecticut Hall The oldest Yale University Art Gallery (faculty 1947–57). It was the first building on campus, a Georgian One of the country’s oldest college notable design of Kahn’s career among the Gothic, opened as a art museums got its start in 1832 and sits across the street from his dorm in 1752 and is a National with 100 Revolutionary War paint- final work in the U.S., the Yale Historic Landmark. Nathan Hale ings. Now it’s noted for the depth Center for British Art. (B.A. 1773)—that’s him, on and range of its collections. The guard outside —was one of its main building is itself a modernist early residents. masterwork designed by Louis Kahn 76 places 77 | 78 places 79 | Noah Webster Lived Here. (Bumping into history at Yale)

It’s where presidents Silliman College (left) marks the Noah past and possibly future spot where word-meister Webster ’s house once stood. mingle with the inventor B.A. Webster, 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 300 years of alums are right Osborn Memorial Labs (below right) now occupy the nineteenth- Professor there with you. Sometimes century castle where E.L. Tatum they leave an obvious sign. and his young Joshua graduate student, Sometimes you just find Lederberg , made the discoveries the connections on your about recombinant genes that own. Attend a party in one won them a share of the 1958 of the two courtyards at Nobel Prizes and opened the way Davenport College, where for the biotech industry. cartoonist Garry Trudeau Branford College (below and President George center) decorates its entries with W. Bush served on a the names of famous Yalies, James Fenimore including D-port party committee as Cooper students and later defined , who was admitted at 13 and expelled a few years later the yin and yang of their after several pranks, possibly generation’s politics. Or including a donkey and a check out the doors of Yale professor’s chair. (Maybe he couldn’t help it—Cooper’s older Law School. Over them brother was expelled from are sculptures of snoring Princeton after “someone” blew professors and drunken up a campus hall.) lowlifes; through them went future presidents (Ford and Clinton), Supreme Court justices, and authors (including Stephen L. Carter, who now teaches there). Or you could just stand in After Webster, Eli Whitney the middle of Old Campus, and Samuel Morse lived in Connecticut Hall (right), think of all those past built in 1750–52; another Nathan students brushing by historic roommate was Hale B.A. on their way to changing , 1773, executed as a spy and known for having said, the world, and figure “I only regret that I have but what intriguing mark one life to lose for my country.” you’ll leave behind.

80 places 81 | 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 Yale CampusYale Campus Street is well known for its delicious pizza. Lines outside its transformed over the last five years Yale has Yale been has in been New in Haven New Haven since 1716, since and 1716, its and its most popular establishments relocationrelocation fifteen fifteen years afteryears its after founding its founding was due was in due large in large are often 20 people long. part topart New to Haven’s New Haven’s belief thatbelief a thatcollege a college was essential was essential East RockEast Rock from Yale’s mundane backyard into to its ownto its success. own success. All of YaleAll of University Yale University is involved is involved Park Park Louie’s a vibrant neighborhood of shops, in the incity the and city the and cultural, the cultural, recreational, recreational, and political and political Lunch opportunitiesopportunities it o≠ers. it o≠ers. Thousands Thousands of New of Haven New Haven theaters, and restaurants.” childrenchildren and teens and participateteens participate in intensive in intensive academic academic and and Credited enrichmentenrichment programs programs at Yale. at And Yale. more And thanmore 2,000 than 2,000Yale Yale by The New York Times, 2005 Broadway CollegeCollege students students participate participate as volunteers, as volunteers, interns, interns, and and some For well over a decade politan college town, National brand-names tend work-studywork-study employees employees in New in Haven New Haven schools, schools, hospitals, hospitals, with inventing the hamburger in 1903. Yale and New Haven they would recognize the to congregate here: J. Crew, Urban communitycommunity organizations, organizations, and businesses. and businesses. Science Science (Just don’t ask for ketchup!) Outfitters, Barnes & Noble (a.k.a Hill Hill have been creating the cooperation between the Yale Bookstore), and more. Ninth Square template for the 21st- the two neighbors as Bring your Yale ID for some good For a more century city, investing Yale moves into its fourth discounts. Busy with students elegant night out, Ninth Square, together in a new biotech century. As Yale President day and night, Broadway and a short walk from campus, o≠ers intersecting York Street are also the the upscale and hip spots. industry and partnering Richard C. Levin, a place to go for a late-night snack. HillhouseHillhouse in an urban renaissance thirty-year resident of Coffee or Koffee? Ave Ave that has become a New Haven, has often WhitneyWhitney Avenue Avenue New Haven has national model. While said, this city is “large Grove StGrove St You can You cover can acover lot of a lot of its share of great the founders of New enough to be interesting, intellectualintellectual ground ground traveling traveling this this independent co≠ee shops where Haven and Yale might yet small enough to AudubonAudubonavenue.avenue. It borders It borders the Audubon the Audubon Arts District,Arts District, always always worth wortha a students can study not recognize the modern be friendly.” Welcome or catch up with Howe St ramble.ramble. And at And 170 atWhitney, 170 Whitney, the the university or the cosmo­ to the new New Haven. CrossCross Whitney Ave Whitney Ave PeabodyPeabody Museum Museum of Natural of Natural friends. CampusCampus History.History. Chapel Street Ashley’s Ice Cream For decades In counterpoint to big a New Haven favorite, located Old Old Broadway, Chapel Street is jam- on York Street, and voted “New CampusCampus packed with local bookstores, Haven’s Best” by the local press. boutiques, cafes, and restaurants New New that range from student-budget HavenHaven Mory’s: to upscale. In between shopping GreenGreen A Yale and noshing, visit the Yale Tradition University Art Gallery and Founded Center for British Art—and a Orange St Orange St in 1861, new sculpture garden. Mory’s is College St College St a unique Yale dining experi­ence—

