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admissions.yale.edu *A Guide to Yale College, 2015–2016 A Guide to Yale College This is Yale. We’re glad you asked. Elm City State of the The Science p. 90 | p. 102 | p. 114 | Run. Arts. Channel. On a run From the digital Life outside Lives. from Old Campus to the classical, Yale’s the lab. Freshman p. 10 | to East Rock, one spectacular arts options. Diaries. Political Yale’s newest student explains p. 116 | The Daily Animals. students chronicle a why New Haven is p. 104 | Welcome Show. YPU week in the first year the perfect size. A slice of Yale’s to the , one of and give some advice. creative life during one Yale’s most enduring Here, There, p. 92 | spring weekend. institutions. Everywhere. Shared Difference Fourteen Yalies, where p. 106 | p. 118 | Communities. Makers. they’re from, and Through where they’ve been. Yale’s Cultural Dwight Hall, students Houses, religious find their own paths communities, and to service and leader- Anatomy of a p. 14 | a∞nity organizations ship in New Haven. Residential College. and centers. Delving into the Pursuits. Bulldog! layers of Yale’s unique p. 98 | Bulldog! Bow, residential college Wow, Wow! system (12 gorgeous Apply. Eavesdrop- The Good stand-alone “colleges”). p. 46 | Playing for Yale— p. 122 | ping on Professors. Connect the News about the p. 68 | The Game, the mission, Dots. Cost of Yale. Studies. Why being an amazing From start-up the teams, the fans, A Liberal p. 34 | place to teach makes capital and internships and, of course, Our financial aid policy Education. ELIterati. Yale’s Yale an amazing place to top fellowships Handsome Dan. p. 110 | eliminates the need for educational philosophy, to learn. and a worldwide Why Elis are just loans and makes Yale more than 80 majors, network of alumni, so darned determined a≠ordable for all. the meaning of breadth, Yale positions to publish. The and some startling graduates for success p. 123 | Sustainable Particulars. numbers. in the real world. p. 112 | U. Where Blue is How to apply, what College p. 38 | Green. we look for, and Meets University. visiting campus. An undergraduate road A Hands-On map to the intersection p. 54 | Places. Education. of Yale College and Learning the University’s gradu- by doing. p. 76 | Inspired ate and professional Next-Gen by Icons. schools. p. 56 | Knowledge. For Why Blue Booking. p. 40 | Yalies, one-of-a-kind architecture Bright p. 24 | When parties and resources make matters. College Years. shopping are academic. all the di≠erence. Noah In many ways, friend- Plus: shopping lists p. 86 | Webster Lived ship defines the and special programs. Here. Yale experience. One Bumping Two, Three, student sums it up: p. 44 | into history at Yale. Four, Five Heads “It’s about the people, Are Better Than Nine Squares. not the prestige.” p. 88 | One. Think Yale. Synergy p. 62 | The modern univer- Breaking Think World. p. 28 | and study groups. Eight sity, the cosmopolitan News. A few of Elis define “global college town. the year’s top under- citizen” and share piv- graduate stories. otal moments abroad. 4 5 Lives. Yale is at once a tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends. Yale: A Short History, by George W. Pierson (Professor, Yale Department of History, 1936–73)

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

10 lives 11 | Eliza Dach Oscar Pocasangre A Wednesday A Thursday Hometown Hometown DC Washington, in the life of San Salvador, El Salvador in the life of 8:25 am 9:00 am Anticipated Major Wake up and get ready for Anticipated Major Comparative Latin American classes. Politics: Get ready to take a lot Chemistry (although I also want to Economics, Political Science 8:45 of notes! explore Chemical Engineering) W alk with my roommate to 10:15 Branford for hot breakfast. Breakfast. At Berkeley College, Our favorite day is chocolate I usually get a bagel, mu∞ns, First Year’s Classes chip pancake day. wa±e, or fruit and yogurt, and > Directed Studies: Literature 9:25 orange juice. Or ganic Chemistry class. With (both semesters) 6:45 am. Wake up, shower, and walk 10:30 the help of giant styrofoam I go back to my room and > Directed Studies: Historical models, we’ve been learning work on homework or an and Political Thought (both to Payne Whitney for archery practice. about synthetic mechanisms assigned reading. That is, semesters) and about how the smallest when I don’t end up talking > Directed Studies: Philosophy change in a molecule’s orienta- with people on the floor. (both semesters) tion can change its smell, 11:35 > Quantitative Foundations of French class: a small class look, reactivity, toxicity... General Chemistry where we practice French 10:15 > Laboratory for Quantitative H ead to the Blue State co≠ee through class discussions of Foundations of General shop for an hour. Usually I di≠erent novels, short stories, Chemistry work on my chemistry problem and ﬁlms. > Organic Chemistry set or review DS reading for 12:25 pm Run to lunch at one of the > Laboratory for Organic the afternoon section meeting. residential colleges, usually Chemistry I 11:35 DS Philosophy lecture. I love Berkeley. The cool thing about > Advanced Dance Composition DS lectures. Each professor eating at the dining halls is Activities has a di≠erent area of expertise that you always meet up with and eloquently synthesizes that a friend or someone you know. > Yaledancers week’s reading with the course 1:00 > Yale team for the 2015 Statistics for Political Science: as a whole (especially useful if Solar Decathlon Standard deviation? Multi- we’re reading Kant or Hegel). linear regression? Multicol- 12:25 pm L unch in TD with a big group linearity among regressors? of DSers. These lunches are Yes, yes, and yes. We learn a hidden gem of DS: because about statistical tools that you “Directed Studies provides a valuable you spend so much time with a can apply to political studies, relatively small group, you end such as in election polls. up making a lot of friends over 2:30 Have a co≠ee with a friend, go foundation in the humanities and the course of the year’s lectures, to o∞ce hours, and/or work sections, and lunches. grading Spanish homework reminds me that science and the 1:00 O≠ to the discussion section assignments. for DS Historical and Political 6:00 The Yale Globalist, meet- humanities used to be intricately Thought. ing over dinner. We usually 2:15 B ack to Old Campus to relax. discuss possible themes for the linked. Only recently did people start On adjusting: First Year’s Classes If it’s sunny, I sit out on the A di≠erent next issue, evaluate the previ- benches and chat with friends culture, di≠erent weather, and > Microeconomics with ous issue, or talk with journal- to consider them such separate felds.” who are passing by or playing Environmental Applications ists about how to improve the frisbee. Eventually I head to a di≠erent language, but the > Comparative Latin American magazine. my room or the JE library to transition was not hard because Politics 7:30 Time to go to the library to do On orientation: FOOT fnish up the week’s DS paper > Intermediate and Advanced is sections are at the heart of the of the help I got from the O∞ce problem sets or readings. or work on a lab report. French 10:00 a great way to kick o≠ your program: they let you engage 6:00 of International Students and > Introductory Statistics for Hang out with friends, have Dinne r with my amazing freshman year! I did the four-day with the texts, the other students, other students. I also did Political Science random conversations, go to suitemates in JE. Afterward, we > Reading and Writing the a party, a play, or go to get a Appalachian Trail trip and made and the professors in a small stop in the Froco’s suite for an an amazing preorientation for Modern Essay late-night snack. an instant group of friends. group setting. impromptu dance party (or just International Students. > Political Psychology 1:30 am to grab a piece of candy). (Sometimes it’s 3 or 4 am) Go > The Modern Unconscious On Directed Studies (DS): On extracurriculars: 8:15 On Old Campus and Frocos: to bed and get some sleep! The There J azz night at Yaledancers class. > Introductory Macroeconomics yearlong DS humanities program is such strong support for the Fun and tiring, YD classes are a Living on Old Campus with almost > Calculus of Functions of highlight of my week. One Variable is unique to Yale and a wonderful arts on campus. I’ve been able to 10:00 all other freshmen gives you a great way to make sure you are taking keep up and improve my dancing B ack to my dorm to shower, way to know people from all the Activities talk with friends, and fnish up > The Yale Globalist small seminars, having lectures and have had the chance to whatever work I have left. colleges. Frocos are freshman International a≠airs magazine with world-class professors, choreograph pieces of my own. 1:00 am counselors. They become friends B edtime. I pack up my books > International Student quickly improving your writing Most importantly, I’ve found a and notes for Thursday so who give great advice. The cool Organization AIESEC skills, and reading the classics, community of amazingly talented that I don’t wake up my room- thing is that although you have > We help ﬁnd internships from ancient Greece through the dancers and friends who have mate when I leave for my 9 am your own Froco, you end up being all over the world for Yalies. Literature class. > Yale Club Archery twentieth century. Discussion defned my time at Yale so far. 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. According to legendary art historian (Yale has no dormitories) and Yale professor emeritus

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

Yale’s college that had meant so much to system is him would diminish. In 1927 the early- Harkness and his friend, fellow 20th-century Eli and architect James Gamble B.A. brainchild of Rogers ( 1889), 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 (Yale a series of residential colleges University, 2004) that Harkness, “was the best route to preserving like many alumni of his genera- the network of Yale-inspired tion, took pleasure in Yale’s connections” that had been so growing international reputation important to them throughout and stature but worried that their lives. In the fall of 1933 as the University grew, the the ﬁrst seven of the twelve close bonds between students colleges opened.

14 lives 15 | Home Suite Home FLOOR 2 FLOOR 1 Most freshmen live in Dean’s Office Dean’s suites in which four Yale in Apartment BASEMENT If a student is having students occupy two FLOOR 2 Game Room di∞culty with a particular Dean Joel Silverman bedrooms and share Miniature. Master’s Office course, the college dean can lives in Morse a common living Conveniently (A tour of often help by talking with with his wife, Alba The master is the chief room. The suites are located next to the the student’s instructor Estenoz, who is a administrative o∞cer all female or all male, Morse College) Morsel, the Game or with the relevant professional pastry and the presiding faculty and the residence Room is a social department’s director of chef; their son, presence in each residential halls are coed. After hub where students undergraduate studies, or Noah; and their college. During the year, the freshman year, there get together to by referring the student dog, Oreo. master hosts lectures, study are multiple possible BASEMENT watch TV or play to one of the programs that breaks (especially during room arrangements. Buttery pool, table tennis, o≠er tutoring assistance. ﬁnals), and Master’s Teas— air hockey, and Run by Getting to know each intimate gatherings during From top: A common foosball. students, “The room in Branford student as an individual which students have the Morsel” is open College; a bedroom helps the dean to address opportunity to engage with Sunday through in Farnam Hall on concerns as personally renowned guests from Thursday from Old Campus; a and e≠ectively as possible. the academy, government, 10:30 pm to 1 am. bedroom in Berkeley and popular culture. Hang out with College; a bedroom friends over the with built-in desk and popular Jim Stanley, bookshelves in Ezra a quesadilla with Stiles College; and chicken nuggets. a common room in Calhoun College. FLOOR 1 In addition to the Master’s House FLOOR 1 private suites, each Amy Hungerford is Art Gallery residential college joined in the Master’s has large common Artistic Morsels House by her husband, rooms like the one can exhibit their Associate Master in Silliman College latest work in this Peter Chemery, and shown below. sophisticated venue. their children, Clare FLOOR 1 Common Room and Cyrus.

With comfortable Courtyard seating and ample desk space, the Common An outdoor room Room is a welcoming for barbecues, leaf place, whether you want and snowball ﬁghts, to work on a problem and spontaneous set, play the concert and formal events. grand, or just hang out Or cool your toes by the ﬁreplace on a in Morse’s water chilly night. feature, known as “the Beach.”

BASEMENT Shared Spaces FLOORS 1 & 2 Dance and Exercise and Library Morse and neighbor With adjustable The The Aerobics Studio Weight Room Ezra Stiles College tiered seating, a Open 24 hours a day, BASEMENT share several under- full-featured sound was designed for o≠ers a full range Student the library has big ground performance system, a sprung all types of dance, of state-of-the-art Kitchen tables, comfort- and activity spaces. floor, and theatrical from ballroom equipment including able couches, and Cres- But don’t let their lighting, the to classical Indian treadmills, ellipticals, All the tools you individual kiosks cent Underground location in the bharatanatyam. free weights, punch- need, whether for studying, as well Theater basement fool you: showcases ing bags, and weight you’re preparing as a large collec- Fabric Arts skylights flood these student-directed The machines. a full-course tion of books and Studio rooms with light. and student- has six dinner for friends magazines, from The FLOOR 1 performed shows. looms, several There are also a fully or just heating Economist to People. Digital Dining Hall sewing machines, a equipped some ramen. Music Suite Media Room The knitting machine, and a One of the social Recording Studio has three individual and more. . centers in every col- practice rooms and lege. At night, light one group rehearsal glowing from the room, each with Dining Hall’s 40- an upright or baby foot floor-to-ceiling grand. windows illuminates the courtyard and outdoor dining patio. 16 lives 17 | Master Amy Hungerford, a professor of English and Mastering Life. American Studies, has been What really makes a residential masters, deans, resident fellows, the master of Morse since July college a college versus simply o∞ce sta≠, dining sta≠—help to 2012. Her research and teaching a place to live is that each has its ground the community, especially focus on American literature, especially the period since 1945. own dean and master—adults at times of stress and in moments Her first book, The Holocaust living among students in micro of celebration.” An important part of Texts: Genocide, Literature, cosms of Yale College as a whole. of what makes the residential and Personification (2003), The master is the head of his or colleges “home” is that “students won Yale’s Heyman Prize for outstanding scholarly work. her college, responsible for the in the college naturally come to A frequent contributor to the physical well-being and safety of recognize one another as part of Yale Review and author also of students who live there, as well an extended group of friends and Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960 as for fostering and shaping the acquaintances that make them feel (2010), Master Hungerford is college’s academic, intellectual, that they belong. The colleges are currently completing a book on social, athletic, and artistic life. designed to hit that sweet human small-scale literary enterprises Morse Master Amy Hungerford scale, where you know a lot of and their contemporary social networks. Her popular course on is a professor of English and names and faces, and yet still the American novel since 1945 American Studies and, like most have the sense that you are part is available online at Open Yale masters, a leader in her field. of something bigger than your Courses, which provides free access to more than forty Yale “Faculty carry their intellectual immediate friend group.” Master College courses. lives into the social fabric of the Hungerford also says that being college and continue to teach, not a master lets her enjoy the playful only their scholarly subjects, but side of campus life. “Students also the art of living a mindful are always playing creatively, and life,” she says. “The adults who at Morse I often have the chance live and work in the colleges— to join them.”

