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admissions.yale.edu *A Guide to Yale College, 2014–2015 A Guide to Yale College This is Yale. We’re glad you asked. Elm City State of the Political p. 90 | p. 102 | p. 114 | Run. Arts. Animals. On a run From the digital Welcome YPU Lives. from East Rock to to the classical, Yale’s to the , one of Freshman p. 10 | Old Campus, one spectacular arts options. Yale’s most enduring Diaries. Yale’s newest student explains institutions. The Daily students chronicle a why New Haven is p. 104 | Show. Keeping the week in the first year the perfect size. A slice of Yale’s p. 116 | Faiths. and give some advice. creative life during one Nurturing Here, There, p. 92 | spring weekend. the spiritual journeys Everywhere. of all faiths. Shared Fourteen Yalies, where p. 106 | Communities. Difference they’re from, and Yale’s p. 118 | Makers. where they’ve been. tradition of Cultural Through Houses and a∞nity Dwight Hall, students organizations and find their own paths Anatomy of a p. 14 | centers. to service and leader- Residential College. ship in New Haven. Delving into the Pursuits. Bulldog! layers of Yale’s unique p. 98 | Bulldog! Bow, residential college Wow, Wow! system (12 gorgeous stand-alone “colleges”). Playing for Yale— Apply. Two, Three, Connect the The Good p. 52 | p. 66 | The Game, the mission, p. 122 | Four, Five Heads Dots. News about the Studies. From start-up the teams, the fans, A Liberal Are Better Than ELIterati. Cost of Yale. p. 34 | capital and internships and, of course, p. 110 | Education. One. Yale’s Synergy to top fellowships Handsome Dan. Why Elis are just Recent changes to Yale’s educational philosophy, and study groups. and a worldwide so darned determined financial aid policies more than 80 majors, network of alumni, to publish. eliminate the need the meaning of Yale positions for loans and make Sustainable breadth, and some graduates for success p. 112 | Yale a≠ordable for all. U. startling numbers. in the real world. Where Blue is The Green. p. 123 | College Particulars. p. 38 | Meets University. How to apply, what An undergraduate road we look for, and map to the intersection Places. visiting campus. Next-Gen of Yale College and p. 54 | Knowledge. the University’s gradu- For p. 74 | Inspired ate and professional Yalies, one-of-a-kind by Icons. schools. resources make all the di≠erence. Why Blue Booking. p. 40 | architecture When parties and matters. shopping are academic. Bright Noah p. 24 | Plus: shopping lists p. 86 | College Years. Webster Lived and special programs. Here. In many ways friend- Bumping Eavesdrop-­ Think Yale. ship defines the p. 44 | p. 60 | into history at Yale. ping on Professors. Think World. Yale experience. One Eight Nine Squares. student sums it up: Why being an amazing Elis define “global p. 88 | “It’s about the people, place to teach makes citizen” and share The modern univer­- not the prestige.” Yale an amazing place their pivotal moments sity, the cosmopolitan to learn. abroad. college town.

4 5 Lives. Yale is at once a tradition, a company of scholars, a society of friends. Yale: A Short History, by George W. Pierson (Professor, Yale Department of History, 1936–73)

8 lives 9 | Brandon Sharp Preorientation Freshman Programs Counselors The Hometown Several optional Freshman Counselor OH Solon, preorientation programs (a.k.a. Froco) Program Freshman Diaries. Anticipated Major give new students a was established in (Life in the first year) chance to meet each 1938 and has been Political Science and International Studies (now Global A≠airs) other prior to the formal an intrinsic and Freshman Orientation. essential component of Yale’s advising From the moment they Cultural Connections system for freshmen arrive, freshmen are (CC) introduces fresh- ever since. Each One thing that surprised me men to Yale’s cultural first-year student is able to dive into all that resources and explores assigned a counselor Yale has to offer. In part was how well Yale handled the the diversity of student who acts as a guide this is because so many experiences on campus, through the transition with emphasis on the to life at Yale. Frocos programs are in place rooming. I certainly didn’t imagine experiences of students are a diverse group specifically to welcome of color and on issues of seniors who are and guide first-year my roommate, from Dublin, related to racial identity. friends/mentors/ students— from pre- problem-solvers— Ireland, would become one of Freshman Outdoor but not supervisors orientation to freshman Orientation Trips or disciplinarians. counselors (Yale seniors) my best friends. (FOOT) offer six-day All freshmen except to Freshman Seminars and four-day back­ those in Timothy packing trips for all Dwight and Silliman (small classes taught levels in the mountains live together on On preorientation: by some of Yale’s most I had a other key factors, but ultimately and hills of Vermont, Old Campus during New Hampshire, New their first year, and prominent professors) lot of help from upperclassmen the most important part of choos- to parties. We caught up York, Massachusetts, Frocos live among friends in terms of getting adjusted ing a school was being comfortable and Connecticut, led them. (Freshmen with three freshmen in and choosing classes, but I also with the people you will be around by upperclassmen. are grouped in Old between their first and did Cultural Connections, which for the next four years of your life. Trip leaders have Campus residences second semesters. Here extensive training in by college affiliation, I thought was a great experience As for the classes, perhaps I got keeping FOOTies safe which allows all they share advice on not just for people of color, but for lucky, but I thoroughly enjoyed and healthy in the freshmen no matter money, independence, everyone. I think it is the right way my classes first semester. The back­country and are their college affilia- experienced counselors tion to get to know and schedules; reflect First Year’s Classes to be introduced to all that is Yale. professors I had were brilliant yet on their own freshman who offer a wealth of each other.) A Monday > Introduction to Political approachable and presented mater­ support, advice, and On Freshman Seminars: expectations; and record Philosophy friendship. in the life of > International Ideas and ial in a challenging and interest- a day in their lives 10:45 am Wake up and shower. Institutions: Contemporary I would recommend applying to ing manner. I have found that in during the first year. Harvest begins at the 11:35 Challenges the Seminars for the fall. From this short semester I have grown Yale Farm, and then Political Philosophy (one of > Elementary Modern Standard groups of freshmen my favorites, in which we what I hear, they are amazing. significantly intellectually. Arabic (both semesters) led by upperclassmen discuss great works by authors > Introduction to the Elements On extracurriculars: head off to spend such as Aristotle, Hobbes, of Music (intro music theory) Unlike five days on family- and Tocqueville). > Africa since 1800 high school, you really can’t do owned organic farms 12:35 pm > Intensive Elementary Lunch with some friends from in Connecticut. Portuguese everything, so narrowing down Pierson College who take > Calculus of Functions of early on what you want to do Political Philosophy with me. Orientation for One Variable II in terms of extracurriculars is a International Students 1:30 WLH > Elementary Studies in Analysis Arabic and then run to good idea. (OIS) is a four-day (William L. Harkness Hall) and Composition I (music) program designed to for Music Theory because we Activities On expectations: ease the transition of get out a little late. Many factors international students > Shades A coed a cappella singing 2:30 went into my decision to come to the United States, Music Theory. group that focuses on African- and to acquaint them American music; started in 1988 to Yale, but the most important 4:00 with academic life and Back to my room, talk to Matt, were the people and the culture. by a small group of Yale freshmen culture at Yale. It is my roommate. at the Cultural Connections First, I wanted a place that had a organized and led by preorientation program. 6:00 strong black community because international upper- Matt and I go to dinner at > Yale Black Men’s Union Trumbull. that was something I was missing classmen with support > Club Squash from the Office of 7:00 > Black Student Alliance at Yale in high school. Second, I saw an Black Men’s Union meeting International Students > Battell Chapel Choir Conducted where we have a guest speaker. underlying sense of humility in the and Scholars. by graduate choral conducting 8:30 culture of Yale that is uncommon Club Squash practice. students; the choir sings for Sunday University Church services in at schools of its caliber. The well- 10:30 Back to the room for reading Battell. established music community and and sleep. International Studies major were 10 lives 11 | Zuzana Culakova Oscar Pocasangre A Friday A Thursday Hometown Hometown NY, Rochester, by way of Slovakia in the life of San Salvador, El Salvador in the life of 9:15 am 9:00 am Anticipated Major Wake up, check e-mail, get Anticipated Major Comparative Latin American ready for classes. Politics: Get ready to take a lot Chemistry (although I may change to Economics, Political Science 9:40 of notes! Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Walk to Commons, eat 10:15 or Chemical Engineering) breakfast, skim notes for chem. Breakfast. At Berkeley College, 10:30 I usually get a bagel, mu∞ns, First Year’s Classes Freshman Organic Chemistry, wa±e, or fruit and yogurt, and with Professor McBride, > Freshman Organic Chemistry orange juice. At Commons, who always gives interesting (both semesters) 6:45 am. Wake up, shower, and walk I get pancakes, hash browns, lectures. He usually has a demo > Lab for Freshman Organic and occasionally a soft-serve that goes with the lecture. One Chemistry (both semesters) to Payne Whitney for archery practice. ice cream. day, to demonstrate how much > Perspectives on Science and 10:30 Engineering (both semesters) of a di≠erence there is between I go back to my room and > Linear Algebra and Matrix isomers, he passed around vials work on homework or an Theory with the two di≠erent isomers assigned reading. That is, > Intermediate Microeconomics of carvone—one smelled like when I don’t end up talking > French Advanced Language caraway and the other like with people on the floor. spearmint, even though they 11:35 Practice II French class: a small class only di≠er in the direction > Ordinary and Partial where we practice French in which one hydrogen atom Di≠erential Equations with through class discussions of is pointing. Applications di≠erent novels, short stories, 11:20 > Environmental Engineering: Walk back to my suite to finish and films. Aquatic Chemistry my Perspectives on Science and 12:25 pm Run to lunch at one of the Engineering homework with Activities residential colleges, usually my suitemate. Berkeley. The cool thing about > Ramona Club Ultimate Frisbee 12:45 pm > Demos Volunteering to do Lunch in Silliman with some of eating at the dining halls is demos and to teach science to New my friends and suitemates. that you always meet up with 1:30 a friend or someone you know. Haven elementary schoolers Perspectives on Science and 1:00 Engineering discussion section. Statistics for Political Science: On alternating weeks, lectures Standard deviation? Multi- by Yale faculty about their linear regression? Multicol- If you know that you are interested current research, and then linearity among regressors? discussions in smaller sections. Yes, yes, and yes. We learn 2:45 PWG about statistical tools that you Rush over to (Payne in science or research, Perspectives on can apply to political studies, Whitney Gymnasium) for such as in election polls. Frisbee practice. Catch the bus Science and Engineering is an excellent 2:30 to the IM (intramural) fields. Have a co≠ee with a friend, go Cleat up and play—we to o∞ce hours, and/or work way to explore di≠erent fields and get usually practice throwing and grading Spanish homework catching, drills and scrimmage. assignments. a feel for what you would like to study. 6:00 On adjusting: First Year’s Classes 6:00 Catch the IM bus back to A di≠erent  The Yale Globalist, meet- campus. Dinner with the team, culture, di≠erent weather, and > Microeconomics with ing over dinner. We usually On orientation: usually in Pierson. Environmental Applications discuss possible themes for the One of the most ing as it relates to repairing spinal 7:00 a di≠erent language, but the > Comparative Latin American next issue, evaluate the previ- Shower, chat with my enjoyable and exciting parts of the injuries. transition was not hard because Politics ous issue, or talk with journal- suitemates and friends in the > Intermediate and Advanced ists about how to improve the year. Take advantage of this time adjoining suite, and try to get of the help I got from the O∞ce On dances: French magazine. without academic responsibilities Every freshman some work done. of International Students and > Introductory Statistics for 7:30 9:00 Time to go to the library to do to explore everything that Yale should attend at least one dance, Attend a performance. One of other students. I also did Political Science problem sets or readings. my friends is always perform- > Reading and Writing the has to o≠er and to meet as many like the fall semiformal where an amazing preorientation for 10:00 people as you can. suitemates set each other up on ing in something—Glee Club, International Students. Modern Essay Hang out with friends, have opera, or Davenport Pops. > Political Psychology random conversations, go to blind dates and devise awkward 12:00 am > The Modern Unconscious a party, a play, or go to get a On Perspectives on Science Every Friday at midnight fresh- On Old Campus and Frocos: and embarrassing ways for the > Introductory Macroeconomics late-night snack. men on my floor crowd into and Engineering: > Calculus of Functions of 1:30 am All of the couple to meet. In the hours our freshman counselor’s suite Living on Old Campus with almost (Sometimes it’s 3 or 4 am) Go One Variable lecture topics are fascinating. before the dance, Old Campus is to catch up and eat pizza. all other freshmen gives you a great to bed and get some sleep! 1:00 Activities We had lectures from a range of a display of strangely clothed Bedtime, especially if I have a way to know people from all the disciplines, including quantum people, some serenading outside tournament on Saturday. colleges. Frocos are freshman > The Yale Globalist computing, looking for new and their date’s window or looking counselors. They become friends International a≠airs magazine > International Student novel microbes and drugs in the for their lost shoe (or other item who give great advice. The cool Organization AIESEC rain forest, and tissue engineer- of clothing), Cinderella-style. thing is that although you have your > We help find internships own Froco, you end up being helped all over the world for Yalies. > Yale Club Archery by them all. 12 lives 13 | The Courtyard The image of Vincent Scully, Rogers transformed the secret garden was architect Yale into a loose association of James Gamble Rogers’s inspiration “little paradises.” for the courtyards around which Anatomy of a Residential College. each residential college is designed. (Yale has no dormitories) According to legendary art historian and Yale professor emeritus

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

Yale’s college that had meant so much to system is him would diminish. In 1927 the early- Harkness and his friend, fellow 20th-century Eli and architect James Gamble B.A. brainchild of Rogers ( 1889), made a philanthropist “secret mission” to England to and alumnus study Oxford and Cambridge Edward S. Universities’ collegiate system. B.A. Harkness ( 1897). Archi­ “The men came back convinced,” tecture critic Paul Goldberger writes Goldberger, that dividing tells us in Yale in New Haven: the undergraduate body into Architecture and Urbanism (Yale a series of residential colleges University, 2004) that Harkness, “was the best route to preserving like many alumni of his genera- the network of Yale-inspired tion, took pleasure in Yale’s connections” that had been so growing international 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 twelve close bonds between students colleges opened.