NinthNinth City HallCity / HallAmistad / Amistad membership at this formal supper SquareSquare Memorial Memorial club is open to Yale students, fac- Church St Church St ulty, and alumni. Mory’s is known City HallCity is Hall on the is on southeast the southeast side side especially for its toasting nights Yale MedicalYale Medical of the ofGreen. the Green. Next to Next it is to the it is the and entertainment by superb a SchoolSchool Campus Campus AmistadAmistad Memorial Memorial to the toAfrican the African cappella groups including Yale’s captivescaptives who rebelled who rebelled against against most famous—The Whi≠enpoofs. slavery.slavery. Yale professors, Yale professors, students, students, and alumniand alumni argued argued their case their case New Haven Green International Fare A textbook case of city leaders of future generations. The in court.in court.The sculpture The sculpture stands stands Walk just planning Nine perfect squares: pattern held true: Their college The center of the city’s original grid, the 17-acre on theon site the of sitethe ofjail the that jail held 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.the rebels. any food you crave—American, NinthNinth Square Square Haven was planned by founders preparing leaders, amid a setting Chapel Street shops, and a lot of history. The Yale Daily Chinese, Cuban, Eritrean,

who believed in the recurring pat- carefully planned as a tangible News calls it the city’s epicenter and says, “Whenever It may It be may the beninth the square,ninth square, Ethiopian, French, Greek, Long LongIsland Island tern of Providence. In 1639, they expression of the power of something major comes to New Haven, it shows up on the but it’sbut turning it’s turning into a intoblockbuster a blockbuster Indian, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, SoundSound 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 upscalefor upscale nightlife, nightlife, thanks thanks to a to a Japanese, Korean, Malaysian, a central commons, a tangible New Haven: Architecture and for the New Haven Jazz Festival and other concerts—and it’s continuingcontinuing retail andretail residential and residential Mexican, Moroccan, Spanish, expression of their belief. The next Urbanism (Yale University, 2004) where the bodies are buried (in the Center Church Crypt, boom.boom. Thai, Turkish, or Vietnamese. step was a college to train the an historic cemetery with gravestones from 1687 to 1812.).

82 places 83 | 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 84 places 85 | Dispatches from the World. (One place you’ll find yourself at Yale is all over the globe)

A non-traditional Yalies Abroad “The summer after my freshman year I approach to gaining 2006– 2007 received Yale funding to go to Savai’i, international experience Africa: 114 Western Samoa, and try to rediscover a bird gives students here Asia: 321 which had not been seen for more than access to multiple Australia: 10 130 years. I found myself traveling to one opportunities to study, Europe-Eastern: 51 of the island’s most remote valleys with research, and intern Europe-Western: 382 a pig hunter, Tagi’ilima Ioane, who spoke abroad during their four Latin America: 163 no English. Tagi’ilima and I spent five years. Over and above Middle East: 15 days together in the forest hiking up rivers. ordinary financial aid, At first we communicated entirely with Multiple Country: 29 Yale awards over $3 hand gestures, but by the final day I had North America: 7 million for fellowships, gleaned enough Samoan from my portable Total: 1092 internships, and relief dictionary to allow basic communication. from summer earnings Our final hike back was mostly occupied obligations in order to with my attempts to describe various game 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 labora- juxta­position of the vast distances between tory research; interning John Mittermeier our life experiences and the increasing with Yale alumni around Hometown Abidjan, Côte links in a shared global identity.” the world; Yale summer d’Ivoire (“Technically my home John session international address, although I’m never there. courses taught by Yale I spend most breaks traveling.”) Samoa Major faculty; or study, work, History or service projects Yale International Experience of one’s own design. Summers in Samoa and in the Students are encour- Amazonian rain forests of The photos in this chapter were southern Suriname conducting aged to begin exploring provided by the students featured, Suriname ornithological surveys and the globe the summer except for Yuefei Qin’s portrait, collecting specimens for Yale’s after their freshman which was taken by Lisa Kereszi. Peabody Museum. Global Citizen year. Here, eight Elis “Someone who map a glimpse of the is conscious of the planet’s vast array of cultural, biological, and world through pivotal economic communities and feels moments and personal a deep attachment and allegiance definitions of “global to this global diversity.” Post-Yale Plan citizen.” A fellowship to return to Suriname to continue his ornithological research.

