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*A Guide to Yale College, 2018–2019

1 | lives A Guide to Yale College

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

p. 12 | Anatomy of a p. 95 | The Residential College. Particulars. Delving into the How to apply, what layers of Yale’s unique we look for, and residential college visiting campus. system (14 gorgeous stand-alone “colleges”). p. 86 | Shared p. 96 | Affordable. Studies. Places. Communities. For Everyone. Yale’s Cultural Houses, Our financial aid policy p. 30 | Blue Booking. religious communities, eliminates the need When parties and p. 62 | and a∞nity organiza- for loans and makes shopping are academic. Inspired tions and centers. Yale a≠ordable for all. Plus: shopping lists, by Icons. special programs, p. 46 | A Hands-On Why p. 90 | Difference and some startling Education. Learning architecture Makers. Through numbers. by doing. matters. Dwight Hall, students find their own paths p. 48 | Next-Gen p. 70 | Cultural to service and leader- Knowledge. For Capital. The modern ship in New Haven. Yalies, one-of-a-kind univer­sity, the cosmo- resources make politan college town. all the di≠erence. p. 72 | Here, There, Everywhere. p. 36 | College Fourteen Yalies, where Meets University. they’re from, and An undergraduate road where they’ve been. p. 22 | Bright map to the intersection p. 52 | Think Yale. College Years. of Yale College and Think World. Five In many ways, friend- the University’s gradu- Elis share their pivotal ship defines the ate and professional moments abroad. Pursuits. Yale experience. One schools. student sums it up: p. 56 | Connect the p. 76 | Bulldog! “It’s about the people, p. 38 | Eavesdrop-­ Dots. From start-up Bulldog! Bow, not the prestige.” ping on Professors. capital and internships Wow, Wow! Why being an amazing to top fellowships and Playing for Yale— p. 26 | Breaking place to teach makes a worldwide network of The Game, the mission, News. A few of Yale an amazing place alumni, Yale positions the teams, the fans, the year’s top under- to learn. graduates for success in and, of course, graduate stories. the real world. Handsome Dan.

4 7 Yale is at once a Lives. tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends.

Yale: A Short History, by George W. Pierson (Professor, Yale Department of History, 1936–73) Nishanth Krishnan Preorientation First-Year Programs Counselors The Hometown First-Year Diaries. Several optional First-Year Counselor San Diego, CA preorientation programs (FroCo) Program was (Starting out at Yale) Anticipated Major give new students a established in 1938 Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology chance to meet each and has been an other prior to the formal intrinsic and essential First-Year Orientation. component of Yale’s advising system From the moment they Cultural Connections for first-years ever arrive, first-years are “From the outside, Yale’s academic, (CC) introduces first- since. Each first-year years to Yale’s cultural student is assigned able to dive into all that cultural, and social opportunities felt resources and explores a counselor who acts Yale has to offer. In part the diversity of student as a guide through this is because so many a bit overwhelming. But once I started experiences on campus, the transition to programs are in place with emphasis on the life at Yale. FroCos experiences of students are a diverse group specifically to welcome my first year, I found that my Yale of color and on issues of seniors who are and guide them— from related to racial identity. friends/mentors/ preorientation to first- experience is entirely in my hands.” problem-solvers— FOCUS on New Haven but not supervisors year counselors (Yale takes first-years on a or disciplinarians. seniors) to First-Year six-day exploration of All first-years except Seminars (small classes Classes samples bequeathed by the father the urban landscape those in Timothy taught by some of > Comprehensive University of neurosurgery—and former within and beyond the Dwight, Benjamin Chemistry I & II Yale campus. Franklin, Pauli Yale’s most prominent > General Chemistry Lab I & II Yalie—Harvey Cushing. Murray, and Silliman professors) to parties. > The Real World of Food First-Year Outdoor live together on We caught up with three > Introduction to Psychology On extracurriculars: One of Orientation Trips Old Campus during (FOOT) are six-day and their first year, and first-years near the end > Ancient Medicine and Disease the most memorable moments > Math Models in Biosciences I four-day back­packing FroCos live among of their spring semesters. > Psychology and the Good Life from my first semester was the trips for all levels in them. (First-years Here they share advice; > Biochemistry and Biophysics extracurricular bazaar, where the mountains and are grouped in Old reflect on their own > Cell Biology and Membrane hundreds of student groups hills of Vermont, New Campus residences Physiology Hampshire, New by college affiliation, expectations; discuss introduce themselves to the first- York, Massachusetts, which allows all their summer plans; and and Connecticut, first-years no matter 2:15 I grab the shuttle to the med Activities year class. I decided I wanted to A Tuesday led by upper-level their college affilia- record a day in their school campus to monitor my > No Closed Doors be more involved in volunteering students who have tion to get to know lives during the first year. in the life of cell cultures in an immunology > Yale Farm and the New Haven community, > Yale Hunger and Homelessness extensive training in each other.) research lab. 8:30 am Wake up and walk to Silliman Action Project but that doesn’t preclude me keeping FOOTies to grab a hot breakfast. I 3:00 At the New Haven Works > American Red Cross at Yale from joining a campus magazine safe and healthy in usually take eggs, potatoes, a O∞ce, I volunteer with No > Immunology research at the or an activism group if I pick up the backcountry. Yale School of Medicine variety of fruit, and prodigious Closed Doors, working with new interests over time. amounts of co≠ee. one or two unemployed Harvest begins at the New Haven residents to locate Yale Farm, and then 9:00 First class of the day, Math jobs online, call recruiters, On FroCos: I’m grateful that Yale On summer plans: In groups of first-years led by upper-level Models in Biosciences I. We build a résumé, and submit assigns every first-year a First-Year November, a friend invited me work on a lot of intriguing applications. The work has students head off to ways to apply math to biology; been transformative, and I Counselor (FroCo). FroCos can to an event at the medical school. spend five days on recently, we figured out the get to hear the incredible stories play any role—friend, confidant, At first, I felt out of place among family-owned organic safe dosage of a medication of locals. It motivates me to adviser! I think all my first-year all the graduate students. But I farms in Connecticut. using di≠erential equations to do my absolute best to help peers would agree that FroCos struck up a conversation with a predict its breakdown in the them and their families. Orientation for bloodstream. are invaluable, and they make the Yale professor and found out that International Students 5:00 Unwind over dinner with transition far less intimidating. years ago he was also a first-year (OIS) is a four-day 10:15 To Science Hill, where I finish friends. Sometimes we have a program designed to chemistry homework in the friendly debate over something in TD! We got to know each other ease the transition of CSSSI Library. one of us learned in class. On First-Year Seminars: I’m better, and I later interviewed international students taking Ancient Medicine and to join his lab this summer, where to the United States 11:25 pm Chemistry discussion section: 6:00 I take a co≠ee to go, set up Disease. We’re a tight-knit group, I’ll be working on cutting-edge by familiarizing thermodynamics, partial camp in the TD library, and them with academic pressures, melting points— start my homework. which allows for personal, engag- immunology research. I’m and social life at Yale. all that good stu≠. ing conversations on the medical studying a process that allows It is organized and 10:00 After a run in the TD gym, I led by international 1:00 I join nearly 1,200 students in shower and head to the buttery philosophy of antiquity. We’ve immune cells to produce diverse upper-level students Psychology and the Good Life, to replenish before going back explored surgical manuscripts antibodies to fight di≠erent with support from the where Professor Laurie Santos to the library. from Egypt, flipped through pathogens. I’m excited to apply Office of International enlightens us on the science of Students and Scholars. well-being. If you see cameras, 1:15 am Back to my room. I browse the fourteenth-century textbooks, concepts I’ve learned in class it might just be the New York web or watch SNL if I’m not too and observed the archived brain to this project. Times listening in with us. tired. Lights out by 1:30. 10 | lives 11 Aïssa Guindo A Monday Madeleine Freeman A Thursday Hometown in the life of Hometown in the life of I move a lot, but right now, Montreal, QC Oklahoma City, OK 9:00 am Wake up, shower, and dress. 9:45 am Wake up and get ready for Anticipated Major Anticipated Major I usually heat some tea and the day. Cognitive Science History (I’m also pre-med) grab a granola bar for the road. 10:20 Make the trek up Science Hill 9:50 Wake up my suitemate with my for Gen Chem. Pump Up Song of the Day. 11:20 It’s just a short walk through Classes 10:15 Catch the Yale Shuttle to the Sterling Chemistry Lab to my > Calculus of Functions of “From tough and rigorous courses, to Watson Center for Korean. Chem discussion section. One Variable I > Elementary Korean I and II 10:30 After a quick vocab quiz, we an amazingly diverse population, to 12:20 pm Lunch with a friend at Ben > Introduction to Cognitive jump right into new material Franklin College, where I Science with the help of dictations, Bulldog pride at the Yale-Harvard reenergize with great pizza > Selfhood, Race, Class, and cultural lessons, and even some and a nice serving of broccoli. Gender Studies K-pop songs and dances. 1:15 To York Street for my history > Introduction to Microeconomic football game, Yale never disappoints.” 11:30 Lunch in Pauli Murray. I grab seminar on Native American Analysis a table in the back and review studies, one of my favorite > Introduction to Psychology class notes, or chat with friends topics to discuss and hear > Shakespeare and Music coming down from Science other opinions on. Hill to eat. Activities 3:30 Out of class and back to my > Mixed Company (a cappella) 12:00 pm Head to the Sterling stacks to suite for a quick nap. > Actress in Dreamgirls (Fall do readings or work on Econ P- 5:30  Meet up with a friend to grab Mainstage Musical) and In the sets. Sometimes I take a break some dinner. Heights (Yale Drama Coalition) to read poetry scrawled on the > Yale Children’s Theater walls of di≠erent study carrels. 7:30 Hang out at the NACC and > Voice lessons at Yale School work on essays. 1:00 Intro to Psych. Even though it’s of Music a huge lecture, I always have 10:30 Back in my room to do some > Yale Wellness Study time after class to talk with my interesting readings for my professor about the material, Sound seminar on Tuesday. or sometimes chat about a cool 12:00 am A quick phone call to a family optical illusion I saw online. member or friend back home “I’ve found a home in the thriving arts 2:30 Shakespeare and Music in to see how things are going— Stoeckel Hall, a beautiful build- and to catch up on the latest community here and learn as much in ing to set the scene for this gossip. engaging First-Year Seminar. 1:00 Turn o≠ the lights and hit rehearsal as in lecture halls. I recommend 3:45 Back to Old Campus to take a the hay! nap, watch Netflix, or chat with looking into the hundreds of student friends in my entryway. Then I go to a friend’s suite to do some groups—or starting your own!” more homework for the week. 5:30 Early dinner in Branford with On advising: I’ve been amazed fun times over hot chocolate or Classes my wonderful FroCo group. by the amount of support I’ve discussing how classes are going. > General Chemistry I, II, & III > General Chemistry Lab I 6:30 Usually rehearsal for a Dramat/ On preorientation: I loved cultural houses have been some received at Yale. My adviser was I did not expect to find such > Colonial Period American YDC/YCT show, a busy time History Cultural Connections, an amazing of my favorite experiences. in the day depending on how very helpful when it came time wonderful people whom I would > Introduction to Psychology way to be introduced to cultural close we are to show week, but to choose classes and think about trust as much as I do. They are > Race, Class, Gender, and always exciting. communities at Yale while making On summer plans: I’ll be summer plans. She advised me to truly a group of women I can American Cities great friends right o≠ the bat. interning at a pharmaceutical 8:30 Mixed Company rehearsal. As think about the future but focus ground myself to when times get > American Indian History company in Seoul. Thanks to we go through our repertoire on the now and find what would tough. since 1890 and work on learning new > Writing Seminar: Sound On adjusting: be best for me currently, which I’ve never gone résumé-building resources at the songs, I feel myself relaxing. > Painting Basics: Oil to the same school for more than O∞ce of Career Strategy and I’m currently working on my was something I definitely needed On summer plans: My plans three years, so I knew college Yale fellowship funding, I’ll gain own arrangements for the to consider. And whenever I was are still in the works. I’ll either Activities would be a big adjustment. A hands-on experience working group, so after rehearsal some going through a di∞cult time, my use Yale’s Domestic Summer > Blue Feather Drum Group upper-level students help me > Association of Native pleasant surprise was the diversity in the intersection of science work on the sheet music. sweet and caring FroCo was there Award (DSA) to work as an intern Americans at Yale (graphic of experiences of the students. and human resources at a major to talk me through my problems. with the Chickasaw Nation Arts designer) 10:00 Back to Vanderbilt to drink tea > First-Year Liaison at the Discussing di≠ering political company, while practicing the with suitemates and finish the He has truly become one of my and Humanities Department or Native American Cultural Center last of my homework. I often best friends. take Physics at the University of views in our hometowns at dinner, language skills I learned in L1 (NACC) stop by my FroCo’s suite to say drafting a statement on integating and L2 Korean. Then I’m back on Oklahoma and hang out with my > Taking Choctaw language hi and grab a snack. senior a cappella groups with campus as a Cultural Connections On suitemates: Living with my friends and family. classes in the Native American Mixed Company, and participating counselor—coming full circle at 1:00 am Choose tomorrow’s Pump Up three awesome suitemates has been Language Project Song of the Day and head in meaningful conversations at the the end of my first year at Yale. to bed. really easy, whether we’re planning 12 | lives 13 The Courtyard The image of transformed Yale into a loose the secret garden was architect association of “little paradises.” Anatomy of a Residential College. James Gamble Rogers’s inspiration for the courtyards around which (Yale has no dormitories) each residential college is designed. According to legendary Yale art historian Vincent Scully, Rogers

Even before first-years Yalies identify with their arrive they are assigned college throughout their to one of Yale’s fourteen 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 first-year 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 him would diminish. In 1927 system is Harkness and his friend, the early- fellow Eli and architect James 20th-century Gamble Rogers (B.A. 1889), brainchild of made a “secret mission” to philanthropist England to study Oxford and alumnus and Cambridge universities’ Edward S. collegiate system. “The men Harkness (B.A. 1897). Archi­ came back convinced,” writes tecture critic Paul Goldberger Goldberger, that dividing the tells us in Yale in New Haven: undergraduate body into a Architecture and Urbanism (Yale series of residential colleges University, 2004) that Harkness, “was the best route to preserving like many alumni of his genera- the network of Yale-inspired tion, took pleasure in Yale’s connections” that had been so growing international reputa- important to them throughout­ tion and stature but worried their lives. In the fall of 1933 that as the University grew, the the first seven of the fourteen close bonds between students colleges opened. that had meant so much to

14 | lives 15 Home Suite Home FLOOR 2 FLOOR 1 Most first-years live in Yale in Dean’s Office Dean’s suites in which four If a student is having Apartment BASEMENT students occupy two Miniature. Game Room di∞culty with a particular Dean Angie Gleason FLOOR 2 bedrooms and share course, the college dean can lives in the Morse Head of (A tour of Conveniently a common living often help by talking with Dean’s Apartment, with College’s Office located next to the room. After the first the student’s instructor a beautiful view of The head of college is the Morse College) Morsel, the Game year, there are mul- or with the relevant the Lipstick and happily chief administrative o∞cer Room is a social tiple possible living department’s director of close to both the and the presiding faculty hub where students arrangements. undergraduate studies, or buttery and the gym. presence in each residential get together to by referring the student college. During the year, watch TV or play From top: A common BASEMENT to one of the programs that the head of college hosts pool, table tennis, room in Branford Buttery o≠er tutoring assistance. lectures, study breaks air hockey, and College; a bedroom Run by Getting to know each (especially during finals), foosball. in Farnam Hall on students, “The student as an individual and College Teas—intimate Old Campus; a Morsel” is open helps the dean to address gatherings during which bedroom in Berkeley Sunday through concerns as personally students have the oppor- College; a bed­room Thursday from and e≠ectively as possible. tunity to engage with with built-in desk and 10:30 pm to 1 am. renowned guests from bookshelves in Ezra Hang out with the academy, government, Stiles College; and friends over the and popular culture. a common room popular Jim Stanley, in Pierson College. a quesadilla with chicken nuggets.