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

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

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

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

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

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

20 lives 21 | Decoding the Colleges. Spine-Tyngling Fun. (Residential College rundown) (Intramural sports) Fall So you played sports in high the college accumulating the College Shield Architecture Style Points How We Boola Boola Also Known As Golf Coed school but aren’t quite hardcore greatest number of points through Football Men, Coed Berkeley Collegiate Gothic, Delicious reputation: as test Annual snowball fight, Berkeleyites enough to suit up for the Bulldogs. intramural play, was first presented Volleyball Coed with a touch of kitchen for Yale’s Sustain- North Court vs. South You’re in luck. The residential in 1933. The Tyng continues Tennis Coed Tudor; built in 1934 able Food Project, Berkeley Court college intramural scene o≠ers a to be the most coveted of all intra­ Soccer Men, Women pioneered a sustainable Cross Country Men, Women menu for all the colleges chance to continue your career mural awards, spawning com- Table Tennis Coed Branford Collegiate Robert Frost described Independence Day, when Branfordians at a surprisingly high level of petitive rivalries that make IMs a Winter Gothic; opened our courtyard as “the most Branford declares its competition or to start playing a way of life for former high school Squash Men, Women 1933; home beautiful college courtyard independence from Yale new sport—not to mention a way all-stars and P.E. dropouts alike. Hoops Men, Women to Harkness in America” in a day of barbecues Volleyball Men, Women Tower and and parties to prove that your college reigns Much of the above first appeared in “Intramu- Ice Hockey Coed its bells supreme. The Tyng Cup, annually rals at Yale are spine-Tyngling fun” by Aaron Inner Tube Coed Calhoun awarded for overall excellence to Lichtig (1999) writing for the Yale Herald. Collegiate Gothic; The Cabaret in the base- Trolley Night: Clang, ’Hounies Water Polo Coed opened in 1933 ment, with hugely popular clang, clang goes the party; Bowling Coed student shows ’Hounfest Swimming Davenport Spring One of its facades The Gnome, who watches Davensports! D-porters a.k.a. D’Port is Collegiate over us, when he’s not Dodgeball Coed Gothic, the other is being abducted; our Badminton Coed Georgian; opened own orchestra, the Soccer Coed in 1933 DPops; late nights at Ultimate Coed the Dive grill Softball Coed Billiards Coed Timothy Georgian; opened Bluegrass music, art studio, TD’s motto and cheer is Golf Coed Dwight in 1935 beat poetry: the laid-back “Àshe!” which means “We Volleyball Coed a.k.a. TD alternative make it happen” in Yorùbá TD-ers

Jonathan Collegiate Gothic; Our amazing letterpress; Great Awakening Fall Spiders Edwards opened in 1933 Tyng Cup winners Festival; the formal a.k.a. JE three years in a row Spider Ball; JE SUX! More than Oolong. Morse Modern; designed Our sculpture, All-day Apple Bakefest Morsels (Master’s Teas) by Eero Saarinen; Lipstick (Ascending) in the Master’s House Q&A built in 1961 with a on Caterpillar Tracks, by kitchen; Great Morse Master’s Teas are informal ’s 14-story tower and Claes Oldenburg Easter Egg Hunt hosted by the masters of each no right angles residential college and often Pierson Georgian; Wrestling in the Jello Pit Tuesday Night Club, a Piersonites cohosted by campus organizations built of Justice on Pierson Day; college-wide party to help such as the Film Society or the in 1933 our cheer: P is for the P make it through the early Yale Daily News. The teas give small in Pierson College, I is for part of the week the I in Pierson College … groups of students an intimate Saybrook opportunity to pick the brains of Collegiate Gothic; We’re in a chase scene Party in the “12 Pack” Saybrugians world leaders, thinkers, and talents. completed in 1933 in the latest Indiana and always respond Jones movie; our own “Saybrook!” when asked, Members of the hosting college Chamber Orchestra “Say what?” get first dibs on front-row seats. (known as SYChO) Calhoun Silliman Recent guests and executive director of the Council on David Pogue, New York Times Varied: Collegiate Biggest college; biggest Sunday music brunch, a Sillimanders CEO Trumbull American-Islamic Relations. technology columnist; Sue Morelli, , Gothic; modified courtyard; winner of feast of sound and taste; Lois Lowry, author of The Giver; Ezra Stiles Au Bon Pain; Whoopi Goldberg, comedian, French Renaissance, cooking and spirit prizes the Ball on College and Joan Acocella, dance and book reviewer Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize- actress, and political activist; Jason Moran, Georgian; at Final Cut (Yale’s “Iron Wall, a spring classic for The New Yorker; Biz Stone, co-founder winning author and MacArthur Fellow; jazz pianist; Steven Schwartz, Broadway completed in 1940 Chef”) of Twitter; Ashraf Swelan, adviser to the Martha Stewart, businesswoman, author, composer and lyricist. Minister of Foreign A≠airs of Egypt. and television show host; Cesar Pelli, Ezra Stiles Morse Modern master- Our memorial Medieval (K)night Stilesians Branford renowned architect; Ed Norton, actor and Mark Penn, author of Microtrends Robert Pinsky, former U.S. piece, designed moose mascot in the Festival; Baby Animal director; Howard Dean, former presidential and adviser to the Clintons, Tony Blair, and poet laureate; Chris Bridges, a.k.a. by Eero Saarinen; Dining Hall; annual Petting Zoo in the candidate and chair of the Democratic Party. Bill Gates; Bobby Lopez, composer and Ludacris, rapper and actor; Howard Shore, opened in 1962 Student Film Festival courtyard Davenport lyricist of Avenue Q; Malcolm Gladwell, film composer. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Trumbull author of The Tipping Point and Blink. Quintessential Yale/ Potty Court, where our Rumble in Trumbull the ’Bulls Silliman Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; Denzel Washington, Academy Jonathan Edwards ABC Collegiate Gothic; gargoyle “Thinker” is (bounce-house “fights”); Carole King, singer, song­writer, activist; Katie Couric, Award-winning actor, producer, and completed in 1933 enthroned and decorated Pamplona (running of Mike Gordon, guitarist, Phish; Margaret News correspondent and talk show host; director; Brandon Scott Sessoms, gay every year the [Trum]Bulls around Cho, comedian; Dr. Ruth Westheimer, sex Jason Alexander, actor; Michael Pollan, blogger, celebrity commentator, and campus) expert, author, and talk show host; Garry author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma; Gary Internet personality; Nihad Awad, activist Trudeau, cartoonist, Doonesbury. Beach, Tony Award-winning actor. 22 lives 23 | Bright College Years. (Defining Yale through friendship)

“Time and change shall naught Brett and Jamie avail / To break run together every the friendships morning. formed at Yale.” from “Bright College Years,” Yale’s alma mater Brett It’s no accident that has been friends playwright John Guare, since freshman Pat who wrote Six Degrees year with of Separation (theorizing (below), who that everyone in the world credits Brett with “encour- is connected by no more aging me to than five friends of other write for The friends), went to Yale. As New Journal, which I love.” senior Travis Nelson says, that kind of connected- ness — which morphs into new friendships and Brett Brown “Sophomore year Jamie asked me affects other interactions if I wanted to go on a run, which (above left) down the line —“is what Hometown was funny, because even the Yale feeds on.” Recogniz- ky shuttle races for the Presidential Murray, ing one’s unique impact Major Physical Fitness test were not Music on people here and their Activities my thing in elementary school. Yale impact on you is central to But she’s so cool, so I decided Herald, various the Yale experience. These Neil Chheda chamber groups, “My freshman year, my very first convinced me to come out to to run with her. Our sophomore music perfor- bonds very often begin in (at head of table) class was in the basement of a an information session for a year, we ran every morning. It mances, ran the residential colleges Hometown NYC Marathon building far away from everything consulting firm… mostly because NY was one of the best parts of the (you’ll soon learn all roads Great Neck, Neil last year Jamie else. I was lost, but found another it’d be fun to hang out over free meets day. We’d wake up at seven in stays at lead to the residential col- Major Pat freshman-looking wanderer (delicious) food at the Omni his Model the morning, and run for an hour ’s house in leges). The eleven friends Political Science outside the building. I took a Hotel in downtown New Haven Congress up to East Rock. It was never Boston during on these pages all belong Activities friends every the Harvard- chance and got lucky… he was in instead of going to the dining Wednesday anything that I would have done Yale game. to Timothy Dwight Col- Yale Model night at the same class, and we eventually hall. As it turns out, Matt and I Congress, Yale otherwise. And then we ran the lege. Here they talk about Yorkside found the room together. It was both worked for that consulting Debate Association, New York Marathon. I hated her chance meetings, their restaurant. a small seminar, and so Matt and firm over the summer, and Yale World that day. She was loving it. She impact on one another, I became friends over the course have decided (not o∞cially yet, Fellows Program was in front of me the entire and friendship in the of the semester. That year, we though) to go back and work for time, saying, ‘Brett, isn’t this Ivory Tower. both decided to join Yale Model the same firm after graduation. awesome?’ And I’d be like, ‘Do Congress as a fun break from I think this just goes to show not talk to me.’” class. Over the years, it has that friendships at Yale happen Brett Freshman become a primary extracurricular anywhere in any situation… and Neil Jamie year, lived was activity for both of us; he was can bring a turn of events that TJ across the hall ’s (above) Brett president last year, I am this year. you never could have predicted. from and freshman TJ Neither of us had the slightest That rocks.” , who were dance blind interest in consulting, but Matt Neil roommates. date. 24 lives 25 | Met at Yale