86 places 87 | Samuel Byrne Center for Research International The possibilities for Hometown PA Bala Cynwyd, Experience international research Major Yale’s Center for are extensive. Students Economics International Experi- work with their resi- Yale International Experience ence encourages dential college dean, Brazil Won a Kingsley Trust Association and supports safe, academic advisers, Summer Travel Fellowship to extraordinary­ inter­ and departments to study Brazilian music and dance. national experiences define projects. Many Global Citizen of every kind. Yale students spend “Someone who the summer following understands the problems and Study Yale their junior year issues that confront people programs include abroad doing research throughout the world; someone Peking University- for a senior essay who is educated about the world Yale University Joint or thesis. and has experienced it, who feels Oman Undergraduate comfortable interacting with & Morocco Program in Beijing; Laboratory and a diverse group of people and Yale in London; Yale Field Research in can step out of the comforts of Stephanie Brockman Summer Session the Sciences and home with confidence.” “I went to the favela ‘Cidade de Deus’ “My professor in Oman took all of us on (most recently, Public Health Post-Yale Plan Hometown ND “Undecided, (City of God) in Rio de Janeiro to visit their Thompson, a daytrip to explore the nearby mountains. courses were offered Students can combine but eventually I’d like to work Majors in Argentina, Brazil, international experi- community center. After I observed dance Near Eastern Languages It was in the middle of our rural home- for the World Bank.” Chile, Czech Republic, ence with deepening and music classes, a volunteer and some and Civilizations with a stays, so I was dressed accordingly in a Ecuador, France, their understanding concentration in Arabic and of the local children o≠ered to give me a long black abaya (the traditional robes for Germany, Italy, Kenya, of science by spend- Islamic Studies Poland, Singapore, ing a summer working tour of the favela. Strolling through the Yale International Experience women on the Gulf ) and a headscarf. I com­munity, I saw terrible poverty and poor remember sitting on a park bench, texting Spain, Swaziland, in a laboratory at Spent a spring in the Sultanate and Tokyo); year or an institution abroad, infrastructure, but a vibrant culture and of Oman through a program my host mom in Arabic, and worrying term abroad approved or by participating in intelligent, charismatic children who sponsored by the School for about how scandalized my host family programs run by a field-based project. deserve more opportunities. Despite the International Training; through would be if I was out past magrib, the other institutions or dilapidated homes and clear dichotomy Yale’s Auerbach and Grayson/ evening call to prayer. And out of nowhere providers. Independent Leitner international internship, Initiatives of wealth in Rio, the energy of the people interned in Morocco. everything that was happening began to Internships Students who are Global Citizen Undergraduate Career ready to develop their who guided me through the labyrinth “The world sink in: I was thousands of miles from Services has major own activities abroad streets of Cidade de Deus inspired me to becomes more than just a list home, wearing something I had only seen programs in 16 cities are encouraged to of places that you hear on the continue pursuing my plans to work in pictures, and trying to live up to a set around the world. discuss their plans news, but rather, a series of “As an international student from China, I to promote economic growth and hope­- of expectations from a culture that didn’t “Bulldogs” intern- with advisers and reference points that correspond always wondered how my Western educa- ships provide over faculty, to register fully improve living standards of similar with places where your friends belong to me. I began to laugh uncontrol- 200 opportunities to their travel and under- tion would fit into the Oriental traditions people in the future.” live and experiences that you lably. I realized how thoroughly I had explore career fields stand the support and help me best contribute to my society. had and new opportunities Samuel immersed myself in a culture that had in an international provided by Yale, to explore. It’s a certain way My experience at Intel China helped me environment, with and to use the institu- of looking at the world that once seemed so mysteriously foreign solve the puzzle. The Chinese market has support and oversight tion’s extraordinary makes it a very inviting place.” to me. That realization filled me with an Yuefei Qin from Yale and from resources to make very unique socio-political and economic Post-Yale Plan “Either a incredible sense of accomplishment.” alumni networks. the most of their Hometown characteristics, while Intel is a well-estab- Chongqing, China summer or a year of advanced Stephanie Placements reflect experience abroad. lished Western company. Working with Majors Arabic study abroad, followed the full range of Political Science and by law school. Right now, I’m interests among both Chinese and American colleagues at Electrical Engineering leaning toward the idea of Yale students, from its headquarters in China, I witnessed Yale International Experience going into corporate law and journalism to the how Intel has successfully tailored itself to Intel Corporation in Beijing, working with companies with arts, politics to public fit into the unique Chinese market, while China summer internship strong business ties to the health, and finance maintaining its Western identity and working as assistant to general Middle East. I have put so to technology. Yale manager. “I worked directly much of myself into developing also partners with corporate conduct. I was therefore convinced with Intel China’s marketing my knowledge of Arabic and other organizations that Western and Oriental cultures could managers in maintaining project can’t imagine not using that to provide many coexist harmoniously, and would in a way milestones and carrying out in the future.” additional internship rely on each other. I believe my education campaigns to promote products.” opportunities. Global Citizen at Yale not only well prepared me for such a “One who looks demanding job, but also will build a solid upon every human being as 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 Post-Yale Plan of an increasingly internationalized world.” “After my Yuefei graduation from Yale, I wish to go to Oxford and pursue an M.Phil. degree in Politics or International Relations.” 88 places 89 | Andrew Dowe “Last year I had the opportunity to travel Hometown FL Tampa, 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 Paris independent, and free: ordering food Yale International Experience in countries where I did not speak the Spent a fall semester studying in language; carrying all of my belongings Paris. Global Citizen on my back; sleeping overnight on trains “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.” Post-Yale Plan away, and you care more about what you “Spend a year see and less about how others see you.” teaching either in the U.S. or Lucas O’Connor abroad before applying to “The first time I traveled outside of France Lucas Hometown NY graduate school to earn a Ph.D.” while studying in Paris, the extreme discom- Rochester, Majors fort of being unable to communicate with Theater Studies and most of the people around me as well as the Literature Yale International Experience very perceivable cultural disconnect brought Oxford, me to realize how comfortable I had become England Studied at Oxford junior year, in Paris. At the same time, I was reminded of traveled by Eurail pass through-­ out Europe for a month; received the importance of self-conscious travel and 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 lessons of studying abroad was the impor- Hong Whi≠enpoofs during the summer. Kong Global Citizen tance of exploring outside my comfort zones.” “A traveler, or a nomad, unbounded by Andrew country lines. A global citizen has a responsibility to see Lauren Harrison and experience as much of the Flora Elena Mendoza “I was monitoring elections in Mauritania world as he can.” Hometown NY Post-Yale Plan Hometown PA with another Yale student and a Mauritanian Orchard Park, “To write and Milford, Majors act, hopefully for films.” Major national who was working for the U.S. African Studies and Latin American Studies Embassy. We were in a small town, sur- International Studies with Humanities Yale International Experience Yale International Experience rounded by miles and miles of sand, and Argentina were spending the night in order to begin Conducted election oversight in Studied in Buenos Aires junior election monitoring first thing the following Mauritania; spent a month during year and won a fellowship that the summer after her sophomore allowed her to participate in day. That next morning, we woke up before year in Morocco, then in Mali “While the goals of the grassroots non- local excursions and an extended NGO LIFE the sun and arrived at the polls by 6:30 a.m., doing independent research; governmental organization where I volun- service trip with a half an hour before they were scheduled to studied in Paris the fall semester teered were noble, I got to see firsthand both Argentina. of her junior year. Global Citizen open. The polling station was a one-room positive and negative aspects of not-for-profit “Someone who Global Citizen schoolhouse made out of old wooden boards, “In my mind, a work. We were working with a village of is informed, contextualizes his passion for learning about other or her own experience in relation Mauritania, located near the only paved road in the town. countries, other languages, other about 500 Guarani natives. As volunteers we to the rest of the world, and is Mali & SUV As our pulled up to the polls, I was cultures is what makes someone were assigned to cook, distribute clothes and committed to the overall well-­ Morocco absolutely shocked by what I saw: almost a truly ‘global citizen.’” kitchenware, and take lice out of hair and being—political, environmental, Post-Yale Plan socioeconomic, and ethical— a hundred men and women (but mostly “A career in clip nails of villagers—I found the cooking of the earth and its inhabitants.” international diplomacy, though I women), dressed in colorful robes, waiting counterproductive and didn’t understand Post-Yale Plan quietly in line to vote. The turnout was don’t quite know where my path why we weren’t working with villagers to “I would like will take me. Most likely, I’ll work to move to New York and work Paris unbelievable, especially given the small size for a year or two post-graduation show them how to manage the lice and for some kind of foundation of the village we were in, and made me before returning to graduate clip nails for themselves. As foreigners, and or not-for-profit while pursuing reflect upon how seriously the Mauritanian school, perhaps for an advanced especially as students who go abroad with a performance career in opera degree in international relations and musical theater.” (Flora is a people took their civic responsibilities. It or diplomacy.” idealist intentions, we need to be very careful mezzo soprano, who has sung was inspiring and I wished that I could take to avoid neocolonialist tendencies or to in ensembles at the Metropolitan NBC Opera, on specials for some of the Mauritanians’ energy and patronize the people we mean to help. In CBS passion back with me to the United States.” essence, my experience redefined the term and , and as back-up for Michael Bolton.) Lauren ‘sustainable development’ for me.” 90 places Flora 91 | Pursuits.