FLOOR 1 Morse House FLOOR 1 Catherine Panter-Brick is Art Gallery joined in Morse College Artistic Morsels by her husband, Associate can exhibit their Head of College Mark latest work in this Eggerman, and their sons, sophisticated venue. Dominic and Jannik. FLOOR 1 Common Room With comfortable seating and ample desk Courtyard space, the Common An outdoor room Room is a welcoming for barbecues, leaf place, whether you want and snowball fights, to work on a problem and spontaneous set, play the concert and formal events. grand, or just hang out Or cool your toes by the fireplace on a in Morse’s water chilly night. feature, known as “the Beach.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So you played sports in high the college accumulating the Fall school but aren’t quite hardcore greatest number of points through Golf Coed College Shield Architecture Style Points How We Boola Boola Football Men, Coed enough to suit up for the Bulldogs. intramural play, was first presented Volleyball Coed Collegiate Gothic, with a touch Delicious reputation: as test Annual snowball fight, Berkeley You’re in luck. The residential in 1933. The Tyng continues Pickleball Coed of Tudor; built in 1934 kitchen for Yale’s Sustainable North Court vs. South Court Soccer Coed Food Project, Berkeley pioneered college intramural scene o≠ers to be the most coveted of all intra­ Cross Country Men, Women a sustainable menu for all a chance to continue your career mural awards, spawning com- Table Tennis Coed the colleges at a surprisingly high level of petitive rivalries that make IMs a Winter Branford Collegiate Gothic; Robert Frost described our Independence Day, when competition or to start playing a way of life for former high school opened 1933; home to courtyard as “the most beautiful Branford declares its indepen- new sport—not to mention a way all-stars and P.E. dropouts alike. Basketball Men, Women Volleyball Coed Harkness Tower and college courtyard in America” dence from Yale in a day to prove that your college reigns its bells of barbecues and parties Much of the above first appeared in “Intramu- Broom Ball Coed supreme. The Tyng Cup, annually rals at Yale are spine-Tyngling fun” by Aaron Inner-Tube Coed Davenport One of its facades is Collegiate The Gnome, who watches Late nights at the Dive awarded for overall excellence to Lichtig (1999) writing for the Yale Herald. Water Polo a.k.a. D’Port Gothic, the other is Georgian; over us, when he’s not grill; Davensports! Bowling Coed opened in 1933 being abducted; our own Swimming Coed orchestra, the DPops Indoor Soccer Coed

Timothy Georgian; opened in 1935 Bluegrass music, art studio, TD’s motto and cheer is Spring Dwight beat poetry: the laid-back “Àshe!” which means “We Dodgeball Coed a.k.a. TD alternative make it happen” in Yorùbá Badminton Coed Soccer Coed Jonathan Collegiate Gothic; opened Our amazing letter­­ Great Awakening Fall Ultimate Coed Edwards in 1933 press; Tyng Cup winners Festival; the formal Spider Softball Coed a.k.a. JE three years in a row Ball; JE SUX! Golf Coed Spikeball Coed Benjamin Collegiate The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Mural painting in the basement; Franklin Gothic; opened edited and published by Friday night crafts and board in 2017 Yale scholars, have reached 41 games; our bike repair shop volumes, with six to go More than Oolong. Grace Hopper Collegiate Gothic; opened The Cabaret in the basement, Trolley Night: Clang, clang, (College Teas) in 1933 with hugely popular student clang goes the party shows College Teas are informal Q&A’s Morse Modern; designed by Eero Our sculpture, Lipstick All-day Apple Bakefest in the hosted by the head of each Saarinen; built in 1961 (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, head of college’s kitchen; Great with a 14-story tower and by Claes Oldenburg Morse Easter Egg Hunt residential college and often no right angles cohosted by campus organizations such as the Film Society or the Pauli Murray Collegiate Gothic; Our namesake was a opened in 2017 scholar, lawyer, and civil and Our college mascot, the Lemur; Yale Daily News. The teas give small women’s rights activist who the MY talent show; and groups of students an intimate helped change the landscape of our own sprung-floor theater opportunity to pick the brains of opportunity in the U.S. world leaders, thinkers, and talents. Pierson Georgian; built Wrestling in the Jello Pit Tuesday Night Club; our cheer: Members of the hosting college in 1933 of Justice on Pierson Day P is for the P in Pierson College, get first dibs on front-row seats. I is for the I in Pierson College …

Saybrook Collegiate Gothic; completed We’re in a chase scene in the Party in the “12 Pack” and Recent guests Awad, activist and executive director of the Timothy Dwight Deqo Mohamed, Council on American-Islamic Relations. physician and CEO of DHAF in Somalia; in 1933 latest Indiana Jones movie; always respond “Saybrook!” Trumbull Lois Lowry, author of The Giver; Alice Wells, former U.S. ambassador to our own Chamber Orchestra when asked, “Say what?” Joan Acocella, dance and book reviewer Ezra Stiles Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize- Jordan; Rahul Pandita, conflict journalist; (known as SYChO) for The New Yorker; Biz Stone, co-founder winning author and MacArthur Fellow; Susan Choi, novelist. of Twitter; Amy Brooks-Kayal, pediatric Angélique Kidjo, singer-songwriter and Silliman Varied: Collegiate Gothic; Biggest college; biggest court- Sunday music brunch, a feast modified French Renaissance, yard; winner of cooking and of sound and taste; the Ball neurologist. activist; Cesar Pelli, architect; Ed Norton, Grace Hopper Leigh Bardugo, author of actor and director; Joann Lo, co-director of The Grisha Trilogy; Michael Twitty, food Georgian; completed in 1940 spirit prizes at Final Cut on College and Wall, Branford Jennifer Staple-Clark, founder the Food Chain Workers Alliance. blogger; Claudia Rankine, author and (Yale’s “Iron Chef”) a spring classic and CEO of Unite For Sight; Robert Pinsky, poet; Nevline Nnaji, director of Reflections former U.S. poet laureate; Chris Bridges, Davenport Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Modern masterpiece, designed Our memorial moose mascot Medieval (K)night Festival; Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights. Ezra Stiles a.k.a. Ludacris, rapper and actor; Paul Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; Carole by Eero Saarinen; opened in 1962 in the Dining Hall; annual Baby Animal Petting Zoo Farmer, co-founder, Partners in Health. King, singer-songwriter; Mike Gordon, Morse Bobby Lopez, composer and Student Film Festival in the courtyard guitarist, Phish; Margaret Hamburg, lyricist of Avenue Q; Unni Karunakara, Silliman Denzel Washington, Oscar- former fda commissioner; Garry Trudeau, former international president of Médecins Trumbull Quintessential Yale/Collegiate Potty Court, where our gargoyle Rumble in Trumbull (bounce- winning actor, producer, and director; cartoonist, Doonesbury; Mukesh Kapila, Sans Frontières; Mark Penn, author of Gothic; completed in 1933 “Thinker” is enthroned and house “fights”); Pamplona Brandon Scott Sessoms, a.k.a. B. Scott, gay humanitarian and author of Against a Tide Microtrends; Malcolm Gladwell, author of decorated every year (running of the [Trum]Bulls blogger and Internet personality; Nihad around campus) of Evil. The Tipping Point and Blink.

22 | lives 23 Bright College Years. (Defining Yale through friendship)

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

24 | lives 25 Met at Yale

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

Courage under Fire to transform the lives of ten London and St. Andrews; and Snackpass Baldovino was named ECAC The latest stats million people,” the team of first- History major David Shimer will Rookie of the Year. Just as on who goes to Yale Yale junior Amanda Lloyd, a years Ashwin Chetty, Ekaterina study international relations at Less than a year after its launch, last year’s edition of this cadet in the Air Force ROTC, Danchenko, Sam Fereidooni, and Oxford. And as Gates scholars at the New Haven-based app viewbook went to press, the 1,579 29% was awarded the corps’ highest Claire Lamarre proposed solar- Cambridge, Psychology major Snackpass is used by more than Baseball team completed a Class of 2021 major in the Arts and honor, the Gold Valor Award, for powered refrigerators for the Robert Henderson will pursue a 4,000 Yale College students to school-record thirty-four- Humanities her role in the heroic rescue of Indian market, each owned Ph.D. in psychology; and Malina order food from more than fifty win season, securing its first 50 39% five swimmers caught in a fierce and operated by a community Simard-Halm, an Ethics, Politics, (and counting!) local vendors. Ivy championship since 1994 states + D.C., Guam, and Puerto Rico major in the Social undertow in Lake Ontario last member as a small business; & Economics major, will pursue The brainchild of sophomore and winning two games in Sciences summer. Reflecting on the expe- and the team of first-years Tyler an M.Phil. in criminology. Neuroscience major Jamie the NCAA tournament for the 58 rience, Lloyd said that she was Shen, Austin Tuan, and Tony Xu Marshall and recent alum Kevin first time in sixty-nine years; 32% countries “excited to show younger cadets focused on making it easier for Ribbon Cutting Tan, the app lets students order sophomores Scott Politz and major in the Biological in our wing that leadership isn’t people in impoverished countries ahead, earn rewards, and connect Benny Wanger were selected 48% and Physical Sciences defined, as one of our cadets says, to access WiFi and data services. For the first time in fifty-five with friends by sending gifts. It to the All-Ivy first team. And or Engineering men by the walls of Payne Whitney years, Yale opened two new resi- recently expanded to Providence. the Heavyweight crew team 98% Gym where we do drill each week. dential colleges. At the dedication won its first-ever IRA national Yale Dance Theater 52% of first-years return ceremony for Benjamin Franklin championship and swept the It’s much bigger than that.… Boola Boola women sophomore year It’s being in charge and taking on For Yale Dance Theater 2018, and Pauli Murray Colleges, Dean 152nd Yale-Harvard Regatta; a role that you weren’t expecting Yale student dancers worked Marvin Chun described Yale’s The Football team defeated the Varsity Eight was named 45% 96% to when the time calls.” with members of the interna- residential colleges as “the glori- Harvard, 24–3, at the Yale IRA Crew of the Year. minority students graduate within five tionally renowned Paul Taylor ous and magical spaces” where Bowl in the 134th playing years Stress Less Dance Company to reconstruct “the best students from all over of “The Game,” clinching its Breaking the 10% “Party Mix,” a dance created the globe, diverse in ethnicity, first outright Ivy title since international students 84% Glass Ceiling live on campus Psychology and the Good Life, by Taylor in 1963 and not cultural and socioeconomic 1980. Among the highlights: the most popular course in Yale performed in more than four backgrounds, interests, and a dominating performance Junior Sofía Campoamor 16.6%

College history, enrolled 1,147 decades. talents…live and learn from by the defense, including the became the first woman will be the first in their 55% family to graduate from have jobs on campus students, nearly a quarter of all one another.” Students spent the team captain, senior Spencer admitted to the Whi≠enpoofs, a four-year college or undergrads. Taught by Professor year leaving their mark on the Rymiszewski, and senior the world’s oldest collegiate Across the Pond university 14% Laurie Santos, who is also new communities by creating linebackers Foyesade Oluokun a cappella group. A Music earn double majors head of Silliman, it focuses Six seniors—and three recent mascots (e.g., the Pauli Murray and Matthew Oplinger; and major, Campoamor has been a 63.4% on psychological insights into Yale College grads—were named “Lemurs”), painting murals in touchdowns by sophomore member of the coed a cappella from public schools 47% how to live a more satisfying Rhodes, Marshall, and Gates the basements, and establishing wide receiver JP Shohfi, sopho- group Mixed Company since participate in life and build a better world. In Cambridge Scholars, among new traditions like “s’mores more defensive back Malcolm her sophomore year. 36.5% community service March, retitled “The Science the most coveted academic and sleepouts.” Dixon, and first-year running from private or parochial schools of Well-Being,” it became the awards for postgraduate study. back Zane Dudek. The women’s STEM Matters 80%+ twenty-first Yale College course As a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, Volleyball team earned its sixth participate in Global Journalist 64% available online at Coursera. History major Daniel Judt will Ivy title in eight years; junior Sophomore Astrophysics intercollegiate, club, or receive financial intramural athletics study for an M.Phil. in history. Senior Amelia Nierenberg, Kate Swanson was named Ivy and Anthropology major assistance Changing the World On Marshall scholarships, a History major and Yale League Defensive Player of the Samantha Berek was selected 50%+ English major Erika Lynn Green Journalism Scholar, was one of Year, and first-year Kathryn as a Brooke Owens Fellow 96% of graduates go on Two Yale undergraduate teams will pursue degrees in global sixteen aspiring foreign corre- Attar was named Rookie of the and will be interning at Bryce ranked in the top to earn M.D.s, J.D.s, advanced to the regional finals health systems and policy as well spondents—only four of them Year. After claiming the Ivy title, Space and Technology tenth of high school M.B.A.s, or doctoral for the $1 million Hult Prize, an as development and global health undergraduates—to win a 2018 the Gymnastics team repeated in Alexandria, Virginia, this graduating class degrees international competition aimed at the University of London; Overseas Press Club Foundation as ECAC champions in March, summer. The fellowship at solving some of the world’s Cognitive Science major Amanda Scholar Award. She will spend scoring a new school record of program o≠ers internships most critical social problems. In Royka will study evolutionary next fall working as a reporter at 195.325; sophomore Jade Buford and executive mentorship for response to this year’s challenge biology and comparative psy- the Associated Press bureau in was named ECAC Gymnast of exceptional undergraduate to “harness the power of energy chology at the Universities of Dakar, Senegal. the Year, and first-year Jacey women in astroscience.