Bob Woodward and John Kerry George W. Bush and Garry Trudeau Jamie Hillary Rodham Clinton (right) Elise and Bill Clinton met (below) Sigourney Weaver even before and Meryl Streep freshman year Angela Bassett started, during and Tony Shalhoub FOOT , a Frances McDormand preorientation and David Henry backpacking Hwang trip. According to Elise, “Jamie Jodie Foster and basically car- Jennifer Beals ried/coaxed/ David Duchovny and encouraged me Paul Giamatti up the side of Edward Norton and Mt. Washing- Jennifer Connelly ton, the tallest peak in the Northeast, on one of the first days I’d ever Jamie met her. “One day freshman fall, about Redman She’s great!” eight of us decided to journey up (above) to Morse for our first Master’s Hometown WA Tea—I think it was the producer Spokane, of Sex and the City. However, we Major History of were quickly waylaid by what we Science, History of Medicine found in the courtyard. During the Activities night, TD’s huge gingko tree had Yale Women’s Crew completely changed colors, and (two-time now the TD courtyard was covered National with vibrant yellow leaves. We Champions, had a little bit of extra time, so we Undefeated Sea- son, First Team started an impromptu leaf fight. All-American, Bit by bit, more people were drawn Jessica Academic outside to join in the fun. Soon, All-American) “Jess” the entire courtyard was filled “Students at Yale are doing Notebaert with dozens of students laugh- Jess (above left) incredible work, they are ing, taking pictures, jumping, and became Through friends with Hometown mutual friends all-around frolicking in the bright Brett after NY involved in a million in Timothy yellow leaves. The Master’s Tea was New Hartford, frequently Dwight Major forgotten; two hours and several crashing History activities, but at the end of College who hundred pictures later, with leaves his “sibling Activities are admission lunches” with tour guides and stuck in our hair and clothing, Yale Daily News, the day, it’s the friendships­ STEP his older (Student Master’s Aide, we all trouped into the dining hall sister and their Task Force intramurals, that matter. It’s that sense for dinner.” friends. Environmental giving swim Jamie Partnership) Elise lessons of priority that changes (above) coordinators, Tori Jess and were became suitemates everything.” friends with Tori Jess Ayaska freshman year and Jess Jamie (by chance) lived in the says (center), an Jess and chose to same entryway she and admission tour guide, and be roommates freshman year “bonded play- Alice (right), again their and on the ing intramural STEP sophomore same floor Inner Tube a year. junior year. Water Polo.” coordinator. 26 lives 27 | Who Goes to Yale Sarah Sarah and (below 1,320 in a typical Travis became right) is a entering class friends freshman member of Students from all year playing Low Strung, a 50 states soccer in the TD cello ensemble courtyard. that plays 80+ countries classic rock. 51% men According to Jamie 49% women , “Every concert since 41% minority students freshman 10% international year, we go students to Sarah’s 57% from public concerts, sit schools en masse, and give her 43% from private or a standing parochial schools ovation after 57% receive need- her solos.” based financial aid 97% of incoming freshmen ranked in the top tenth of high school graduating class Travis Tori (center) and 99% of freshmen return TJ Sarah and are were sophomore year die-hard roommates 32% major in the Arts intra­mural junior year. and Humanities players, vying When they ran for IM glory into each other 41% major in the in the name on York Street, Social Sciences of Timothy Sarah intro- 27% major in the Dwight duced Tori to Biological and Physical College. her friend. Sciences 96% graduate within Travis Victoria “When I got here I thought, ‘I will and it’s what I love about this “Yale friends are family. Since we five years Nelson “Tori” Tate learn everything at once.’ Against place. People ask me do I have any are all away from home, we are 88% live on campus the advice of my college dean I complaints about Yale? And the (above center) essentially each other’s love and (above center) 50% have jobs on Hometown Hometown campus

took the hardest classes I could only one is it gets cold here in the OR support—the kind you usually CA 13% earn double and kind of burnt myself out. winter. Because I can’t imagine a Coos Bay, would get at home, except better, Compton, Major Major majors But throughout the year I started better group of people to spend Math because there’s no one to tell you Molecular, and Philosophy Cellular, and Over 80% participate to learn that that’s actually not these four years with. Each person Activities when to brush your teeth or when Developmental in community service what Yale is all about. It’s the is such an integral part of the to go to bed. I have formed closer Biology Over 70% participate Intramural Activities in intercollegiate or classes, yes. And the skill set for community. You’ll run into groups sports, Master’s relationships with people here intramural athletics your studies—all that happens. here or there. Two groups will Aide, Freshman than I ever have before. My life is Freshman Travis TJ Over 90% of science , , But the people skills—that’s come together at some random Counselor, better and blessed because of Counselor, Delta Neil majors undertake and all various band Sigma Theta something I don’t think you can point, meet, and new friendships the relationships that have formed research with a faculty had the same stu≠ (personal, Sorority Inc., get anywhere else. The learning to will be made. Some won’t be kept over the past four years. I know mentor Freshman not a∞liated Visions of Virtue Counselor, interact in this whole Ivory Tower up, but you’ll run into that person with Yale) that I will be friends with them for Mentoring Over 60% of graduates “an amazing environment is just phenomenal later on or that interaction will the rest of my life.” Group, Women’s ultimately earn M.D.s, Water Polo guy named a≠ect the next interaction. All that Tori J.D.s, M.B.A.s, or Ph.D.s Len Cho,” says Travis. kind of mixing and interaction is “Now TJ and what Yale really feeds on.” Jerry I are following (right) Travis Travis in his footsteps cuts ’s as Freshman hair. Actually, Counselors.” since freshman Brett Tori Brett year he’s been met and Jess Travis cutting all and became friends Travis the guys’ hair. work because Travis freshman year He says it’s a together as had a crush because he was good way to Master’s Aides on a girl who close friends catch up with and IM secre- lived upstairs with her his friends. taries for TD. from him. suitemates. 28 lives 29 | Studies. Yale is an institution rich in the traditions of scholarship, abounding in the joys of learning. But a liberal education is not simply given to you. You must actively pursue it. Take every advantage of the treasures here at Yale. The world is all before you. Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University, 1993–2013

33 | A Liberal Education. (Freedom to think)

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

34 studies 35 | Major German Studies Departments Global Affairs and Programs Greek, Ancient & African American Modern Studies History 3+3=breadth 1:1 African Studies There is no specific class you have to take at Classes range from History of Art American Studies Yale, but students are required to learn broadly one-on-one tutorials 15,000,000+Holdings in Yale’s library, making History of Science, Student-to- and deeply. Depth is covered in one’s major. to a small seminar to a Anthropology Medicine, & Breadth is covered by taking courses in three study lecture course of several it the third-largest university library Applied Mathematics Public Health 6:1 Applied Physics Humanities faculty ratio. areas (the humanities and arts, the sciences, and hundred students. system in the United States. the social sciences) and three skill areas (writing, Archaeological Studies Italian quantitative reasoning, and foreign language). Architecture Judaic Studies Art Latin American Astronomy Studies Linguistics 79%Of Yale College Astronomy & Physics courses enroll fewer Yale’s1:1 School of Chemistry Literature Engineering & Applied Mathematics Number of foreign than 20 students. Classical Civilization Science has approximately Classics (Greek, Latin, Mathematics & Science, math, and engineering Philosophy Majors. languages o≠ered. 60 professors and gradu- or Greek & Latin) 80+ labs at Yale College and the graduate Mathematics & Physics ates approximately 60 Cognitive Science and professional schools. 53 800+ engineering majors a year. Computer Science Modern Middle East Studies Enroll32% fewer than 10. Computer Science & Mathematics Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry Computer Science & Psychology Molecular, Cellular, Student-to-faculty & Developmental 3:1 Computing & the Arts Biology ratio in other STEM 40 East Asian Languages Music Approximately 40 disciplines. & Literatures (Chinese 200+ Near Eastern of the 2,000 courses or Japanese) Courses o≠ered each year in 80 academic Languages & o≠ered enroll more Summer fellowships for East Asian Studies Civilizations than 100 students. undergraduate science and engineering programs and departments. Ecology & Philosophy + students per year. Evolutionary Biology Physics Economics , Faculty members in Physics & Geosciences 2 000 150 Economics & the past five years have Mathematics Physics & Philosophy published research with Electrical Engineering Political Science undergraduates. & Computer Science Portuguese Engineering: Psychology Biomedical, Religious Studies Of tenured professors of the International study, research, and internship experiences Chemical, Electrical, 1,335 Russian Faculty96% of Arts and Sciences regularly undertaken by Yale College students in 2011–2012. Environmental, or Mechanical Russian & East teach undergraduate courses. Undergraduate science and Undergraduates in each 70 European Studies 95%+engineering majors who do research of the past five years Engineering Sciences: Chemical, Electrical, Sociology with faculty. have coauthored Environmental, South Asian Studies* published research. or Mechanical $6,000,000+ Spanish English Funding for international activities in the Special Divisional most recent academic year. Environmental Studies Major Ethics, Politics, & Statistics Economics Courses with a graduate student Theater Studies serving as the primary classroom Ethnicity, Race, & 7% Women’s, Gender, & Migration instructor—chiefly in foreign language Sexuality Studies instruction and freshman English— The 36/8degree requirements Film Studies accounted for 7 percent of courses 66% 93% for graduation are 36 term French *May be taken only as a second major. during the last school year. That Of seniors in the most recent Admission rate for Yale courses in eight terms, Geology & Geophysics Freshmen who return means 93 percent of all undergraduate graduating class participated in College graduates to about a third in the major. German sophomore year. courses are taught by professors international study, research, medical schools (national Students typically take four 99% or lecturers. and/or internships while at Yale. average 45%). or five courses per term.

36 studies 37 | Divinity School Institute of Sacred Music Take a walk to the Find yourself Sterling Divinity Quadrangle at the interdisciplinary center College Meets University. to enjoy the quiet Georgian- of the Divinity and Music (One of the world’s greatest research universities at your fingertips) style campus. The courtyard is schools through the Institute’s a great getaway when you want concerts, art exhibitions, films, to read outdoors without the literary readings, plays, and School of Forestry distractions of central lectures. Hear world premieres & Environmental campus. View an exhibition of new choral compositions. Physically and philosoph- Studies of the artifacts and documents Meet scholars debating divides Take one of School of ically, Yale College for from the personal papers of between liturgical traditions. the School’s graduate-level Engineering & Law School undergraduates is at the Have Protestant missionaries who courses. Earn a five-year Applied Science heart of Yale University. As a lunch in the Law School served in China during the first bachelor’s and master’s in Mechanical Engineering dining hall with Constitutional half of the twentieth century. Forestry, Forest Science, An extraordinary commit- student, help design a hybrid Law professor Akhil Amar. Environmental Science, or ment to undergraduate racecar to compete in the Listen to speeches by visiting Environmental Management. SAE (Society of Automotive Supreme Court Justices. Partner with the School’s teaching sets Yale apart Graduate School School of Engineers) Formula Hybrid \\ Wander the Law School stacks. grad students and faculty from other great research of Arts & Sciences Management International. The Law Library is also a on environmental initiatives SOM universities in the world. Continue conversations from favorite study spot. Enroll for a course at through Yale’s O∞ce of More than 80 depart- graduate-level seminars over and rub elbows with the Sustainability. Bookmark the co≠ee and mu∞ns at the Blue next generation of corporate School’s Web site to keep ments and programs a five- NGO Dog Café. Take graduate and leaders and entre- up with all of the events minute Science offer approximately courses in science and engi- walk preneurs. Become a Silver happening each week, or tune Hill 2,000 undergraduate neering, almost all of which Scholar—one of a select into the site’s weekly podcasts. are open to undergraduates. handful of seniors who are courses each year—many SOM On Friday afternoons, join admitted to directly of them taught by Yale’s undergraduates and graduate from Yale College, some of most distinguished students in the Physics depart- whom are awarded a merit historians, literary critics, ment to eat pizza, and hear scholarship for the two scientists and engineers, and present weekly talks on years of study. current research. Make heads School of Drama mathematicians, artists turn as you graduate wearing and composers, poets, Get a student season your yellow hood indicat- and social scientists. pass to the Yale Repertory ing that you’ve earned both Theatre, and see six plays a a bachelor’s and a master’s Faculty call it a stun- School of Medicine year at one of America’s lead- degree in Molecular Biophysics Hillhouse ningly vibrant intellectual ing professional theaters. Read and Biochemistry. Take courses taught atmosphere that can’t original manuscripts from by Med School professors. School of Music

Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Volunteer at Yale-New Haven happen at undergraduate- Journey into Night. Study light Hospital and shadow one of Take advantage of full only institutions or at plots from the original produc- your professors making her access to the Irving Gilmore School of research universities that tion of Gershwin’s Porgy and rounds. Apply to do fieldwork Music Library with 100,000 Architecture do not focus on teaching. Bess. Audition for Yale School in Peru with your biochem scores and parts for musical of Drama and Yale Cabaret Meet with professors and grad professor, and perhaps discover performance and study; 45,000 shows. Put on student produc- students in Rudolph Hall new species of fungi and pieces of sheet music; 70,000 tions at the University Theatre, (named for its architect, Paul Cross bacteria living in plant tissues. books about music; 35,000 LP with 96 feet of fly space and Rudolph, faculty 1958–65). Campus recordings and compact discs; seating for 624. Check out student shows and 11,600 microforms of music curated exhibitions in the manuscripts and scores. Take

Architecture Gallery. Attend lessons for credit with School Old New an evening lecture by one of of Music faculty. Attend free Campus Haven the School’s professors who concerts at Sprague Hall given Green are luminaries in the field, by Music School students and including the dean, Robert visiting performers. Earn a A.M. Stern. paid choir position with the Yale Schola Cantorum or choral School of Art conducting students. (Some