92 lives | . . . 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

94 pursuits 95 | Or DIY by acting, Music Theater performing, singing, Bhangra Society The French Theater staging, writing, Society producing, presenting, Berkeley College State of the Arts. improvising, creating, Orchestra Greek Dramatic (Everything you might have done on a single spring weekend not so long ago) designing, and getting Bulldog Pipes Association laughs through over and Drums Heritage Theatre 70 (and counting) stu- Classical Music Ensemble dent choirs, troupes, Student Society Jook Songs (Asian- Records show that the Yale Cabaret clubs, groups, ensem- Be hip at the ’s late-night American theater Yale Belly Dance bles, associations, Davenport Pops first appearance of lounge. (Admission is always group) Friday Society ballets, organizations, Ezra Stiles College a band at Yale was in “Hips free with the purchase of a societies, and Wind Ensemble The Opera Theatre of Lose yourself in the art of against Hunger: ticket to what’s playing at the 1775, when a militia collectives including: Yale College the book at the exhibitions 3rd Annual Cabaret—this weekend, High-Strung and Shakespeare Company band of Yale students “The Passover Haggadah: Gala Show.” Sidewalk Opera.) Low-Key Art/Design accompanied George Modern Art in Dialogue Afterwards stop Student Productions Six Feet IGIGI with an Ancient Text,” “Art by Animé Society Washington to Cambridge, Under Jazz Collective Yale Children’s Theater Is Where You Find It,” and , Massachusetts. They Craft Club Yale Dramat “Collaboration: The Art of Calhoun Madrigal Musicians Saturday Society of Domestic found it “not to their Working Together” all at College’s Sterling Memorial Library Arts The Musical Cure liking” and returned one . cabaret space, Get an early start with a Comedy/Improv New Haven Dance to check out the band your morning of music at the Student Silkscreeners week later. From those Woolsey Hall Competition, and Drummings The Bridge Froco is managing and a School of Music The Vanderbilt Gallery The Control Group humble roots have sprung spoken word performance where Pan, Jam, and Lime Yale Slam team Yale the Yale Concert Band, by the . instrumentalists and singers visiting professor Frank Or sleep in and join the Steel Pan Fifth Humour FX Crew Dance compete for the opportunity Gehry’s talk two nights ago, for an afternoon of Paul Huggins African the Yale Jazz Ensemble, Alliance for Dance Just Add Water to appear as soloists with the but make a plan to come back practice. Then check out films Drumming Core and the incomparable SOA Yale Film Studies The Purple Crayon Explore the ethical conse- Philharmonia during the next next Tuesday for ’s Film from the Ballet Folklórico Center Raga Society (Indian Yale Precision Marching quences of murder with “wry season. Make it a marathon Series “The Future is Asian.” for your own festival Mexicano Red Hot Poker School classical music) Band. Such is Yale’s epic Face your fears at the irony and consummate skill” and come back in the evening du cinéma with hallmates. of Architecture Master of Music Belly Dance Society Signs of Laughter ’s sympo- through two films: Monsieur for the Resonance Chamber arts story peopled by Recital Series NYC Danceworks The Viola Question sium “Mobile Anxieties” Verdoux and Le Boucher —tonight It’s grad night at the Ensemble Opera icons (Thornton Wilder, featuring keynote address, directed by Charles Chaplin cellist Jacques Wood and . Go into the city Revisit your childhood and A Different Drum Saybrook College Spoken Word Paul Newman, Maya Lin, “Mobility, Security and and Claude Chabrol, respec- pianist Wei-Jen Yuan. with friends to see Leonard see your suitemates perform The Flamenco Society Orchestra Creativity: The Politics and tively, and loosely based Bernstein’s Candide at a for New Haven’s youngest at WORD Performance Jodie Foster) and satisfy- Yale Children’s Theater Freestyle Expressions Society Electronica Economics of Global Creative on real-life scandals. Every discounted rate and explore Poetry ing pretty much any Cinema at the Crew Cities.” What are the prece- weekend the set’s production on a performance of Robin Hood. World Music Group artistic desire any day Whitney dents for mobility in architec- , an interschool backstage tour. Or enjoy a Or step on stage yourself Fusion: Modern Belly Yale University Guild Unique of the week. We picked ture and how are they related student group of undergrads night of theater right on in afternoon rehearsals of the Dance Hip-Hop Yale Reper- Yale Dramat of Carillonneurs Interventionists to a general sense of unease? and graduate students, campus at the ’s production one weekend in spring. tory Theatre Jashan Bhangra Team (performance art) pre­sents a pair of films for where lords of Tony Kushner’s Angels Whitney Humani- Konjo African Dance Singing Groups Ivy University: The free at the and ladies are gathering for in America: Millennium ties Center Troupe Alley Cats Interactive Soap Channel your inner Indiana auditorium. Oscar Wilde’s comedy of Approaches (one of 200 Peabody Jones at the serial seducers and moralizing student theatrical productions Lion Dance Troupe Asempa Museum ’s special exhibition monogamists, A Woman of each year). Phoenix Dance Troupe Baker’s Dozen “Las Artes de México,” which If that’s too highbrow for your No Importance. (Chinese dance troupe) Duke’s Men includes artifacts from over a mood, start your night with Take the Masterpiece Tour Toad’s Yale University Art Rhythmic Blue dozen pre-Columbian cultures. the all-ages show at at the Close the weekend with an Gospel Choir Place Gallery YUAG then head over to the ( ), stopping eclectic mix of live music Steppin’ Out Criterion Cinema BAR Living Water ’s exclusive into the special exhibitions options: new bands at ’s Swing Dancing Club Magevet Soothe your soul with Insomnia Theater film series, “Colorful Impressions: The “Sundazed” series; a student Taps Mendelssohn’s Elijah which “brings the best cult Printmaking Revolution Choral Conducting Recital Mixed Company Yale’s Battell Chapel performed by classics back to the big screen!” in 18th-Century France” and at ; the Yaledancers Philharmonia Orchestra The New Blue , Or shake o≠ Le Boucher “Master Drawings from the Great Organ Music series Camerata Glee Club AFTERPARTY, Marquand Chapel Out of the Blue , and . (literally) at the Yale University Art Gallery.” at . Fashion After lunch at Atticus Cafe Sankofa (collective Proof of the Pudding across the street, return for of fashion designers, Redhot & Blue student guide Susan Morrow’s Enjoy a concert to benefit models, and artists Shades A Cappella talk “Angles on Art.” children’s literacy given by The Whiffenpoofs, who produce fashion Sunday the shows) Singing Group Council world’s oldest and best- Gospel Y Couture Slavic Chorus Or gallery-hop from the As a member of the known collegiate a cappella School of Art Choir Society of Orpheus ’s Senior , sing at Sunday group. The Whi≠s are one and Bacchus Thesis Show Paintings Part I services. of over a dozen Film (see Part II on Sunday) to the a cappella groups Something Extra Architecture Gallery Bulldog Productions for and have Cinema at the Whitney The Spizzwinks (?) “Painting the Glass House: Help your friend set up her become one Despierta Tangled Up in Blue Artists Revisit Modern Archi- paintings at the of Yale’s most Film Society Boricua tecture.” As you move through ’s art opening. Come celebrated The Whiffenpoofs La Screen Alliance the gallery, you and your date back for the reception at and hallowed Casa Whim ’n Rhythm rue the fact that you missed later in the afternoon. traditions. 96 pursuits 97 | Publications Airships: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Review ELIterati. Afrika Now (Why Yalies are so darned determined to publish) Development Magazine Dimensions: Under- graduate Journal of Art and Art History Fiat Lux: A Journal of Religious Life and Theology Five Magazine (focused on methods for social justice, human rights, and service groups) The Gaze: A Journal of Photography HARLEQUIN Journal of the Performing Arts The Hippolytic The Journal of Human Rights Journal of Medicine and Law Korean American Journal The New Journal The Photojournalism Magazine The Politic Rumpus (humor tabloid) Sphere stYle (fashion magazine) Symposium Volume Magazine (dedicated to music) “Yale publications are like one of Yale Anglers’ Journal those giant 40-flavor containers The Yale Daily News of jelly beans. The possibilities The Yale Daily News are endless, as new publications Magazine are dispersed seemingly daily Yale Economic Review throughout all the residential The Yale Free Press colleges. There are a few more The Yale Globalist general, universally popular The Yale Herald publications—the cherry, lemon, The Yale Israel Journal or watermelon jelly beans of The Yale Journal of the bunch—as well as a handful Public Health that will really please a certain Yale Literary Magazine niche—the cappuccino and roasted The Yale Musician marshmallow flavors. No matter Yale Philosophy Review what your taste, if you look hard The Yale Record enough, you’ll find something to Members of the Yale Daily thing the university is all about: Yale Scientific News editorial board. Andrew intensive teamwork, a flowing suit your mood.” Yellow Pages (Asian Mangino, editor-in-chief of novel perspectives, a global Sam Dubo≠ for the Yale Daily News American literary (seated far left), thinks the outlook, and a burning desire Originally appeared in the YDN. Reprinted journal) proliferation of publications at to not keep one’s ideas inside by permission. Yale is “a reflection of every- but to share them with others.” Y.U.M. (literary magazine)