Joel Silverman has served as the dean of Morse since 2007. His research and teaching focus A Dean of One’s Own. on the intersection of power Residential college deans serve as programs and fellowships,” says and persuasion in American law chief academic and personal advis- Dean Silverman. “But I’m also and literature. He is particularly ers to students in their colleges. a personal adviser to students. interested in the way in which lawyers, doctors, and other Morse College Dean Joel Silverman When students are feeling home specialists translate technical says the college system means he sick, when there are conflicts language for a general audience. sees students not just in class but with roommates, when a student Among the seminars he has at dinner, at social events, and in who has earned A’s her entire life taught are Censorship and U.S. Culture, American Biography, common areas and the courtyard. suddenly bombs a test—I counsel Early Cold War Culture, and He attends their concerts, competi- these students, too.” Writing Power. As a lecturer tions, and shows. “We strive to in English, he helps students develop the analytical tools they create actual communities, where Dean Silverman says that deans are need to write well-reasoned, people truly support one another part of a constellation of advising well-supported, and persuasive and embrace di≠erences,” he says. at Yale that includes masters, fresh- academic arguments. He is “It’s extremely important to me man counselors, tutors, and others. currently writing a book on the lawyer who defended Ulysses to help support a community in “A few years ago, I was on my way in 1933. which my family and I also feel to a panel for the parents of new comfortable living.” freshmen, and I ran into one of the seniors in Morse College. I asked “I advise students on anything and her what one point she would want everything related to academics, me to convey to the parents of fresh- including selecting courses, men. She paused, thought about it, choosing a major, and exploring and then said, ‘Tell them that Yale the many amazing opportunities is a safe and healthy place for kids here at Yale, such as study abroad to transition into adulthood.’” 18 lives 19 | Debate This. (Pierson Dining Hall conversations in progress)

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

20 lives 21 | Decoding the Colleges. Spine-Tyngling Fun. (Residential College rundown) (Intramural sports) Fall So you played sports in high the college accumulating the Also Known As College Shield Architecture Style Points How We Boola Boola school but aren’t quite hardcore greatest number of points through Golf Coed 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 to be the most coveted of all intra Soccer Men, Women Cross Country Men, Women pioneered a sustainable a chance to continue your career mural awards, spawning com- menu for all the colleges Table Tennis Coed at a surprisingly high level of petitive rivalries that make IMs a Branford Winter Collegiate Robert Frost described Independence Day, when Branfordians competition or to start playing a way of life for former high school Gothic; opened our courtyard as “the most Branford declares its 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 to prove that your college reigns Much of the above first appeared in “Intramu- Volleyball Men, Women Tower and and parties supreme. The Tyng Cup, annually rals at Yale are spine-Tyngling fun” by Aaron Ice Hockey Coed its bells awarded for overall excellence to Lichtig (1999) writing for the Yale Herald. Inner-Tube Coed Calhoun Water Polo Collegiate Gothic; The Cabaret in the base- Trolley Night: Clang, ’Hounies Bowling Coed opened in 1933 ment, with hugely popular clang, clang goes the party; Swimming Coed student shows ’Hounfest Spring Davenport One of its facades The Gnome, who watches Davensports! D-porters a.k.a. D’Port Dodgeball Coed is Collegiate over us, when he’s not Badminton Coed Gothic, the other is being abducted; our Soccer Coed Georgian; opened own orchestra, the Ultimate Coed in 1933 DPops; late nights at Softball Coed the Dive grill Billiards Coed Timothy Golf Coed Georgian; opened Bluegrass music, art studio, TD’s motto and cheer is Dwight Volleyball Coed in 1935 beat poetry: the laid-back “Àshe!” which means “We a.k.a. TD alternative make it happen” in Yorùbá TD-ers Jonathan Collegiate Gothic; Our amazing letterpress; Great Awakening Fall Spiders Edwards opened in 1933 Tyng Cup winners Festival; the formal a.k.a. JE More than Oolong. three years in a row Spider Ball; JE SUX! (Master’s Teas) Morse Modern; designed Our sculpture, All-day Apple Bakefest Morsels Q&A by Eero Saarinen; Lipstick (Ascending) in the Master’s House Master’s Teas are informal ’s built in 1961 with a on Caterpillar Tracks, by kitchen; Great Morse hosted by the masters of each 14-story tower and Claes Oldenburg Easter Egg Hunt no right angles residential college and often Pierson cohosted by campus organizations 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 Party in the “12 Pack” Saybrugians world leaders, thinkers, and talents. completed in 1933 in the latest Indiana and always respond Members of the hosting college Jones movie; our own “Saybrook!” when asked, get first dibs on front-row seats. Chamber Orchestra “Say what?” (known as SYChO) Calhoun Recent guests Internet personality; Nihad Awad, activist David Pogue, former NYT CEO Silliman Trumbull and executive director of the Council on technology columnist; Sue Morelli, , Varied: Collegiate Biggest college; biggest Sunday music brunch, a Sillimanders Lois Lowry, author of The Giver; American-Islamic Relations. Au Bon Pain; John Hodgman, humorist; Gothic; modified courtyard; winner of feast of sound and taste; Joan Acocella, dance and book reviewer Ezra Stiles Gilberto Gil, musical revolutionary and French Renaissance, cooking and spirit prizes the Ball on College and for The New Yorker; Biz Stone, co-founder Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize- Brazil’s former minister of culture. Georgian; at Final Cut (Yale’s “Iron Wall, a spring classic of Twitter; Amy Brooks-Kayal, pediatric winning author and MacArthur Fellow; Morse completed in 1940 Chef ”) neurologist. Angélique Kidjo, singer-songwriter and Unni Karunakara, international Ezra Stiles Branford activist; Cesar Pelli, architect; Ed Norton, president of Médecins Sans Frontières; Mark Modern master- Our memorial Medieval (K)night Stilesians Jennifer Staple-Clark, founder CEO actor and director; Joann Lo, co-director of Penn, author of Microtrends and adviser to piece, designed moose mascot in the Festival; Baby Animal and of Unite For Sight; Robert Pinsky, the Food Chain Workers Alliance. the Clintons, Tony Blair, and Bill Gates; by Eero Saarinen; Dining Hall; annual Petting Zoo in the former U.S. poet laureate; Chris Bridges, Davenport Bobby Lopez, composer and lyricist of opened in 1962 Student Film Festival courtyard a.k.a. Ludacris, rapper and actor; Paul Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Avenue Q; Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Farmer, co-founder, Partners in Health. Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; Carole Trumbull Tipping Point and Blink. Quintessential Yale/ Potty Court, where our Rumble in Trumbull the Silliman King, singer-songwriter; Mike Gordon, Denzel Washington, Academy fda Jonathan Edwards Collegiate Gothic; gargoyle “Thinker” is (bounce-house “fights”); ’Bulls guitarist, Phish; Margaret Hamburg, Katie Couric, journal- Award-winning actor, producer, and completed in 1933 enthroned and decorated Pamplona (running of commissioner; Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, ist; Jon Pareles, music critic; Michael Pollan, director; Brandon Scott Sessoms, gay every year the [Trum]Bulls around Doonesbury; Mukesh Kapila, humanitarian author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma; Gary blogger, celebrity commentator, and campus) and author of Against a Tide of Evil. Beach, Tony Award-winning actor. 22 lives 23 | Bright College Years. (Defining Yale through friendship)

“Time and change shall naught avail / To break

the friendships Deena (left) goes to every one formed at Yale.” Hannah from “Bright College Years,” of ’s performances Yale’s alma mater TUIB with , Yale’s It’s no accident that folksinging playwright John Guare, group. Over the years, she’s who wrote Six Degrees learned the of Separation (theorizing words to all that everyone in the world their songs. is connected by no more than five friends of other friends), went to Yale. As

one senior put it, that kind Deena and of connectedness — which Danny (below) morphs into new friend- are involved ships and affects other Hannah in the Yale “Deena, Caroline, and I have interactions down the Untereiner Hunger and organized several late-night Homelessness line —“is what Yale feeds Zumba-style dance parties. (above right) Action Project. on.” Recognizing one’s Once we choreographed a dance Hometown unique impact on people MD routine to “Countdown” by Takoma Park, here and their impact on Major Beyoncé. After about an hour American you is central to the Yale of teamwork and laughter at Studies experience. These bonds Lamthran Activities “Going to a restaurant in New time a bunch of di≠erent stir-fry how silly we looked in the dance very often begin in the “Hanoi” Haven has become a favorite dishes and coordinate preparation mirrors—after all, Caroline is the Whim ’n Rhythm residential colleges (you’ll Hantrakul (a cappella), tradition. On birthdays it’s with fve other people! In the only real dancer among us—we soon learn that all roads Tangled Up in Prime 16, a juicy burger place, end the dinner was a delicious (above center) recorded a video of our fnished Blue (American lead to the residential col- Hometown or Pepe’s, a New Haven pizza success. Sometimes late at night dance on Caroline’s computer. folksinging leges). The twelve friends classic. Whenever it’s Thai food, I go into the kitchen to cook my Bangkok, Thailand It’s fun to remember the moments group), Harvest on these pages all belong Major preorientation I’m given full ordering power own food as a way to de-stress. of spontaneous goofness that to Morse College. Here trip leader, French Applied Physics, language tutor, for the family-style meal. Once I’ll call Richard to come and help defne our friendship.” Hannah Richard they talk about chance Music Morse College , I booked out the Morse kitchen me fnish what I’ve made as a Danny Activities Buttery manager , and meetings, their impact on Mark to have a Thai cooking session fun study break. He’s a fan of my go one another, and friend- Yale Jazz Ensemble, WYBC Hanoi Richard sledding on with friends. Aaron, Ethan, Mark, Thai milk tea.” Hanoi Radio, invited ship at Yale. the big hill by Caroline, and Hannah helped Asian American (right) to take an Electrical the Divinity with the chopping. On the menu Cultural Center, Engineering class with CEID him. Richard says it’s a School during Hanoi Mark Salsa dancing, were stir-fry vegetables with , (above left), course he “probably never snowstorms. Ethan Workshop designer oyster sauce, Thai-style omelet (above right), and would have considered, Aaron with fresh shrimp, green curry were assigned but it became one of my to be suitemates in their favorite courses at Yale” with eggplant, and rice I had freshman year. They and inspired his participa- brought from Thailand. It’s a realized they all played tion in Bulldog Bots, challenge when you’re trying to instruments and started a Yale’s undergraduate band called Suite Spot. robotics organization.

24 lives 25 | Met at Yale

Bob Woodward “The most important factor in my and John Kerry George W. Bush closest friendships is how much we and Garry Trudeau Hillary Rodham Clinton prioritize each other, even in the and Bill Clinton Allison Williams and face of homework or extracurriculars Kurt Schneider or other life.” Sigourney Weaver Caroline and Meryl Streep Angela Bassett and Tony Shalhoub Frances McDormand and David Henry Hwang Jodie Foster and Jennifer Beals David Duchovny and Paul Giamatti Aaron and Edward Norton and Carlee (below) Jennifer Connelly met through a Paul Sciarra mutual friend and Ben Silbermann the summer

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

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

Solar Decathlon NYC from the Yale Entrepreneurial then an M.Sc. in computational the country, Fringe featured In March, Olivia met with The latest stats Institute in 2015. The program statistics and machine learning at more than 200 shows and 1,200 Michelle Obama at the White A team of Yale College students, is geared toward scalable ideas University College London. performers from around the House about LabCandy’s on who goes to Yale

led by junior Architecture majors with high-growth potential. This world. Elliah took home the mission. 1,352 29% Health in a typical entering major in the Arts and Katherine McMilland and year’s projects include develop- award for Best Music and Lyrics class Humanities Juan Pablo Ponce de Leon, will ment of a vegan, gluten-free Innovators Composition. On the Ice

be one of seventeen university snack; an aerial system to moni- teams competing in the U.S. tor crop health and optimize The inaugural Thorne Prize Tech Bootcamp In front of a sold-out crowd states50 major41% in the Social Department of Energy’s Solar fertilizer inputs; an app to help for Social Innovation in Health, at Ingalls Rink, the Yale Men’s Sciences Decathlon—the first Yale team brick-and-mortar businesses sponsored by the Yale School Twenty-six Yale undergraduates, Ice Hockey team defeated 80+ to participate in the prestigious draw tra∞c; a secure and acces- of Public Health, was won by majoring in fields from English Cornell, 4–0, to win the Ivy countries 30% biennial contest. The team, sible health record bank; and an a team of four Yale students— to Environmental Studies, were League Championship, with major in the Biological which also includes students app that sends children’s stories including undergraduates Ruchit among the thirty applicants goals scored by sophomores and Physical Sciences or Engineering majoring in Electrical, Environ and activities by text message. Nagar, Ifedolapo Omiwole, and chosen to participate in Yale’s Christopher Izmirlian and men51% mental, and Mechanical Leen van Besien—for Khushi second summer Tech Bootcamp. Michael Doherty, junior Car- Engineering, in Economics, and Across the Pond Baby, an inexpensive digital A partnership between the Yale son Cooper, and senior Trent 96%graduate within five in Geology and Geophysics, will necklace for infants that records Entrepreneurial Institute and Ru≠olo. Sophomore Alex women49% years design and build an a≠ordable Six seniors were among the their vaccination history and the Yale Student Tech Collabora- Lyon and junior Rob O’Gara and energy-e∞cient solar- eleven Yale students named communicates with a mobile tive, the ten-week, immersive were named the top goalie and powered house—christened the Rhodes or Marshall Scholars, Khushi app via a technology bootcamp teaches full-stack Web top defenseman, respectively, minority43% students live87% on campus ECAC Y-House—for the Decathlon, two of the most coveted aca- called near-field communication. programming from the ground of the , and both earned ECAC which takes place in California demic awards for postgraduate The students, who developed up. Apps launched at the end first-team All- honors. 10% 60% in October 2015. study. On Rhodes scholarships at Khushi Baby in the course of the summer included “Pear,” international students have jobs on campus the University of Oxford, African Appropriate Technology for created by junior Jennifer Allen Novel Sounds