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

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

40 studies 41 | Freshman original research as Preparing for Seminars are early as the freshman Medical, Law, or Shopping Lists. small classes just for year through access to Business School Yale’s “shopping period” at the start freshmen, with some Yale’s more than 800 Yale students have an of Yale’s most dis- faculty laboratories outstanding record of of every semester allows students tinguished faculty in 43 degree-granting admission to top medi- to visit classes they might want to members. Some programs in the cal, business, and law take before registering. Here, a few seminars provide an Faculty of Arts and schools, but we offer introduction to a par- Sciences, Yale School no pre-professional wish lists from recent semesters. ticular field of study; of Medicine, and Yale degree programs. others take an inter­ School of Forestry & Students here prepare disciplinary approach Environmental Studies. for entrance to profes- to a variety of topics. And Freshman Summer sional schools (e.g., All seminars provide an Research Fellowships medicine, business, intimate context provide support for law) by choosing any for developing rela- more than 100 science one of Yale’s under- tionships with faculty and engineering fresh- graduate majors and members and peers. men each year. working with a Yale adviser who knows Directed Studies STARS (Science, what is needed to is a selective fresh- Technology, and advance to the next man interdisciplinary Research Scholars) level of education. So, program in Western provides undergradu- it’s not unusual to find civilization that ates an opportunity an English or Political includes three yearlong to combine research, Science major going on courses — literature, course-based study, to medical school or an philosophy, and and development of Environmental Studies historical and political mentorship skills. The or Chinese major going thought — in which program offers research on to law or business students read the opportunities and school. central works of the support to students Western tradition. historically underrep- Academic Advis- resented in the fields ing is a collective Perspectives on of natural science and effort by the residential Science and Engi- quantitative reason- colleges, academic neering is a lecture ing, such as racial departments, and and discussion course and ethnic minorities, various offices con- for selected freshmen women, and the physi- nected to the Yale who have exceptionally cally challenged. More College Dean’s Office. strong backgrounds than 100 students Students’ primary in science and math- each year participate academic advisers are ematics. The yearlong in the academic year their residential college course explores a and summer STARS deans, to whom they broad range of top- programs. may always turn for ics, exposes students academic and personal to questions at the International advice. College deans frontiers of science, Study Understanding live in residential col- and connects first-year the dynamics of a glo- leges and supervise the students to Yale’s balizing world begins advising networks in scientific community. in the classroom, with the college. Students Each year, about 75 studies ranging from also have a freshman freshmen are selected international develop- adviser who is a Yale based on outstanding ment to statecraft and faculty member or admissions records power, from ethnicity administrator affili- in mathematics and and culture to public ated with his or her science. health. But Yale recog- advisees’ residential nizes that experience colleges. Each aca- Science and abroad is essential demic department also Engineering to preparing students has a director of under- Undergraduate for global citizenship graduate studies (DUS) Research Yale is one and leadership. Such who can discuss with of the world’s foremost experience may include students the depart- research universities. course work in foreign ment’s course offerings Independent scientific universities, intensive and requirements for research and engineer- language training, majors. ing research and design directed research, projects are an integral independent projects, part of undergraduate internships, laboratory science education at work, and volunteer Yale. Science students service. (See page 60) can begin conducting 42 studies 43 | 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 Michael Donoghue sions about immigration, California leading thinkers in to undergraduate “I may be highly unusual in Stephen Pitti politics, youth cultures, and Latino evolutionary biology, reli- teaching. How can civil rights that carry over to my o∞ce Professor of History and gious studies, literature, that be true? this–being a scientist–but at least half the American Studies; Director hours or long lunch sessions with psychology, biochemistry, of Ethnicity, Race, and Q students in a residential college good ideas I’ve ever had have grown out Migration Program; Master astrophysics, political Stephen Pitti “I’ve always loved dining hall.” of Ezra Stiles College science, history, and the fact that at Yale I can present the of teaching. Where you’re faced with some philosophy got together Michael Della Rocca Professor Pitti teaches courses newest research in my field to our “I find that in Latino studies, U.S. history, for a conversation. Some question out of the blue from a student and undergraduates. And when I do, their myself. When I’m teaching, I’m not and related subjects. He is knew each other and feedback inevitably prompts me to just teaching philosophy. I’m doing the author of The Devil in others did not, but they you say, ‘Well, I’ve never thought about Silicon Valley: Race, Mexican think di≠erently about what I’ve been philosophy with the students. I really came to similar conclu- Americans, and Northern writing, to change how I present advance my own research and we come it that way.’ And two weeks later you’re California (2003) and American sions in talking about material in future semesters and even to philosophical insights and conclu- Latinos and the Making of the why they teach, the United States (2013), and he is rethink my own research questions. sions together in the course. One of thinking, ‘Wow, I should really think about uniqueness of the Yale currently writing The World of César Chávez (forthcoming, undergraduate, and why it that way–that’s really interesting.’ So Yale University Press). He common notions about serves on the American Latino large research universities there is a lot of feedback into the research Scholars panel for the U.S. aren’t true here. Secretary of the Interior and end for me.” has provided expert testimony on comprehensive immigration Karuna Mantena reform for the U.S. Congress. our biggest strengths in recruiting Associate Professor of professors here is the undergraduates. Recent Courses Political Science People love teaching them. It’s the Mexicans and Mexican Americans since 1848; Radical Professor Mantena has taught drawing card we stress whenever the California; Latina/o Histories courses on Indian politics, Philosophy department is trying to empire and political thought, postcolonial political thought, recruit a faculty member from another and history and politics in the good institution.” Directed Studies program. Meg Urry Her research interests include “It’s not just how smart modern political thought, modern social theory, the they are or how hard they work—you theory and history of empire, can find that at other places— but it’s and South Asian politics and their cleverness, their thoughtfulness. history. Her first book, Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and I teach an intro to physics class. Many the Ends of Liberal Imperialism of the kids in my class are headed for (2010), analyzed the transfor- medical school, so physics isn’t their mation of nineteenth-century passion. But I can guarantee that at British imperial ideology. Her current work focuses on least once a week I get a question that political realism and the politi- is just incredibly creative, introducing cal thought of M.K. Gandhi. an idea or thought that I have never Recent Courses had before, and this is from people Empire and Modern Political who aren’t even going to be physicists.” Thought; Gandhi and the Christine Hayes Politics of Nonviolence; “It’s what Michael Directed Studies: Historical and Political Thought; Means [Donoghue] said. When I think about and Ends in Politics what I’m going to teach I often think, ‘What do I want to study with a whole bunch of smart people?’” 44 studies 45 | Karuna Mantena

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

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

Michael J. Donoghue Why does teaching Scott Strobel  heard of before. Some of these students I came back and she had finished the “The beauty of it is these students in Sterling Professor of Ecology are not cut out for philosophy, but they entire summer’s project! She’d figured watching them take ownership of a and Evolutionary Biology; particular matter to all get into it.” everything out. She’d gotten it all to project and recognize that it’s theirs to Curator of Botany, Peabody you? If you can find Museum of Natural History work. She’d collected all the data she work on creatively and independently. smart, hardworking Meg Urry “I was not in a university needed. My jaw was hanging down. I We have undergrads going toe to toe Professor Donoghue is a lead- students at other places, then before coming here. I worked in the thought, ‘Okay, now I have a better with grad students in the lab. You ing authority on biodiversity Q what makes these students a lab that ran the Hubble telescope for understanding of where Yale under- might say, ‘Well that’s only supposed and the author of more than “drawing card”? NASA 200 published papers and , which was exciting. But when graduates are.’” to be available to grad students,’ but several books. He has helped I came here I felt like I had died and what I’ve seen over and over again to shape Yale’s Department Meg Urry Christine Hayes John Merriman of Ecology and Evolution- “None of them are one- gone to heaven. I think I was born to “Which connects is that these Yale undergrads are ary Biology, providing links notes. They are exceptional in many teach and should have been teaching to what was formulating in my own not afraid to take on hard projects Charles Seymour Professor E&EB among , the Peabody areas. The diversity of their talents all along. The quality of the Yale mind–they are able to do that deep and to take them on in a creative way. of History Museum, Geology and Geophysics, and Forestry & makes them incredibly interesting to undergraduate was a big eye-opener academic research and are also able to Last year, over spring break, we Professor Merriman teaches Environmental Studies. The interact with.” for me. We have this Perspectives apply it to some real world situation. took a group of students to study a and writes about modern Donoghue lab team includes on Science program for freshmen At some of the other places I’ve been, rain forest in Peru. Each was given France, modern European David Bromwich undergraduate and graduate “The students that can involve research. My first there has been either too much inde- complete autonomy over identifying history, and urbanization. students and postdocs, and He has recently published focuses primarily on plant here have a high average of intellectual summer I thought, ‘Well, I’m going pendence and arrogance or too much 15 to 20 plant samples they wanted Police Stories: Building the diversity and evolution. alertness. With luck, they bring out to get this freshman who doesn’t need of hand-holding. We seem to to collect. They brought them back to French State, 1815–1851 (2006) and The Dynamite Club: How Recent Courses that quality in one another, and sustain know anything. It’s going to take a lot attract kids who excel at many, many the lab and did amazing things with a Bombing in Fin-de-Siècle Diversity of Life; Plant it in their teachers.” of my time, but that’s why I came things. They have the right mix of them. On the whole, they discovered Paris Ignited the Age of Modern to university.’ So I laid out this project independent intellectual curiosity as several dozen di≠erent new species Terror (2009), as well as the Diversity and Evolution; Michael Della Rocca Evolutionary Biology “I teach in for the student. It was about an area well as the ability to work with others, of fungi, many of which have demon- third edition of his A History Directed Studies [a yearlong advanced I wanted to look into but I hadn’t to ask questions, to get help, to be part strated bioactivity against pathogens of Modern Europe (2009). freshman course in Western civiliza- done any work on myself yet. I told of a team. You need both—the solitary in plants and humans. So these Recent Courses tion]. It’s just a lot of fun because the student, ‘Why don’t you go and do research and the ability to bring it back students are able to make not just a European Civilization, 1648– you get students with di≠erent back- a little research online and we’ll talk and put it together and make something creative impact on science but to 1945; France, 1789–1871; The Dark Years: Collaboration and grounds taking subjects they’ve never about it when I come back in a week.’ bigger and better with other people.” actually discover things of importance Resistance in Vichy France 46 studies 47 | Christine Hayes Robert F. and Patricia Ross Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica

Professor Hayes came to Yale from Princeton University, where she was Assistant Professor of Hebrew Studies and interest to a broad community. in the Department of Near Eastern Studies. Her book When I described their work to School David Bromwich Between the Babylonian and of Medicine faculty, the faculty lined Palestinian Talmuds (Oxford Sterling Professor of English up to participate in the project with University Press, 1997) these undergraduates.” received the Salo Baron Prize, Professor Bromwich is an awarded by the American authority on Romantic and Karuna Mantena Academy for Jewish Research. modern poetry and on the The students Her book Gentile Impurities history of literary criticism. have a kind of self-direction, the moti- and Jewish Identities: Intermar- His books include Hazlitt: riage and Conversion from the The Mind of a Critic, about the vation and capacity to really pursue Bible to the Talmud (Oxford moral philosopher, critic, and ideas and concerns. Yale provides them University Press, 2002) was essayist William Hazlitt; Dis- with abundant resources to support a 2003 National Jewish Book owned by Memory: Wordsworth’s research, and we—hopefully—provide Award finalist. Professor Poetry of the 1790s; A Choice of Hayes spent 2005–2006 at Inheritance: Self and Community them the encouragement to keep these the Yale Law School, and is from Edmund Burke to Robert projects going. Students use these working on a book entitled Frost; Politics by Other Means: opportunities to do extraordinary What’s So Divine about Divine Higher Education and Group Law? Thinking, which examines the research in Europe, South Asia, and ideological debate over liberal the Middle East. Recent Courses arts education; and Skeptical The Bible; Divine Law Music: Essays on Modern Poetry. Marvin Chun “I really think the resi- in Historical Perspective; Hazlitt was a National Book Exodus 32 and Its Midrashic Critics Circle finalist, and dential college system is what brings Development; Judaism: Skeptical Music won the 2002 PEN everything together—the small-college Continuity and Change Spielvogel-Diamonstein Award as the year’s best book feel with world-class university resources. of essays by an American. Being a master at Berkeley College has Michael Della Rocca Professor Bromwich is also a shown me that. It’s impossible to describe Andrew Downey Orrick frequent contributor to aca- in words, but it works in a phenomenal Professor of Philosophy demic journals, and his reviews way to ensure that each student receives and articles have appeared in Professor Della Rocca’s areas such publications as The New individual attention.” of interest are the history of York Times, The New Republic, early modern philosophy and and The New York Review of outside of class, in activities–but we’re teaching. To be able to expose students contemporary metaphysics. Books. He is currently working John Merriman He has published dozens also situated within a larger univer- to real stu≠ is a blast. You can read on an intellectual biography “Plenty of students come here of papers in those fields, of Edmund Burke. sity that has very active professional about things in a book, but to hand a including “Causation Without Recent Courses without a clue what they want to do, and schools. The institution I was at didn’t kid a 60,000,000-year-old fossil to Intelligibility and Causation have professional schools. Having the study is pretty amazing.” Without God in Descartes” Major English Poets (English in A Companion to Descartes, 125); Style, Purpose, and then all these doors open up for them School of Architecture does wonderful David Bromwich ed. Janet Broughton and John Persuasion in Literature; things for Yale undergraduates. Having “I admired the Carriero, and “Two Spheres, English Literature and the because there are so many opportunities.” a fantastic School of Music does intellectual strength of the English Twenty Spheres, and the French Revolution; Film and Identity of Indiscernibles,” wonderful things for Yale undergradu- department. I thought Yale had the Fiction (co-taught); Lincoln in Just like students Pacific Philosophical Quarterly Thought and Action; The Age  where graduate students and under- ates. And they’re all situated close by. virtues of a liberal arts college, along looking at colleges, (2005). He is also the author of Johnson; Wallace Stevens graduates mix. Surprisingly enough, the That’s something very special about Yale with the attractions, and not too of Spinoza in the Routledge as a professor you presence of a strong graduate program and it gives the Yale undergraduate a many of the drawbacks, of a large Philosophers series. had a lot of choices has an extraordinary impact on the completely di≠erent kind of experience.” research university.” Recent Courses too. What brought quality of the undergraduate program. Modern Philosophy from you here? Michael Donoghue Scott Strobel Q You might think that the two stand in “The other “I had some nice Descartes to Kant; The Philosophy of Spinoza; tension, but in fact they don’t. We not thing that I think is so distinctive are options so it was very much a choice. Christine Hayes Monism; Directed Studies: “One of the things only have a very rich graduate program the resources that we have in terms But Yale has a combination of things Philosophy that has been so wonderful for me as in my field–one in which there is a of the museums and the collections that is somewhat unique. Opportunities a teacher at Yale is the ability to teach great deal of mixing among graduate that are here. We have actual physical to interact with and teach undergrads, Professors Hayes and Della Rocca are married. introductory courses but also seminars and undergraduate students in classes, objects that we’re very keen to use in which I see as my mission for being 48 studies 49 | Marvin Chun Professor of Psychology; Master of Berkeley College