28 | lives 29 Whether they major in the social sciences, Studies. humanities, or arts, in science, mathematics, or engineering, Yale students graduate with a thirst for learning, a greater appreciation for creativity, and a respect for education that they bring to positions of leadership­ and civic life.

Peter Salovey, President of Yale University Blue Booking. (When shopping and parties are academic)

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

32 | studies 33 First-Year STARS (Science, Yale awarded more Shopping Lists. Seminars are Technology, and than $3 million in ISA small classes just for Research Scholars) funding alone last year. first-years, with some provides undergradu- Every DSA recipient Yale’s “shopping period” at the of Yale’s most dis- ates an opportunity to receives a $4,000 start of every semester allows tinguished faculty combine course-based stipend. The ISA students to visit classes they members. Some study, research, men- stipend is capped at seminars provide an torship, networking, $12,500. might want to take before introduction to a par- and career planning registering. Here, a few wish ticular field of study; in the fields of science Preparing for lists from recent semesters. others take an inter­ and technology. The Medical, Law, or disciplinary approach program is designed Business School to a variety of topics. to support women, Yale students have All seminars provide minority, economicallly an outstanding record an intimate context underprivileged, and of admission to top for developing rela- other historically medical, business, tionships with faculty underrepresented stu- and law schools, but members and peers. dents in the sciences, Yale College offers engineering, and no pre-professional Directed Studies mathematics. More degree programs. is a selective first- than 100 students Students here prepare year interdisciplinary each year participate for entrance to profes- program in Western in the academic year sional schools (e.g., civilization that and summer STARS medicine, business, includes three yearlong programs. law) by choosing any courses — literature, one of Yale’s under- philosophy, and International graduate majors and historical and political Study Understanding working with a Yale thought — in which the dynamics of a glo- adviser who knows students read the balizing world begins what is needed to central works of the in the classroom, with advance to the next Western tradition. studies ranging from level of education. So international develop- it’s not unusual to find Science and ment to statecraft and an English or Political Engineering power, from ethnicity Science major going Undergraduate and culture to public on to medical school Research As one of health. But Yale recog- or an Environmental the world’s foremost nizes that experience Studies or Chinese research universities, abroad is essential major going on to law Yale offers countless to preparing students or business school. opportunities for for global citizenship independent under- and leadership. Such Academic Advis- graduate research experience may include ing is a collective projects. Students course work in foreign effort by the residential in the science and universities, intensive colleges, academic engineering disciplines language training, departments, and vari- can begin conduct- directed research, ous offices connected ing original research independent projects, to the Yale College as early as their first internships, laboratory Dean’s Office. The year through access to work, and volunteer residential college dean Yale’s more than 800 service. (See pages serves as a student’s faculty laboratories 52–55) primary adviser for all in 50+ degree-granting academic and personal programs in the Summer Awards concerns. College Faculty of Arts and Yale’s Domestic deans live in residential Sciences, Yale School Summer Award (DSA), colleges and supervise of Medicine, and Yale which supports under- the advising networks School of Forestry & graduates on financial in the college. Students Environmental Studies. aid who are pursuing also have a first-year And First-Year Summer unpaid arts apprentice- adviser who is a Yale Research Fellowships ships or internships faculty member or annually provide sup- with nonprofits, NGOs, administrator affiliated port for more than 100 and government agen- with the advisees’ resi- science and engineer- cies, complements the dential colleges. Each ing first-years. International Summer academic department Award (ISA) — unique in has a director of under- the Ivy Leage — which graduate studies (DUS) supports students on who can discuss the financial aid who pur- department’s course sue summer learning offerings and require- experiences abroad. ments for the major. 34 | studies 35 Majors in Greek, Ancient & Yale College Modern African American History 80+ 3+3=breadth 1:1 15,000,000+ Studies History of Art African Studies History of Science, Majors. There is no specific class you have to take at Classes range from Holdings in Yale’s library, making American Studies Medicine, & Public Health Yale, but students are required to learn broadly one-on-one tutorials Anthropology Humanities and deeply. Depth is covered in one’s major. to a small seminar to a it one of the largest university library Applied Mathematics Italian Breadth is covered by taking courses in three study lecture course of several Applied Physics systems in the United States. Judaic Studies areas (the humanities and arts, the sciences, and hundred students. Archaeological Studies 6:1 the social sciences) and three skill areas (writing, Latin American Architecture quantitative reasoning, and foreign language). Studies Student-to- Art Linguistics faculty ratio. Astronomy 74% Literature, Astrophysics Comparative Of Yale College Chemistry Literature & courses enroll fewer 2:1 60+ Classical Civilization Comparative First-Year Seminars than 20 students. Cultures Ratio of declared in 2017–2018, each open only 200+ Creative and Classics (Greek, Latin, or Greek & Latin) Mathematics STEM majors to fifteen or twenty first-years. Summer fellowships for performing arts 66 undergraduate science and grants awarded to Cognitive Science Mathematics & to STEM faculty. Philosophy engineering students each year. student playwrights, Computer Science 30% Mathematics & Physics dancers, writers, Computer Science & Enroll fewer than 10. Mathematics Modern Middle East musicians, and Studies Computer Science & filmmakers­ each Psychology Molecular Biophysics semester. & Biochemistry Computing & the Arts Molecular, Cellular, 40 East Asian Languages & Developmental & Literatures (Chinese + Biology , or Japanese) 2 000 Approximate number Music Courses o≠ered each year in more than of the 2,000 courses 800+ East Asian Studies Near Eastern that enroll more Science, math, and engineering 24/7 Ecology & Languages & 70 academic programs and departments. than 100 students. labs at Yale College and the Evolutionary Biology Hours the Center for Civilizations graduate and professional schools. Economics Engineering Innovation Neuroscience Economics & Philosophy and Design is Mathematics Physics open for student use. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Physics & Geosciences Engineering: Physics & Philosophy 44 1,170 Biomedical, Political Science Chemical, Electrical, International study, research, and internship experiences Portuguese Environmental, Languages o≠ered undertaken by Yale College students in 2016–2017. 250,000+ 40%+ or Mechanical Psychology Objects in the Engineering Sciences: Religious Studies to undergraduates, Percentage of Yale College permanent collection Chemical, Electrical, Russian students graduating with a STEM Environmental, from Akkadian of the Yale University Russian & East $6,346,257 or Mechanical major who are women. European Studies Art Gallery. English to isiZulu. Sociology Fellowship and International Summer Award (ISA) funding Environmental Studies South Asian Studies* for international study, research, and internship experiences Ethics, Politics, & Spanish undertaken by Yale College students in 2016–2017. Economics Special Divisional Ethnicity, Race, & 36/8 Major Migration Statistics & Film & Media Studies The degree requirements Data Science 1,000+ French 62% 82% for graduation are Theater Studies Geology & Geophysics Faculty members in Yale’s 36 term courses in eight 98% Women’s, Gender, & Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Of seniors in the most recent Medical school admission terms, about a third First-years who return Geology & Natural Sexuality Studies Resources graduating class participated in rate for Yale College in the major. Students sophomore year. German Studies *May be taken only international study, research, graduates (national typically take four as a second major. Global Affairs and/or internships while at Yale. average, 41%). or five courses per term. 36 | studies 37 Divinity School Institute of Sacred College Meets University. Take a walk to the Music Find yourself Sterling Divinity Quadrangle at the interdisciplinary center to enjoy the quiet Georgian- of the Divinity and Music (One of the world’s greatest research universities at your fingertips) style campus. The courtyard schools through the Institute’s is a great getaway when you concerts, art exhibitions, films, want to read outdoors without literary readings, plays, and the distractions of central lectures. Hear world premieres School of Forestry campus. View an exhibition of new choral compositions. & Environmental Physically and philosophi- of the artifacts and documents Meet scholars debating divides Studies Take one of cally, Yale College for School of from the personal papers of between liturgical traditions. the School’s graduate-level undergraduates is at the Engineering & Law School Have Protestant missionaries who courses. Earn a five-year Applied Science Join fellow lunch in the Law School served in China during the first bachelor’s and master’s in heart of Yale University. creators from across Yale in dining hall with Constitutional half of the twentieth century. Forestry, Forest Science, An extraordinary commit- the Center for Engineering Law professor Akhil Amar. Environmental Science, or ment to undergraduate Innovation and Design Listen to speeches by visiting School of Environmental Management. to collaborate, create, and School of Music Supreme Court Justices. Management Partner with the School’s teaching sets Yale apart share functional solutions \ Explore the resources Wander the Law School stacks. Enroll for a course at SOM grad students and faculty from other great research to meaningful problems. of the Gilmore Music Library, The Law Library is also a and rub elbows with the on environmental initiatives universities in the world. with one of the largest collec- favorite study spot. next generation of corporate through Yale’s O∞ce of More than 70 depart- tions of music scores, sound and NGO leaders and entre- Sustainability. Bookmark recordings, and music research preneurs. Become a Silver the School’s website to keep ments and programs materials in the United States. a five- Scholar—one of a select up with the many events offer approximately 2,000 Take lessons for credit with minute Science handful of seniors who are happening each week. walk undergraduate courses School of Music faculty. Attend Hill admitted to SOM directly free concerts at Sprague Hall from Yale College, some of each year—many of them given by Music School students whom are awarded a merit taught by Yale’s most and visiting performers. scholarship for the two distinguished historians, years of study. literary critics, scientists and engineers, math- ematicians, artists and School of Drama composers, poets, and Get a student season Graduate School pass to the Yale Repertory of Arts & Sciences social scientists. Faculty Theatre and see five plays a Continue conversations from call it a stunningly vibrant year at one of America’s lead- graduate-level seminars over Hillhouse intellectual atmosphere ing professional theaters. co≠ee and mu∞ns at a nearby School of Medicine that can’t happen at Read original manuscripts co≠ee shop during the renova- On Yale’s medical from Eugene O’Neill’s Long tion of the Hall of Graduate campus, just three blocks from undergraduate-only Day’s Journey into Night. Study Studies as a central home for the College, you don’t have to institutions or at research light plots from the original the humanities at Yale. Take be pre-med to take advantage universities that do production of Gershwin’s School of graduate courses in science of the extraordinary research Porgy and Bess. Audition for Architecture and engineering, almost all of opportunities available to not focus on teaching. Yale School of Drama and Yale Meet with professors and grad which are open to undergradu- undergraduates—in fields Cabaret shows. Put on student students in Rudolph Hall ates. On Friday afternoons, ranging from genetics to productions at the University (named for its architect, Paul join undergraduates and biomedical engineering and Theatre, with 96 feet of Rudolph, faculty 1958–65). Cross graduate students in the nanoscience, studying cancer, Campus fly space and seating for 640. Check out student shows and Physics department for pizza neurological disorders, and curated exhibitions in the and talks on current research. cardiovascular disease. Take Architecture Gallery. Attend an Make heads turn as you gradu- classes taught by medical evening lecture by one of the Old New ate wearing your yellow hood school professors, work in School’s professors, who are Campus Haven indicating that you’ve earned their labs, shadow doctors luminaries in the field, includ- Green both a bachelor’s and a master’s on their rounds, or volunteer ing the dean, Deborah Berke. degree in Molecular Biophysics at Yale New Haven Hospital. and Biochemistry. Apply to do fieldwork in Peru with your biochem professor School of Art and perhaps discover new Discover the next species of fungi and bacteria Chuck Close (M.F.A. 1964) a five- School of Nursing living in plant tissues. at the School’s open studios. minute Nursing’s home on West walk Participate in group shows Campus is just a 10-minute School of Public in the same gallery in Green ride on the Yale Shuttle. Health Take a course Hall where master’s students Medical Sign up for Professor Ruth in epidemiology in conjunction mount their thesis shows. Center McCorkle’s popular course with an independent research Attend a graduate painting Living with Dying. After some project you’re working on in a critique by visiting artists. preparatory social science lab on Science Hill. a ten-minute course work, gain experience ride to West as a paid research assistant Campus interviewing patients for the Chronic Illnesses program. 38 | studies 39 Eavesdropping on Professors. (Great minds talk about teaching)

One fall afternoon some People here always Each semester I enjoy in-class discus- of Yale’s (and the world’s) say Yale is devoted sions about immigration, California Mark Saltzman “There are 17 faculty members leading thinkers in history, to undergraduate politics, youth cultures, and Latino Stephen Pitti biomedical engineering, Q teaching. How can civil rights that carry over to my o∞ce in Biomedical Engineering and we have Professor of History and American Studies; Director evolutionary biology, reli- that be true? hours or long lunch sessions with about 30 majors each year, so nobody is of the Center for the Study gious studies, literature, students in a residential college of Race, Indigeneity, and psychology, biochemistry, Stephen Pitti “I’ve always loved dining hall.” anonymous. Every student does research. Transnational Migration; astrophysics, political the fact that at Yale I can present the Head of Ezra Stiles College science, and philosophy newest research in my field to our Michael Della Rocca “I find that They all do a significant senior project. Professor Pitti teaches courses got together for a conver- undergraduates. And when I do, their myself. When I’m teaching, I’m not in Latino studies, U.S. history, sation. Some knew each feedback inevitably prompts me to just teaching philosophy. I’m doing They all take classes with most of the and related subjects. He is the author of The Devil in Silicon other and others did not, think di≠erently about what I’ve been philosophy with the students. I really faculty during their time here. When Valley: Northern California, but they came to similar writing, to change how I present advance my own research and we come Race, and Mexican Americans conclusions in talking material in future semesters and even to philosophical insights and conclu- I meet their parents at graduation, I (2003) and American Latinos about why they teach, the rethink my own research questions. sions together in the course. One of and the Making of the United States (2012), and he is uniqueness of the Yale know something significant about each currently writing a book on undergraduate, and why César Chávez. He is an editor common notions about student. That’s pretty rare.” of the Politics and Culture in Modern America series, a large research universities member of the U.S. Latina & aren’t true here. Latino Oral History Journal edi- torial board, and chair of the National Historic Landmarks Karuna Mantena our biggest strengths in recruiting Committee. Associate Professor of professors here is the undergraduates. Political Science People love teaching them. It’s the Recent Courses Comparative Ethnic Studies; Professor Mantena has taught drawing card we stress whenever the Radical California; Mexicans courses on Indian politics, Philosophy department is trying to and Mexican Americans since empire and political thought, recruit a faculty member from another 1848; Latina/o Histories postcolonial political thought, and history and politics in the good institution.” Directed Studies program. Her research interests include Meg Urry “It’s not just how smart modern political thought, modern social theory, the they are or how hard they work—you theory and history of empire, can find that at other places—but it’s and South Asian politics and their cleverness, their thoughtfulness. history. Her first book, Alibis I teach an intro to physics class. Many of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism of the kids in my class are headed (2010), analyzed the transfor- for medical school, so physics isn’t mation of nineteenth-century their passion. But I can guarantee that British imperial ideology. Her current work focuses on at least once a week I get a question political realism and the politi- that is just incredibly creative, intro- cal thought of M.K. Gandhi. ducing an idea or thought that I have never had before, and this is from Recent Courses Gandhi, King, and the Politics people who aren’t even going to be of Nonviolence; Directed physicists.” Studies: Historical and Political Thought; Means Christine Hayes and Ends in Politics; “When I think Advanced Topics in Modern about what I’m going to teach I often Political Philosophy; Indian think, ‘What do I want to study with Political Thought a whole bunch of smart people?’”