All That Jazz American Studies and Political the Developing World, used and sophomore Sahil Gupta, from55% public schools 13%earn double majors Science major Jordan Konell will the $25,000 prize to begin ﬁeld which encourages social net- In the new Yale College course The Yale jazz group Newspeak— seek an M.Phil. in comparative research in India, which has working by randomly matching Musical Acoustics and Instru-

made up of juniors Alexander social policy; History and Global one of the lowest vaccination students for lunch; and “Bulldog ment Design, students learned 45%from private or 42%participate in Dubovoy (piano), Hans Bilger A≠airs major Jane Darby Menton coverage rates in the world. And Taxi,” created by seniors Ben- the physics of oscillatory sys- parochial schools community service (bass), and Harvey Xia (sax); will pursue an M.Phil. in modern a successful Kickstarter cam- jamin Burke and Patrick Casey tems and the use of engineering sophomore Eli Brown (trum- theater studies; and Molecular, paign has allowed them to pilot to provide rides from nearby and software tools in advance pet); and recent alumna Emma Cellular, and Developmental the project this year: with just airports to campus. of inventing and building their 50%receive need-based participate80%+ in Akrawi (voice)—released its Biology major Matthew eight smartphones, Khushi Baby own musical instruments. The financial aid intercollegiate, club, or ﬁrst album, “Machinery by Townsend will pursue an M.Sc. ensures that 4,000 children in Lab Candy results were as varied as the intramural athletics

Night.” Published direct from in medical anthropology. On 100 immunization clinics are get- interests of the participants. 97% performance to disk, the album Marshall scholarships, Classics ting the vaccinations they need. Olivia Pavco-Giaccia, a junior Among them: sophomore of incoming freshmen ranked in the top of90%+ science and was recorded by eleven-time major Sarah Norvell will con- Cognitive Science major, is Julien Soros’s “Siren Song” tenth of high school engineering majors Grammy winner and recording tinue to study classics at Oxford; Theatrical Kudos helping to promote the sciences translates light pulses into graduating class undertake research engineer Jack Renner. Junior English and Theater Studies among young girls by producing musical notes; junior Cath- with a faculty mentor

Annelisa Leinbach designed the major Miranda Rizzolo will Dust Can’t Kill Me, an original and selling stylish lab gear and erine Jameson’s “Lothlóritar” 99% cover art. study classical acting for the pro- folk musical written by seniors science adventure storybooks is a stringed instrument that of freshmen return 60%+ fessional theater at the London Abigail Carney and Elliah that disprove stereotypes about can only be played by two sophomore year of graduates ultimately Undergraduate earn M.D.s, J.D.s, Academy of Music and Dramatic Heifetz, was one of three Yale how scientists look. Her start-up, people working together; and M.B.A.s, or Ph.D.s Entrepreneurs Art; and Economics and Math undergraduate theatrical pro- LabCandy, earned early backing sophomore Jordan Plotner’s major Rahul Singh will pursue ductions to win a spot in the from the Yale Entrepreneurial “Helmholtz’s Harmonious Yale undergraduates head ﬁve of an M.Sc. in econometrics and eighteenth annual New York Institute, and its successful Homebrew” mimics the sound the eleven business ventures that mathematical economics at the International Fringe Festival. Kickstarter campaign drew more of blowing air across the have earned summer fellowships London School of Economics, The largest multi-arts festival in than 300 contributors this year. mouths of tuned glass bottles. 28 lives 29 | Studies. Whether they major in the social sciences, humanities, or arts, in science, mathematics, or engineering, Yale students graduate with a thirst for learning, a greater appreciation for creativity, and a respect for education that they bring to positions of leadership and civic life. Peter Salovey, President of Yale University

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

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

34 studies 35 | Majors in German Yale College German Studies African American Global Affairs Studies Greek, Ancient & African Studies Modern 3+3=breadth 1:1 American Studies There is no specific class you have to take at Classes range from History Yale, but students are required to learn broadly one-on-one tutorials 15,000,000+Holdings in Yale’s library, making Anthropology History of Art Student-to- and deeply. Depth is covered in one’s major. to a small seminar to a Applied Mathematics History of Science, Breadth is covered by taking courses in three study lecture course of several it the third-largest university library Applied Physics Medicine, & 6:1 Public Health faculty ratio. areas (the humanities and arts, the sciences, and hundred students. Archaeological Studies system in the United States. Humanities the social sciences) and three skill areas (writing, Architecture Italian quantitative reasoning, and foreign language). Art Judaic Studies Astronomy Latin American Astrophysics Studies 76% Of Yale College Chemistry Yale’s School of Linguistics courses enroll fewer 1:1 Classical Civilization Engineering & Applied Literature Number of foreign than 20 students. Classics (Greek, Latin, Mathematics Science has approximately or Greek & Latin) Science, math, and engineering 60 professors and gradu- Mathematics & Majors. languages o≠ered. Cognitive Science 80+ labs at Yale College and the graduate Philosophy ates approximately 60 Computer Science 53 and professional schools. engineering majors a year. Mathematics & Physics 800+ Computer Science & Modern Middle East 31% Mathematics Enroll fewer than 10. Studies Computer Science & Molecular Biophysics Psychology & Biochemistry Computing & the Arts Student-to-faculty ratio Molecular, Cellular, 3:1STEM East Asian Languages in other & Developmental 40 & Literatures (Chinese Biology Approximate number disciplines. or Japanese) 200+ Music of the 2,000 courses East Asian Studies Courses o≠ered each year in 80 academic Near Eastern that enroll more than Summer fellowships for Ecology & 100 students. undergraduate science and engineering Languages & programs and departments. Evolutionary Biology Civilizations + students each year. Economics Philosophy Economics & , Faculty members in Physics 2 000 150 Mathematics Physics & Geosciences the past five years have Electrical Engineering Physics & Philosophy published research with & Computer Science Political Science undergraduates. Engineering: Biomedical, Portuguese Chemical, Electrical, Psychology Of tenured professors of the International study, research, and internship experiences Environmental, 1,405 Religious Studies Faculty96% of Arts and Sciences regularly undertaken by Yale College students in 2013–2014. or Mechanical Russian teach undergraduate courses. Percentage of Yale College students Undergraduates70 in each Engineering Sciences: STEM Chemical, Electrical, Russian & East 40%+graduating with a major of the past five years Environmental, European Studies who are women. have coauthored or Mechanical Sociology published research. $6,663,124 English South Asian Studies* Funding for international experiences in the Environmental Studies Spanish 2013–2014 academic year. Ethics, Politics, & Special Divisional Economics Major Of undergraduate courses are Ethnicity, Race, & Statistics taught by professors or lecturers. Migration 93% Theater Studies Courses with a graduate student Film & Media Studies Women’s, Gender, & 36/8 French serving as the primary classroom The degree requirements Sexuality Studies instructor—chiefly in foreign language 66% 88% for graduation are 36 term Geology & Geophysics *May be taken only instruction and freshman English— Of seniors in the most recent Medical school admission courses in eight terms, Geology & Natural Freshmen who return as a second major. account for only 7% of courses o≠ered graduating class participated in rate for Yale College about a third in the major. Resources sophomore year. each year. international study, research, graduates (national Students typically take four 99% and/or internships while at Yale. average, 43%). or five courses per term.

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

Discover the next with your biochem professor School of Nursing M.F.A. a five- and perhaps discover new Chuck Close ( 1964) minute at the School’s open studios. walk Nursing’s new home species of fungi and bacteria Participate in group shows on West Campus is just a living in plant tissues. School of Public in the same gallery in Green 10-minute ride on the Yale Health Medical Take a course Hall where master’s students Shuttle. Sign up for Professor Center in epidemiology in conjunction mount their thesis shows. Ruth McCorkle’s popular with an independent research Attend a graduate painting course Living with Dying. After project you’re working on in a critique by visiting artists. a ten-minute some preparatory social science lab on Science Hill. ride to course work, gain experience West as a paid research assistant Campus interviewing patients for the Chronic Illnesses program. 38 studies 39 | Blue Booking. (When shopping and parties are academic)

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

40 studies 41 | Freshman STARS (Science, Preparing for Seminars are Technology, and Medical, Law, or small classes just for Research Scholars) Business School Shopping Lists. freshmen, with some provides undergradu- Yale students have an Yale’s “shopping period” at the of Yale’s most dis- ates an opportunity to outstanding record of tinguished faculty combine course-based admission to top medi- start of every semester allows members. Some study, research, men- cal, business, and law students to visit classes they seminars provide an torship, networking, schools, but we offer might want to take before introduction to a par- and career planning no pre-professional ticular field of study; in the fields of science degree programs. registering. Here, a few wish others take an inter and technology. The Students here prepare lists from recent semesters. disciplinary approach program is designed for entrance to profes- to a variety of topics. to support women, sional schools (e.g., All seminars provide minority, economicallly medicine, business, an intimate context underprivileged, and law) by choosing any for developing rela- other historically one of Yale’s under- tionships with faculty underrepresented stu- graduate majors and members and peers. dents in the sciences, working with a Yale engineering, and adviser who knows Directed Studies mathematics. More what is needed to is a selective fresh- than 100 students advance to the next man interdisciplinary each year participate level of education. So, program in Western in the academic year it’s not unusual to find civilization that and summer STARS an English or Political includes three yearlong programs. Science major going on courses — literature, to medical school or an philosophy, and International Environmental Studies historical and political Study Understanding or Chinese major going thought — in which the dynamics of a glo- on to law or business students read the balizing world begins school. central works of the in the classroom, with Western tradition. studies ranging from Academic Advis- international developing is a collective Science and ment to statecraft and effort by the residential Engineering power, from ethnicity colleges, academic Undergraduate and culture to public departments, and Research Yale is one health. But Yale recog- various offices con- of the world’s foremost nizes that experience nected to the Yale research universities. abroad is essential College Dean’s Office. Independent scientific to preparing students Students’ primary research and engineer- for global citizenship academic advisers are ing research and design and leadership. Such their residential college projects are an integral experience may include deans, to whom they part of undergraduate course work in foreign may always turn for science education at universities, intensive academic and personal Yale. Science students language training, advice. College deans can begin conducting directed research, live in residential col- original research as independent projects, leges and supervise the early as the freshman internships, laboratory advising networks in year through access to work, and volunteer the college. Students Yale’s more than 800 service. (See pages also have a freshman faculty laboratories 62–67) adviser who is a Yale in 43 degree-granting faculty member or programs in the administrator affili- Faculty of Arts and ated with his or her Sciences, Yale School advisees’ residential of Medicine, and Yale colleges. Each aca- School of Forestry & demic department also Environmental Studies. has a director of under- And Freshman Summer graduate studies (DUS) Research Fellowships who can discuss with provide support for students the depart- more than 100 science ment’s course offerings and engineering fresh- and requirements for men each year. majors.