Professor Chun is a cognitive neuroscientist who teaches in the Department of Psychology, the Interdepart- mental Neuroscience Program, and the Cognitive Science Pro­gram. His research uses Michael Donoghue functional brain imaging to “A lot of it is about scale. Meg Urry understand how to improve memory, attention, conscious Yale is just that much smaller and Israel Munson Professor of perception, and decision Physics and Astronomy; making. He has been awarded Director of the Yale Center for the American Psychological more intimate than some of the other Astronomy and Astrophysics Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early universities where I’ve taught. So I Professor Urry chairs the Career Contribution to Psy- Physics department. She chology in the area of cogni- find a lot better connection to students studies actively accreting tion and learning, and received supermassive black holes, also known as Active Galactic the Troland Research Award and integration across disciplines. I AGN from the National Academy of Nuclei ( ), and the Sciences, often considered the co-evolution of these black most prestigious early-career have friends and colleagues spanning holes with normal galaxies. honor in the field that can be She came to Yale in 2001 earned by an experimental very di≠erent parts of the University from her tenured position on psychologist. At Yale, he the senior scientific sta≠ at received the Lex Hixon Prize and that’s something that comes with the Space Telescope Science for teaching excellence in the Institute (STScI), which runs the Hubble Space Tele- social sciences. He has also NASA the territory of being smaller. Yale scope for . Using deep received the DeVane Award NASA for Teaching and Scholarship, imaging with ’s three the oldest undergraduate doesn’t just talk about making Great Observatories—the teaching prize in Yale College, Spitzer Space Telescope, the awarded by the undergraduate connections and integrating students Hubble Space Telescope, and members of Phi Beta Kappa. the Chandra X-Ray Observa- The presentation of the award into research—it actually happens tory—her group has charted began with the words “Marvin the history of supermassive Chun is the man!” praising here very e≠ectively.” black hole growth throughout Professor Chun for the clarity the universe. Professor Urry of his teaching, the excellence has worked to increase the of his explanations and dem- number of women in the onstrations, and his devotion physical sciences, organizing to his students. national meetings and chairing a professor, is a big reason I’m here. medical school. And medical school Whether I stand before a classroom full and down the aisle of the lecture hall the Committee on the Status Recent Courses There are plenty of good schools faculty also host undergraduates of students or I meet with someone as I often do, and I thought, ‘What of Women in Astronomy for Introduction to Psychology; where research is all they do and you doing research in their labs. To have one-on-one, I try to treat each student am I doing, I couldn’t possibly leave.’ the American Astronomical Mind, Brain, and Society sit in your lab and you work with an environment where there is a clear as somebody who is going to do some- Each morning, I wake up and I think, Society. In April 2011, she led the U.S. Delegation to the graduate students or postdocs and you human application (via the School of thing very meaningful and influential ‘God, I’m lucky because I get to go 4th International Conference never see an undergraduate. Beyond Medicine) to the science that you do as in life. Our alumni bear that out. This and teach’ whatever the subject is that on Women in Physics, in that, it’s also a place where you have an undergraduate is quite unique.” is what energizes me in the classroom. day. For me there’s just nothing like it.” South Africa. tremendous colleagues. At a lot of If something I teach lingers with Recent Courses Christine Hayes places the caliber of Yale, there is sort “It’s really the students so that it helps them do the Advanced General Physics; of a silo mentality when it comes to best of both worlds because you right thing outside of the classroom, Gravity, Astrophysics, and lab research. At Yale you have this have this distinctive undergraduate that’s my reward.” Cosmology; Perspectives on Science and Engineering amazing ability to collaborate with experience embedded in this larger John Merriman (co-taught) other labs so that collectively you do intellectual universe of people at “I’ve almost been everything better. The other thing all levels of academic inquiry and all wooed away to other universities is that we have a fantastic School of stages of academic careers.” three times during my 40 years here. Medicine. The department I’m in has Once it came down to the wire and I Marvin Chun joint faculty with the medical school, “I came for the was making my decision in the last so we have faculty who are in the students. They’re not just smart, but hour or two. But there I was teaching Graduate School of Arts and Sciences well balanced in a way that makes my modern French history course who are actually housed down at the it special to teach and do research here. to about 150 students, walking up 50 studies 51 | Two, Three, Four, Five Heads Are Better Than One. (Why Yalies like to learn together)

“Working in a group, I learned a lot about the importance of communicating clearly to bridge di≠erences between disciplines and make the most of our potential. Sharing skills and knowledge, not just through this project or a class, but also in casual conversation in the dining hall, says a lot about the multifaceted community here. You can be chatting with the same people about papers one moment and problem sets the next. I don’t

Brigid Blakeslee with her senior dropped off a boat or dock. Our know a single one-dimensional design project teammates (Joshua project benefited from our combined student—everyone has interests Ruck and Adam Goone) in the experiences—mine as an electrical and passions outside of their major new Center for Engineering Innova- engineer and my teammates’ as and values sharing in friends’ tion and Design. “We developed a mechanical engineers.” robotic arm for retrieving objects interests and passions.” Brigid

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

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

54 studies 55 | The A. W. Wright Laboratory,

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

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

For Marquez, biology research Encounter at the Beinecke The Beinecke Rare Book Sonia Delaunay’s abstract paint-­ means “endless creativity in pursuit and Manuscript Library ing, specifically painted for and —an of knowledge.” He also loves the architectural marvel constructed moment of discovery: “Seeing While taking Modernism and inspired by Cendrars’s poem. I was of translucent white marble that all the data come together and tell the Avant-Garde, Lisa Sun had fascinated by the collaboration of admits light but screens out a surprising experience among the two art mediums—the text the sun’s damaging rays—is one a story about the role of specific of the country’s most important the Beinecke Library’s rare of the poem and the magnificently genes in development is really centers for research in primary special, and the knowledge that you books. She tells the story like this: colored painting. The Cendrars sources for the humanities. “One of the poems on the syl- piece reminded me of a piece were part of this process is exciting.” Lisa Sun labus for my Modernism class by Marcel Duchamp, which also is a dancer in the company A Di≠erent Drum and STARS “ creates a diverse community was Blaise Cendrars’s ‘La Prose worked within two mediums. I is training to be a Yale Art Gallery of student scientists,” says Marquez. du Transsibérien.’ I first read had several enlightening conversa- Guide. She is a double major in literature and art history. “Mentoring others interested in the poem in a Xerox package of tions with my professor about the assigned readings, but Professor Cendrars and Duchamp pieces. scientific research has also been Opposite page: Poucel promised to show us an Ultimately, I wrote my final paper Professor Martín García-Castro’s a very rewarding part of my Kline Biology Tower original publication of it in the on the relationship between lab is in experience.” Marquez is so invested KBT Beinecke. I didn’t think much of ‘La Prose du Transsibérien’ and ( ), Yale’s tallest building, in this community and his work which sits atop Science Hill. this opportunity, presuming that Duchamp’s Boîte Verte, which that he will remain in New Haven Jonathan Marquez after graduation to complete the original publication would I also saw firsthand in the Prints is from Spring, Texas. His main resemble all of the old, dusty and Drawings Department at the MAS ongoing lab projects. After that, YUAG extracurriculars are (Math M.D./Ph.D. books I’d seen innumerable times (Yale University Art Gallery). he hopes to pursue an and Science) Familias, “a group with the long-term goal of having before. But the day we visited the I found the paper to be rewarding focused on supporting minority involvement in the sciences,” his own lab and providing health Beinecke, Professor Poucel asked and successful, and it all began me to help him unfold the decep- with an unexpected encounter and working as a translator and care to underserved communities. nutritional counselor at Haven tive 4 x 6-inch book into a long, with Cendrars’s beautiful piece.” Free Clinic. poster-sized sheet. As it turns out, Cendrars’s original publication of ‘La Prose’ was featured alongside 58 studies 59 | Think Yale. Think World. (Study, research, intern around the globe)

A nontraditional Yalies Abroad “The summer after my freshman year I approach to gaining 2011– 2012 received Yale funding to go to Savai’i, international experience Africa: 80 Western Samoa, and try to rediscover a bird gives students here Asia: 337 which had not been seen for more than access to multiple Australasia: 10 130 years. I found myself traveling to one opportunities to study, Europe: 692 of the island’s most remote valleys with research, and intern Latin America: 151 a pig hunter, Tagi’ilima Ioane, who spoke abroad during their four Middle East: 36 no English. Tagi’ilima and I spent five years. Over and above Multiple regions: 23 days together in the forest hiking up rivers. ordinary financial aid, At first we communicated entirely with North America: 6 Yale awards more than hand gestures, but by the final day I had Total: 1,335 $6 million for fellow- gleaned enough Samoan from my portable ships, internships, and dictionary to allow basic communication. relief from summer earn- Our final hike back was mostly occupied ings obligations in order with my attempts to describe various game to guarantee that every animals in the U.S. Trying to convey North student who wishes American wildlife, not to mention my daily will be able to work or life in New Haven, made me feel as though study abroad. Beyond I were describing life on a di≠erent planet. these hefty resources As we neared the village Tagi’ilima told a is the sheer variety story of his own about how he had gone of global experiences into town and seen something important on students can undertake a television there. After much gesticulating during school years and frantic flipping through the dictionary, and summers: study I figured out what he was describing: at a major university the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. in another country; For me this moment was an amazing field-based or labora- juxta­position of the vast distances between tory research; interning John Mittermeier our life experiences and the increasing with Yale alumni around Hometown Abidjan, Côte links in a shared global identity.” the world; Yale summer d’Ivoire (“Technically my home John session international address, although I’m never there. courses taught by Yale I spend most breaks traveling.”) Samoa Major faculty; or study, work, History or service projects Yale International Experience of one’s own design. Summers in Samoa and in the Students are encour- Amazonian rain forests of The photos in this chapter were southern Suriname conducting aged to begin exploring provided by the students featured, Suriname ornithological surveys and the globe the summer except for Yuefei Qin’s portrait, collecting specimens for Yale’s after their freshman which was taken by Lisa Kereszi. Peabody Museum. Global Citizen year. Here, eight Elis “Someone who map a glimpse of the is conscious of the planet’s vast array of cultural, biological, and world through pivotal economic communities and feels moments and personal a deep attachment and allegiance definitions of “global to this global diversity.” Post-Yale Plan citizen.” A fellowship to return to Suriname to continue his ornithological research.