40 | studies 41 Karuna Mantena “What makes students here Scott A. Strobel appealing to teach is their genuine Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and enthusiasm. I’ve also noticed how rarely Biochemistry; Professor of Chemistry

I receive late papers, which I take to Professor Strobel’s research focuses on biologically critical be a sign of responsibility and maturity. reactions catalyzed by RNA. His lab explores the class of RNA These qualities allow one to focus on riboswitches that regulate gene expression by binding small the substance of teaching—how to molecule metabolites. His work embraces biochemistry, enzyme kinetics, X-ray crystal- think through important ideas, events, 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; Methods and Logic in Molecular Biology

W. Mark Saltzman Why does teaching heard of before. Some of these students I came back and she had finished the Scott Strobel “The beauty of it is Goizueta Foundation these students in are not cut out for philosophy, but they entire summer’s project! She’d figured watching them take ownership of a Professor of Biomedical particular matter to Engineering and Chemical & all get into it.” everything out. She’d gotten it all to project and recognize that it’s theirs to Environmental Engineering; Q you? If you can find work. She’d collected all the data she work on creatively and independently. Professor of Cellular and smart, hardworking Meg Urry “I was not in a university needed. My jaw was hanging down. We have undergrads going toe to toe Molecular Physiology; Head students at other places, then before coming here. I worked in the I thought, ‘Okay, now I have a better with grad students in the lab. You of Jonathan Edwards College 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’s research “drawing card”? NASA, which was exciting. But when graduates are.’” to be available to grad students,’ but is motivated by the desire to I came here I felt like I had died and what I’ve seen over and over again create safer and more e≠ective Meg Urry Christine Hayes medical and surgical therapies. “None of them are one- gone to heaven. I think I was born to “Which connects is that these Yale undergrads are John Merriman He focuses on tissue engineer- 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 ing and on creating better 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 methods for drug delivery. 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 He has published three Professor Merriman teaches textbooks and more than 250 interact with.” We have First-Year Summer Research apply it to some real-world situation. took a group of students to study a and writes about modern research papers. In 2009 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 was awarded Yale’s She∞eld David Bromwich “The students begin research early at Yale. My first there has been either too much inde- complete autonomy over identifying history, and urbanization. Teaching Prize for excellence in Among his many publica- the classroom, and his course 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 tions are the second edition Frontiers of Biomedical Engi- alertness. With luck, they bring out get this first-year who doesn’t know need of hand-holding. We seem to to collect. They brought them back to of The Dynamite Club: How a neering is available worldwide 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 Bombing in Fin-de-Siècle Paris through the online Open Yale 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 Ignited the Age of Modern Courses program. Terror (2016) and the third university.’ So I laid out this project independent intellectual curiosity as several dozen di≠erent new species edition of A History of Modern 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- Europe (2009). Physiological Systems; Directed Studies [a yearlong advanced wanted to look into but hadn’t done any to ask questions, to get help, to be part strated bioactivity against pathogens Frontiers of Biomedical Recent Courses Engineering; Engineering first-year course in Western civiliza- work on myself yet. I told the student, of a team. You need both—the solitary in plants and humans. So these European Civilization, 1648– of Drug Delivery; Biological tion]. It’s just a lot of fun because ‘Why don’t you go and do a little research and the ability to bring it back students are able to make not just a 1945; Revolutionary France, and Physiological Determi- you get students with di≠erent back- research online and we’ll talk about it and put it together and make something creative impact on science but to 1789–1871; The Dark Years: nants of Health grounds taking subjects they’ve never when I come back in a week.’ bigger and better with other people.” actually discover things of importance Collaboration and Resistance in Vichy France

42 | studies 43 Christine Hayes Robert F. and Patricia Ross Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica

Professor Hayes, a specialist in talmudic-midrashic stud- ies, was awarded a Yale Col- lege prize for distinguished and interest to a broad community. undergraduate teaching in When I described their work to School 2005. She is the author of Between the Babylonian and David Bromwich of Medicine faculty, the faculty lined Palestinian Talmuds; The Sterling Professor of English up to participate in the project with Emergence of Judaism: Classical Traditions in Contemporary Professor Bromwich is an these undergraduates.” Perspective; and Gentile authority on Romantic and Impurities and Jewish Identities: modern poetry and on the Karuna Mantena “The students Intermarriage and Conversion history of literary criticism. His have a kind of self-direction, the moti- from the Bible to the Talmud. books include The Intellectual Her most recent book, What’s Life of Edmund Burke: From the vation and capacity to really pursue Divine about Divine Law? Sublime and Beautiful to Ameri- ideas and concerns. Yale provides them Early Perspectives, won the can Independence; Disowned by with abundant resources to support 2015 National Jewish Book Memory: Wordsworth’s Poetry of Award in Scholarship. Profes- the 1790s; Moral Imagination: research, and we—hopefully—provide sor Hayes’s Introduction to the Essays; Politics by Other Means: them the encouragement to keep these Bible was published in 2012 Higher Education and Group projects going. Students use these by Yale University Press as Thinking, which examines the opportunities to do extraordinary part of the Open Yale Courses ideological debate over liberal publication series. arts education; and Skeptical research in Europe, South Asia, and Music: Essays on Modern Poetry. the Middle East.” Recent Courses He is also a frequent contribu- The Bible; Divine Law tor to academic journals, and Marvin Chun in Historical Perspective; his reviews and articles have “I really think the Exodus 32 and Its Midrashic appeared in The Times Literary residential college system is what Development; Judaism: Supplement, The New Republic, brings everything together—the small- Continuity and Change and The New York Review of college feel with world-class university Books. resources. Being the head of Berkeley Michael Della Rocca Recent Courses College has shown me that. It’s impos- Andrew Downey Orrick Major English Poets (English sible to describe in words, but it works Professor of Philosophy 125); American Imagination: From the Gilded Age to the in a phenomenal way to ensure that each Professor Della Rocca’s areas Cold War (with Anthony student receives individual attention.” of interest are the history of Kronman); Modernities: early modern philosophy and Literature in the Era of Tyran- experience than at other places I’ve been quality of the undergraduate program. contemporary metaphysics. nies, 1919–1960 (with Alice John Merriman “Plenty of students come here He has published dozens Kaplan); Style, Purpose, and where, if you’re an engineering or science You might think that the two stand in of papers in those fields, Persuasion in Literature; major, you’re studying the same kinds tension, but in fact they don’t. We not including “Causation Without English Literature and the 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 French Revolution; Lincoln Without God in Descartes” in Thought and Action; then all these doors open up for them other students around you are studying. in my field–one in which there is a in A Companion to Descartes, Shakespeare’s Political Plays; You’re also living with other science and great deal of mixing among graduate ed. Janet Broughton and The Age of Johnson; Empire because there are so many opportunities.” engineering majors. Here, students are and undergraduate students in classes, John Carriero. He is also the and Modern Political Thought living among future historians, future outside of class, in activities–but we’re author of three books, most (with Karuna Mantena); The recently The Oxford Handbook English Lyric, 1820–1920 economists, English majors, and political also situated within a larger univer- Just like students arts education is that you’re required science majors, all bringing their own sity that has very active professional of Spinoza (2017). looking at colleges, to take courses in all sorts of di≠erent brands of thought to questions and ideas.” schools. The institution I was at didn’t Recent Courses as a professor you things. For instance, we think it’s impor- have professional schools. Having the Modern Philosophy from Q had a lot of choices tant that our students study a foreign Christine Hayes “One of the things School of Architecture does wonderful Descartes to Kant; Action and Metaphysics; Reconsidering too. What brought language as well as the social sciences. that has been so wonderful for me as things for Yale undergraduates. Having Early Modern Rationalism; you here? Taking di≠erent kinds of classes creates a teacher at Yale is the ability to teach a fantastic School of Music does Directed Studies: Philosophy a di≠erent sort of curiosity. Our stu- introductory courses but also seminars wonderful things for Yale undergradu- Mark Saltzman “There’s something dents bring that curiosity to the kinds of where graduate students and under- ates. And they’re all close by. That’s Professors Hayes and Della Rocca are married. 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 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.”

44 | studies 45 Marvin Chun Biology, providing links Dean of Yale College; among E&EB, the Peabody Richard M. Colgate Professor Museum, Geology and of Psychology; Professor of Geophysics, and Forestry & Neuroscience; former Head Environmental Studies. The of Berkeley College Donoghue lab team includes undergraduate and graduate Dean Chun is a cognitive students and postdocs, and neuroscientist whose research focuses primarily on plant uses functional brain imag- diversity and evolution. ing to understand how to Michael Donoghue “A lot of it is about scale. improve memory, attention, Recent Courses conscious perception, and Diversity of Life; Plant Diver- decision-making. He has Yale is just that much smaller and sity and Evolution; Principles been awarded the American of Ecology and Evolutionary Psychological Association’s more intimate than some of the other Biology Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution universities where I’ve taught. So I find to Psychology in the area of cognition and learning, and a lot better connection to students and the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences, often considered the integration across disciplines. I have most prestigious early-career honor that can be earned by friends and colleagues spanning very an experimental psychologist. At Yale, he received the Lex di≠erent parts of the University, and Hixon Prize for teaching excel- lence in the social sciences and that’s something that comes with the the DeVane Award for Teach- Meg Urry ing and Scholarship, the oldest Israel Munson Professor of undergraduate teaching prize. territory of being smaller. Yale doesn’t Physics and Astronomy; The presentation of the award Director of the Yale Center for began with “Marvin Chun is just talk about making connections and Astronomy and Astrophysics the man!,” praising him for the clarity of his teaching and his integrating students into research—it Professor Urry studies actively devotion to his students. accreting supermassive black actually happens here very e≠ectively.” holes, also known as Active Recent Courses Galactic Nuclei (AGN), and Introduction to Psychology; the co-evolution of these black Mind, Brain, and Society holes with normal galaxies. She came to Yale in 2001 from her tenured position on the senior scientific sta≠ at Scott Strobel Michael Donoghue the Space Telescope Science “The opportunity to an environment where there is a clear “The other is what energizes me in the classroom. Institute (STScI), which runs 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 the Hubble Space Telescope 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 for NASA. Using deep imaging good schools where research is all they as an undergraduate is quite unique.” museums and collections that are right thing outside of the classroom, with NASA’s three Great Observatories, her group has do, and you sit in your lab and work here. We have actual physical objects that’s my reward.” charted the history of super- with grad students or postdocs and David Bromwich “I admired the that we’re very keen to use in teaching. massive black hole growth never see an undergraduate. Beyond intellectual strength of the English You can read about things in a book, John Merriman “I’ve almost been throughout the universe. Professor Urry has worked to 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 increase the number of women 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 in the physical sciences, 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 organizing national meetings Curator of Botany, Peabody of a silo mentality when it comes to lab many of the drawbacks, of a large Marvin Chun “I came for the the last hour or two. But there I was and chairing the Committee Museum of Natural History on the Status of Women in research. At Yale you have this amazing research university.” students. They’re not just smart, but teaching my modern French history Astronomy for the American 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 Astronomical Society. ing authority on biodiversity so that collectively you do everything Christine Hayes “It’s really the special to teach and do research here. up and down the aisle of the lecture and the author of more than Recent Courses 200 papers and several books; 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 University Physics; several current projects focus 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.’ Advanced General Physics; on elucidating the evolution 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, Gravity, Astrophysics, and of Viburnum. He has helped 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 Cosmology; Modern Physical to shape Yale’s Department Measurement (co-taught); of Ecology and Evolutionary school faculty host undergraduates all levels of academic inquiry and all thing very meaningful and influential and teach’ whatever the subject is that Perspectives on Science and (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.” Engineering (co-taught)

46 | studies 47 Senior design project teammates a tele-operated robotic arm for and Engineering majors Joshua retrieving objects dropped off a A Hands-On Education. Ruck, Brigid Blakeslee, boat or dock. and Adam Goone in the Center (And why six hands are better than two) for Engineering Innovation and Design, where they developed

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 and Design, you will find that teaching and learning here are evidence-based, hands-on, and focused on inspiring a deeper engagement with the subject.

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

48 | studies 49 Next-Gen Knowledge. (One-of-a-kind Yale treasures inspire independent research)

Adding to what the The collections of the Yale world knows is not easy, University Art Gallery number more than 250,000 especially when, at 19 objects representing Eastern or 20, you haven’t even and Western cultures from been in the world that ancient times to the present. long yourself. But as Recent exhibitions include Modern Art from the Middle East, a former student said, celebrating the 175th anniversary “This is not a mediocre of Arabic studies at Yale; Japan’s place. Everywhere you Global Baroque, 1550–1650; and Pompeii: Photographs and turn there’s something Fragments. incredible to attract your eye. In a more ordi- Alana Thyng, an alumna of nary place, you’re not the Directed Studies program for first-years, dances with the going to be so startled Rhythmic Blue and Yaledancers into thought.” From groups on campus and is a paintings by Picasso to sta≠ photographer for the Yale Daily News. pterodactyl remains to 3D printers and tools for Opposite page: photoelectron spectros- At the Peabody Museum of copy, Yale provides­ Natural History, which just celebrated its 150th anniversary, a treasure trove through curators work with scientists which undergraduates around the world to advance our chase down new knowl- understanding of Earth’s history, life, and cultures. edge for themselves and sometimes for the world. Junior Cesar Garcia Lopez has spent the past two summers in Environmental Intersections Tanzania, studying the impact of humans on wildlife; and in Panama, studying the chytrid Cesar Garcia Lopez works in the Eyes Wide Open summer researching Oceanic art fungus, an infectious disease Peabody Museum laboratory of in England and Germany for her that a≠ects amphibians world- wide. On campus, he enjoys the Professor David Skelly, where he As a first-year, Alana Thyng senior thesis. And as a fellow at community at La Casa Cultural, uses the museum’s vertebrate zool- planned to study French literature the YUAG, she was able to design Yale’s Latino cultural center. ogy collection in his research on or Classics. But when she went an avant-garde film installation And as a member of Math how suburban landscapes a≠ect to the Yale University Art Gallery for the exhibition Everything Is and Science (MAS) Familias, he mentors a group of New frog morphology. Cesar was born (YUAG) to examine Greek vases for Dada. “It was an incredible oppor- Haven first graders studying in Mexico and grew up in Watson- a course on Plato, Aristotle, and tunity to see my vision come snail habitats in a local nature ville, California, where his parents Euripides, she was immediately entirely to life. These experiences preserve. Cesar plans to enroll in the joint-degree program worked in agriculture. “I saw a interested in the material aspect have been vital in cultivating my with the School of Forestry & constant battle between environ- of history—“the way that objects skills as an art historian and in Environmental Studies and mentalists who want to protect provide a sense of what life was preparing me for the collaboration earn a Master of Environmental the wetlands and the people who like in previous periods.” and practical planning necessary Management degree in a fifth year at Yale. depend on agriculture to make a to complete projects in the work- living. I’m interested in bridging Alana became a History of Art force beyond college.” that divide and hope to have a major and had unique opportuni- career that combines environmen- ties through Yale to work for a After graduation, Alana will be tal education and field research.” summer at the National Gallery pursuing her passion for art of Copenhagen, study at the École at the auction firm Sotheby’s in du Louvre in Paris, and spend a New York.