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

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

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

One fall afternoon some People here always Each semester I enjoy in-class discus- of Yale’s (and the world’s) say Yale is devoted Mark Saltzman sions about immigration, California leading thinkers in history, to undergraduate “There are 16 faculty members Stephen Pitti politics, youth cultures, and Latino biomedical engineering, teaching. How can civil rights that carry over to my o∞ce Professor of History and evolutionary biology, reli- that be true? in Biomedical Engineering and we have American Studies; Director hours or long lunch sessions with gious studies, literature, of Ethnicity, Race, and Q students in a residential college 20 to 25 majors each year, so nobody is Migration Program; Master psychology, biochemistry, Stephen Pitti “I’ve always loved dining hall.” of Ezra Stiles College astrophysics, political the fact that at Yale I can present the anonymous. Every student does research. science, and philosophy Michael Della Rocca Professor Pitti teaches courses newest research in my field to our “I find that in Latino studies, U.S. history, got together for a conver- They all do a significant senior project. undergraduates. And when I do, their myself. When I’m teaching, I’m not and related subjects. He is sation. Some knew each feedback inevitably prompts me to just teaching philosophy. I’m doing the author of The Devil in other and others did not, They all take classes with most of the Silicon Valley: Race, Mexican think di≠erently about what I’ve been philosophy with the students. I really but they came to similar Americans, and Northern writing, to change how I present advance my own research and we come faculty during their time here. When California (2003) and American conclusions in talking material in future semesters and even to philosophical insights and conclu- Latinos and the Making of the about why they teach, the United States (2013), and he is rethink my own research questions. sions together in the course. One of I meet their parents at graduation, I uniqueness of the Yale currently writing The World of César Chávez (forthcoming, undergraduate, and why know something significant about each Yale University Press). He common notions about serves on the American Latino large research universities student. That’s pretty rare.” Scholars panel for the U.S. aren’t true here. Secretary of the Interior and has provided expert testimony on comprehensive immigration Karuna Mantena reform for the U.S. Congress. our biggest strengths in recruiting Associate Professor of professors here is the undergraduates. Recent Courses Political Science People love teaching them. It’s the Comparative Ethnic Studies; Radical California; Mexicans Professor Mantena has taught drawing card we stress whenever the and Mexican Americans since courses on Indian politics, Philosophy department is trying to 1848; Latina/o Histories empire and political thought, postcolonial political thought, recruit a faculty member from another and history and politics in the good institution.” Directed Studies program. Meg Urry Her research interests include “It’s not just how smart modern political thought, modern social theory, the they are or how hard they work—you theory and history of empire, can find that at other places—but it’s and South Asian politics and their cleverness, their thoughtfulness. history. Her first book, Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and I teach an intro to physics class. Many the Ends of Liberal Imperialism of the kids in my class are headed (2010), analyzed the transfor- for medical school, so physics isn’t mation of nineteenth-century their passion. But I can guarantee that British imperial ideology. Her current work focuses on at least once a week I get a question political realism and the politi- that is just incredibly creative, intro- cal thought of M.K. Gandhi. ducing an idea or thought that I have Recent Courses never had before, and this is from Gandhi and the Politics of people who aren’t even going to be Nonviolence; Directed Stud- physicists.” ies: Historical and Political Thought; Means and Ends Christine Hayes in Politics; Modern Political “When I think Philosophy; Empire and about what I’m going to teach I often Modern Political Thought think, ‘What do I want to study with a (with David Bromwich) whole bunch of smart people?’” 46 studies 47 | Karuna Mantena “What makes students here Scott A. Strobel Henry Ford II Professor of appealing to teach is their genuine Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Professor enthusiasm. I’ve also noticed how rarely of Chemistry I receive late papers, which I take to Professor Strobel’s research focuses on biologically critical RNA reactions catalyzed by . be a sign of responsibility and maturity. His lab explores the recently RNA discovered class of ribo- These qualities allow one to focus on switches that regulate gene expression by binding small the substance of teaching—how to molecule metabolites. His work embraces biochemistry, think through important ideas, events, enzyme kinetics, X-ray crystal- lography, organic synthesis, problems, etc.—rather than on how and molecular biology. Recent Courses to motivate interest in a topic.” Rain Forest Expedition and Laboratory; Principles of Biochemistry II

W. Mark Saltzman 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 Goizueta Foundation are not cut out for philosophy, but they entire summer’s project! She’d figured watching them take ownership of a Professor of Biomedical particular matter to all get into it.” everything out. She’d gotten it all to project and recognize that it’s theirs to Engineering and Chemical & you? If you can find Environmental Engineering; work. She’d collected all the data she work on creatively and independently. smart, hardworking Meg Urry Professor of Cellular and “I was not in a university needed. My jaw was hanging down. We have undergrads going toe to toe Molecular Physiology students at other places, then Q before coming here. I worked in the I thought, ‘Okay, now I have a better with grad students in the lab. You what makes these students a lab that ran the Hubble telescope for understanding of where Yale under- might say, ‘Well that’s only supposed Professor Saltzman is the “drawing card”? NASA founding chair of Yale’s Bio- , which was exciting. But when graduates are.’” to be available to grad students,’ but medical Engineering depart- I came here I felt like I had died and what I’ve seen over and over again ment. His research interests Meg Urry Christine Hayes John Merriman include drug delivery to the “None of them are one- gone to heaven. I think I was born to “Which connects is that these Yale undergrads are brain, materials for vaccine notes. They are exceptional in many teach and should have been teaching all to what was formulating in my own not afraid to take on hard projects Charles Seymour Professor delivery, and tissue engineer- areas. The diversity of their talents along. The quality of the Yale under- mind–they are able to do that deep and to take them on in a creative way. of History ing; he has published three books and more than 200 makes them incredibly interesting to graduate was a big eye-opener for me. academic research and are also able to Last year, over spring break, we Professor Merriman teaches research papers, and he has interact with.” We have Freshman Summer Research apply it to some real-world situation. took a group of students to study a and writes about modern ten patents in his fields. He Fellowships that allow students to At some of the other places I’ve been, rain forest in Peru. Each was given France, modern European David Bromwich has also received two Teaching “The students begin research early at Yale. My first there has been either too much inde- complete autonomy over identifying history, and urbanization. Materials Awards from the He has recently published Whitaker Foundation for his here have a high average of intellectual summer I thought, ‘Well, I’m going to pendence and arrogance or too much 15 to 20 plant samples they wanted Police Stories: Building the work on textbooks in tissue alertness. With luck, they bring out get this freshman who doesn’t know need of hand-holding. We seem to to collect. They brought them back to French State, 1815–1851 (2005) engineering and biomedical that quality in one another, and sustain anything. It’s going to take a lot of attract kids who excel at many, many the lab and did amazing things with and The Dynamite Club: How engineering principles for a Bombing in Fin-de-Siècle freshmen. it in their teachers.” my time, but that’s why I came to things. They have the right mix of them. On the whole, they discovered Paris Ignited the Age of Modern university.’ So I laid out this project independent intellectual curiosity as several dozen di≠erent new species Terror (2009), as well as the Recent Courses Michael Della Rocca “I teach in for the student. It was about an area I well as the ability to work with others, of fungi, many of which have demon- third edition of A History Physiological Systems; Directed Studies [a yearlong advanced wanted to look into but I hadn’t done to ask questions, to get help, to be part strated bioactivity against pathogens of Modern Europe (2009). Frontiers of Biomedical Recent Courses Engineering; Engineering freshman course in Western civiliza- any work on myself yet. I told the of a team. You need both—the solitary in plants and humans. So these of Drug Delivery tion]. It’s just a lot of fun because student, ‘Why don’t you go and do research and the ability to bring it back students are able to make not just a European Civilization, 1648– you get students with di≠erent back- a little research online and we’ll talk and put it together and make something creative impact on science but to 1945; France, 1789–1871; The 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.” actually discover things of importance Resistance in Vichy France 48 studies 49 | Christine Hayes Robert F. and Patricia Ross Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica

Professor Hayes, a specialist in talmudic-midrashic studies, was awarded a Yale Col- lege prize for distinguished and interest to a broad community. undergraduate teaching in When I described their work to School 2005. Her book Between the David Bromwich Babylonian and Palestinian of Medicine faculty, the faculty lined Talmuds received the Salo Sterling Professor of English up to participate in the project with Baron Prize, awarded by the American Academy for Jewish Professor Bromwich is an these undergraduates.” Research. Her book Gentile authority on Romantic and Impurities and Jewish Identities: modern poetry and on the Karuna Mantena “The students Intermarriage and Conversion history of literary criticism. from the Bible to the Talmud His books include Hazlitt: have a kind of self-direction, the moti- was a 2003 National Jewish The Mind of a Critic, about the vation and capacity to really pursue Book Award finalist. Profes- moral philosopher, critic, and ideas and concerns. Yale provides them sor Hayes’s Introduction to the essayist William Hazlitt; Dis- with abundant resources to support Bible was published in 2012 owned by Memory: Wordsworth’s by Yale University Press as Poetry of the 1790s; A Choice of research, and we—hopefully—provide part of the Open Yale Courses Inheritance: Self and Community them the encouragement to keep these publication series. She is from Edmund Burke to Robert projects going. Students use these nearing completion of a book Frost; Politics by Other Means: entitled What’s So Divine Higher Education and Group opportunities to do extraordinary about Divine Law? Thinking, which examines the research in Europe, South Asia, and ideological debate over liberal the Middle East.” Recent Courses arts education; and Skeptical The Bible; Divine Law Music: Essays on Modern Poetry. Marvin Chun in Historical Perspective; He is also a frequent contribu- “I really think the resi- Exodus 32 and Its Midrashic tor to academic journals, and dential college system is what brings Development; Judaism: his reviews and articles have everything together—the small-college Continuity and Change appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, and feel with world-class university resources. The New York Review of Books. Being a master at Berkeley College has Michael Della Rocca He is currently working on shown me that. It’s impossible to describe Andrew Downey Orrick an intellectual biography of in words, but it works in a phenomenal Professor of Philosophy Edmund Burke. way to ensure that each student receives Recent Courses individual attention.” Professor Della Rocca’s areas of interest are the history of Major English Poets (English early modern philosophy and 125); Style, Purpose, and contemporary metaphysics. Persuasion in Literature; John Merriman experience than at other places I’ve been quality of the undergraduate program. He has published dozens English Literature and the where, if you’re an engineering or science You might think that the two stand in “Plenty of students come here of papers in those fields, French Revolution; Lincoln major, you’re studying the same kinds tension, but in fact they don’t. We not including “Causation Without in Thought and Action; without a clue what they want to do, and of things in the same kind of way that only have a very rich graduate program Intelligibility and Causation The Age of Johnson; Wallace Without God in Descartes” Stevens; Empire and Modern other students around you are studying. in my field–one in which there is a in A Companion to Descartes, Political Thought (with then all these doors open up for them You’re also living with other science and great deal of mixing among graduate ed. Janet Broughton and John Karuna Mantena) because there are so many opportunities.” engineering majors. Here, students are and undergraduate students in classes, Carriero, and “Two Spheres, living among future historians, future outside of class, in activities–but we’re Twenty Spheres, and the economists, English majors, and political also situated within a larger univer- Identity of Indiscernibles,” Just like students Pacific Philosophical Quarterly arts education is that you’re required science majors, all bringing their own sity that has very active professional looking at colleges, (2005). He is also the author to take courses in all sorts of di≠erent brands of thought to questions and ideas.” schools. The institution I was at didn’t of Spinoza in the Routledge as a professor you things. For instance, we think it’s impor- have professional schools. Having the Philosophers series. had a lot of choices Christine Hayes tant that our students study a foreign “One of the things School of Architecture does wonderful Recent Courses too. What brought language as well as the social sciences. that has been so wonderful for me as things for Yale undergraduates. Having you here? Modern Philosophy from Q Taking di≠erent kinds of classes creates a teacher at Yale is the ability to teach a fantastic School of Music does Descartes to Kant; The a di≠erent sort of curiosity. Our stu- introductory courses but also seminars wonderful things for Yale undergradu- Philosophy of Spinoza; Mark Saltzman Monism; Directed Studies: “There’s something dents bring that curiosity to the kinds of where graduate students and under- ates. And they’re all close by. That’s Philosophy di≠erent about rigorous training in questions they’re asking and trying to graduates mix. Surprisingly enough, the something very special about Yale, engineering embedded in a liberal arts answer in science classes and engineer- presence of a strong graduate program and it gives the Yale undergraduate a Professors Hayes and Della tradition. One of the features of a liberal ing research labs. It’s certainly a di≠erent has an extraordinary impact on the completely di≠erent kind of experience.” Rocca are married. 50 studies 51 | Marvin Chun Museum, Geology and Richard M. Colgate Professor Geophysics, and Forestry & of Psychology; Professor of Environmental Studies. The Neurobiology; Master of Donoghue lab team includes Berkeley College undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs, and Professor Chun is a cognitive focuses primarily on plant neuroscientist whose research diversity and evolution. uses functional brain imag- Recent Courses ing to understand how to improve memory, attention, Michael Donoghue Diversity of Life; Plant Diver- conscious perception, and “A lot of it is about scale. sity and Evolution; Ecology decision making. He has and Evolutionary Biology been awarded the American Yale is just that much smaller and Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution more intimate than some of the other to Psychology in the area of cognition and learning, and universities where I’ve taught. So I find the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of a lot better connection to students and Sciences, often considered the most prestigious early-career integration across disciplines. I have honor that can be earned by an experimental psychologist. At Yale, he received the Lex friends and colleagues spanning very Hixon Prize for teaching excel- Meg Urry lence in the social sciences and di≠erent parts of the University, and Israel Munson Professor of the DeVane Award for Teach- Physics and Astronomy; ing and Scholarship, the oldest that’s something that comes with the Director of the Yale Center for undergraduate teaching prize. Astronomy and Astrophysics The presentation of the award territory of being smaller. Yale doesn’t began with “Marvin Chun is Professor Urry studies actively the man!,” praising Professor accreting supermassive black Chun for the clarity of his just talk about making connections and holes, also known as Active teaching and his devotion to AGN Galactic Nuclei ( ), and his students. integrating students into research—it the co-evolution of these black Recent Courses holes with normal galaxies. actually happens here very e≠ectively.” She came to Yale in 2001 Introduction to Psychology; from her tenured position on Mind, Brain, and Society the senior scientific sta≠ at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which runs the Hubble Space Telescope NASA Scott Strobel Michael Donoghue for . Using deep imaging NASA “The opportunity to an environment where there is a clear “The other is what energizes me in the classroom. with ’s three Great interact with and teach undergrads is a human application (via the School of thing that I think is so distinctive If something I teach lingers with Observatories, her group has big reason I’m here. There are plenty of Medicine ) to the science that you do is Yale’s resources in terms of the students so that it helps them do the charted the history of supermassive black hole growth good schools where research is all they as an undergraduate is quite unique.” museums and collections that are right thing outside of the classroom, throughout the universe. do, and you sit in your lab and work here. We have actual physical objects that’s my reward.” David Bromwich Professor Urry has worked to with grad students or postdocs and “I admired the that we’re very keen to use in teaching. increase the number of women John Merriman never see an undergraduate. Beyond intellectual strength of the English You can read about things in a book, “I’ve almost been in the physical sciences, organizing national meetings Michael J. Donoghue that, Yale is also a place where you department. I thought Yale had the but to hand a kid a 60,000,000-year- wooed away to other universities and chairing the Committee Sterling Professor of Ecology have tremendous colleagues. At a lot of virtues of a liberal arts college, along old fossil to study is pretty amazing.” three times. Once it came down to the on the Status of Women in and Evolutionary Biology; places the caliber of Yale, there is sort with the attractions, and not too wire and I was making my decision in Astronomy for the American Curator of Botany, Peabody Marvin Chun Astronomical Society. Museum of Natural History of a silo mentality when it comes to lab many of the drawbacks, of a large “I came for the the last hour or two. But there I was research. At Yale you have this amazing research university.” students. They’re not just smart, but teaching my modern French history Recent Courses Professor Donoghue is a lead- ability to collaborate with other labs well balanced in a way that makes it course to about 150 students, walking University Physics; Christine Hayes ing authority on biodiversity so that collectively you do everything “It’s really the special to teach and do research here. up and down the aisle of the lecture Advanced General Physics; and the author of more than Gravity, Astrophysics, and 200 published papers and better. The other thing is that we have best of both worlds because you Whether I stand before a classroom hall as I often do, and I thought, ‘What Cosmology; Modern Physical several books. He has helped a fantastic School of Medicine. The have this distinctive undergraduate full of students or meet with someone am I doing, I couldn’t possibly leave.’ Measurement (co-taught); to shape Yale’s Department department I’m in has joint faculty experience embedded in this larger one-on-one, I try to treat each student Each morning, I wake up and think, Perspectives on Science and of Ecology and Evolutionary Engineering (co-taught) Biology, providing links with the medical school. And med intellectual universe of people at as somebody who is going to do some- ‘God, I’m lucky because I get to go E&EB among , the Peabody school faculty host undergraduates all levels of academic inquiry and all thing very meaningful and influential and teach’ whatever the subject is that (continued in right column) doing research in their labs. To have stages of academic careers.” in life. Our alumni bear that out. This day. For me there’s just nothing like it.” 52 studies 53 | A Hands-On Education. (From theory to practice)