98 pursuits 99 | The Yale Farm, a one-acre The farm is a project of the Yale organic farm on campus, is a place Sustainable Food Project, which where students, staff, and area resi- also directs a sustainable dining dents gather to eat, work, and learn. program at Yale and runs diverse Home Grown. It is also a national model for student programs that support exploration (How “green” came of age at Yale) farms on college campuses and and academic inquiry related to market gardens in urban landscapes. food and agriculture.

Yale’s efforts to become a Student Groups more sustainable campus Student Task Force began more than fifteen for Environmental years ago, but its roots Partnership in environmentalism run Yale Student much deeper, with over Environment Coalition 100 years of new thought Engineers Without Borders and curricular innovation. Today’s faculty revolution- Yale Harvest aries include one of the Yale Freshman pioneers of green engi- Outdoor Orientation Trips neering and the globally Social Justice recognized founder of the Network at Yale new field of green chem- Reach Out istry. But the campus’s sustainable practices, New Haven Action which have earned it a Yale Outdoors place among the most environmentally progres- sive universities in the world, are due in large part to students who have made sustainability one of Yale’s most passionate pursuits.

The Yale Student college campuses a The O∞ce of the A Yalie fuels his truck Environmental Coali- model of environ­ Provost establishes the Yale’s O∞ce of with bio-diesel fuel, tion hosts the Campus mentally responsible Advisory Committee Sustainability is which he renders from Earth Summit, an behavior, entitled on Environmental In response to created. dining hall grease. With ACEM Two Yale College Yale professor and international student “The Blueprint for a The Yale Sustain-­ Management ( ) over­whelming a Yale Green Fund grant President Levin graduates establish ecologist George conference with over Green Campus.” able Food Project and appoints faculty, student support, the The Student Task he builds a processor announces that the Yale Forest Evelyn Hutchinson 5,000 representatives Subsequently, the is founded by Yale sta≠, and students Sustainable Food Force for Environ- to recycle vegetable oil Yale has reduced ACEM School—the first pro- (faculty 1928–71), from all fifty states, Blueprint is developed students, faculty, as members. Project expands to mental Partnership from the dining halls. its greenhouse gas STEP fessional forestry “the father of limnol- twenty-four countries, further and distrib- and sta≠, President recommends Environ- incorporate some ( ) launches a Two years later Yale’s 19 emissions by 17 school in the United ogy,” publishes the and six continents. uted nationally to Richard Levin, and mental Principles sustainable food in new energy conserva- shuttle buses are oper- percent since 2005, States—and pioneer first volume of his A Participants draft a environmental groups chef Alice Waters. that are endorsed the menus of all tion program in the ating on 20% soybean- putting it ahead forest management. Treatise on Limnology. plan for making and legislators. by the University. college dining halls. residential colleges. derived bio-diesel fuel. of its 2020 goals.

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Alumnus George Bird The School of Forestry Students initiate Environmental issues The first student The Berkeley College The Sustainable Food Yale hosts the Real Grinnell founds one expands its research a recycling program. receive heightened interns break ground dining hall becomes Project identifies more Food Summit, bringing of the first environ- and teaching to A decade later, Yale attention when a group on Edwards Street Yale’s test kitchen for than 20 courses in over 150 students from mental organizations incorporate broader creates a campus- of undergraduates pro- and transform a serving local, seasonal, nearly 20 programs that other colleges and in the world—the environmental issues, wide recycling duces the “Yale Green brambly acre of and sustainable complement its mission, universities together to Audubon Society. and changes its name program within its Plan” and submits its Farnam Gardens into food to students on including Economics, galvanize a national to the Yale School of Facilities department. findings and recom- a productive market a daily basis. Psychology, African movement around food Forestry & Environ­ mendations to Yale garden, now known Studies, Classics, and on college campuses. mental Studies. College administrators. as the Yale Farm. Political Science. 100 pursuits 101 | Shared Communities. (Identity, culture, gender, 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, 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 change in our communities Where House played a tremendous part in my identity development Means Home. and paved the way for the (Cultural centers at Yale) work that I will continue Yale’s four Cultural Houses include to do for a lifetime.” the Afro-American Cultural Cen- 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 dozens of a∞liated organizations from fraternities and sororities to dance companies, publications, and social action and political groups.