50 | studies 51 A Smashing Success

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

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

52 | studies 53 Think Yale. Think World. (Study, research, intern around the globe)

A nontraditional approach to gaining international experi- ence gives Yale students access to multiple opportunities to study, research, and intern abroad during their four years. Over and above ordinary financial aid, Yale provides more than $6.3 million annually through fellowships, internships, and sum- mer awards in order to guarantee that every student who wishes will be able to work or study abroad. Beyond these hefty resources is the sheer variety of global experiences students can “I spent six unforgettable weeks in South undertake during school Africa and Swaziland with the Yale Summer years and summers: Session class Visual Approaches to Global

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

54 | studies 55 Stephanie Brockman Yalies Abroad Internships 2016– 2017 The Office of Career Hometown Thompson, ND Africa: 64 Strategy assists Major Near Eastern Languages students seeking & Civilizations, with a Asia: 245 internship experiences Oman India & concentration in Arabic and Europe: 650 throughout the globe. & Morocco South Islamic Studies These internships Africa Latin America: 94 provide opportunities Yale International Experience Middle East: 56 in more than 20 coun- Spent a spring semester in the Multiple regions: 41 tries to explore career Sultanate of Oman through a fields in a global envi- program sponsored by the School North America: 1 ronment, with support for International Training; Oceania: 19 and oversight from Yale interned in Morocco through Brazil Total: 1,170 and from alumni net- Yale’s Auerbach and Grayson/ works. Opportunities Leitner international internship. Center for reflect the full range of Post-Yale Plan “A summer or International interests among Yale year of advanced Arabic study and Professional students, from journal- abroad, followed by law school. “My professor in Oman took us on a daytrip Grace Alofe “In the rural South African township of Experience ism to the arts, politics I’m leaning toward the idea Yale’s Center for to public health, and to explore the nearby mountains. It was in Hometown Union, Nj Zwelethemba where we stayed for ten of going into corporate law International and finance to technology. the middle of our rural homestays, so I was days, there was no Internet access, and for and working with companies Majors Molecular, Cellular, Professional Experience Yale also partners with with strong business ties to dressed in a long black abaya (the tradi- & Developmental Biology; the first time in my life, I was genuinely (CIPE) encourages other organizations the Middle East.” tional robes for women on the Gulf ) and a Ethnicity, Race, & Migration disconnected from the larger world. and supports safe, to provide many extraordinary­ inter­ additional internship headscarf. I remember sitting on a park Yale International Experience The first couple of days were tough, I’m national experiences opportunities. Spent the fall semester of junior bench, texting my host mom in Arabic, and ashamed to say. Then, my study abroad of every kind. year as one of thirty students worrying about how scandalized my host group started playing soccer with kids Laboratory and studying public health care Study Field Research in family would be if I was out past magrib, systems and conducting field in the area, hanging out at each others’ Yale programs include the Sciences and research in urban and rural the evening call to prayer. And out of host homes, and attending local gumboot Yale in London; Yale Public Health settings in India, South Africa, nowhere everything that was happening dancing class in the community center. Summer Session Students can combine and Brazil with the School for (most recently, courses international experi- began to sink in: I was thousands of miles International Training. A man named Jazz, who was incredibly from home, wearing something I had active in the larger community, taught were offered in Brazil, ence with deepening Post-Yale Plan “Before going Croatia, Czech Repub- their understanding only seen in pictures, and I realized how to medical school, I would love the classes about this historical dance lic, France, Germany, of science by spending “After sophomore year, I took a gap year thoroughly I had immersed myself in a to spend two years working in form and spent so much time making us Italy, Morocco, Peru, a summer working to study Mandarin in China. There was a culture that had once seemed so mysteri- marketing in California or with comfortable in Zwelethemba. One day he Russia, Singapore, in a laboratory at Médecins Sans Frontières in Spain, and Tanzania); an institution abroad, ously foreign. That realization filled me gave some of us a walking tour, pointing monthlong break between my two language a Spanish-speaking country.” and year or term or by participating in programs, so I stu≠ed my backpack, with an incredible sense of accomplish- out structures that have changed since the abroad approved a field-based project. hopped on a train, and spent the next four ment.” Stephanie end of apartheid and how that a≠ected his programs run by weeks making my way 1,600 miles through lived experience. We still had classes and other institutions or Independent providers. Initiatives western China by myself. The first week, I homework during that time, but it felt Students who are decided to hike Emei Shan, one of the Four Arizona Greene so freeing to be fully present in my inter­- Research ready to develop their The possibilities for own activities abroad Sacred Mountains of Buddhism. I stayed at Hometown Carrollton, GA actions with my host family, my peers, international research are encouraged to one of the monasteries along the trail, and and community members like Jazz. By the Major Applied Mathematics are extensive. Students discuss their plans as I was sitting in the courtyard one of the end of our stay, I was so grateful to have work with their resi- with advisers and Yale International Experience dential college dean, faculty, to register monks sat next to me and motioned for me Was awarded a Richard U. Light been forced o≠ the digital grid; I can’t academic advisers, their travel and under­ to cross my legs and meditate with him. Fellowship to study Mandarin imagine having been distracted at all from and departments to stand the support in Beijing and Harbin, China, Afterwards, we talked for a while about his such a remarkable community.” Grace define projects. Many provided by Yale, for seven months; worked in life at the monastery. Then he reached into Yale students spend and to use the institu- Nicaragua for a summer on a the summer following tion’s extraordinary his robes, whipped out his smartphone, Thomas C. Barry Travel their junior year resources to make Fellowship. and added me on WeChat (the Chinese abroad doing research the most of their equivalent of Facebook). I set out for China Post-Yale Plan “Pursuing a for a senior essay experience abroad. with less than a year of Mandarin under my Ph.D. in applied mathematics or thesis. belt, and I learned a ton in my language with a focus in computational linguistics, but only after taking classes. But the most enriching and memo- advantage of post-graduation rable moments all came from interacting fellowships at Yale to continue with people, many of whom I still keep in my language study abroad.” touch with today.” Arizona China Nicaragua

56 | studies 57 Connect the Dots. (Three seniors find their careers through Yale’s network of resources)

Yale students are sur- Raising Tsai CITY 5 Graduate rounded by opportunities First-Year Pitch the Bar The mission of the Tsai Schools Most Matt comes to Yale interested in the Center for Innovative Attended from the moment they biological sciences and dives into Matt Czarnecki Thinking at Yale is to When they enroll in arrive on campus as biology and chemistry classes. He Residential College inspire and support business, law, medical, first-years—intellectual, quickly becomes friends with Dylan Davenport students from diverse or graduate school, Yale entrepreneurial, artistic, Gastel, a fellow Davenport first-year. backgrounds and graduates most often The two find themselves thinking Major disciplines to seek attend Yale, Cambridge, international, profes- up business ideas late into the night Molecular Biophysics innovative ways to Harvard, Stanford, sional, and research in their common room. In the spring, & Biochemistry address real-world and Columbia. opportunities that at the Yale Youth2 Business Forum problems. It organizes at the School of Management, Matt workshops, mentor­­- Top Fellowship launch them toward meets a visiting project manager from ship and fellowship Producer both long-term ambi- Google who helps him come up with programs, start-up and Yale is consistently tions and unforeseen his first pitch. “It was my first real nonprofit accelerators, a top producer of That summer, Matt finds experience with entrepreneurship and leaders’ and founders’ fellowships. Since achievements. Yalies himself working as the it felt like the best day of my life.” labs, co-curricular 2010, in addition third employee at a food leverage these oppor- projects, hackathons, to more than 200 start-up after a chance tunities in countless and experimental Fulbright Fellowships, encounter at a venture collaborations across Yale students have impressive ways and capital conference. disciplinary lines. been awarded 33 learn how to ask good “With just three of Rhodes, 20 Marshall, us, we learned how to questions, seek out Yale Connections 18 Goldwater, 11 figure things out on our the right mentors, and Yale has more than Truman, and 27 Launch own, which is critical in 160,000 graduates Gates Cambridge create experiences that In the fall of sophomore year, Matt entrepreneurship.” and hundreds of Scholarships, as well and Dylan create Yale Launch, an are professionally and alumni groups all over as 240 National undergraduate group designed to help personally rewarding. the world, providing Science Foundation students go from “virtually nothing unequaled networking Graduate Research In this chapter, we to a business idea.” The group hosts a opportunities, from an Fellowships. Just as chronicle the trajecto- pitch-day competition at the end of the online career network, importantly, these semester. Matt lands on his idea after ries of three soon-to-be to mentoring programs major awards only spending $6 for a co≠ee and granola graduates who have for students, to scratch the surface of bar study break. Why not combine “I never thought I would be an Recipe for Success regional and campus the hundreds of other successfully connected the two? Verb energy bars are born. Fellow Yale Launch members André entrepreneur, but this experience events for alumni. highly valuable, funded the dots between a and Bennett hear the pitch and want in. Whatever you are sources of support Yale education and the The three experiment with ca≠einated interested in — social that Yale students real world. energy bar recipes in the Saybrook helped me find what I’m really justice, sustainability, tap every single year. and Davenport student kitchens. As entertainment, law, demand grows, they rent the kitchen of passionate about: building things journalism, media, beloved New Haven bakery Katalina’s entrepreneurship, Angel Investment Cupcakes on weekends, baking from the ground up.” technology — you will Matt attends a College hundreds of bars from 7 pm to 2 am. find alumni in those Tea in JE given by Internet fields ready to network entrepreneur and Yale Living the Dream with you! alum Kevin Ryan and Senior year, Matt closes a round of hands Ryan a Verb bar. nearly $1 million in seed capital as Career Services A week later, Ryan calls Hit the Accelerator “A Tsai CITY mentor Verb CEO. André (now CTO) has Yale’s Office of Career and asks, “What do recommended deep built a text-to-purchase platform, Strategy offers career you need to get started?” Verb is selected to participate customer profiling, and and the company uses a space advising, professional He provides some of the in the Tsai CITY Summer by doing that we were provided free by Tsai CITY. In school advising, company’s initial capital. Accelerator, a ten-week able to realize who our January, Verb wins a $35,000 grant employment and Verb o∞cially launches internship opportunities, fellowship program for best customer was.” in Connecticut’s CTNext All-Stars in the spring of Matt’s The team pivots Verb’s Competition. The company has and career development junior year, focused student ventures that marketing strategy sold more than 100,000 bars resources. The office on selling to college combines a $15,000 grant with to focus on an older to customers in all fifty states. works with students students. They sell out mentoring and workshops led demographic with more After graduation Matt and André and alums to clarify of their first 10,000 disposable income. will move to Boston to continue career aspirations, bars in thirty days. by experienced entrepreneurs growing Verb: “We’ve found identify opportunities, in the Yale network. our dream jobs and become best and offer support at friends along the way.” every stage of career development. 58 | studies 59 Community Enhancing Scholar “Before Yale, I mostly thought of Early Learning Starting Out Caitlin designs and teaches The daughter and grand- a course called Positivity: Haylee Kushi ‘Native’ as Hawaiian. Becoming Caitlin Dermody daughter of educators, Caitlin The Power of Optimism to Residential College Residential College has a passion for learning and New Haven middle schoolers Timothy Dwight Morse a desire to study education. through Yale’s Splash and friends and co-workers with people In Foundation of Education Sprout programs. “My Major Major Studies, she realizes that “so positive attitude had always Ethnicity, Race, Indigenous to various parts of the Sociology (and Yale many of the challenges facing helped me conquer academic & Migration Education Studies students today begin due to challenges, so I wanted Americas made me realize how much Scholar) a lack of access to high-quality to share the benefits of this early childhood education.” perspective with younger Native people across the world have students.” in common. This was vital to joining Finding Community (and a Major!) my most important community at As a first-year, Haylee lands an Education Studies on-campus job at the Native Yale, to my political consciousness, After joining the Education Studies Scholar American Cultural Center, program, Caitlin enrolls in the course Early which “became my community and to my academic career.” Childhood Education, which has a classroom for the rest of my time at Yale.” observation requirement at Calvin Hill Daycare. That spring, she takes the She loves observing so much that she becomes seminar United States Wars a volunteer teacher’s assistant there. in the Pacific, her first class in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration. She writes a paper about the political importance of “For a bit, I explored one of her favorite Hawaiian the possibility of Global Perspective songs—originally titled “Mele journalism as a mode ‘Ai P¯ohaku” and popularly of doing the same work Caitlin spends the summer after known as “Kaulana N¯a Pua”— raising awareness about sophomore year studying in Dubrovnik starting her on a path toward Indigenous politics. with Yale’s History and Culture scholarship in ethnic studies. I took Bob Woodward’s Journalism class in of Southeastern Europe course. In my sophomore year and addition to gaining insight into the wrote pieces about impact of war on society, she learns ethnic studies at Yale about Croatia’s post-independence and Indigenous activism for the ydn, Broad education system. Next Chapter Recognition, down Haylee will enroll in Magazine, and Yale Brown University’s Herald.” Ph.D. program in American Studies to Emotional Intelligence continue researching and Volunteering with the writing about the power Supported by an Education Studies Scholar Yale Center for Emotional dynamics and potential summer fellowship, Caitlin interns at the Brookings Called to Lead Intelligence’s Early Childhood for allyships among Institution with the Brown Center on Education Junior year, Haylee Team, Caitlin collects data K¯anaka Maoli and other Policy, employing skills learned in her Sociology works with fellow in preschool classrooms people of color living classes to analyze critical education theory and data members of the and drafts assessments to in Hawai’i. on contemporary topics. Association of Native assist teachers’ instructional Americans at Yale practices. “I love being able (ANAaY) to plan the to see the role of social and annual Ivy Native emotional learning in Plans Fulfilled Summit. Elected early childhood education.” Haylee writes her senior thesis on East president of the ANAaY in the spring, she heads Future Plans Asian racial formation in Hawai’i in the planning for a Yale Back on campus, Caitlin relationship to settler colonialism and Indigenous Peoples’ writes her senior Sociology K¯anaka Maoli (Indigenous Hawaiian) Day celebration and thesis and Education Studies also leads the Henry capstone project on the early “Yale reshaped the way that I cultural identity. “I went to an all Roe Cloud Conference childhood education workforce Native high school and came to Yale and Powwow, which in America, analyzing policy understand systems of education hoping to do research about the political bring Native alums and data from all fifty states context of my Hawaiianness. My Yale back to campus and and interviewing New Haven build a genealogy teachers. Now she’s headed to and challenged me to advocate experiences pushed me to think about of Yale Native Oxford for a master’s in child my Indigeneity in a global context.” community members. development and education. for the world’s youngest learners.”