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

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

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

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

56 studies 57 | Katherine Lawrence did her A.W. Wright research at Yale’s Laboratory. Gothic Folly Home to a broad research program in nuclear, particle, and astrophysics, it Architecture in terms of its social o≠ers state-of-the-art facilities for research on neutrinos and agenda is what intrigues Andrew dark matter, including the study Lee about Strawberry Hill, the of neutrino properties, searches architectural folly on the outskirts for dark matter particles and the origin of matter-antimatter of London he researched as asymmetry, and related topics in part of an independent study with the physics of weakly interacting the Yale Center for British Art particles and ﬁelds. YCBA) ( . Lee describes Strawberry Katherine Outside of the lab, Lawrence Hill as “an undistinguished took several language farmhouse transformed into a classes for fun: Chinese, Korean, Gothic confection” by its owner, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. She was a member of the Yale Drop Horace Walpole. Walpole, who Team and quartermaster of also gave the world the Gothic the Yale Pistol Team, which novel, was the son of England’s competed in the national cham- ﬁrst Prime Minister. He is credited pionships in Georgia. A native of Boulder, Colorado, she also in part with launching the Gothic enjoys snow sports, traveling, architectural revival of which and baking. Strawberry Hill is an iconic Opposite page: example. The Yale Center for British Art YCBA) ( houses the largest “Walpole was interested in the and most comprehensive role of style in the formation collection of British art outside of the United Kingdom. The of identity,” says Lee, “particularly center’s collection of paintings‚ national identity, given the ques- sculpture‚ drawings‚ prints‚ rare tion of whether Gothic or Classical books‚ and manuscripts reflects the development of British architecture was more appropri- art‚ life‚ and thought from the ate to Britain; and family identity, Elizabethan period onward.

given eighteenth-century attitudes Andrew Lee YCBA toward the aristocracy and ’s research was “the latest in a series of Walpole’s awkward position as a opportunities the museum has member of a politically prominent A Smashing Success a≠orded me.” In addition to family.” Lee’s work became part of of the tau lepton particle with coordinating training for the YCBA Professor Sarah Demers, and she center’s student guides, he is a major exhibition. helping stage a performance art Katherine Lawrence came to Yale was in attendance at the historic piece by the Interventionists at YCBA Hands-on in the extreme, the with an interest in experimental announcement of the discovery the , where the director YCBA course allowed Lee to view high-energy physics, but little of the Higgs boson. She says that “has been quite generous to us and very enthusiastic about collections and work with idea of what a working physicist’s “Professors Demers and Meg Urry the idea.” people he never would have met life might be like. That changed were important mentors through- otherwise. In one of two research quickly. “Starting freshman year, out my years at Yale, especially as trips, he spent time at Strawberry I was able to join a lab and begin women in a male-dominated feld. Hill with a curator of the Victoria to see the daily reality of academic I’m most grateful for the strong and Albert Museum, who curated physics research. It was very sat- relationships I developed with YCBA the exhibition. Until recently, isfying to see concepts from the Yale faculty members, who Lee was set to pursue a Ph.D. after classroom used in cutting-edge continue to inspire my goal of graduation, but the commercial research and to apply intuition pursuing an academic career.” art world beckons as well. After gained in lab to my own work.” YCBA working with the ’s “seemingly Awarded a prestigious Hertz Lawrence spent two summers Fellowship at the end of her senior endless collections” and the contacts CERN he’s made, he is ready either way. at ’s Large Hadron Collider year, Lawrence is now a doctoral in Geneva, Switzerland, study- student in Atomic, Molecular, and MIT ing the production and decay Optical Physics at . 58 studies 59 | Mentorship Matters

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

For Marquez, biology research Encounter at the Beinecke The Beinecke Rare Book means “endless creativity in pursuit Sonia Delaunay’s abstract paint- and Manuscript Library ing, specifically painted for and —an of knowledge.” He also loves the architectural marvel constructed moment of discovery: “Seeing While taking Modernism and inspired by Cendrars’s poem. I was of translucent white marble that all the data come together and tell the Avant-Garde, Lisa Sun had fascinated by the collaboration of admits light but screens out a story about the role of specific a surprising experience among the two art mediums—the text the sun’s damaging rays—is one of the country’s most important genes in development is really the Beinecke Library’s rare of the poem and the magnificently centers for research in primary special, and the knowledge that you books. She tells the story like this: colored painting. The Cendrars sources for the humanities. were part of this process is exciting.” “One of the poems on the syl- piece reminded me of a piece Lisa Sun labus for my Modernism class by Marcel Duchamp, which also is a dancer in the STARS company A Di≠erent Drum and “ creates a diverse community was Blaise Cendrars’s ‘La Prose worked within two mediums. I is training to be a Yale Art Gallery of student scientists,” says Marquez. du Transsibérien.’ I first read had several enlightening conversa- Guide. She is a double major “Mentoring others interested in the poem in a Xerox package of tions with my professor about the in literature and art history. scientific research has also been assigned readings, but Professor Cendrars and Duchamp pieces. Opposite page: Poucel promised to show us an Ultimately, I wrote my final paper Professor Martín García-Castro’s a very rewarding part of my Kline Biology Tower lab is in experience.” Marquez is so invested original publication of it in the on the relationship between KBT Beinecke. I didn’t think much of ‘La Prose du Transsibérien’ and ( ), Yale’s tallest building, in this community and his work which sits atop Science Hill. that he will remain in New Haven this opportunity, presuming that Duchamp’s Boîte Verte, which Jonathan Marquez after graduation to complete the original publication would I also saw firsthand in the Prints is from Spring, Texas. His main ongoing lab projects. After that, resemble all of the old, dusty and Drawings Department at the MAS M.D./Ph.D. YUAG extracurriculars are (Math he hopes to pursue an books I’d seen innumerable times (Yale University Art Gallery). and Science) Familias, “a group with the long-term goal of having before. But the day we visited the I found the paper to be rewarding focused on supporting minority his own lab and providing health Beinecke, Professor Poucel asked and successful, and it all began involvement in the sciences,” me to help him unfold the decep- with an unexpected encounter and working as a translator and care to underserved communities. nutritional counselor at Haven tive 4 x 6-inch book into a long, with Cendrars’s beautiful piece.” Free Clinic. poster-sized sheet. As it turns out, Cendrars’s original publication of ‘La Prose’ was featured alongside 60 studies 61 | Think Yale. Think World. (Study, research, intern around the globe)

A nontraditional Yalies Abroad “The summer after my freshman year approach to gaining 2013– 2014 I received Yale funding to go to Savai’i, international experience Africa: 62 Western Samoa, and try to rediscover a gives students here Asia: 340 bird which had not been seen for more than access to multiple Australasia: 7 130 years. I found myself traveling to one opportunities to study, Europe: 752 of the island’s most remote valleys with research, and intern Latin America: 182 a pig hunter, Tagi’ilima Ioane, who spoke abroad during their four Middle East: 45 no English. Tagi’ilima and I spent five years. Over and above Multiple regions: 16 days together in the forest hiking up rivers. ordinary financial aid, At first we communicated entirely with North America: 1 Yale awards more than hand gestures, but by the final day I had Total: 1,405 $6.6 million for fellow- gleaned enough Samoan from my portable ships, internships, and dictionary to allow basic communication. relief from summer earn- Our final hike back was mostly occupied ings obligations in order with my attempts to describe various game to guarantee that every animals in the U.S. Trying to convey North student who wishes American wildlife, not to mention my daily will be able to work or life in New Haven, made me feel as though study abroad. Beyond I were describing life on a di≠erent planet. these hefty resources As we neared the village, Tagi’ilima told a is the sheer variety story of his own about how he had gone of global experiences into town and seen something important on students can undertake a television there. After much gesticulating during school years and frantic flipping through the dictionary, and summers: study I figured out what he was describing: at a major university the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. in another country; For me this moment was an amazing field-based or laboratory juxtaposition of the vast distances between research; interning with John Mittermeier our life experiences and the increasing Yale alumni around the Hometown Abidjan, Côte links in a shared global identity.” world; Yale summer d’Ivoire (“Technically my home John session international address, although I’m never there. courses taught by Yale I spend most breaks traveling.”) Major faculty; or study, work, Samoa 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 southern Suriname conducting aged to begin exploring The photos in this chapter were Suriname ornithological surveys and provided by the students featured, the globe the summer collecting specimens for Yale’s except for Yuefei Qin’s portrait, after their freshman year. Peabody Museum. which was taken by Lisa Kereszi. Global Citizen Here, eight Elis map “Someone who a glimpse of the world is conscious of the planet’s vast array of cultural, biological, and through pivotal moments economic communities and feels and personal definitions a deep attachment and allegiance of “global citizen.” to this global diversity.” Post-Yale Plan A fellowship to return to Suriname to continue his ornithological research.