102 pursuits 103 | Women’s Center Afro-American Minority Association of Yale Gospel Choir International Silat Students of Mixed Los Amigos La Unidad Latina, Cultural Center Pre-Medical Students Yale West Indian Federation Heritage and Culture (Yale Latinos Lambda Upsilon The center, while open to men, Lambda Fraternity, Alpha Kappa NAACP Yale Chapter Student Organization Japan Association Taiwanese American mentor Latino high primarily is a space for the women Society schoolers) Inc. Alpha Sorority National Society Jook Songs of Yale. Its mission is to improve Yale Mexican Alpha Phi of Black Engineers Asian American Tamil Sangam Ballet Folklórico the lives of all women, especially Cultural Center Korean American Student Organization Alpha Fraternity New Haven Dance Journal Unity Korean Cultural The Cuban-American at Yale and in New Haven. As part Yale’s Hispanic The Black Church and Drummings Bridges (free English Music Troupe Undergraduate Korean American Scholars Foundation of a broader feminist movement at Yale language lessons) Student Association Pan, Jam, and Students of Yale Vietnamese Students Chapter the center works to ensure equal Builders of a Association Despierta Boricua Black Graduate Lime Steel Pan (Steel Lion Dance Group Brighter Cambodian (Puerto Rican Ypsaniola (service and full opportunity for all, regard- Network Drum Ensemble) Yale Bhangra Society Community Malaysian and undergraduate organization devoted less of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, Black Pride Union Paul Huggins African Singaporean Yale Chinese American to the Dominican Chinese American organization) nationality, sexual orientation, Drumming Core Association Journal Republic) Black Student Students Association The Dominican socioeconomic status, background, Alliance at Yale PRISM Megha (South Asian Yale Medical The Chinese Calli­ Student Association Black Women’s Sankofa Dance Group) Professions Outreach Native American religion, ability, or age. graphy Association Latin American Cultural Center Coalition Shades (a cappella Muslim Students Yale Pakistanis Belly Dance Society Rape and Sexual Filipinos at Yale Students American Indian Violence Prevention Delta Sigma singing) Association Yellow Pages Organization Girl-Empowered Politics and Government Gado Science and Theta Sorority Sphere Magazine Phoenix Dance Troupe (literary journal) MAS Familias Magazine (for female Reproductive Rights Engineering Society Hindu Prayer Group/ New Haven high school Action League The largest and oldest student Ethnic Performers Steppin’ Out PRISM (supports Latinos The Yale Vedanta Yale Chapter Guild at Yale La Casa Cultural interested in math students) Sphincter Troupe political organization in the U.S. Students of Mixed Society South Asian The Association of and science) InSight (Yale chapter of (all-female sketch is at Yale—the Political Union. Gamma Phi Delta Heritage and Culture Conference Council Alianza (pan-Latino Native Americans Hong Kong Club Movimiento NAPAWF, a national comedy group) Heritage Theatre group celebrating and at Yale Today, virtually every political Urban Improvement South Asian dance Asian American Ensemble InSight (Yale Chapter learning about Latino Estudiantil Chicano Women and Corps group Journal for Women’s issues and viewpoint can be found (and of NAPAWF, a national culture) de Aztlán (MEChA) Youth in Support Kappa Alpha Psi Indigenous Lifeways Visions of Virtue Asian American South Asian Literary advocacy group) of Each Other debated) at Yale. Many students Fraternity Las Amigas (Yale Sigma Lambda Women’s issues and Magazine MANIFESTA (feminist join groups that focus on a single WORD (performance Latinas mentor Latina Upsilon, Señoritas Ya!Lesbians KONJO! (African Dance poetry) advocacy group) South Asian Society Latinas Unidas issues publication) set of issues. Others join partisan high schoolers) Yalies Against Troupe) Sorority, Inc. Yale African Student Student Association of Men Against Rape Breast Cancer groups, serve in Yale’s student Association Thais at Yale PRISM government, or become involved in local New Haven politics. American Civil The Progressive Party Liberties Union The Roosevelt College Libertarians Institution Committee for Roundtable Society Freedom for Undergraduate Eli Whitney Student Political Outreach Association Sophomore Class Independent Party Council Ivy Council U.S. India Political Afro-American La Casa Cultural Native American Action Committee Asian American Liberal Party Cultural Center Cultural Center Yale College Council Cultural Center Since the late 1970s, La Casa Model Congress Afro-America House opened Cultural has been host to count- The Association of Native The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Yale College AACC ANNAY Party of the Left in 1969 as a locus for political, What can you do at the ? less cultural, scholarly, and Americans at Yale ( ) was Transgender Student Democrats cultural, and social activities. The Just about anything: study in the social events and has served as founded in 1989. Although spo- Political Action and Cooperative Yale College name reflected the sentiment that library, cook for your friends an important focus of Latino radic groups of Native American Education Committee Republicans the House was more than a mere in a full-fledged kitchen, watch student social life at Yale and a students had organized before, The Co-op hosts a number of Political Union building. The House continued TV on a widescreen television, tremendous source of student- the new group’s goals included Pre-Law Society earlier Yale gatherings which or play ping pong. Established in community interaction and attracting Native American member groups loosely divided brought black students together 1981, the center promotes Asian enrichment. Founded in 1974 professors and scholars; expand- into three branches: social, from many schools to discuss American culture and explores as Casa Boricua, Inc., La Casa ing course o≠erings to include political/activist, and support/ issues pertinent to the black com- the social and political experience Cultural acquired its present Native American history and munity. With these gatherings, of Asians in the United States. name three years later. Within cultural studies; increasing Na- discussion. The groups also work the isolation students experienced Over thirty-five undergraduate the three-story, 19th-century red tive American recruitment and together on large events and in the late fifties and early six- organizations are a∞liated with brick house, students socialize, support from the administra- AACC projects. ties gave way to the vigorous the . Students of Chinese, plan activities, cook together in a tion; and creating a permanent GaYalies Queer Peers exchange of ideas now seen at the Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South fully equipped kitchen, and create headquarters for the group. House. The common thread is the Asian (Bangladeshi, Indian, a warm and robust community. Many of those goals have been Not Straight Frosh Queer Resource Center commitment, confidence, com- Nepalese, Pakistani, Sri-Lankan), The center also includes a Latino achieved including the establish- PRISM (a confidential The Queer/Straight petence, and consciousness that Taiwanese, Thai, Vietnamese, and and Latin American topic library, ment of the Native American ANNAY discussion group for Alliance students, faculty, the New Haven other Asian backgrounds work a computer room, organizational Cultural Center. and the queer and questioning Students Advocating community, and the University together to address pan-Asian o∞ces, student lounges, and center promote Native American people of color) Marriage Equality administration have shown in American issues as well as provide meeting spaces. La Casa is open culture and explore issues Native Queer Political making the Afro-American Cul- programs that focus on individual to New Haven Latinos and Americans face today. Programs TransAction ESL Action Committee tural Center vitally essential to ethnic group issues. community-based programs include speakers, dinners, and Ya!Lesbians Yale, New Haven, and beyond. for non-English speakers. movie nights. 104 pursuits 105 | Battell Chapel Built in 1874 on Old Campus, Battell Chapel is a multi-faith place of worship with a busy weekly schedule of services, Keeping the Faiths. concerts, and other events. (Religious life at a “world university”)