60 | studies 61 Yale, like Ulysses, is Places. 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 Harkness Memorial Tower James Gamble Rogers and completed is the height of tradition at Yale (216 in 1921, Harkness holds a 54-bell, Inspired by Icons. feet and 284 steps to the roof). The 43-ton carillon rung daily by students tower’s cornerstone was dedicated in the Yale University Guild of Caril- (Why architecture matters) in 1917 exactly 200 years after the lonneurs. Statues of Elihu Yale and first stone for the first Yale building in others plus four student-gargoyles New Haven was placed. Designed by keep watch from on high.

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

64 | places 65 Completed in 1930, Sterling fifteen stack levels and eight floors Yale University Art Gallery masterwork designed by Louis Kahn Memorial Library was designed of reading rooms, offices, and work One of the country’s oldest college (faculty 1947– 57). It was the first by James Gamble Rogers, who areas. The recent restoration of art museums got its start in 1832 notable design of Kahn’s career called the building “as near to the nave has revealed long hidden with 100 Revolutionary War paint- and sits across the street from his modern Gothic as we dared to make decorative details and updated ings. Now it’s noted for the depth final work in the United States, the it.” Devoted primarily to the humani- programmatic areas to better and range of its collections. The Yale Center for British Art. ties and social sciences, it has support the needs of today’s users. main building is itself a modernist

66 | places 67 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 68 | places 69 70 | places 71 Eating Out. Cultural Capital. (The “#1 Foodie City (Yale and the “Greatest Small City in America”) in America”*) *As ranked by Livability.com

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

world where you can stand within Louis’ Broadway East Rock Park Lunch inches of an intact Gutenberg Bible; National retailers like Apple, Rising 350 feet above the historic Credited J. Crew, Patagonia, and L.L. Bean neighborhood that shares its name, by some all within a very compact and mix with New Haven originals like East Rock is a New Haven landmark with Science Junzi Kitchen—serving Northern and a must-visit spot for all Yale inventing walkable downtown.” Hill Chinese chun bing—and Crêpes students. Run, hike, bike, or climb the hamburger in 1903. (Just The Hu∞ngton Post, 2012 Choupette, started by a French to the summit for stunning views of don’t ask for ketchup!) immigrant who sold crepes from a downtown New Haven and the Long cart attached to his bike. A Yale ID Island Sound. Located two miles Proud New Haveners tag restaurants, and more Coffee or Koffee? nets discounts at most stores. from campus, the park is a popular Whitney Avenue social media posts with than 375 years of history, destination for Yalies looking to stay Skyscrapers mix with Independent cafés #GSCIA for “Greatest the city delights Yalies fit while enjoying the outdoors. historic brownstones on one Ko≠ee? and Blue State Co≠ee draw Small City in America.” as well. New Haven Hillhouse of New Haven’s most eclectic hundreds of thirsty Ave streets. Turn the corner into With two Tony Award- combines the dynamism Yalies a day; or Grove St the award-winning Audubon winning theaters, the and diversity of urban Arts District to find the New catch the Jitter Bus, country’s second-largest life with the accessibility Haven Ballet and Creative Arts a mobile co≠ee Audubon shop built out of collection of free public and amiability of a great Workshop, or continue north to visit the New Haven Museum, an old school bus. art, award-winning college town. Howe St Cross Whitney Ave whose collections and exhibitions Chapel Street Campus bring New Haven history to life. Sustainable Sushi Chef Bun In just a few blocks, pass local Lai at Miya’s Sushi created the bookstores, clothing boutiques, world’s first sustainable sushi co≠ee shops, and restaurants that Old restaurant featuring unconven- range from student-budget (Shake Campus tional ingredients like lionfish Shack) to upscale (Union League and Asian carp, which are New Cafe). Visit the Yale Art Gallery and invasive species, and wild herbs Haven the Yale Center for British Art, then and weeds. Green grab a treat at Arethusa, serving farm-fresh ice cream from a dairy Mory’s: in Litchfield, CT. A Yale Orange St City Hall / Amistad Tradition Memorial Founded College St New Haven’s mayor is a Yale alumna, and a Yale undergraduate in 1861, serves as one of 30 elected Mory’s is known for its toasting traditions Church St o∞cials on the Board of Alders. Yale Next to City Hall, a memorial and nightly entertainment by Medical stands where 54 African captives undergraduate singing groups, including Yale’s most famous, A haven for the arts Few Marlon Brando), Margaret Edson’s Center who sought their freedom aboard the Whi≠enpoofs. cities can claim one world-class Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit, and the Amistad were imprisoned in theater. New Haven has three. Pulitzer-winning works by August New Haven Green Yale New Haven Hospital 1839 while awaiting trial. The Shubert, Long Wharf, and Wilson. Fortunately for Yalies, all Since 1639, the 17-acre Green has been at the center Just steps away from À La Cart For a quick bite Yale Rep theaters have produced three offer student tickets. In June, of New Haven. In its more than 375-year history, the Green the residential colleges, YNHH between classes, nothing dozens of shows that went on to New Haven hosts the International has served as a pasture, a burial ground, a Revolutionary provides countless opportunities beats New Haven’s food carts. Broadway, including 11 Richard Festival of Arts & Ideas, which War training ground, and the site of a campaign speech for undergraduates to engage in Scattered all around town, carts Long Island Rodgers musicals, the world boasts almost 200 (mostly free) by Abraham Lincoln. These days the Green hosts major research, clinical work, service, dish out Bengali, Colombian, Sound premiere of A Streetcar Named events, drawing tens of thousands events like the New Haven Jazz Festival and the New Haven and medical training at one of the Ethiopian, Indian, Japanese, Desire (starring a then unknown of visitors to the Elm City. Road Race as well as a popular weekly Farmer’s Market. country’s premier medical centers. Mexican, Middle Eastern, Thai, and Venezuelan specialities for $6 or less.

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New Haven Map.indd 1 5/2/18 2:46 PM Here, There, Everywhere. (Fourteen students, two simple questions, thirty-fve countries on six continents)

Where are you from? Where have you been? One spring day, fourteen students walking around the campus were asked these questions. Their answers reveal Yale as a cosmopolitan crossroads where students receive “I’m from Albuquerque, New “I’m from Chicago, Illinois. “I’m from Washington, D.C. “I was born outside of São Paulo, “I’m from Palo Alto, California. “I’m from Irving, Texas. The “My current home city is Durban, Mexico. I studied in China on During the summer after my The summer after my first year, Brazil, and lived in Venezuela This summer, I will spend summer after my sophomore South Africa, but I was born an education in global a Light Fellowship and in Italy sophomore year, I studied abroad I interned with a Ugandan and Panama before my family six weeks in Nice, France, year, I studied film in Paris, in Rwanda. I’ve also lived in fluency. Yalies become with the Summer in Rome in New Zealand and Australia microfinance company. After settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. I complet­ing a physician Munich, and London. I also Kenya, the Democratic highly skilled at crossing Humanities program. The with a rainforest conservation sophomore year I had an spent the summer after my first shadow­ing program and taking went to Japan to study the Republic of Congo, Mozam- boundaries. They speak Brady-Johnson Program in Grand and natural resource manage- intern­ship at the British year in Recife, Brazil, as a two classes related to health care: language during my first Yale bique, and Swaziland. While Strategy funded my research ment program.” Parliament in London. Next marketing intern at a local Public Health in France, and summer. Next fall, I will spend at Yale, I studied French in Paris multiple languages and in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea Emmanuel Ramirez, fall, I will spend the semester education NGO serving kids in Literature and Medicine.” the semester at the Film and the summer after my junior year. quickly adapt to new on East Asian politics. I’ve also Psychology Major studying in Copenhagen.” the favelas.” Chloe Sales, Molecular, Cellular, Television School of the Academy This coming summer I will go environments. The global performed with the Yale Kate Aufhauser, History/ Ana Barros, Political Science/ & Developmental Biology Major of Performing Arts in Prague.” to Malawi to conduct research Spizzwinks(?) on six continents, Political Science Major Education Studies Major Jason Cody Douglass, Film Major on the perceptions of health is made local for under- including stops in Auckland, and health care among refugees graduates here. The wide Bangkok, Berlin, Cape in a refugee camp there.” world becomes accessible, Town, Istanbul, Medellín, Sandra Giramahoro, History of known, experienced. With and Zurich.” Science/History of Medicine Major Phil Wilkinson, History/ such experience Yalies Global A≠airs Major can pursue any ambition anywhere in the world.

“I’m from Scranton, Pennsyl­ “I’m from Chicago, Illinois. “I’m from Cleveland, Ohio. “I was born in Amman, Jordan, “I’m from Accra, Ghana. “I’m from Redlands, California. “I’m from Buffalo, New York, vania. After my first year, The summer after my first Following my first year, I studied but now my family lives in Illinois. I spent the summer after my I’ve studied Italian in Italy on but I’ve also lived in the I studied the art and history of year, I interned at a nonprofit in the UK at the London School of The summer after my junior year, sophomore year in Paraty Yale’s Summer Study Program, Philippines. I’ve spent two travel writing in Auvillar, for women and children Economics, just weeks after the I went to the UK to study public and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. and next fall I will be going summers in St. Petersburg France, through Yale Summer in Cochabamba, Bolivia. vote to leave the European Union. health policy, Gothic architecture, Learning to speak Portuguese to Pune, India, taking courses studying Russian language Session. After sophomore year, I coordinated fundraising, Brexit-related discussions as and art at Cambridge University. with Brazilians was one of and doing research in environ­ and culture.” I used my travel writing skills in translated the organization’s students and faculty considered I also went to Port-au-Prince, my favorite aspects of the trip, mental studies.” Joe Bolognese, Economics Dubrovnik, Croatia, where annual report, and played the vote and its aftermath were Haiti, to work with Haitians but I also loved the music, Victoria Montanez, and Math Major I studied the history and culture with the dozens of children fascinating.” displaced by the earthquake.” food, and dancing!” Environmental Studies Major of southeastern Europe.” who attended the daycare.” Emily Amjad, Economics/ Osama Zayyad, Molecular Edwin Edem, Political Science Caitlin Dermody, Sociology Major Vivian Wang, English Major Psychology Major Biophysics & Biochemistry Major Major 74 | places 75 . . . and the youthful Pursuits. society thus formed had promptly and enthusiastically set to work to create its own system of self-improvement, a second or social curriculum.

Yale: A Short History, by George W. Pierson Yale’s first gym was Mission Recent Ivy Titles built in 1826. By the Yale student athletes Baseball “undertake the challenge of Basketball (M) mid-1800s an athletic a high-level education while Heavyweight Crew tradition “dominated the proudly representing Yale Football undergraduate horizon, University in the pursuit Gymnastics (W) Ice Hockey (M) and epic victories were of championships. Through exceptional facilities and Lacrosse (M) celebrated with bonfires coaches, Yale Athletics Coed Sailing under the elms, as the ensures that our students Squash (M) Swimming/Diving (W) classes roared out their learn the important values of leadership, integrity, Volleyball (W) glees from their appointed respect, discipline, respon- perches on the old Yale sibility, and teamwork. The Nationally Ranked Heavyweight Crew fence,” wrote George aspiration is that in the Lightweight Crew course of preparation and Pierson in his history Crew (W) competition, students enter Cross Country (W) of Yale. The Bulldogs of a co-curricular laboratory for Fencing (M, W) today—both men and learning that will fit them Football to lead in all of their future women — compete on 35 Lacrosse (M) endeavors.” teams (of which 29 are Sailing (Coed, W) Excerpted from the Yale Squash (M, W) NCAA Division I) made Athletics Mission Statement Swimming/Diving (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.

78 | pursuits 79 Varsity Teams Equestrian 800+ Baseball Field Hockey (coed) Men’s Basketball Figure Skating Yalies who participate Women’s Basketball Fishing in varsity athletics Men’s Crew (Heavy Golf each year. and Light) Gymnastics (coed) Women’s Crew Men’s Ice Hockey 2,400+ Men’s Cross Country Indoor Climbing Women’s Cross Country Judo Students who Men’s Fencing Kendo participate in intramural­ Women’s Fencing Men’s Lacrosse games through the Field Hockey Women’s Lacrosse residential colleges. Football Muay Thai Men’s Golf Pistol 80% Women’s Golf Polo Women’s Gymnastics Powerlifting The percentage of Men’s Ice Hockey Rifle the student body Women’s Ice Hockey Roundnet (Spikeball) participating in some Men’s Lacrosse Men’s Rugby form of athletic Women’s Lacrosse Women’s Rugby activity each year. Coed Sailing Running Women’s Sailing Skeet & Trap Men’s Soccer Skiing (Alpine) Women’s Soccer Skiing (Nordic) 200+ Olympians Taylor Ritzel ’10, who Softball Men’s Soccer Facilities Carol Roberts More than 200 Yale won gold with the U.S. Men’s Squash Women’s Soccer Field House Yale’s players and coaches women’s eight; Ashley Women’s Squash Squash (coed) Payne Whitney newest athletic facility, have taken part in Brzozowicz ’04, who Men’s Swimming Swimming Gymnasium opening in 2018, is modern Olympic won silver with the and Diving Synchronized At 12 acres, the largest the first dedicated competition, winning Canadian women’s Women’s Swimming Swimming gym in the nation and exclusively to women’s 114 medals, 56 of eight; and Charlie and Diving Table Tennis the second-largest in sports teams: softball them gold. In Beijing Cole ’07, who won Men’s Tennis Tae Kwon Do the world (second only and field hockey. The in 2008, fencer Sada bronze with the U.S. Women’s Tennis Men’s Tennis to a gym in Moscow 5,900-square-foot Jacobson ’06, who men’s four. In 2014 in Men’s Track and Field Women’s Tennis that was modeled building sits between won silver and bronze Sochi, Phoebe Staenz Women’s Track and Triathlon after Yale’s). field hockey’s Johnson for the United States, ’17 won bronze with Field Men’s Ultimate Field and softball’s was one of five Elis the Swiss women’s Women’s Volleyball Women’s Ultimate David S. Ingalls William O. DeWitt competing. In 2010 ice hockey team. Men’s Volleyball Rink seats more Jr. ’63 Family Field. in Vancouver, Natalie Eight Elis competed in Club Sports Women’s Volleyball than 3,000 and is Babony ’06 skated Rio in 2016, in crew, Archery Men’s Water Polo home to Yale’s varsity Championship on the Slovakian fencing, sailing, and Badminton Women’s Water Polo men’s and women’s Golf Course Yale’s women’s ice hockey track and field; and Ballroom Dance Wrestling hockey teams. The own championship team. Yale was four reached the Men’s Baseball Wushu rink is also available golf course, named #1 represented in London quarterfinals with Men’s Basketball for recreational ice College Golf Course in in 2012 by seven the U.S. men’s ice Women’s Basketball Intramurals skating and instruction, America by Golfweek alumni athletes and hockey team in Cricket See page 21 and intramurals. magazine in 2016, is a one coach, including Pyeongchang in 2018. Cycling short distance from the Yale Bowl other athletic facilities, Conferences Handsome Dan A spectacular football in the Westville section Yale takes pride in (1889–present) stadium seating more of New Haven. its broad-based inter­­­­ Yale was the first than 60,000, the collegiate athletic university in the United Bowl is surrounded by Gilder Boathouse program that includes States to adopt a first-rate facilities for The Gilder Boat­­house, competition in the Ivy mascot, and to this indoor and outdoor a 22,000 square foot League Conference and date, none is better tennis, lacrosse, rugby, state-of-the-art facility the Eastern College known than Handsome soccer, field hockey, on the Housatonic Athletic Conference Dan. The tradition softball, baseball, and River, stretches south (ECAC). Most of Yale’s was established by a track and field. to the finish line of intercollegiate contests young gentleman from Yale’s 2,000-meter are against traditional Victorian England, who Reese Stadium race course. east coast opponents attended Yale in the With seating for more with emphasis on 1890s. The original’s than 1,700, Reese McNay Family winning the Ivy League 17 successors have is home to the men’s Sailing Center title. All sports, been the intimates of and women’s soccer Home to Yale’s coed with the exception deans, directors, and teams in the fall, and and women’s varsity of football, have coaches. One was to the men’s and sailing teams, the the ultimate goal of tended by a head women’s lacrosse center houses a fleet qualifying for NCAA cheerleader who went teams in the spring. of 420 racing dinghies, and affiliated post-­ on to become the FJs, Lasers, and five season championships. Secretary of State. safety launches.