62 studies 63 | Samuel Byrne Center for Research International The possibilities for Hometown PA Bala Cynwyd, and Professional international research Major Experience are extensive. Students Economics Yale’s Center for work with their resi- Yale International Experience International and dential college dean, Brazil Won a Kingsley Trust Association Professional Experience academic advisers, Summer Travel Fellowship to (CIPE) encourages and departments to study Brazilian music and dance. and supports safe, define projects. Many Global Citizen extraordinary inter Yale students spend “Someone who national experiences the summer following understands the problems and of every kind. their junior year issues that confront people abroad doing research throughout the world; someone Study for a senior essay who is educated about the world Yale programs include or thesis. and has experienced it, who feels Yale in London; Yale comfortable interacting with Oman Summer Session (most Laboratory and a diverse group of people and & Morocco recently, courses were Field Research in can step out of the comforts of Stephanie Brockman offered in Argentina, the Sciences and home with confidence.” “I went to the favela ‘Cidade de Deus’ “My professor in Oman took all of us on Brazil, Chile, China, 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. Croatia, Czech Students can combine but eventually I’d like to work Majors Republic, Ecuador, international experi- community center. After I observed dance Near Eastern Languages It was in the middle of our rural home- for the World Bank.” France, Germany, ence with deepening and music classes, a volunteer and some and Civilizations with a stays, so I was dressed accordingly in a India, Italy, Japan, their understanding concentration in Arabic and of the local children o≠ered to give me a long black abaya (the traditional robes for Kenya, Peru, Russia, of science by spending Islamic Studies Singapore, Spain, 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 and Swaziland); and in a laboratory at Spent a spring in the Sultanate year or term abroad an institution abroad, infrastructure, but a vibrant culture and of Oman through a program my host mom in Arabic, and worrying approved programs run or by participating in intelligent, charismatic children who sponsored by the School for about how scandalized my host family by other institutions or a field-based project. deserve more opportunities. Despite the International Training; through would be if I was out past magrib, the providers. dilapidated homes and clear dichotomy Yale’s Auerbach and Grayson/ evening call to prayer. And out of nowhere Independent Leitner international internship, Internships Initiatives of wealth in Rio, the energy of the people interned in Morocco. everything that was happening began to The Office of Career Students who are Global Citizen Strategy offers Yale- ready to develop their who guided me through the labyrinth “The world sink in: I was thousands of miles from sponsored internships own activities abroad streets of Cidade de Deus inspired me becomes more than just a list home, wearing something I had only seen in 20 countries around are encouraged to of places that you hear on the to continue pursuing my plans to work in pictures, and trying to live up to a set the world. These 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 internships provide with advisers and reference points that correspond more than 150 oppor- faculty, to register always wondered how my Western educa- fully improve living standards of similar with places where your friends belong to me. I began to laugh uncontrol- tunities to explore 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 career fields in an stand the support had and new opportunities and help me best contribute to my society. Samuel immersed myself in a culture that had international environ- provided by Yale, to explore. It’s a certain way ment, with support and and to use the institu- My experience at Intel China helped me of looking at the world that once seemed so mysteriously foreign oversight from Yale and tion’s extraordinary solve the puzzle. The Chinese market has makes it a very inviting place.” to me. That realization filled me with an Yuefei Qin from alumni networks. resources to make Post-Yale Plan very unique sociopolitical and economic “Either a incredible sense of accomplishment.” Placements reflect the most of their Hometown characteristics, while Intel is a well-estab- Chongqing, China summer or a year of advanced Stephanie the full range of experience abroad. Majors Arabic study abroad, followed interests among Yale lished Western company. Working with Political Science and by law school. Right now, I’m students, from journal- both Chinese and American colleagues at Electrical Engineering leaning toward the idea of ism to the arts, politics Yale International Experience its headquarters in China, I witnessed going into corporate law and to public health, and how Intel has successfully tailored itself to Intel Corporation in Beijing, working with companies with finance to technology. fit into the unique Chinese market, while China, summer internship strong business ties to the Yale also partners with working as assistant to general Middle East. I have put so other organizations maintaining its Western identity and manager. “I worked directly much of myself into developing to provide many corporate conduct. I was therefore convinced with Intel China’s marketing my knowledge of Arabic and additional internship that Western and Oriental cultures could managers in maintaining project can’t imagine not using that opportunities. coexist harmoniously, and would in a way milestones and carrying out in the future.” campaigns to promote products.” rely on each other. I believe my education Global Citizen “One who looks at Yale not only well prepared me for such a upon every human being as demanding job, but also will build a solid his or her compatriot, regardless foundation for me to tackle challenges my of that person’s nationality, complexion, religion, and so on.” country and people might face in the midst 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.” 64 studies 65 | 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 independent, and free: ordering food Paris Yale International Experience in countries where I did not speak the Spent a fall semester studying in language; carrying all of my belongings Paris. Global Citizen on my back; sleeping overnight on trains “Global citizens and buses. There is something about strive to expand their perspectives 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 very perceivable cultural disconnect brought Yale International Experience 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 throughout 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. Global Citizen tance of exploring outside my comfort zones.” Kong “A traveler, or a nomad, unbounded by Andrew country lines. A global citizen has a responsibility to see and experience as much of the Lauren Harrison 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 (now with Humanities Global A≠airs) Yale International Experience rounded by miles and miles of sand, and Argentina Yale International Experience were spending the night in order to begin Studied in Buenos Aires junior election monitoring first thing the following Conducted election oversight in year and won a fellowship that Mauritania; spent a month during allowed her to participate in day. That next morning, we woke up before the summer after her sophomore “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., year in Morocco, then in Mali governmental organization where I volun- service trip with a half an hour before they were scheduled to doing independent research; teered were noble, I got to see firsthand both Argentina. studied in Paris the fall semester Global Citizen open. The polling station was a one-room positive and negative aspects of not-for-profit “Someone who of her junior year. is informed, contextualizes his schoolhouse made out of old wooden boards, Global Citizen work. We were working with a village of “In my mind, a or her own experience in relation Mauritania, located near the only paved road in the town. passion for learning about 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 countries, other languages, other were assigned to cook, distribute clothes and committed to the overall well- Morocco absolutely shocked by what I saw: almost cultures is what makes someone kitchenware, and take lice out of hair and being—political, environmental, a hundred men and women (but mostly a truly ‘global citizen.’” clip nails of villagers—I found the cooking socioeconomic, and ethical— Post-Yale Plan of the earth and its inhabitants.” “A career in women), dressed in colorful robes, waiting counterproductive and didn’t understand Post-Yale Plan quietly in line to vote. The turnout was international diplomacy, though I why we weren’t working with villagers to “I would like don’t quite know where my path to move to New York and work Paris unbelievable, especially given the small size will take me. Most likely, I’ll work show them how to manage the lice and for some kind of foundation of the village we were in, and made me for a year or two post-graduation clip nails for themselves. As foreigners, and or not-for-profit while pursuing reflect upon how seriously the Mauritanian before returning to graduate especially as students who go abroad with a performance career in opera school, perhaps for an advanced and musical theater.” (Flora is a people took their civic responsibilities. It degree in international relations idealist intentions, we need to be very careful mezzo soprano, who has sung was inspiring and I wished that I could take or diplomacy.” to avoid neocolonialist tendencies or to in ensembles at the Metropolitan 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.” 66 studies Flora 67 | Connect the Dots. (Three seniors find their careers through Yale’s network of resources)

Yale students are sur- Recoding Student Top Fellowship rounded by opportunities Gaining Perspective Education Entrepreneurs Producer Unique among our Yale is consistently from the moment they Aaron arrives at Yale with dual interests Aaron Feuer peer institutions, the a top producer of in politics and education, and the hope arrive on campus as Yale Entrepreneurial Fulbright Fellowships. to someday return to Los Angeles to Residential College freshmen—intellectual, Institute (YEI) is an Since 2009, in “work toward a vision for the city.” Ezra Stiles innovative program that addition to 148 entrepreneurial, artistic, But first he has to get some historical Major puts student ventures Fulbright Fellowships, and global perspective. He takes a Political international, profes- first. As a complement Yale students have freshman seminar with Cold War Science sional, and research to more traditional been awarded 25 historian John Gaddis and a seminar, academic programs, Rhodes, 17 Marshall, opportunities that Imagining the Iraq War, taught by New which provide a concep- 16 Goldwater, 6 launch them toward Yorker journalist Sarah Stillman and Educational tual understanding and Truman, and 22 U.S. Army o∞cer Robert Chamberlain. both long-term ambi- Programming related case studies of Gates Cambridge “They took us on a whirlwind journey tions and unforeseen new venture formation, Scholarships, as of military tactics, philosophy, The summer after freshman YEI exists to help well as 179 National achievements. Yalies journalism, history, and politics. After year, Aaron combines his students execute on Science Foundation class every week, we went out for sushi commitment to education leverage these oppor- their actual business Graduate Research and continued the conversation.” with a talent for coding and tunities in countless programming, building plans. It bands together Fellowships. Just as impressive ways and a computer system, entrepreneurial importantly, these students, faculty and major awards only learn how to ask good Classroom Compass, that will survey L.A. public administrators with scratch the surface of questions, seek out school students about their new venture experience, the hundreds of other the right mentors, and classes and provide feedback alumni from both indus- highly valuable, funded try and venture capital, sources of support create experiences that Duty above Self to teachers. The project is and local established that Yale students are professionally and funded through two Yale Sophomore year, Aaron enrolls in fellowships and occupies entrepreneurs. Since tap every single year. personally rewarding. a seminar with retired U.S. Army Aaron’s evenings while 2007 YEI has supported In this chapter, we General Stanley McChrystal, who he works for an L.A. legal the formation and 5 Graduate “showed me what real devotion to growth of more than Schools Most chronicle the trajecto- services organization by day. duty above self looks like.” With a 75 student-founded Attended ries of three soon-to-be Yale community outreach group, ventures, which have When they enroll in graduates who have he teaches health education classes raised over $79 million business, law, medical, successfully connected in the New Haven public schools “At Yale, I’ve taken seminars with of outside investment or graduate school, Yale while continuing to promote capital. These start-ups graduates most often the dots between a use of Classroom Compass in L.A. cover many industries attend the following Yale education and the extraordinary people who pursued from software and five universities: Yale, Real World. Policy Practice education to food, retail, Harvard, Stanford, public service from totally di≠erent and green technology. Cambridge, and Aaron spends the summer in Columbia. Washington, D.C., on a Yale-funded angles. That’s how I realized that Yale Connections internship with the House Committee Worldwide Career Services on Foreign A≠airs. Researching and Grand Grill Session running a start-up is a valid public Yale has more than Whether you are just writing policy memos, he synthesizes 160,000 graduates starting to think about As a junior, Aaron puts previous intellectual exposure to and 180 Yale Alumni career options or have this practical experience politics with some real-life practice. service path and, for me, the most clubs all over the already started down to good use in Grand world. Yale provides a path, Yale’s Office Strategy, Professor e≠ective one.” unequaled networking of Career Strategy is Gaddis’s international opportunities—from equipped to support Double Duty policy course. “My group Panoramic Views Within months, the our online career you at every stage of presented a radical Panorama team garners Aaron finds himself a college senior network, to mentoring the career process. The CEO proposal for responding to Aaron recruits three students $50,000 in funding and of a fast-growing start-up. programs, to regional office offers workshops, the Arab Spring: funding to help overhaul Classroom through the Yale By March, Panorama Education events for alumni networking events, and high-tech start-ups as a Compass and founds an Entrepreneurial Institute. is collaborating with three state interested in a host internships. And vehicle for cultural change. This serious sum allows governments, a number of major of endeavors and through its on-campus Halfway through our education technology start-up, them to work full-time over school districts, and Teach for initiatives including recruiting program, presentation, Senator Panorama Education. He also the summer, expanding America. Following graduation, entertainment, energy, more than 100 John McCain walked gains faculty support from beyond L.A. to envision Aaron hopes to grow the team real estate, law, employers conduct in and started grilling us. a product that might help to nine full-time employees journalism, media, over 2,400 student education expert John Bryan That was fun.” schools nationwide and is looking ahead to a new social justice, gender... interviews every year. Starr, who will become his identify opportunities platform that will further the list keeps growing. senior project adviser. for improvement. transform how schools use data. 68 studies 69 | Global Healing Journalist “At dinner with my writing class, the World Starting Out Summer in Swaziland Sanjena Sathian Omar Njie Arriving at Yale, Omar Omar wins a Yale Summer looks toward a career as a Research Fellowship to intern Residential College author Gay Talese told me that ‘the Residential College doctor. But that goal doesn’t at the Swaziland Ministry Morse Silliman pigeonhole him academically. of Health, where he helps “I knew early on that I did not develop a five-year plan Major definitive New Yorker article on Nepal Major HIV English Global A≠airs want to take the traditional to market -prevention has not yet been written. You should pre-med route and major and counseling resources in biology or chemistry.” to public sector employees. He leans toward psychology write it.’ I realized then that my but keeps his options open. proclivity for going places and caring Write and Think about communities that other people Developing Interests Freshman year, a course called Sophomore year connects Omar with Professor Understanding Bollywood don’t necessarily flock to gives me Kaveh Khoshnood, whose seminar on tropical connects Sanjena with her disease campaigns “helped to spark my interest Indian background, an in ‘macro’ health issues, especially those important mentor, and her a lot of power and responsibility to that a±ict citizens of developing nations.” true desire to become a writer. In the spring, he applies for the Global A≠airs “My professor, visiting scholar tell those stories.” major and the Global Health Fellows Program. Ashish Chadha, told me, And he runs for vice president of the Yale YCC ‘I think you’re the kind of College Council ( ). All three pan out. person who’s either going to be a journalist or an academic.’ That sounds reductive, but it wasn’t. It was so clarifying. In Later that year, Sanjena high school, teachers would attends a Master’s Tea say, ‘you’re smart, be a lawyer.’ and dinner with Louise World Health Or, ‘you have really sharp Story, Yale alumna and opinions on politics, go do award-winning business The Global Health Fellows Program that.’ But Professor Chadha reporter for the New sponsors Omar’s ten-week summer just looked at me and said, York Times. Having only internship with the Tropical Health and ‘you like to write and think.’” recently joined the Yale THET Daily News, Sanjena is Education Trust ( ) in London, new to journalism, but which works to strengthen health “I remember thinking systems in the developing world. how much I respected Off She Goes the way Story was talking about the world.” Sanjena has landed Big Man on Campus a coveted summer at YCC the Boston Globe—a Junior year brings big reporting opportunity Going Global duties. Meanwhile, Omar made possible by her gains clarity on his future He also gains admission to the Humanities and experience at the Post- Sophomore year, in medicine. “My image of YDN Medicine Program at the Icahn School of Medicine Gazette. Afterward, she Sanjena leaves the pursuing a career in medicine at Mount Sinai, which guarantees medical school is considering a move to for the Yale Globalist, a changed as I took more global acceptance to 30 college juniors. Omar spends the India to pursue a career in magazine that reports health and public health summer in an eight-week intensive study program at foreign correspondence. on international issues. courses.” He is accepted into Icahn, exploring science and clinical disciplines and B.A./B.S./M.P.H. She is also likely to “The Globalist was the five-year getting to know the other students in his cohort. continue work with her my perfect home: it program, which enables creative writing adviser, melded writing and students to leave Yale with author John Crowley. travel, literariness, and a both a bachelor’s degree and a fascination with global Humility master’s degree in public health. Making Connections politics.” A spring- break outreach trip to Back on campus, Omar As a junior, Sanjena takes a seminar Just for Fun Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, completes his senior project for with author Anne Fadiman and talks yields a Globalist story the Global A≠airs major. And Sanjena wraps up two at length with New Yorker writers Ian on the tiny indigenous because senior year is a great “Because Yale o≠ers so many senior essays: a creative Frazier, Adam Gopnik, and Gay Talese. Aymara community. opportunity to take those “just fiction piece and a After a Globalist trip to for fun” classes, he enrolls in interdisciplinary programs, like research paper on Zadie Come spring, the Globalist sta≠ travels Turkey in May, Sanjena Humility, taught by New York Smith. (One required, to Chile, where Sanjena reports on the spends the summer Times columnist David Brooks. the other just for fun!) Global Health Fellows, I’ve mining industry. She also wins a Yale studying gender There may be no more fitting disparity and economic description for the attitude he developed the skills necessary to fellowship to intern at the Pittsburgh development in rural maintains and will no doubt Post-Gazette that summer. “It cemented Nepal on a Yale Summer continue to maintain every my interest in reporting.” Research Fellowship. step of the way. apply diverse, creative strategies 70 studies 71 | to pressing global concerns.” Places. Yale, like Ulysses, is part of all that she has met, part of all the scholars and students who have trod paths of learning across her campus, of their ideals and accomplishments, and of their lives and times . . . Whitney Griswold, President of Yale University, 1950–1963