60 studies 61 | Samuel Byrne Center for Research International The possibilities for Hometown PA Bala Cynwyd, and Professional international research Major Experience are extensive. Students Economics Yale’s Center for work with their resi- Yale International Experience International and dential college dean, Brazil Won a Kingsley Trust Association Professional Experience academic advisers, Summer Travel Fellowship to (CIPE) encourages and departments to study Brazilian music and dance. and supports safe, define projects. Many Global Citizen extraordinary­ inter­ Yale students spend “Someone who national experiences the summer following understands the problems and of every kind. their junior year issues that confront people abroad doing research throughout the world; someone Study Yale for a senior essay who is educated about the world programs include or thesis. and has experienced it, who feels Yale in London; Yale comfortable interacting with Oman Summer Session (most Laboratory and a diverse group of people and & Morocco recently, courses were Field Research in can step out of the comforts of offered in Argentina, the Sciences and home with confidence.” Stephanie Brockman “I went to the favela ‘Cidade de Deus’ “My professor in Oman took all of us on Brazil, Chile, China, Public Health Post-Yale Plan Hometown ND “Undecided, (City of God) in Rio de Janeiro to visit their Thompson, a daytrip to explore the nearby mountains. Croatia, Czech Repub- Students can combine but eventually I’d like to work Majors lic, Ecuador, France, international experi- community center. After I observed dance Near Eastern Languages It was in the middle of our rural home- for the World Bank.” Germany, India, Italy, ence with deepening and Civilizations with a and music classes, a volunteer and some stays, so I was dressed accordingly in a Japan, Kenya, Peru, their understanding concentration in Arabic and of the local children o≠ered to give me a long black abaya (the traditional robes for Russia, Singapore, and of science by spending Islamic Studies Spain); and year or a summer working tour of the favela. Strolling through the Yale International Experience women on the Gulf ) and a headscarf. I community,­ I saw terrible poverty and poor remember sitting on a park bench, texting term abroad approved in a laboratory at Spent a spring in the Sultanate programs run by an institution abroad, infrastructure, but a vibrant culture and of Oman through a program my host mom in Arabic, and worrying other institutions or or by participating in intelligent, charismatic children who sponsored by the School for about how scandalized my host family providers. a field-based project. deserve more opportunities. Despite the International Training; through would be if I was out past magrib, the Internships Independent dilapidated homes and clear dichotomy Yale’s Auerbach and Grayson/ evening call to prayer. And out of nowhere Leitner international internship, Undergraduate Career Initiatives of wealth in Rio, the energy of the people interned in Morocco. everything that was happening began to Services has major Students who are Global Citizen programs in 14 cities ready to develop their who guided me through the labyrinth “The world sink in: I was thousands of miles from around the world. own activities abroad streets of Cidade de Deus inspired me to becomes more than just a list home, wearing something I had only seen “Bulldogs” internships are encouraged to of places that you hear on the continue pursuing my plans to work in pictures, and trying to live up to a set provide more than discuss their plans news, but rather, a series of “As an international student from China, I to promote economic growth and hope­- of expectations from a culture that didn’t 150 opportunities to with advisers and reference points that correspond always wondered how my Western educa- explore career fields faculty, to register fully improve living standards of similar with places where your friends belong to me. I began to laugh uncontrol- in an international their travel and under­ tion would fit into the Oriental traditions live and experiences that you people in the future.” lably. I realized how thoroughly I had environment, with stand the support had and new opportunities and help me best contribute to my society. Samuel immersed myself in a culture that had support and oversight provided by Yale, to explore. It’s a certain way My experience at Intel China helped me from Yale and from and to use the institu- of looking at the world that once seemed so mysteriously foreign solve the puzzle. The Chinese market has alumni networks. tion’s extraordinary makes it a very inviting place.” to me. That realization filled me with an Yuefei Qin Placements reflect resources to make very unique sociopolitical and economic Post-Yale Plan “Either a incredible sense of accomplishment.” the full range of the most of their Hometown characteristics, while Intel is a well-estab- Chongqing, China summer or a year of advanced Stephanie interests among Yale experience abroad. lished Western company. Working with Majors Arabic study abroad, followed students, from journal- Political Science and by law school. Right now, I’m ism to the arts, politics both Chinese and American colleagues at Electrical Engineering leaning toward the idea of to public health, and its headquarters in China, I witnessed Yale International Experience going into corporate law and finance to technology. how Intel has successfully tailored itself to Intel Corporation in Beijing, working with companies with Yale also partners with fit into the unique Chinese market, while China, summer internship strong business ties to the other organizations maintaining its Western identity and working as assistant to general Middle East. I have put so to provide many manager. “I worked directly much of myself into developing additional internship corporate conduct. I was therefore convinced with Intel China’s marketing my knowledge of Arabic and opportunities. that Western and Oriental cultures could managers in maintaining project can’t imagine not using that coexist harmoniously, and would in a way milestones and carrying out in the future.” rely on each other. I believe my education campaigns to promote products.” Global Citizen at Yale not only well prepared me for such a “One who looks demanding job, but also will build a solid upon every human being as his or her compatriot, regardless foundation for me to tackle challenges my of that person’s nationality, country and people might face in the midst complexion, religion, and so on.” China Post-Yale Plan of an increasingly internationalized world.” “After my Yuefei graduation from Yale, I wish to go to Oxford and pursue an M.Phil. degree in Politics or International Relations.” 62 studies 63 | Andrew Dowe “Last year I had the opportunity to travel Hometown FL Tampa, by myself through Europe and Asia. There Majors African American were several moments during my solo Studies; Women’s, Gender, & travels which made me feel very unrooted, Sexuality Studies independent, and free: ordering food Paris Yale International Experience in countries where I did not speak the Spent a fall semester studying in language; carrying all of my belongings Paris. Global Citizen on my back; sleeping overnight on trains “Global citizens and buses. There is something about strive to expand their perspec- tives beyond geographical traveling on a shoestring which makes you limitations through active reevaluate your priorities. You feel dirty engagement with other peoples and unkempt, but eventually that all goes and cultures.” Post-Yale Plan away, and you care more about what you “Spend a year see and less about how others see you.” teaching either in the U.S. or Lucas O’Connor abroad before applying to “The first time I traveled outside of France Lucas Hometown NY graduate school to earn a Ph.D.” while studying in Paris, the extreme discom- Rochester, Majors fort of being unable to communicate with Theater Studies and most of the people around me as well as the Literature Yale International Experience very perceivable cultural disconnect brought Oxford, me to realize how comfortable I had become England Studied at Oxford junior year, in Paris. At the same time, I was reminded of traveled by Eurail pass through­- out Europe for a month; received the importance of self-conscious travel and a summer fellowship to study understanding to developing more complete Chinese opera in Hong Kong; world views. One of the most significant toured the world with the Yale Whi≠enpoofs during the summer. lessons of studying abroad was the impor- Hong Kong Global Citizen tance of exploring outside my comfort zones.” “A traveler, or a nomad, unbounded by Andrew country lines. A global citizen has a responsibility to see and experience as much of the Lauren Harrison Flora Elena Mendoza “I was monitoring elections in Mauritania world as he can.” Hometown NY Post-Yale Plan Hometown PA with another Yale student and a Mauritanian Orchard Park, “To write and Milford, Majors act, hopefully for films.” Major national who was working for the U.S. African Studies and Latin American Studies Embassy. We were in a small town, sur- International Studies (now with Humanities Global A≠airs) Yale International Experience rounded by miles and miles of sand, and Argentina Yale International Experience were spending the night in order to begin Studied in Buenos Aires junior election monitoring first thing the following Conducted election oversight in year and won a fellowship that Mauritania; spent a month during allowed her to participate in day. That next morning, we woke up before the summer after her sophomore “While the goals of the grassroots non- local excursions and an extended NGO LIFE the sun and arrived at the polls by 6:30 a.m., year in Morocco, then in Mali governmental organization where I volun- service trip with a half an hour before they were scheduled to doing independent research; teered were noble, I got to see firsthand both Argentina. studied in Paris the fall semester Global Citizen open. The polling station was a one-room positive and negative aspects of not-for-profit “Someone who of her junior year. is informed, contextualizes his schoolhouse made out of old wooden boards, Global Citizen work. We were working with a village of “In my mind, a or her own experience in relation Mauritania, located near the only paved road in the town. passion for learning about other about 500 Guarani natives. As volunteers we to the rest of the world, and is Mali & SUV As our pulled up to the polls, I was countries, other languages, other were assigned to cook, distribute clothes and committed to the overall well-­ Morocco absolutely shocked by what I saw: almost cultures is what makes someone kitchenware, and take lice out of hair and being—political, environmental, a hundred men and women (but mostly a truly ‘global citizen.’” clip nails of villagers—I found the cooking socioeconomic, and ethical— Post-Yale Plan of the earth and its inhabitants.” “A career in women), dressed in colorful robes, waiting counterproductive and didn’t understand Post-Yale Plan quietly in line to vote. The turnout was international diplomacy, though I why we weren’t working with villagers to “I would like don’t quite know where my path to move to New York and work Paris unbelievable, especially given the small size will take me. Most likely, I’ll work show them how to manage the lice and for some kind of foundation of the village we were in, and made me for a year or two post-graduation clip nails for themselves. As foreigners, and or not-for-profit while pursuing reflect upon how seriously the Mauritanian before returning to graduate especially as students who go abroad with a performance career in opera school, perhaps for an advanced and musical theater.” (Flora is a people took their civic responsibilities. It degree in international relations idealist intentions, we need to be very careful mezzo soprano, who has sung was inspiring and I wished that I could take or diplomacy.” to avoid neocolonialist tendencies or to in ensembles at the Metropolitan NBC Opera, on specials for some of the Mauritanians’ energy and patronize the people we mean to help. In CBS passion back with me to the United States.” essence, my experience redefined the term and , and as back-up for Michael Bolton.) Lauren ‘sustainable development’ for me.” 64 studies Flora 65 | Connect the Dots. (Three seniors find their careers through Yale’s network of resources)