80 | pursuits 81 Known as the Dramat, the Yale Really Trying at the Yale School of Dramatic Association is the second- Drama’s University Theatre, one State of the Arts. oldest college theater association of many superb performance venues in the country and the largest under- open to undergraduates. (Playing a major role whether you’re an arts major or not) graduate theater organization at Yale. Here, the group performs How to Succeed in Business Without

Whether you want to become a professional artist, continue a passion, Emily Jenda of Saybrook College try something new, or David Martinez belongs to is majoring in Psychology and simply immerse yourself in Trumbull College and is majoring Theater Studies. In addition to appreciating great theater, in Political Science and Music. participating in Heritage Theater His extracurricular activities Ensemble and the Yale Dramat, music, dance, films, and include theater, a cappella, and she is involved with the Afro- exhibitions, a spectacular swimming. American Cultural Center. array of options awaits you at Yale. Major or take courses in Architecture, Kelsey Sakimoto is a Chemical Engineering major in Ezra Stiles Art, Computing and the College. He partici­pates in the Arts, Film Studies, Music, Will Turner is in Timothy Yale Concert Band, Yale Precision Yael Zinkow is from Bexley, or Theater Studies. Tap Dwight College and is from Marching Band, Ezra Stiles Ohio, and belongs to Saybrook Tampa, Florida. He is a member College Wind Ensemble, College. She sings in the coed into the extraordinary of the Baker’s Dozen, an Daven­port Pops Orchestra, and a cappella group Mixed Company resources of Yale’s Center a cappella group. Yale University Jazz Collective. and is first-year coordinator of for Collaborative Arts and Yale Slifka Center. Media, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale Center for Michael Knowles of Davenport Mark Sonnenblick of Silliman British Art, and world-class College is a contributing reporter College participates in the improv professional schools of Art, for the Yale Daily News and a group Purple Crayon and The Architecture,­ Drama, and member of the Yale Dramat and Yale Record. He also started an Music. Outside the class- the First-Year Class Council. He undergraduate rock band. is also a sta≠ writer for Insider’s room there are more than Guide to the Colleges. 100 officially registered Sam Tsui is a Classical Studies campus-wide arts groups, major in Davenport College. troupes, ensembles, He participates in the a cappella group the Duke’s Men, Yale societies, and publications. Baroque Opera Project, and These organizations cater the Dramat. He is also a Yale to such disparate interests tour guide. as hip-hop, classical chamber music, Chinese Isabel Siragusa is a Theater calligraphy, and fashion Studies major in Davenport Mallory Baysek of Branford design. Many—like the College. She participates in the College is majoring in Classics Yale Glee Club, the Yale Dramat, Yale Drama Coalition, Ming-Toy Taylor is in Timothy and Humanities. Her extracur- Dramatic Association (the Eating Concerns Health and Dwight College and is undecided riculars include theater, serving Outreach, and Reach Out— about her major. She participates on the Yale Dramat Board, and Dramat), the Yale Concert the Yale College Partnership for in theater, tutoring, Roosevelt working at Yale’s Marsh Botanical Band, and the a cappella International Service. Institution, and intramurals. Garden. groups—are part of the long-established, deeply rooted history and lore of From the digital to the classical, Yale College. Within this from the academic to the extra­ curricular, from private lessons to 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.

82 | pursuits 83 Or DIY by acting, Fashion Something Extra performing, singing, Society of Shirt Art The Spizzwinks(?) The Daily Show. staging, writing, producing, presenting, Y Fashion House Sur et Veritaal (A slice of Yale’s creative life during one spring weekend not so long ago) improvising, creating, Tangled Up in Blue Music designing, and getting Undergraduate Choral laughs through more Berkeley College Society than 130 (and count- Orchestra The Unorthojocks ing) student choirs, Blue Feather Drum Records show that the Be hip at the show and menu at the Yale troupes, clubs, groups, Group The Whiffenpoofs first appearance of Friday Yale Belly Dance Cabaret, where Yale School of ensembles, associa- Concordia Flute Whim ’n Rhythm Society “Hips Drama performers are never tions, organizations, a band at Yale was in Ensemble Yale Russian Chorus Lose yourself in the art of against Hunger: more than a few feet away, and societies, and collec- 1775, when a militia the book at the exhibitions 3rd Annual where your waiter one week tives including: Coup de Brass Yale Slavic Chorus

band of Yale students “The Passover Haggadah: Gala Show.” might be on stage the next. Davenport Pops Modern Art in Dialogue Afterward, stop Art/Design Theater accompanied George Krolik Saxophone with an Ancient Text,” “Art by the Morse Washington to Cambridge, Design at Yale Ensemble The Control Group Is Where You Find It,” and Crescent Design for America Yale Good Plays Club Massachusetts. They “Collaboration: The Art of Theater Saturday Low Strung found it “not to their Working Together,” all at at Morse Guild of Bookmakers New Music Cooperative Heritage Theatre Sterling Memorial Library. College to check Get an early start with a Ensemble liking” and returned to Memory Project Saybrook College out the band your Froco morning of music at the Opera Theatre of New Haven one week Photography Society Orchestra is managing and a spoken Woolsey Concerto Competi- Yale College later. From those humble word performance by the tion, where School of Music Political Art Club Single-Reed Society Yale Children’s Theater roots have sprung the Yale Slam team. instrumentalists and singers architect Frank Gehry’s talk Or sleep in and join the Yale Tangent Tiny Baroque Orchestra compete for the opportunity two nights ago, but make Breakers for an afternoon Yale Drama Coalition Yale Concert Band, the YaleMakes of Pierson College to appear as soloists with a plan to come back next of practice. Undergraduate Yale Dramat Yale Symphony Orchestra, Explore the ethical conse- the Philharmonia. Make it a Tuesday for SOA’s Film Series Yale Native American Chamber Orchestra and the incomparable quences of murder with “wry marathon and head to Sprague “The Future is Asian.” Arts Council Comedy/Improv Face your fears at the School irony and consummate skill” Hall in the afternoon to watch Revisit your childhood and Undergraduate Piano Yale Precision Marching The Coven of Architecture’s symposium through two films: Monsieur the broadcast—live in HD— see your suitemates perform Film Collective Band. Such is Yale’s epic “Mobile Anxieties,” featuring Verdoux and Le Boucher, of the Metropolitan Opera’s Pick up subsidized tickets for New Haven’s youngest at Bulldog Productions Vinyl Appreciation Club The Cucumber arts story, peopled by keynote address “Mobility, directed by Charles Chaplin performance of Stravinsky’s provided by your residential the Yale Children’s Theater Yale Animated Arts Yale Concert Band The Exit Players Security and Creativity: The and Claude Chabrol, respec- The Rake’s Progress. college and head into New performance of Robin Hood. icons (Thornton Wilder, Society The 5th Humour Politics and Economics of tively, and loosely based York with friends to see the Or step on stage yourself in Yale Hip-Hop Paul Newman, Maya Global Creative Cities.” What on real-life scandals. Every American Ballet Theatre’s afternoon rehearsals of the Yale Film Society Yale Klezmer Band The Good Show Lin, Jodie Foster, Lupita are the precedents for mobility weekend, and in special confer- production of Fokine’s Les Dramat’s production of Tony Yale Student Cinema Yale Precision Just Add Water in architecture and how are ences and festivals, Films at Sylphides. Or enjoy a night of Kushner’s Angels in America: Nyong’o) and satisfying Club Marching Band Lux Improvitas pretty much any artistic they related to a general sense the Whitney helps foster theater right here on campus Millennium Approaches of unease? Yale’s dynamic film culture at the Yale Repertory (one of 200 student theatrical Dance Yale Symphony The Odd Ducks desire any day of the with free screenings at the Theatre, where lords and productions each year). Orchestra Ballet Folklórico The Purple Crayon week. We picked one Whitney Humanities Center ladies are gathering for Oscar Yale Undergraduate Mexicano Red Hot Poker weekend in spring. Channel your inner Indiana auditorium. Wilde’s comedy of serial Jazz Collective Jones at the Peabody seducers and moralizing Close the weekend with an Ballroom Dance Team Sphincter Yale University Guild Museum’s special exhibition monogamists, A Woman of eclectic mix of live music: the Damhsa of Carillonneurs Tilting at Windmills “Las Artes de México,” with If that’s too highbrow for your No Importance. annual Stan Wheeler Memo- Danceworks The Viola Question artifacts from more than a mood, start your night with Take the Masterpiece Tour rial Jazz Concert at the Law Singing Groups dozen pre-Columbian cultures. the all-ages show at Toad’s at the Yale University Art School; a student Choral A Different Drum Spoken Word Place, then head over to the Gallery (YUAG), stopping Conducting Recital at Battell Dzana The Alley Cats Criterion Cinema’s exclusive into the special exhibitions Chapel; the Great Organ ¡Oye! Groove Dance Asempa(!) Soothe your soul with Insomnia Theater film series, “Colorful Impressions: The Music series at Marquand The Baker’s Dozen Jook Songs Mendelssohn’s Elijah which “brings the best cult Printmaking Revolution Chapel. Or learn some new Jashan Bhangra Teeth Slam Poets performed by Yale’s classics back to the big screen!” in 18th-Century France” and steps in a Swing & Blues Kalaa The Duke’s Men Philharmonia Orchestra, Or shake o≠ Le Boucher “Master Drawings from the Dance Practicum at the Afro- Telltale MonstRAASity Gospel Choir Camerata, and Glee Club. (literally) with the late-night Yale University Art Gallery.” American Cultural Center. Hangarak Voke After lunch at Atticus Café Phoenix Dance Troupe WORD across the street, return for Living Water Rhythmic Blue student guide Susan Morrow’s Enjoy a concert to benefit Sabrosura Magevet Unique talk “Angles on Art.” children’s literacy given by the Mixed Company Sunday Whiffenpoofs, the world’s Shaka Aerial and Circus Arts oldest and best-known Steppin’ Out The New Blue Collective Or gallery-hop from the As a member of the Gospel collegiate a cappella group. Taps Open MYc Anti-Gravity Society School of Art’s Senior Choir, sing at Sunday The Whi≠s are one of Out of the Blue Aquascaping Society Thesis Show Paintings Part I services. more than a dozen Undergraduate Ballet (see Part II on Sunday) to the a cappella groups Company Pitches & Tones Drinkers with a Architecture Gallery for and have UNITY Korean Drum Proof of the Pudding Writing Problem “Painting the Glass House: Help your friend set up her become one and Dance Troupe Redhot & Blue The Freestyle Collective Artists Revisit Modern Archi- paintings at the Despierta of Yale’s most Yale Breakers Y Pop-UP tecture.” As you move through Boricua’s art opening. Come celebrated Shades the gallery, you and your date back for the reception at La and hallowed Yale Rangeela Society of Orpheus and Yale Magic Society rue the fact that you missed Casa later in the afternoon. traditions. Yaledancers Bacchus 84 | pursuits 85 Student Groups Theoretical and Applied Neural American Indian The Science Channel. Computing Science and Engineering Society Undergraduate (Life outside the lab) Mathematics Society American Society of Mechanical Engineers Undergraduate Pre-Veterinary Society Arnold Air Society Undergraduate Bee Space In the early nineteenth Women in Science Bioethics Club century, Yale College Ventures in Science Biomedical became the first school in Volunteers around Engineering Society America to offer a modern the World BulldogHacks science course—chemistry. Women in Chemistry Bulldogs Racing Today, you can major or Women in Physics Code for Good take courses in twenty- Yale Computer Society Code Haven nine STEM disciplines, Yale EMS Community Health Yale iGEM Team from Applied Mathematics Educators to Biomedical Engineering Yale Math Competition Design for America to Neuroscience to Yale Scientific Dimensions Physics. And with 60+ Magazine Energy Club student STEM organi­ Yale Sight Savers Engineers Without Yale STEAM zations on campus, the Borders Yale Student opportunities for extra­ FIRST at Yale curricular activities are Environmental Float Coalition limited only by your Global Medical Yale Undergraduate interests and imagination. Missions Alliance Aerospace Association Join the editorial staff Greenish Yale Undergraduate of Yale Scientific, the HAPPY Computer Building Society nation’s oldest college MathCounts Outreach Yale Undergraduate science publication. Be Medical Professions Intelligent Vehicles one of more than 1,200 Outreach Yale Undergraduate coders participating MedSci Rover Association in YHack, the national MedX Students Yale Undergraduate hackathon established by Minority Association of Science Olympiad three Yale undergraduates. Premedical Students Yale Undergraduate Earn certification as an National Society of “Being a part of YUAA has been Scientific Journal EMT through the student- Black Engineers Association an incredibly formative and fun run Yale Emergency Neuroscience Educa- Yale Undergraduate experience. I went from being tion Undergraduate Medical Services. Travel Society for the a first-year who didn’t know the Research Organization Investigation to Cameroon with the first thing about engineering to Omega Psi into Unexplained Yale chapter of Engineers Phenomena part of the team that won second oSTEM Without Borders to work Yale Undergraduate place in the Intercollegiate Rocket Project Bright on a water distribution Sports Analytics Engineering Competition’s pay­- Public Health project. Tutor New Group load competition for our rocket, Coalition Haven elementary- and YEEBUG: Ecology and Chronos, and our experiment Remedy at Yale Evolutionary Biology middle-school students to test for e≠ects of special and Student Association Undergraduate Group in math. Join the (RYSA) general relativity. Now, as one of YHack Undergraduate Aerospace Society of Physics the organization’s co-presidents, and more Association, featured Students I’m learning about the manage- here, and work in teams Society of Women ment of engineering projects Engineers to build and fly rockets, and working to create a larger Student Partnerships planes, quadcopters, and community of people excited about for Global Health UAVs. Or create a new engineering and science at Yale.” Synapse organization and make Genevieve Fowler Tau Beta Pi your own mark on life TEDx Yale outside the lab at Yale.