74 places 75 | Harkness Memorial Tower by James Gamble Rogers and is the height of tradition at Yale (216 completed in 1921, Harkness holds a 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 first stone for the first Yale building Yale and others plus four student- (Why architecture matters) 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

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

78 places 79 | Completed in 1930, Sterling fifteen stack levels and eight floors Yale University Art Gallery (faculty 1947–57). It was the first Memorial Library was designed of reading rooms, offices, and work One of the country’s oldest college notable design of Kahn’s career by James Gamble Rogers, who areas. A just-completed restoration art museums got its start in 1832 and sits across the street from his called the building “as near to of the nave has revealed long hidden with 100 Revolutionary War paint- final work in the United States, the modern Gothic as we dared to make decorative details and updated ings. Now it’s noted for the depth Yale Center for British Art. it.” Devoted primarily to the humani- programmatic areas to better and range of its collections. The ties and social sciences, it has support the needs of today’s users. main building is itself a modernist masterwork designed by Louis Kahn 80 places 81 | Connecticut Hall The oldest Malone Engineering Center of Architecture, houses under building on campus, a Georgian Built in 2005 according to state- graduate teaching labs and among the Gothic, opened as a of-the-art sustainable building the University’s Department of dorm in 1752 and is a National standards, Malone adds considerably Biomedical Engineering. Historic Landmark. Nathan Hale to Yale’s engineering facilities. (B.A. 1773)—that’s him, on The building, designed by Cesar guard outside —was one of its Pelli (of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects), early residents. a former dean of the Yale School 82 places 83 | 84 places 85 | Noah Webster Lived Here. (Bumping into history at Yale)

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

86 places 87 | Eating Out. Nine Squares. (When you need a (Yale and the city) break from the dining halls) The great debate: Sally’s vs. Pepe’s New Haven’s Wooster “Downtown New Haven has been Yale Campus Street is well known for its delicious pizza. Lines outside its transformed over the last five years Yale has been in New Haven since 1716, and its most popular establishments relocation fifteen years after its founding was due in large are often 20 people long. part to New Haven’s belief that a college was essential East Rock from Yale’s mundane backyard into to its own success. All of Yale University is involved Park Louis’ in the city and the cultural, recreational, and political Lunch a vibrant neighborhood of shops, opportunities it o≠ers. Thousands of New Haven children and teens participate in intensive academic and Credited theaters, and restaurants.” enrichment programs at Yale. And more than 2,000 Yale by The New York Times, 2005 Broadway College students participate as volunteers, interns, and some with For well over a decade, politan college town, National brand-names tend work-study employees in New Haven schools, hospitals, inventing the hamburger in 1903. to congregate here: Apple Store, community organizations, and businesses. Science Yale and New Haven they would recognize (Just don’t ask for ketchup!) J. Crew, Urban Outfitters, Barnes & Hill have been creating the the cooperation between Noble (a.k.a. the Yale Bookstore). Ninth Square template for the 21st- the two neighbors as Bring your Yale ID for some good For a more discounts. Busy with students century city, investing Yale moves into its fourth elegant night out, Ninth Square, day and night, Broadway and a short walk from campus, o≠ers together in a new biotech century. In the words of intersecting York Street are also the the upscale and hip spots. industry and partnering former Yale President place to go for a late-night snack. Hillhouse Coffee or Koffee? in an urban renaissance Richard C. Levin, a thirty- Ave that has become a five-year resident of New Whitney Avenue New Haven has

national model. While Haven, this city is “large Grove St You can cover a lot of its share of great independent co≠ee the founders of New enough to be interesting, intellectual ground traveling this Audubon avenue. It borders the Audubon shops where Haven and Yale might yet small enough to be Arts District, always worth a students can study not recognize the modern friendly.” Welcome to or catch up with Howe St ramble. And at 170 Whitney, the university or the cosmo the new New Haven. Cross Whitney Ave world-class collections of the friends. Campus Peabody Museum of Natural Chapel Street Ashley’s Ice Cream History provide a remarkable For decades In counterpoint to big record of Earth’s history, life, Old a New Haven favorite, located Broadway, Chapel Street is jam- and cultures. Campus on York Street, and voted “New packed with local bookstores, Haven’s Best” by the local press. boutiques, cafes, and restaurants New that range from student-budget Haven Mory’s: to upscale. In between shopping Green A Yale and noshing, visit the newly Tradition renovated and expanded Yale Founded University Art Gallery and the Orange St Yale Center for British Art. in 1861, Mory’s is College St a unique Yale dining experience— Ninth City Hall / Amistad membership in this supper club Square Memorial is open to Yale students, faculty, Church St City Hall is on the southeast side and alumni. Mory’s is known of the Green. Next to it is the especially for its toasting nights and entertainment by superb Yale Amistad Memorial to the African captives who rebelled against a cappella groups including Yale’s Medical most famous, the Whi≠enpoofs. Center slavery. Yale professors, students, and alumni argued their case A textbook case of city leaders of future generations. The New Haven Green International Fare in court. The sculpture stands Walk just planning Nine perfect squares: pattern held true: their college The center of the city’s original grid, the 17-acre on the site of the jail that held a few blocks from campus for a geometry of profound faith. New would become paramount in Green is bordered by Yale, New Haven government o∞ces, the rebels. any food you crave—American, Haven was planned by founders preparing leaders, amid a setting Ninth Square Chapel Street shops, and a lot of history. The Yale Daily Chinese, Cuban, Ethiopian, who believed in the recurring pat- carefully planned as a tangible News calls it the city’s epicenter and says, “Whenever It may be the ninth square, French, Greek, Indian, Irish, tern of Providence. In 1639, they expression of the power of Long Island something major comes to New Haven, it shows up on the but it’s turning into a blockbuster Italian, Jamaican, Japanese, laid out a grid of blocks around the mind and soul. See Yale in Sound Green,” from festivals to concerts to protests. It’s the stage for upscale nightlife, thanks to a Korean, Malaysian, Mexican, a central commons, a tangible New Haven: Architecture and for the New Haven Jazz Festival and other concerts—and it’s continuing retail and residential Middle Eastern, Moroccan, expression of their belief. The next Urbanism (Yale University, 2004). where the bodies are buried (in the Center Church Crypt, boom. Spanish, Thai, Turkish, or step was a college to train the an historic cemetery with gravestones from 1687 to 1812). Vietnamese. 88 places 89 | Elm City Run. “I’m never more aware of how much New Haven has to o≠er than when I’m on a run. Because I’m on the track team, I run a lot. Every run, we basically circle the entire city. So the city’s size is manageable enough that if you want to go to East Rock, or even West Rock, you can leave the city for your run and then return. On a single run you can pass the neighborhoods that are nicest if you go down Hillhouse. Then you can go out to Dixwell and come back around. You can go by the port and the receiving terminal that smells like asphalt, so that’s really indus- trial. You can go by hayﬁelds and cows, clubs and museums. You can ﬁnd trails to run on. Some parts are fantastic, and other ones present you with a challenge, but either way it’s really fun. Because the city is this perfect size, you see this whole image of so many kinds of life and landscape. You can leave campus and return with renewed vigor, because you see so many things along the way.” Dan

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

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

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

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

98 pursuits 99 | Varsity Teams Equestrian Baseball Field Hockey (coed) Men’s Basketball Figure Skating Yalies who participate 800+ Women’s Basketball Fishing in varsity athletics Men’s Crew (Heavy Golf each year. and Light) Gymnastics (coed) Women’s Crew Men’s Ice Hockey Men’s Cross Country Indoor Climbing Women’s Cross Country Karate (Shotokan) Students who 2,400+ Men’s Fencing Kendo participate in intramural Women’s Fencing Men’s Lacrosse games through the Field Hockey Women’s Lacrosse residential colleges. Football Muay Thai Men’s Golf Pistol Women’s Golf Polo Women’s Gymnastics Powerlifting The percentage of 83% Men’s Ice Hockey Rifle the student body Women’s Ice Hockey Road Running participating in some Men’s Lacrosse Men’s Rugby form of athletic Women’s Lacrosse Women’s Rugby activity each year. Coed Sailing Skeet & Trap Women’s Sailing Skiing (Alpine) Men’s Soccer Skiing (Nordic) Women’s Soccer Men’s Soccer 200+ Olympians 2012 Summer Softball Women’s Soccer Facilities Johnson Field More than 200 Yale Games in London by Men’s Squash Squash (coed) A 750-seat synthetic players and coaches one coach and seven Women’s Squash Swimming Payne Whitney turf complex housing have taken part in alumni athletes, Men’s Swimming Table Tennis Gymnasium the field hockey team. modern (post-1896) including Taylor and Diving Tae Kwon Do At 12 acres, the largest It is adjacent to the Olympic competition, Ritzel ’10, who won Women’s Swimming Men’s Tennis gym in the nation and William O. DeWitt winning 114 medals, gold rowing on the and Diving Women’s Tennis the second-largest in Jr. ’63 Family Field, 55 of them gold. At U.S. women’s eight Men’s Tennis Triathlon the world (second only home of Yale softball. the 2008 Summer team; Ashley Women’s Tennis Men’s Ultimate to a gym in Moscow Games in Beijing, Brzozowicz ’04, who Men’s Track and Field Women’s Ultimate that was modeled Championship fencer Sada Jacobson won silver with the Women’s Track and Men’s Volleyball after Yale’s). Golf Course Yale’s ’06, who won silver Canadian women’s Field Women’s Volleyball own championship and bronze medals eight; and Charlie Women’s Volleyball Men’s Water Polo David S. Ingalls golf course, voted #1 for the United States, Cole ’07, who won Women’s Water Polo Rink seats more College Golf Course in was one of six Elis bronze with the U.S. Club Sports Wrestling than 3,000 and is America by Golfweek competing. At the men’s four team. Archery home to Yale’s varsity magazine in 2014, is a 2010 Winter Games Most recently, at the Badminton Intramurals men’s and women’s short distance from the in Vancouver, Natalie 2014 Winter Games Ballroom Dance See page 23 hockey teams. The other athletic facilities, Babony ’06 skated in Sochi, Phoebe Men’s Baseball rink is also available in the Westville section on the Slovakian Staenz ’17 won Men’s Basketball for recreational ice of New Haven. women’s ice hockey bronze as a member Women’s Basketball skating and instruction, team. Yale was of the Swiss women’s Cricket and intramurals. Gilder Boathouse represented at the ice hockey team. Cycling The Gilder Boathouse, Yale Bowl a 22,000 square foot Conferences Handsome Dan A spectacular football state-of-the-art facility Yale takes pride in (1889–present) stadium seating more on the Housatonic its broad-based inter Yale was the first than 60,000, the River, stretches south collegiate athletic university in the United Bowl is surrounded by to the finish line of program that includes States to adopt a first-rate facilities for Yale’s 2,000-meter competition in the Ivy mascot, and to this indoor and outdoor race course. League Conference and date, none is better tennis, lacrosse, rugby, the Eastern College known than Handsome soccer, field hockey, The McNay Family Athletic Conference Dan. The tradition softball, baseball, and Sailing Center (ECAC). Most of Yale’s was established by a track and field. at Yale University intercollegiate contests young gentleman from Home to Yale’s coed are against traditional Victorian England, who Reese Stadium and women’s varsity east coast opponents attended Yale in the With seating for more sailing teams, the with emphasis on 1890s. The original’s than 1,700, Reese center houses a fleet of winning the Ivy League 16 successors have is home to the men’s twenty-four 420 racing title. All sports, been the intimates of and women’s soccer dinghies, as well as with the exception deans, directors, and teams in the fall, and FJs, Lasers, and five of football, have coaches. One was to the men’s and safety launches. the ultimate goal of tended by a head women’s lacrosse qualifying for NCAA cheerleader who went teams in the spring. and affiliated post- on to become the season championships. Secretary of State.