Yale students come from Athletes in Action over thirty diverse religious Bahá’í Association and spiritual traditions. Black Church at Yale Founded as an institution Christ Presbyterian with a Protestant vocation, Church Students Yale today welcomes those Christian Scientist of any or no faith tradition Organization at Yale and seeks to nurture all Episcopal Church at Yale in their spiritual journeys First & Summerfield during their college years. United Methodist Church “We consider ourselves quite Indigo Blue (Buddhist) blessed,” says University Islamic Awareness Chaplain Sharon M. K. Week Council Kugler, “to be part of Latter-Day Saints a community of scholars, Student Association seekers, and believers Lutheran Campus Ministry walking together on Muslim Student a remarkable journey of Association spiritual awakening and New Haven Friends human flourishing.” Orthodox Christian Fellowship Located in the heart of Presbyterian Campus Old Campus where most Ministry of the freshmen live, the Reformed University Chaplain’s Office coor- Fellowship dinates Yale’s rich and St. Mary’s Roman broadly understood religious Catholic Church life by supporting various Saint Thomas More Catholic Chapel worship services and ritu- and Center als across faith traditions Slifka Center for throughout the day and Jewish Life evening in numerous set- Students of Chabad tings. The office partners Trinity Baptist Church with centers for specific Unitarian- faiths and affiliated social Universalist Student and community service Fellowship organizations, and offers The University Church pastoral support, educa- Visions of Virtue tional publications, films, Yale Christian concerts, lecture series, Fellowship and service trips through- Yale Hillel out the year. Yale Students for Christ Young Israel House at Yale and more

106 pursuits 107 | Yale’s first gym was Mission Recent Ivy League built in 1826. By the “. . .to strive to win, Championships to compete with pride Football mid-1800s an athletic and honor, to make Men’s Ice Hockey tradition “dominated the sacrifices, to persevere Women’s Crew undergraduate horizon, when all seems lost, and epic victories were and to develop a 13 Nationally sense of obligation Ranked Teams celebrated with bonfires and responsibility for Heavyweight Crew under the elms, as the others.” These are the Lightweight Crew classes roared out their lessons that make Women’s Crew “athletics a school for Men’s Fencing glees from their appointed accomplishment and Women’s Fencing perches on the old Yale character, and for the Women’s Ice Hockey fence,” wrote George athlete they represent Women’s Lacrosse Pierson in his history an invaluable part Co-ed Sailing of the non-academic Women’s Sailing of Yale. The Bulldogs of aspects of a liberal Women’s Soccer today—both men and education.” Men’s Squash women — compete on 33 — Excerpted from Women’s Squash the Yale University Women’s Tennis NCAA Division I teams Athletics Mission made up of junior- varsity-level players to All-Americans. Yale “The Game” Even for those who also offers student-run don’t count themselves 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 120 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, its location alternates between the Yale Bowl and Harvard Stadium.

108 pursuits 109 | NCAA Division I Cycling Intercollegiate Equestrian Teams Field Hockey 800+Yalies who participate Baseball Figure Skating in intercollegiate Men’s Basketball Fishing athletics each year. Women’s Basketball Golf Men’s Crew (Heavy Men’s Ice Hockey and Light Jiu-Jitsu, Brazilian Women’s Crew Kendo 2,500Students who Men’s Cross Country Kickboxing (Muay participate in intra­mural Women’s Cross Country Thai) games through the Men’s Fencing Kung Fu (Wing Chun) residential colleges. Women’s Fencing Men’s Lacrosse Field Hockey Women’s Lacrosse Football Pistol Men’s Golf Polo 90%The percentage of Women’s Golf Men’s Rugby the student body Women’s Gymnastics Women’s Rugby participating in some Men’s Ice Hockey Shotokan form of athletic Women’s Ice Hockey Skeet & Trap activity each year. Men’s Lacrosse Skiing (Alpine) Women’s Lacrosse Skiing (Cross Country) Men’s Sailing Men’s Soccer Women’s Sailing Women’ Soccer 193 Olympians ice hockey player Softball Squash (co-ed) Facilities Championship One hundred Helen Resor ’09 and Men’s Soccer Swimming Golf Course Yale’s ninety-three Yale in the 2004 Summer Women’s Soccer Table Tennis Payne Whitney own championship players and coaches Games in Athens, Men’s Squash Tae Kwon Do Gymnasium golf course, voted #1 have taken part in Greece, by Sada Women’s Squash Men’s Tennis At 12 acres, the largest College Golf Course modern (post-1896) Jacobson ’06 in saber Men’s Swimming Women’s Tennis gym in the nation in America by Olympic competition, (who won a bronze Women’s Swimming Men’s Ultimate and the second-largest Golfweek magazine’s more participants medal), Eleni Benson Men’s Tennis Women’s Ultimate in the world (second 2006– 07 College than many countries ’05 competing on the Women’s Tennis Men’s Volleyball only to a Moscow gym Almanac, is a short claim. One hundred Greek women’s soccer Men’s Track Women’s Volleyball that was modeled distance from the other sixty-eight Yale team, and Patricia Women’s Track Men’s Inner Tube after Yale’s). athletic facilities, in athletes have Miranda, J.D. ’07, in Women’s Volleyball Water Polo the Westville section competed in the wrestling, and by Women’s Inner Tube The David S. of New Haven. Games for a total six graduates of Yale. Club Sports Water Polo Ingalls Rink seats of 113 medals, 63 Archery Wrestling over three thousand Gilder Boathouse of them gold, and Badminton and is home to Yale’s The new Gilder 19 Eli coaches have Ballroom Dance Intramurals varsity hockey teams. Boat­­house, a 22,000 led Olympic teams. Men’s Baseball see page 23 The rink is also avail- square foot state- Yale was most Basketball able for recreational ice of-the-art facility, recently represented Women’s Basketball skating and instruction, stretches south to the at the 2006 Winter Cheerleading and intramurals. finish line of Yale’s Games in Turin, Cricket 2,000-meter race Italy, by women’s Curling The Yale Bowl course. A spectacular football Conferences Handsome Dan stadium seating more The McNay Family Yale takes pride in (1889–present) than 60,000, the Sailing Center its broad-based inter­­­­ Yale was the first Bowl is surrounded by at Yale University collegiate athletic university in the United first-rate facilities for Home to the Yale program that includes States to adopt a indoor and outdoor Varsity Sailing Team, competition in the Ivy mascot, and to this tennis, lacrosse, rugby, the fleet consists of League Conference and date, none is better soccer, field hockey, twenty-four 420 racing the Eastern College known than Handsome softball, baseball, dinghies, plus FJs, Athletic Conference Dan. The tradition track and field, and Lasers, windsurfers,­ (ECAC). Most of Yale’s was established by a equestrian sports. and three safety intercollegiate contests young gentleman from launches. are against traditional Victorian England, who Johnson Field east coast opponents attended Yale in the A new synthetic turf with emphasis on 1890s. The original’s complex housing winning the Ivy League 16 successors have the field hockey and title. All sports, been the intimates of women’s lacrosse with the exception deans, directors, and teams, and the William of football, have coaches. One was O. DeWitt, Jr. ’63 the ultimate goal of tended by a head Family Field, the new qualifying for NCAA cheerleader who went home of the Yale and affiliated post-­ on to become the softball team. season championships. Secretary of State.