86 | pursuits 87 Shared Communities. (Identity, culture, gender, religion, and politics sheltered and nurtured)

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

88 | pursuits 89 Adventist Campus Rivendell Institute Fellowship Saint Thomas More Athletes in Action Undergraduate Council Baha’i Student Sikh Student Association Association Black Church at Yale Slifka Center for Jewish Life Chabad at Yale Thomistic Institute at Chi Alpha Christian Afro-American La Casa Cultural Asian American Native American Yale Fellowship Cultural Center Host to countless cultural, schol- Cultural Center Cultural Center Trinity Baptist Students Christ Presbyterian Afro-America House—known arly, and social events, La Casa What can you do at the AACC? The Association of Native Students Undergraduate as “the House”—opened in 1969 Cultural is an important focus Just about anything: study in Americans at Yale (ANNAY) was Buddhist Sangha as a locus for political, cultural, of Latino student social life at the library, cook for friends, founded in 1989 with the aim Christian Union at Yale Undergraduate and social activities, continu- Yale and a tremendous source of enjoy the widescreen television, of attracting Native American Episcopal Church Deacons ing earlier Yale gatherings that student-community interaction. play Ping-Pong. Established in faculty and scholars; expand- at Yale Founded in 1974 as Casa Boricua, brought black students together 1981, the center promotes Asian ing course o≠erings to include Keeping the Faiths together on a remarkable journey United Church of Inc., it acquired its present name Hindu Students Council to discuss issues pertinent to the American culture and explores Native American history and Yale students come from more of spiritual awakening and human Westville black community. With these three years later. Within the the social and political experience cultural studies; increasing InterFaith Forum United Church on the gatherings, the isolation students three-story, 19th-century red of Asians in the United States. Native American recruitment; than thirty religious and spiritual flourishing.” Located on Old Cam- International Church brick house, students socialize, Green had experienced in the late fifties More than forty undergraduate and creating a permanent head- traditions. Founded as an institu- pus, where most first-years live, at Yale and early sixties gave way to the plan activities, cook together in organizations are a∞liated with quarters for the group. Many of The University Church tion with a Protestant vocation, the Chaplain’s O∞ce coordinates Latter-Day Saints vigorous exchange of ideas now a fully equipped kitchen, and the AACC. Students of Chinese, those goals have been achieved, Yale Christian Yale today welcomes those of any religious life at Yale, supporting Student Association seen at the House. The com- create a warm and robust com- Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South including the establishment Fellowship 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 Luther House a Latino and Latin American Yale Hillel confidence, and consciousness Nepalese, Pakistani, Sri Lankan), Center. ANNAY and the center nurture all in their spiritual jour- faith traditions. It partners with Maimonides Society that students, faculty, the New topic library, computer room, Taiwanese, Thai, Vietnamese, promote Native American cul- Yale Sangha neys. “We consider ourselves quite centers for specific faiths and with Meor at Yale Haven community, and the organizational o∞ces, student and other Asian backgrounds ture and explore issues Native Yale Students for Christ 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- Muslim Students Young Israel House shown in making the Afro- open to New Haven Latinos and Asian American issues as well as include speakers, dinners, lain Sharon M. K. Kugler, “to be nizations, and it o≠ers pastoral Association community-based ESL programs at Yale 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 New Haven Friends essential to Yale, New Haven, for non-English speakers. individual ethnic group issues. and more Orthodox Christian and beyond. seekers, and believers walking programs throughout the year. Fellowship

Intercultural

Afro-American Minority Association La Casa Cultural Sabrosura: Latin India at Yale Undergraduate Affairs Council Cultural Center of Premedical Dance Team Martial Arts Ballet Folklórico Japanese American “One of our generation’s major Students Association African Drum and Mexicano Uruguayan Students Union challenges is to determine how NAACP (Yale chapter) Undergraduates UNITY Korean Drum Dance Brazil Club Jashan Bhangra individuals, communities, or and Dance Troupe National Society Yspaniola Alpha Phi Alpha Club Colombia Jook Songs cultures become marginalized as of Black Engineers Vietnamese Students Arab Students and more the Other, and to actively resist Club of Argentine Kalaa Association (ViSA) Omega Phi Betai Association Students this process,” is how members of Asian American Kasama: The Filipino and more Asempa(!) Rhythmic Blue Cuban-American Cultural Center Club at Yale the Intercultural A≠airs Council Black Church at Yale Shades a Cappella Undergraduate Korean American Native American Alliance for Southeast of Yale College framed a recent Women’s Center Office of LGBTQ Resources Steppin’ Out Student Association Students at Yale Cultural Center Black Men’s Union Asian Students series of events and discussions The center’s mission is to improve The O∞ce of LGBTQ Resources Students of Nigeria De Colores Malaysian and Black Solidarity Asian American American Indian focused on “otherness.” The IAC the lives of all women, especially works to create a visible LGBTQ Singaporean Conference Students of the Despierta Boricua Students Alliance Science and strives to support an inclusive at Yale and in New Haven. As part community that includes students, Diaspora Association (MASA) Engineering Society Black Student Dominican Student Asian Womyn’s and diverse campus environ- of a broader feminist movement, faculty, and sta≠ with a wide variety MonstRAASity (Yale chapter) Alliance at Yale Teeth Slam Poets Association Alliance Association of Native ment that engages in community it works to ensure equal and full of life experiences. It sponsors Black Women’s Undergraduate La Unidad Latina Muslim Students Bridges Americans at Yale dialogue; promotes cultural opportunity for all, regardless and host events, meets one-on-one Coalition Association for Association Latina Women at Yale Chinese American African Peace and Phoenix Dance Blue Feather Drum awareness, respect, and appre- of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, with students, and supports the Caribbean Students Latino Men’s Coalition Students Association Organization Development Troupe Group ciation; and challenges bias on nationality, sexual orientation, student-run LGBTQ Co-op. Latinx Pre-Law Chinese Yale African Students Rangeela Indian Health Delta Sigma Theta Society Undergraduate the basis of race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, back- Initiative De Colores Queer+Asian Association Sanskriti gender, religion, sexual orienta- ground, religion, ability, or age. Dominican Student MEChA Students Yale Christian Yale Native American Engender Sappho Association Hangarak South Asian Society tion, disability, social class, or Fellowship Mexican Student Arts Council Black Women’s Non-Mon/K DOWN Magazine other distinction. Ichthys Sexual Literacy Forum Organization HAPA Student Association Coalition Yale Gospel Choir Yale Sisters of All RALY Dzana of Thais at Yale In the Qloset Spectrum Fellows Organization for Himalayan Students Nations Campus Action Interns Yale West Indian Unite Against Heritage Theatre Racial and Ethnic Association Sur et Veritaal IvyQ Trans@Yale Students Organization and more Circle of Women Sexual Assault Ensemble Openness Hindu Students Taiwanese American oSTEM W{holy} Queer and more Dimensions Women’s Leadership Kappa Alpha Psi ¡Oye! Council Society Pride Corp and more Fierce Advocates Initiative prisme LGBT+ and more Girl Up Yale in New Haven 90 | pursuits 91 Through clubs and New Haven REACH organizations devoted New Haven Urban Di≠erence Makers. to musical cures, devel- Debate League oping clean energy, No Limits (Yale’s incubator of impact and leadership—Dwight Hall) sharing community service methods, social No Lost Generation entrepreneurship, PALS Tutoring and or even scientific Mentoring research, Yalies pursue Project Downtown Leadership and service the greater good. New Haven to society seem inex- Community Public Health Coalition tricably linked at Yale. Service Student RALY Nowhere is that more Groups ReadySetLaunch apparent than at Dwight AIDS Walk New Haven Refugee and Immigrant Hall, the Center for American Red Cross Student Education Public Service and “When I came to Yale, I had no idea Animal Welfare Alliance Remedy at Yale Social Justice founded that I would have so many oppor- Best Buddies Rotaract Club by undergraduates in tunities to serve others and to rise Black Student Alliance SheCode 1886. Dwight Hall is the as a leader. Students design and Bridges ESL She’s the First only nonprofit umbrella implement strategic service and Building Bridges Splash at Yale campus volunteer orga- advocacy projects, come together Camp Kesem Yale Student Environmental nization in the country as a community of friends, and Challah for Hunger Coalition run entirely by students. explore the intellectual possibilities Circle of Women Yale Student Partnerships Students develop new and palpable opportunities of a life CityStep for Global Health initiatives in response of service. I serve on the nonprofit Code for Good Students for Autism to community needs board of directors and have been Awareness Community Health and provide resources, elected to co-lead the student Educators Synapse training, and other cabinet. Work at Dwight Hall is Code Haven Teaching Peace Initiative support services for more much more than volunteering. Demos TeamU than 80 groups ranging It’s a job and a commitment.” Dive In Undergraduate Associ- in scope from tutoring to Amy Rothschild Education and ation for African Peace political activism. With Community Building and Development Dwight Hall’s support, Initiative Undergraduates at CT Elm City Echo Yale undergraduates have Hospice Elmseed Enterprise founded many significant “Through the Yale Hunger Urban Fellows Program Fund community agencies that and Homelessness Action Project Urban Improvement Engineers Without have become a perma- (YHHAP) I have learned how Corps Borders nent part of New Haven’s to e≠ect change with others. Urban Philanthropic Fair Haven Tutoring social service network. YHHAP has broken down my pre- Fund Flyte Scholastics It’s the kind of impact conceptions about hunger and Ventures in Science Girl Up Yale they continue to have homelessness. I’ve learned that Volunteers around Girls on the Run the World post-Yale as they answer poverty is nuanced in its causes Habitat for Humanity the call to serve and and its potential solutions. I am Yale Children’s Theater lead in ways that are continually blown away by the HAPPY Yale Refugee Project uniquely their own. energy and compassion that Hear Your Song Yale SEED “It’s one thing to take classes on experience I have had here. It is drive my fellow YHHAP members. Hunger and Homeless- Yale Sight Savers world issues and philanthropy and a three-year program that allows ness Action Project Dwight Hall allows me to feel Yale Undergraduate community involvement theory, me to have a sustained mentoring Instrumental Prison Project like a citizen of New Haven—more Connection but through Dwight Hall I’ve relationship with a student at a Yale Undergraduates educated about its flaws and gotten a pragmatic idea about local elementary school. I plan to Knit One Give One for UNICEF appreciative of its many opportu- issues that exist in New Haven, go into finance post-Yale and then A Leg Even Y2Y New Haven nities than I ever anticipated.” across the country, and around the work to improve the education Living History Project and more Eliza Schafler 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.” Matriculate Mind Matters ing Program. Without question Bradford Williams MEChA Peer Liaisons it has been the most rewarding MedSci Walden Musical Bulldogs Collective

92 | pursuits 93 Retired general Stanley McChrystal the staff of the Yale Scientific, leading a Yale Political Union America’s oldest college science The Student Voice. discussion. And, left to right: an publication, at the foot of Science editorial board meeting at DOWN Hill; getting the shot for YTV; a (Overheard at Yale—politics and publications) Magazine, an online publication brainstorming session for the next by and for students of color; at issue of the Politic, a journal of work in the Yale Daily News office; politics and culture.

Speaking up and speak- Political Publications Organizations ing out are Yale traditions, Accent Multilingual as you’ll see if you pick ACLU of Yale Magazine up a copy of the Yale Alexander Hamilton Black Sheep Magazine Society Daily News (America’s The Boola Asian American Studies oldest college daily) or Broad Recognition Task Force attend a debate hosted China Hands The Conservative Party by the Yale Political DOWN Magazine Disability Empower- Hippopotamus Literary Union (the largest ment for Yale Magazine undergraduate organiza- The Egalitarian Society tion on campus, founded Journal of Literary The Federalist Party Translation in 1934). Opportuni- A Female Future Kalliope ties for discussion and FWD Yale The Logos expression outside the The Independent Party Mogul for Yale classroom are limitless J Street U The New Journal here. Be an investigative The Liberal Party The Politic reporter or beat blogger MEChA Rumpus for the Yale Globalist and Middle Eastern Standby join its annual outreach Resolution through Yale Banner trip abroad. Write about Education, Action, groundbreaking STEM and Dialogue The Yale Daily News research at Yale for the Party of the Left The Yale Daily News Magazine Yale Scientific, or about Party of the Right Yale Economic Review bioethics and healthcare Peace and Dialogue Leadership Initiative Yale Entrepreneurship economics for the Yale Magazine Students for a New Journal of Medicine & American Politics Yale Free Press Law. Hone your talent Students for Justice Yale Global Health for satire at the Yale in Palestine Review Record, the country’s The Tory Party The Yale Globalist oldest college humor West Wing Weekly The Yale Herald magazine. In politics, William F. Buckley, Jr. The Yale Historical Yale students identify as Program at Yale Review staunch conservatives, Yale Animal Welfare Yale Journal of radical liberals, diehard Alliance Human Rights monarchists, and nearly Yale College Democrats Yale Journal of Medicine & Law everything in between. Yale College But even when they dis- Republicans Yale Literary Magazine agree, a strong sense of Yale Energy Club Yale Philosophy Review community allows them Yale Israel Public The Yale Record Affairs Committee to engage each other in Yale Review of Yale Ivy Council International Studies vigorous debate. It’s easy Yale Model Congress Yale Scientific to see why so many Yale Magazine Yale Political Union alums have gone on to Yale Socially Respon- Yale Undergraduate shape conversations on sible Investments Legal Aid Association the national and inter­ Journal Yale Undergraduate Yale Undergraduate national level. Young Democratic Journal of Economics Socialists and Politics and more and more 94 | pursuits 95 The Particulars.

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