Yale students are sur- Recoding Yale Connections from software and Gaining Perspective rounded by opportunities Education Worldwide education to food, retail, Aaron arrives at Yale with dual interests Yale has more than and green technology. from the moment they Aaron Feuer in politics and education, and the hope 135,000 graduates arrive on campus as to someday return to Los Angeles to Residential College and more than 170 Top Fellowship freshmen—intellectual, “work toward a vision for the city.” But Yale Alumni clubs Producer Ezra Stiles entrepreneurial, artistic, first he has to get some historical and all over the world Yale is consistently Major in all 50 states and a top producer of international, profes- global perspective. He takes a freshman Political seminar with Cold War historian John Science 44 countries. Yale Fulbright Fellowships. sional, and research Gaddis and a seminar, “Imagining provides unequaled In addition to 131 opportunities that the Iraq War,” taught by New Yorker networking oppor- Fulbright Fellowships tunities—from our during the past five launch them toward journalist Sarah Stillman and U.S. Educational Army o∞cer Robert Chamberlain. online career network, years, Yale students both long-term ambi- Programming “They took us on a whirlwind journey to mentoring programs, have received 16 tions and unforeseen of military tactics, philosophy, The summer after freshman to regional events for Rhodes, 9 Marshall, achievements. Yalies journalism, history, and politics. After year, Aaron combines his alumni interested in a 14 Goldwater, 6 commitment to education host of endeavors and Truman, and 14 leverage these oppor- class every week, we went out for sushi and continued the conversation.” with a talent for coding and initiatives including Gates Cambridge tunities in countless programming, building entertainment, energy, Scholarships or impressive ways and a computer system, real estate, law, Fellowships, and more Classroom Compass, that journalism, media, than 130 National learn how to ask good will survey L.A. public social justice, gender... Science Foundation questions, seek out school students about their the list keeps growing. Graduate Research the right mentors, and classes and provide feedback Fellowships. Just as create experiences that Duty above Self to teachers. The project is Student importantly, these funded through two Yale Entrepreneurs major awards only are professionally and Sophomore year, Aaron enrolls in fellowships and occupies First scratch the surface of personally rewarding. a seminar with retired U.S. Army Aaron’s evenings while Unique among our the hundreds of other In this chapter, we General Stanley McChrystal, who he works for an L.A. legal peer institutions, the highly valuable, funded “showed me what real devotion to services organization by day. Yale Entrepreneurial sources of support chronicle the trajecto- duty above self looks like.” With a Institute (YEI) is an that Yale students tap ries of three soon-to-be Yale community outreach group, innovative program that every single year. graduates who have he teaches health education classes puts student ventures in the New Haven public schools successfully connected “At Yale, I’ve taken seminars with first. As a complement 5 Graduate while continuing to promote use to more traditional Schools Most the dots between a of Classroom Compass in L.A. extraordinary people who pursued academic programs, Attended Yale education and the which provide a concep- When they enroll in Real World. Policy Practice tual understanding and business, law, medical, public service from totally di≠erent related case studies of or graduate school, Yale Aaron spends the summer in new venture formation, graduates most often Washington, D.C., on a Yale-funded YEI exists to help attend the following internship with the House Committee angles. That’s how I realized that students execute on five universities: Yale, on Foreign A≠airs. Researching and Grand Grill Session their actual business Harvard, Stanford, Cam­- writing policy memos, he synthesizes running a start-up is a valid public plans. It bands together bridge, and Columbia. As a junior, Aaron puts previous intellectual exposure to entrepreneurial this practical experience politics with some real-life practice. service path and, for me, the most students, select faculty Career Services to good use in “Grand and administrators with Yale was ranked #3 in Strategy,” Professor e≠ective one.” new venture experience, the country for “Best Gaddis’s international Double Duty alumni from both indus- Career Services” by the policy course. “My group Within months, the Panoramic Views try and venture capital, Princeton Review in presented a radical Panorama team garners Aaron finds himself a college senior CEO and local established 2010—the only Ivy proposal for responding to $50,000 in funding and of a fast-growing start-up. Aaron recruits three students entrepreneurs. League school that the Arab Spring: funding through the Yale By March, Panorama Education Since 2007, YEI made the top 10. high-tech start-ups as a to help overhaul Classroom Entrepreneurial Institute. is collaborating with three state has supported the More than 100 vehicle for cultural change. This serious sum allows Compass and founds an governments, a number of major formation and growth employers conduct Halfway through our them to work full-time over school districts, and Teach for education technology start-up, of more than 50 over 2,400 student presentation, Senator the summer, expanding America. Following graduation, student-founded interviews through John McCain walked Panorama Education. He also beyond L.A. to envision Aaron hopes to grow the team ventures, which have Undergraduate Career in and started grilling us. gains faculty support from a product that might help to nine full-time employees raised over $45 million Services in a single year. That was fun.” schools nationwide education expert John Bryan and is looking ahead to a new of outside investment identify opportunities platform that will further Starr, who will become his capital. These start-ups for improvement. transform how schools use data. senior project adviser. cover many industries 66 studies 67 | Global Healing Journalist the World Starting Out Summer in Swaziland “At dinner with my writing class, Arriving at Yale, Omar Omar wins a Yale Summer Sanjena Sathian Omar Njie looks toward a career as a Research Fellowship to intern Residential College author Gay Talese told me that ‘the Residential College doctor. But that goal doesn’t at the Swaziland Ministry pigeonhole him academically. of Health, where he helps Morse Silliman “I knew early on that I did not develop a five-year plan Major definitive New Yorker article on Nepal Major HIV English Global A≠airs want to take the traditional to market -prevention has not yet been written. You should premed route and major and counseling resources in biology or chemistry.” to public sector employees. He leans toward psychology write it.’ I realized then that my but keeps his options open. proclivity for going places and caring Write and Think about communities that other people Developing Interests Freshman year, a course Sophomore year connects Omar with Professor called “Understanding Kaveh Khoshnood, whose seminar on tropical Bollywood” connects Sanjena don’t necessarily flock to gives me disease campaigns “helped to spark my interest with her Indian background, in ‘macro’ health issues, especially those an important mentor, and a lot of power and responsibility to that a±ict citizens of developing nations.” her true desire to become a In the spring, he applies for the Global A≠airs writer. “My professor, visiting tell those stories.” major and the Global Health Fellows Program. scholar Ashish Chadha, told And he runs for vice president of the Yale YCC me, ‘I think you’re the kind of College Council ( ). All three pan out. person who’s either going to be a journalist or an academic.’ That sounds reductive, but it wasn’t. It was so clarifying. In Later that year, Sanjena high school, teachers would attends a Master’s Tea say, ‘you’re smart, be a lawyer.’ and dinner with Louise World Health Or, ‘you have really sharp Story, Yale alumna and opinions on politics, go do award-winning business The Global Health Fellows Program that.’ But Professor Chadha reporter for the New sponsors Omar’s ten-week summer just looked at me and said, York Times. Having only internship with the Tropical Health and ‘you like to write and think.’” recently joined the Yale THET Daily News, Sanjena is Education Trust ( ) in London, new to journalism, but which works to strengthen health “I remember thinking systems in the developing world. how much I respected Off She Goes the way Story was talking about the world.” Sanjena has landed Big Man on Campus a coveted summer at YCC the Boston Globe—a Junior year brings big reporting opportunity Going Global duties. Meanwhile, Omar gains clarity on his future made possible by her He also gains admission to the Humanities and Sophomore year, in medicine. “My image of experience at the Post- YDN Medicine Program at the Icahn School of Medicine Sanjena leaves the pursuing a career in medicine Gazette. Afterward, she at Mount Sinai, which guarantees medical school for the Yale Globalist, a changed as I took more global is considering a move to acceptance to 30 college juniors. Omar spends the magazine that reports health and public health India to pursue a career in summer in an eight-week intensive study program at on international issues. courses.” He is accepted into foreign correspondence. Icahn, exploring science and clinical disciplines and B.A./B.S./M.P.H. “The Globalist was the five-year She is also likely to getting to know the other students in his cohort. continue work with her my perfect home: it program, which enables creative writing adviser, melded writing and students to leave Yale with author John Crowley. travel, literariness, and a both a bachelor’s degree and a fascination with global Humility master’s degree in public health. Making Connections politics.” A spring- break outreach trip to Back on campus as a senior, As a junior, Sanjena takes a seminar Just for Fun Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, Omar completes his senior with author Anne Fadiman and talks yields a Globalist story project for the Global A≠airs Sanjena wraps up two at length with New Yorker writers Ian on the tiny indigenous major. And because senior year “Because Yale o≠ers so many senior essays: a creative Frazier, Adam Gopnik, and Gay Talese. Aymara community. is a great opportunity to take fiction piece and a After a Globalist trip to those “just for fun” classes, he interdisciplinary programs, like research paper on Zadie Come spring, the Globalist sta≠ travels Turkey in May, Sanjena enrolls in “Humility” with New Smith. (One required, to Chile, where Sanjena reports on the spends the summer York Times columnist David the other just for fun!) Global Health Fellows, I’ve mining industry. She also wins a Yale studying gender Brooks. There may be no more disparity and economic fitting description for the developed the skills necessary to fellowship to intern at the Pittsburgh development in rural attitude he maintains and will Post-Gazette that summer. “It cemented Nepal on a Yale Summer no doubt continue to maintain my interest in reporting.” Research Fellowship. every step of the way. apply diverse, creative strategies 68 studies 69 | to pressing global concerns.” Places.

70 lives | Yale, like Ulysses, is part of all that she has met, part of all the scholars and students who have trod paths of learning across her campus, of their ideals and accomplishments, and of their lives and times . . . Whitney Griswold, President of Yale University, 1950–1963

72 places 73 | Harkness Memorial Tower by James Gamble Rogers and The height of tradition at Yale (216 completed in 1921, Harkness holds a feet and 284 steps to the roof), the 54-bell, 43-ton carillon rung daily by tower’s cornerstone was dedicated students in the Yale University Guild Inspired by Icons. in 1917 exactly 200 years after the of Carillonneurs. Statues of Elihu (Why architecture matters) first stone for the first Yale building Yale and others plus four student- in New Haven was placed. Designed gargoyles keep watch from on high.

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

74 places 75 | Old Campus Students begin and end their time at Yale where Yale itself began. Most freshmen live here in the residences that border Old Campus, which is also where their commencement takes place four years later.

76 places 77 | © Jeff Goldberg /Esto. Malone Engineering Center Architects), a former dean of the Built in 2005 according to state- Yale School of Architecture, houses of-the-art sustainable building undergraduate teaching labs standards, the Center adds and the University’s Department considerably to Yale’s engineering of Biomedical Engineering. facilities. The building, designed by Cesar Pelli (of Pelli Clarke Pelli

78 places 79 | Completed in 1930, Sterling offices, and work areas, the library is Memorial Library was designed devoted primarily to the humanities by James Gamble Rogers. Rogers and social sciences. called the building “as near to modern Gothic as we dared to make it.” Made up of fifteen stack levels and eight floors of reading rooms,

80 places 81 | Connecticut Hall The oldest Yale University Art Gallery (faculty 1947–57). It was the first building on campus, a Georgian One of the country’s oldest college notable design of Kahn’s career among the Gothic, opened as a art museums got its start in 1832 and sits across the street from his dorm in 1752 and is a National with 100 Revolutionary War paint- final work in the United States, the Historic Landmark. Nathan Hale ings. Now it’s noted for the depth Yale Center for British Art. (B.A. 1773)—that’s him, on and range of its collections. The guard outside —was one of its main building is itself a modernist early residents. masterwork designed by Louis Kahn 82 places 83 | 84 places 85 | Noah Webster Lived Here. (Bumping into history at Yale)

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

86 places 87 | Eating Out. Nine Squares. (When you need a (Yale and the city) break from the dining halls) The great debate: Sally’s vs. Pepe’s New Haven’s Wooster “Downtown New Haven has been Yale Campus Street is well known for its delicious pizza. Lines outside its transformed over the last five years Yale has been in New Haven since 1716, and its most popular establishments relocation fifteen years after its founding was due in large are often 20 people long. part to New Haven’s belief that a college was essential East Rock from Yale’s mundane backyard into to its own success. All of Yale University is involved Park Louis’ a vibrant neighborhood of shops, in the city and the cultural, recreational, and political Lunch opportunities it o≠ers. Thousands of New Haven theaters, and restaurants.” children and teens participate in intensive academic and Credited enrichment programs at Yale. And more than 2,000 Yale by The New York Times, 2005 Broadway College students participate as volunteers, interns, and some For well over a decade politan college town, National brand-names tend work-study employees in New Haven schools, hospitals, with inventing the hamburger in 1903. Yale and New Haven they would recognize the to congregate here: Apple Store, community organizations, and businesses. Science (Just don’t ask for ketchup!) J. Crew, Urban Outfitters, Barnes & Hill have been creating the cooperation between Noble (a.k.a. the Yale Bookstore). Ninth Square template for the 21st- the two neighbors as Bring your Yale ID for some good For a more century city, investing Yale moves into its fourth discounts. Busy with students elegant night out, Ninth Square, together in a new biotech century. In the words of day and night, Broadway and a short walk from campus, o≠ers intersecting York Street are also the the upscale and hip spots. industry and partnering former Yale President place to go for a late-night snack. Hillhouse in an urban renaissance Richard C. Levin, a Coffee or Koffee? Ave that has become a thirty-five-year resident Whitney Avenue New Haven has national model. While of New Haven, this city is Grove St You can cover a lot of its share of great the founders of New “large enough to be inter- intellectual ground traveling this independent co≠ee Haven and Yale might esting, yet small enough Audubon avenue. It borders the Audubon shops where Arts District, always worth a students can study not recognize the modern to be friendly.” Welcome or catch up with Howe St ramble. And at 170 Whitney, the university or the cosmo­ to the new New Haven. Cross Whitney Ave Peabody Museum of Natural friends. Campus History. Chapel Street Ashley’s Ice Cream For decades In counterpoint to big Old a New Haven favorite, located Broadway, Chapel Street is jam- Campus on York Street, and voted “New packed with local bookstores, Haven’s Best” by the local press. boutiques, cafes, and restaurants New that range from student-budget Haven Mory’s: to upscale. In between shopping Green A Yale and noshing, visit the newly Tradition renovated and expanded Yale Founded University Art Gallery and the Orange St Yale Center for British Art. in 1861, Mory’s is College St a unique Yale dining experi­ence— Ninth City Hall / Amistad membership in this supper club Square Memorial is open to Yale students, faculty, Church St City Hall is on the southeast side and alumni. Mory’s is known Yale Medical of the Green. Next to it is the especially for its toasting nights School Campus Amistad Memorial to the African and entertainment by superb a captives who rebelled against cappella groups including Yale’s slavery. Yale professors, students, most famous—the Whi≠enpoofs. and alumni argued their case New Haven Green International Fare A textbook case of city leaders of future generations. The in court. The sculpture stands Walk just planning Nine perfect squares: pattern held true: their college The center of the city’s original grid, the 17-acre on the site of the jail that held Water St a few blocks from campus for a geometry of profound faith. New would become paramount in Green is bordered by Yale, New Haven government o∞ces, the rebels. Ninth Square any food you crave—American, Haven was planned by founders preparing leaders, amid a setting Chapel Street shops, and a lot of history. The Yale Daily Chinese, Cuban, Ethiopian, who believed in the recurring pat- carefully planned as a tangible News calls it the city’s epicenter and says, “Whenever It may be the ninth square, Long Island French, Greek, Indian, Irish, tern of Providence. In 1639, they expression of the power of something major comes to New Haven, it shows up on the but it’s turning into a blockbuster Sound Italian, Jamaican, Japanese, laid out a grid of blocks around the mind and soul. See Yale in Green,” from festivals to concerts to protests. It’s the stage for upscale nightlife, thanks to a Korean, Malaysian, Mexican, a central commons, a tangible New Haven: Architecture and for the New Haven Jazz Festival and other concerts—and it’s continuing retail and residential Middle Eastern, Moroccan, expression of their belief. The next Urbanism (Yale University, 2004). where the bodies are buried (in the Center Church Crypt, boom. Spanish, Thai, Turkish, or step was a college to train the an historic cemetery with gravestones from 1687 to 1812). Vietnamese. 88 places 89 | Elm City Run. “I’m never more aware of how much New Haven has to o≠er than when I’m on a run. Because I’m on the track team, I run a lot. Every run, we basically circle the entire city. So the city’s size is manageable enough that if you want to go to East Rock, or even West Rock, you can leave the city for your run and then return. On a single run you can pass the neighborhoods that are nicest if you go down Hillhouse. Then you can go out to Dixwell and come back around. You can go by the port and the receiving terminal that smells like asphalt, so that’s really indus- trial. You can go by hayfields and cows, clubs and museums. You can find trails to run on. Some parts are fantastic, and other ones present you with a challenge, but either way it’s really fun. Because the city is this perfect size, you see this whole image of so many kinds of life and landscape.You can leave campus and return with renewed vigor, because you see so many things along the way.” Dan