110 pursuits 111 | Di≠erence Makers. (Yale’s incubator of impact and leadership—Dwight Hall)

Leadership and service to society seem inex- tricably linked at Yale. Nowhere is that more apparent than at Dwight Hall, the Center for Public Service and Social Justice founded by undergraduates in “I have always loved dealing with 1886. Dwight Hall is the children, a condition I think only nonprofit umbrella that came of being the oldest of campus volunteer orga- 25 cousins. I became interested nization in the country in education and participated run entirely by students. in a few tutoring groups during Students develop new freshman year. Sophomore year initiatives in response I became a public school intern to community needs and a workshop leader with and provide resources, Community Health Educators. training, and other Toward the end of sophomore support services for more year I realized that this was than 70 groups ranging something I was seriously pas- in scope from tutoring to sionate about, and there was no political activism. With reason for it to be exclusively “Community Health Educators CHE Dwight Hall’s support, an extracurricular interest. Since ( ) is a project that I have been Yale undergraduates have then, I have taken two education involved in for all four years at Yale. CHE founded many significant classes and plan to enter the was started almost ten years community agencies that educational profession after I ago when a counselor of Wilbur have become a perma- graduate. You could say that Cross High School approached a nent part of New Haven’s Dwight Hall shaped my entire Dwight Hall public school intern, social service network. vision of my future.” concerned about the lack of health It’s the kind of impact Christopher Lewine education in the city’s schools, they continue to have largely due to lack of funding. post-Yale as they answer Six Yale students came together the call to serve and to formulate and deliver health lead in ways that are workshops in the school. This year, CHE uniquely their own. has over 150 volunteers. We write our own health workshops on subjects ranging from nutrition to contraception to healthy rela- tionships and deliver them in many of New Haven’s public high and middle schools.” Blair Jenkins

112 pursuits 113 | Through clubs and PALS Tutoring and organizations devoted Mentoring to musical cures, Party For a Cause developing clean Foundation energy, sharing The Pre-Law Minority community service Outreach methods, social entrepreneurship, Reach Out or even scientific Reproductive Rights research, Yalies pursue Action League the greater good. Rotoract Club “When I came to Yale, I had no idea that I would have so many Community SMArT (Science and opportunities to serve others and Service Student Math Achiever Teams) to rise as a leader. No other orga- Groups Splatter! Magazine nization on any campus in the Academic Decathlon (Publishing works by Mentors children in Yale country is quite like Dwight Hall. student-run writing AIDS Walk New Haven Here, students design and imple- workshops) Alpha Phi Omega ment strategic service and advocacy Spring Charity Bowl American Red Cross projects, come together as a com- Student Emergency munity of friends, and explore the Amnesty International Medical Services intellectual possibilities and palpa- Best Buddies Student Nutrition ble opportunities of a life of service. Bilingual Organization Detectives for Language I serve on the nonprofit Board of Student Soccer Development Outreach Club Directors and have been elected to Bridges (English Students Against co-lead the 70-member student language classes) Human Trafficking cabinet. For me and many others, Bulldog College Students for Autism work at Dwight Hall is much more Outreach Awareness and than volunteering. It’s a job and Chinese Adopted Advocacy a commitment. In recognition of Siblings Program for Students for Children’s Youth that, Dwight Hall Fellowships o≠er Well-Being College Council for Students for UNICEF stipends or work-study wages.” CARE Students Taking Action Amy Rothschild “Through the Yale Hunger Colleges Against and Homelessness Action Project Now: Darfur YHHAP Cancer ( ) I have learned how T.I.E.S. (Tutoring in Demos Elementary Schools) to e≠ect change with others. YHHAP Female Athlete Mentors Unite For Sight has broken down my pre- FOCUS on New Haven Urban Debate League conceptions about hunger and Global Health Week Women and Youth homelessness. I’ve learned that The Gordie Foundation Supporting Each Other poverty is nuanced in its causes Habitat for Humanity Women’s Leadership and its potential solutions. I’ve Initiative Hunger Heroes learned the importance of treating World Food Programme InSight (Chapter of others with humility and respect. National Asian Pacific Yspaniola (Community “It’s one thing to take classes on a three-year program that allows I am continually blown away by American Women’s service focus on world issues and philanthropy and me to have a sustained mentoring the energy and compassion that Forum) Dominican Republic) YHHAP community involvement theory, relationship with a student at a drive my fellow members. Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services Peer Counseling but through Dwight Hall I’ve local elementary school. I plan to Dwight Hall allows me to feel gotten a pragmatic idea about go into finance post-Yale and then like a citizen of New Haven— International Leaders Alcohol and Drug Education issues that exist in New Haven, work to improve the education sys- more educated about its flaws and Leadership Institute Leading by Example Eating Concerns across the country, and around the tem either by running for o∞ce or appreciative of its many opportu- Hotline and Outreach world. I am a co-coordinator of starting a nonprofit. I would like nities than I ever anticipated.” MATHCOUNTS Outreach Mind Matters (mental the Dwight Hall Academic Mentor- to use the lessons learned in the Eliza Schafler health awareness and Medical Professions education group) ing Program. Without question private sector to create a positive, Outreach Peer Health Educators it has been the most rewarding sustainable change in education.” Mercado Global experience I have had here. It is Bradford Williams Walden (founded Minorities in Medicine in 1975, Yale’s Movement (The longest-running peer New Haven After- counseling group) School Film Club)

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