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

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

102 pursuits 103 | Or DIY by acting, Film Out of the Blue performing, singing, Bulldog Productions Pitches & Tones staging, writing, producing, presenting, Project Lens Proof of the Pudding The Daily Show. improvising, creating, Undergraduate Film Redhot & Blue designing, and getting Society Shades (A slice of Yale’s creative life during one spring weekend not so long ago) laughs through more South Asian Film Singing Group Council than 80 (and counting) Society student choirs, troupes, Society of Orpheus and Yale College Film Records show that the Yale clubs, groups, ensem- Bacchus Be hip at the show and menu at the Festival first appearance of Yale Belly Dance Cabaret bles, associations, Something Extra , where Yale School of organizations, Yale Film Alliance a band at Yale was in Friday Society “Hips Drama performers are never societies, and collec- The Spizzwinks (?) 1775, when a militia Lose yourself in the art of against Hunger: more than a few feet away, and tives including: Music Tangled Up in Blue the book at the exhibitions 3rd Annual where your waiter one week band of Yale students Berkeley College Undergraduate Choral “The Passover Haggadah: Gala Show.” might be on stage the next. Art/Design accompanied George Modern Art in Dialogue Afterward, Orchestra Society Washington to Cambridge, with an Ancient Text,” “Art stop by the Anime Society Black is the Color The Whiffenpoofs Calhoun Is Where You Find It,” and DAY (Design at Yale) Massachusetts. They Cabaret Blue Feather Drum Whim ’n Rhythm “Collaboration: The Art of found it “not to their Saturday Design for America Yale Group Working Together,” all at at Calhoun Yale Russian Chorus Sterling Memorial Library liking” and returned to . College to check Get an early start with a Undergraduate Concordia Flute Yale Slavic Chorus out the band your Froco morning of music at the Calligraphic Ensemble New Haven one week Woolsey Concerto Competi- is managing and a spoken Association Coup de Brass Theater later. From those humble tion School of Music word performance by the , where Undergraduate Native Yale Slam team Yale Davenport Pops The Control Group roots have sprung the . instrumentalists and singers architect Frank Gehry’s talk Or sleep in and join the American Arts Council FX Crew Jonathan Edwards Heritage Theatre Yale Concert Band, the compete for the opportunity two nights ago, but make for an afternoon Undergraduate to appear as soloists with a plan to come back next of practice. College Philharmonic Ensemble Yale Jazz Ensemble, and SOA Woodworking Club Explore the ethical conse- the Philharmonia. Make it a Tuesday for ’s Film Series Krolik Saxophone Jook Songs (Asian- the incomparable Yale quences of murder with “wry marathon and head to Sprague “The Future is Asian.” YaleMakes Ensemble American theater School Precision Marching Band. Face your fears at the irony and consummate skill” Hall in the afternoon to watch Revisit your childhood and group) of Architecture HD Low Strung ’s symposium through two films: Monsieur the broadcast—live in — see your suitemates perform Dance Such is Yale’s epic arts Metropolitan Opera Opera Theatre of “Mobile Anxieties,” featuring Verdoux and Le Boucher, of the ’s Pick up subsidized tickets for New Haven’s youngest at Alliance for Dance New Haven Dance story, peopled by icons Yale Children’s Theater Yale College keynote address “Mobility, directed by Charles Chaplin performance of Stravinsky’s provided by your residential the and Drummings (Thornton Wilder, Paul Ballet Folklórico ¡Teatro! Security and Creativity: The and Claude Chabrol, respec- The Rake’s Progress. college and head into New performance of Robin Hood. Mexicano Pan, Jam, and Lime Newman, Maya Lin, Politics and Economics of tively, and loosely based York with friends to see the Or step on stage yourself in Steel Band Yale Children’s Theater American Ballet Theatre Global Creative Cities.” What on real-life scandals. Every ’s afternoon rehearsals of the Ballroom Dance Club Jodie Foster) and satisfy- Dramat Paul Huggins African Yale Drama Coalition are the precedents for mobility weekend, and in special confer- production of Fokine’s Les ’s production of Tony Belly Dance Society ing pretty much any Films at Drumming Core in architecture and how are ences and festivals, Sylphides. Or enjoy a night of Kushner’s Angels in America: Yale Dramat the Whitney Danceworks artistic desire any day they related to a general sense helps foster theater right here on campus Millennium Approaches Raga Society Yale Repertory Comedy/Improv of unease? Yale’s dynamic film culture at the (one of 200 student theatrical A Different Drum Saybrook College of the week. We picked Theatre with free screenings at the , where lords and productions each year). Groove Dance Orchestra The 5th Humour one weekend in spring. Whitney Humanities Center ladies are gathering for Oscar Jashan Bhangra Team 1701 Records Just Add Water Channel your inner Indiana auditorium. Wilde’s comedy of serial Peabody Jones at the seducers and moralizing Close the weekend with an Konjo! African Dance Tiny Baroque Orchestra The Purple Crayon Museum of Pierson College ’s special exhibition monogamists, A Woman of No eclectic mix of live music: the Troupe Red Hot Poker “Las Artes de México,” with If that’s too highbrow for your Importance. annual Stan Wheeler Memo- Lion Dance Troupe Undergraduate Law Sphincter Troupe artifacts from more than a mood, start your night with Take the Masterpiece Tour rial Jazz Concert at the Chamber Society Toad’s Yale University Art School Phoenix Dance Troupe dozen pre-Columbian cultures. the all-ages show at at the ; a student Choral The Viola Question Place Gallery YUAG Battell Yale Audiophiles , then head over to the ( ), stopping Conducting Recital at Rhythmic Blue The Yale Exit Players Criterion Cinema Chapel Yale Baroque Opera ’s exclusive into the special exhibitions ; the Great Organ Sabrosura Marquand The Yale Record Soothe your soul with Insomnia Theater film series, “Colorful Impressions: The Music series at Project Chapel Steppin’ Out Mendelssohn’s Elijah which “brings the best cult Printmaking Revolution . Or learn some new Yale Concert Band Spoken Word performed by Yale’s classics back to the big screen!” in 18th-Century France” and steps in a Swing & Blues Swing & Blues Philharmonia Orchestra Afro- Yale Klezmer Band , Or shake o≠ Le Boucher “Master Drawings from the Dance Practicum at the Tango Club ¡Oye! Camerata Glee Club American Cultural Center Yale Undergraduate , and . (literally) with the late-night Yale University Art Gallery.” . Parables: Taps Jazz Collective After lunch at Atticus Café Undergraduate across the street, return for Undergraduate Ballet Yale University Guild Storytelling Society Company of Carillonneurs student guide Susan Morrow’s Enjoy a concert to benefit Teeth Slam Poets talk “Angles on Art.” children’s literacy given by the Yale Dance Theater Whiffenpoofs , the world’s Singing Groups WORD Performance Sunday Yale Rangeela: Fusion oldest and best-known Poetry Gospel Dance The Alley Cats Or gallery-hop from the As a member of the collegiate a cappella group. School of Art Choir ’s Senior , sing at Sunday The Whi≠s are one of Yaledancers The Baker’s Dozen Unique Thesis Show Paintings Part I services. more than a dozen Ya Yue Chinese Dance Duke’s Men Anti-Gravity Society (see Part II on Sunday) to the a cappella groups Troupe Architecture Gallery Gospel Choir The Bad Romantics for and have “Painting the Glass House: Help your friend set up her become one Fashion Living Water The Magic Society Despierta Artists Revisit Modern Archi- paintings at the of Yale’s most Magevet Yale Pop-Up Boricua Berkeley Knitting Club tecture.” As you move through ’s art opening. Come celebrated La Mixed Company Yale Wushu the gallery, you and your date back for the reception at and hallowed Runway Inc. Casa rue the fact that you missed later in the afternoon. traditions. The New Blue 104 pursuits 105 | Shared Communities. (Identity, culture, gender, religion, and politics sheltered and nurtured)

Some say Yale is a place of reinvention, but others say the undergraduate experience here is about becom- ing more of who you already are. Many students find the most personal routes on this journey through Yale’s Cultural Houses, the Women’s Center, religious communities, political activism and groups, and sexual identity organizations that make up a microcosm of the world’s views and beliefs. The best part is the friends, traveling com- panions, and guides that students find through these centers and organizations to help them on their way. Alumna Billie Gastic ’98 says, “The work that I did with other Latino students to bring about positive Where House change in our communities played a tremendous part Means Home. in my identity development (Cultural centers at Yale) and paved the way for the 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.

106 pursuits 107 | Athletes in Action Reformed University Fellowship Black Church at Yale Rivendell Institute Chabad House St. Mary’s Roman Christ Presbyterian Catholic Church Church Saint Thomas More Christian Science Catholic Chapel Reading Room and Center Episcopal Church Afro-American La Casa Cultural Asian American Native American Secular Student at Yale Cultural Center Cultural Center Cultural Center Alliance Host to countless cultural, schol- First & Summerfield AACC Slifka Center for Afro-America House—known arly, and social events, La Casa What can you do at the ? The Association of Native United Methodist ANNAY Jewish Life as “the House”—opened in 1969 Cultural is an important focus Just about anything: study in Americans at Yale ( ) was Church of Latino student social life at Trinity Baptist Students as a locus for political, cultural, the library, cook for friends, founded in 1989 with the aim Hindu Students Council Yale and a tremendous source of and social activities, continu- enjoy the widescreen television, of attracting Native American Undergraduate Friends student-community interaction. InterFaith Forum ing earlier Yale gatherings that play Ping-Pong. Established in faculty and scholars; expand- of Minyan Urim brought black students together Founded in 1974 as Casa Boricua, 1981, the center promotes Asian ing course o≠erings to include Keeping the Faiths International Church together on a remarkable journey Unitarian- to discuss issues pertinent to the Inc., it acquired its present name American culture and explores Native American history and at Yale three years later. Within the Yale students come from more of spiritual awakening and human Universalist Student black community. With these the social and political experience cultural studies; increasing Latter-Day Saints three-story, 19th-century red Fellowship gatherings, the isolation students of Asians in the United States. Native American recruitment; than thirty religious and spiritual flourishing.” Located on Old Cam- Student Association had experienced in the late fifties brick house, students socialize, More than forty undergraduate and creating a permanent head- traditions. Founded as an institu- pus, where most freshmen live, The University Church plan activities, cook together in Luther House and early sixties gave way to the organizations are a∞liated with quarters for the group. Many of Yale Christian a fully equipped kitchen, and AACC tion with a Protestant vocation, the Chaplain’s O∞ce coordinates vigorous exchange of ideas now the . Students of Chinese, those goals have been achieved, Meor at Yale Fellowship create a warm and robust com- Yale today welcomes those of any religious life at Yale, supporting seen at the House. The com- Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South including the establishment Muslim Students mon thread is the commitment, munity. The center also includes Asian (Bangladeshi, Indian, of the Native American Cultural or no faith tradition and seeks to worship services and rituals across Yale Hillel ANNAY Association confidence, and consciousness a Latino and Latin American Nepalese, Pakistani, Sri Lankan), Center. and the center Yale Sangha topic library, computer room, nurture all in their spiritual jour- faith traditions. It partners with New Haven Friends that students, faculty, the New Taiwanese, Thai, Vietnamese, promote Native American cul- Yale Students for Christ Haven community, and the organizational o∞ces, student and other Asian backgrounds ture and explore issues Native neys. “We consider ourselves quite centers for specific faiths and with Orthodox Christian Young Israel House University administration have lounges, and meeting spaces. It is work together to address pan- Americans face today. Programs blessed,” says University Chap- a∞liated community service orga- Fellowship open to New Haven Latinos and at Yale shown in making the Afro- ESL Asian American issues as well as include speakers, dinners, lain Sharon M. K. Kugler, “to be nizations, and it o≠ers pastoral Presbyterian community-based programs and more American Cultural Center vitally provide programs that focus on study breaks, and movie nights. part of a community of scholars, support and social and educational Undergraduates at Yale essential to Yale, New Haven, for non-English speakers. individual ethnic group issues. and beyond. seekers, and believers walking programs throughout the year.

Intercultural

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

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

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

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

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

Yale’s O∞ce of Sustainability The Yale Climate and Energy Institute is is created; today it has 7 sta≠ established to foster multidisciplinary programs members and more than 50 in response to the urgency of climate change. student assistants. Two Yale College The Yale Sustain Students launch a bike sharing program; and graduates, Gi≠ord The Yale Student Environmental Coalition able Food Project President Levin commits Yale composting is introduced into the dining halls. GHG Pinchot and Henry hosts the Campus Earth Summit, a student is founded by stu- to a reduction target of leed S. Graves, establish conference with representatives from 120 dents, faculty, and 43% below 2005 levels by 2020. Yale opens Kroon Hall, the eighth - Yale makes the Top 10 leed the Yale Forest School Alumnus Aldo American and 29 international universities. sta≠ with support certified building on campus. With in Sierra magazine’s and pioneer forest Leopold’s seminal Yale College launches Participants draft “The Blueprint for a Green from President Yale completes the Class of 1954 Platinum status, Kroon generates 25% of its annual ranking of management in the A Sand County the Environmental Campus,” which is distributed nationally to Richard Levin and Chemistry Research Building, own electricity and uses 50% less energy than America’s greenest LEED United States. Almanac is published. Studies major. environmental groups and legislators. chef Alice Waters. its first -certified building. a comparable building of its size. colleges.

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Alumnus George Bird Students initiate a recycling program. Environmental issues receive Students break Sustainable food options become available Yale unveils its Sustainability Strategic Plan, Grinnell founds one heightened attention when ground on in all residential college dining halls. a comprehensive set of goals and tactics of the ﬁrst environ- The School of Forestry expands its a group of undergraduates the Yale Farm, for enhancing sustainability in all areas mental organizations research and teaching to incorporate produces the “Yale Green Plan” transforming a Students help to launch Spring Salvage, of campus life. Major goals accomplished in the world—the broader environmental issues and and submits its ﬁndings and brambly acre an initiative to capture reusable by 2013 include a 28% recycling rate, a 16% Audubon Society. changes its name to the Yale School of recommendations to Yale into a productive goods from students moving out of reduction in campus greenhouse gas emis- Forestry & Environmental Studies. College administrators. market garden. the residential colleges. sions, and 95% composting of food waste.

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

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

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

116 pursuits 117 | Through clubs and New Haven Action organizations devoted New Haven REACH to musical cures, No Closed Doors developing clean Di≠erence Makers. energy, sharing PALS Tutoring and (Yale’s incubator of impact and leadership—Dwight Hall) community service Mentoring methods, social Peace by PEACE entrepreneurship, Public Health Coalition or even scientific Leadership and service research, Yalies pursue Reach Out to society seem inex- the greater good. Ready Set Launch

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