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

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

New York City Holliston, Massachu- Los Angeles, Amman, Jordan McAllen, Texas Redlands, California Buffalo, New York “I’m from . “I’m from “I’m from “I was born in , “I’m from . “I’m from . “I’m from , setts California Illinois Italy Spring break of my freshman . During my freshman . The summer before but now my family lives in . This summer I will be studying I’ve studied Italian in on but I’ve also lived in the Philippines year I got to tour and perform in spring break, I led workshops in my junior year I won the John The summer after my junior year, Portuguese and delving into Yale’s Summer Study Program, . I’ve spent two Milan Lugano Zurich UK St. Petersburg , , and literacy and theater for children in Thouron Prize for Summer I went to the to study public the vibrant culture of Brazil and next fall I will be going summers in Guatemala City, Guatemala Rio de Janeiro Pune, India as a member of the a cappella . Study—an 8-week fellowship health policy, Gothic architecture, while living in to , taking courses studying Russian language Japan singing group Yale Alley Cats.” This summer, I’m going to to Pembroke College, Cambridge and art at Cambridge University. through a Yale Summer and doing research in environ­ and culture.” UK Port-au-Prince, Sho Matsuzaki, Computing on a grant to do a monthlong University, in the . My I also went to Study course.” mental studies.” Joe Bolognese, Economics Haiti and the Arts Major intensive in traditional Japanese research focused on inter­- , to work with Haitians Stephanie Carrizales, Victoria Montanez, and Math Major dance and theater.” national finance and business.” displaced by the earthquake.” American Studies Major Environmental Studies Major Laurel Durning-Hammond, Brandon Levin, Ethics, Politics, Osama Zayyad, Molecular Theater Studies Major and Economics Major Biophysics and Biochemistry Major 92 places 93 | Pursuits. . . . and the youthful society thus formed had promptly and enthusiastically set to work to create its own system of self improvement, a second or social curriculum. Yale: A Short History, by George W. Pierson

96 pursuits 97 | Yale’s first gym was Mission Recent Ivy League built in 1826. By the “Part of a [liberal education] Championships is constituted by those Golf (M and W) mid-1800s an athletic challenging and pleasurable Field Hockey tradition “dominated the experiences and extra- Ice Hockey (M) undergraduate horizon, curricular activities—like Lacrosse (M) Coed Sailing and epic victories were varsity and recreational athletics—that enable an Squash (M and W) celebrated with bonfires individual to give fuller force Tennis (W) under the elms, as the to academic training…. Volleyball (W) classes roared out their Learning how to strive to win, to compete with pride 12 Nationally glees from their appointed and honor, to make Ranked Teams perches on the old Yale sacrifices, to persevere Heavyweight Crew Lightweight Crew fence,” wrote George when all seems lost, and Crew (W) to develop a sense of Pierson in his history Fencing (M and W) obligation and responsi- Ice Hockey (M) of Yale. The Bulldogs of bility for others are the Lacrosse (M) today—both men and lessons that make athletics Coed Sailing a school for accomplish- women — compete on 33 Sailing (W) ment and character.” NCAA Division I teams Squash (M and W) — Excerpted from the Yale Tennis (W) made up of junior- Athletics Mission Statement varsity-level players to All-Americans. Yale “The Game” Even for those who also offers student-run don’t count themselves club sports and one as sports fans, “The of the most extensive Game” is one of the most anticipated and popular intramural events every year. programs in the country. Since 1875, the And the fans roar their Yale Bulldogs and glees (that’s fight song Harvard Crimson have met more than 120 in modern parlance) — times in this annual including Cole Porter’s Yale-Harvard football “Bulldog!”— as loud game. Held the first weekend of Thanks- as ever. ­giving break, its location alternates between the Yale Bowl and Harvard Stadium.

98 pursuits 99 | Varsity Teams Field Hockey Baseball Figure Skating Men’s Basketball Fishing Yalies who participate 800+ Women’s Basketball Golf in intercollegiate Men’s Crew (Heavy Men’s Ice Hockey athletics each year. and Light) Indoor Climbing Women’s Crew Karate (Shotokan) Men’s Cross Country Men’s Lacrosse Women’s Cross Country Women’s Lacrosse Students who 2,750 Men’s Fencing Muay Thai participate in intramural­ Women’s Fencing Pistol and Rifle games through the Field Hockey Platform Tennis residential colleges. Football Polo Men’s Golf Powerlifting Women’s Golf Road Running Women’s Gymnastics Men’s Rugby The percentage of 90% Men’s Ice Hockey Women’s Rugby the student body Women’s Ice Hockey Skeet & Trap participating in some Men’s Lacrosse Skiing (Alpine) form of athletic Women’s Lacrosse Skiing (Nordic) activity each year. Coed Sailing Snowboarding Women’s Sailing Men’s Soccer Men’s Soccer Women’s Soccer Women’s Soccer Squash (coed) 200+ Olympians 2012 Summer Softball Swimming Facilities Johnson Field More than 200 Yale Games in London by Men’s Squash Table Tennis A 750-seat synthetic players and coaches one coach and seven Women’s Squash Tae Kwon Do Payne Whitney turf complex housing have taken part in alumni athletes, Men’s Swimming Men’s Tennis Gymnasium the field hockey team. modern (post-1896) including Taylor and Diving Women’s Tennis At 12 acres, the largest It is adjacent to the Olympic competition, Ritzel ’10, who won Women’s Swimming Triathlon gym in the nation and William O. DeWitt winning 114 medals, gold rowing on the and Diving Men’s Ultimate the second-largest in Jr. ’63 Family Field, 55 of them gold. At U.S. women’s eight Men’s Tennis Women’s Ultimate the world (second only home of Yale softball. the 2008 Summer team; Ashley Women’s Tennis Men’s Volleyball to a gym in Moscow Games in Beijing, Brzozowicz ’04, who Men’s Track and Field Women’s Volleyball that was modeled Championship fencer Sada Jacobson won silver with the Women’s Track and Men’s Water Polo after Yale’s). Golf Course Yale’s ’06, who won silver Canadian women’s Field Women’s Water Polo own championship and bronze medals eight; and Charlie Women’s Volleyball Wrestling David S. Ingalls golf course, voted #1 for the United States, Cole ’07, who won Rink seats more College Golf Course in was one of six Elis bronze with the U.S. Club Sports Intramurals than 3,000 and is America by Golfweek competing. At the men’s four team. Badminton See page 23 home to Yale’s varsity magazine in 2012, is a 2010 Winter Games Most recently, at the Ballroom Dance men’s and women’s short distance from the in Vancouver, Natalie 2014 Winter Games Men’s Baseball hockey teams. The other athletic facilities, Babony ’06 skated in Sochi, Phoebe Men’s Basketball rink is also available in the Westville section on the Slovakian Staenz ’17 won Women’s Basketball for recreational ice of New Haven. women’s ice hockey bronze as a member Cricket skating and instruction, team. Yale was of the Swiss women’s Cycling and intramurals. Gilder Boathouse represented at the ice hockey team. Equestrian The Gilder Boat­­house, Yale Bowl a 22,000 square foot Conferences Handsome Dan A spectacular football state-of-the-art facility Yale takes pride in (1889–present) stadium seating more on the Housatonic its broad-based inter­­­­ Yale was the first than 60,000, the River, stretches south collegiate athletic university in the United Bowl is surrounded by to the finish line of program that includes States to adopt a first-rate facilities for Yale’s 2,000-meter competition in the Ivy mascot, and to this indoor and outdoor race course. League Conference and date, none is better tennis, lacrosse, rugby, the Eastern College known than Handsome soccer, field hockey, The McNay Family Athletic Conference Dan. The tradition softball, baseball, and Sailing Center (ECAC). Most of Yale’s was established by a track and field. at Yale University intercollegiate contests young gentleman from Home to Yale’s coed are against traditional Victorian England, who Reese Stadium and women’s varsity east coast opponents attended Yale in the With seating for more sailing teams, the with emphasis on 1890s. The original’s than 1,700, Reese center houses a fleet of winning the Ivy League 16 successors have is home to the men’s twenty-four 420 racing title. All sports, been the intimates of and women’s soccer dinghies, as well as with the exception deans, directors, and teams in the fall, and FJs, Lasers, and three of football, have coaches. One was to the men’s and safety launches. the ultimate goal of tended by a head women’s lacrosse qualifying for NCAA cheerleader who went teams in the spring. and affiliated post­- on to become the season championships. Secretary of State.

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

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

102 pursuits 103 | Or DIY by acting, Fashion The New Blue performing, singing, Knitting Club Out of the Blue staging, writing, producing, presenting, Runway Inc. Proof of the Pudding The Daily Show. improvising, creating, YCouture Redhot & Blue (A slice of Yale’s creative life during one spring weekend not so long ago) designing, and getting Regular Singing Society laughs through more Film Shades than 80 (and counting) Bulldog Productions student choirs, troupes, Singing Group Council Cinema at the Whitney Records show that the Yale Cabaret clubs, groups, ensem- Be hip at the ’s late-night Society of Orpheus and Yale Belly Dance bles, associations, Film Society first appearance of lounge. (Admission is always Bacchus Friday Society organizations, “Hips free with the purchase of a South Asian Film a band at Yale was in societies, and collec- Something Extra Lose yourself in the art of against Hunger: ticket to what’s playing at Society 1775, when a militia tives including: The Spizzwinks (?) the book at the exhibitions 3rd Annual the Cabaret—this weekend,

band of Yale students “The Passover Haggadah: Gala Show.” Sidewalk Opera.) Music Tangled Up in Blue Art/Design accompanied George Modern Art in Dialogue Afterward, Berkeley College Undergraduate Choral with an Ancient Text,” “Art stop by the Anime Society Orchestra Society Washington to Cambridge, Calhoun Is Where You Find It,” and Art of the Book Club Massachusetts. They Cabaret Bhangra Society The Whiffenpoofs “Collaboration: The Art of Saturday Cartooning Society found it “not to their Working Together,” all at at Calhoun Calhoun Orchestra for Whim ’n Rhythm Sterling Memorial Library liking” and returned to . College to check Get an early start with a Design for America Yale Collaborative Arts Yale Russian Chorus out the band your Froco morning of music at the Origami Society Classical New Haven one week Woolsey Hall Competition Yale Slavic Chorus is managing and a spoken , Interdisciplinary later. From those humble School of Music Undergraduate word performance by the where Collective Yale Slam team Yale Calligraphic roots have sprung the . instrumentalists and singers architect Frank Gehry’s talk Or sleep in and join the Theater FX Crew Association Davenport Pops compete for the opportunity two nights ago, but make for an afternoon Yale Concert Band, the The Control Group to appear as soloists with the a plan to come back next of practice. IGIGI Yale Jazz Ensemble, and SOA Dance Gilbert & Sullivan Explore the ethical conse- Philharmonia during the next Tuesday for ’s Film Series Jazz Collective Society the incomparable Yale quences of murder with “wry season. Make it a marathon “The Future is Asian.” Alliance for Dance School Jonathan Edwards Face your fears at the irony and consummate skill” and come back in the evening Revisit your childhood and Ballet Folklórico Heritage Theater Precision Marching Band. of Architecture Master of Music College Philharmonic ’s symposium through two films: Monsieur for the see your suitemates perform Mexicano Ensemble Such is Yale’s epic arts Recital Series NYC “Mobile Anxieties,” featuring Verdoux and Le Boucher, —tonight cellist It’s grad night at the for New Haven’s youngest at Krolik Saxophone Band Jook Songs (Asian- story, peopled by icons Opera Yale Children’s Theater Ballroom Dance Club keynote address “Mobility, directed by Charles Chaplin Jacques Wood and pianist . Go into the city the Low Strung American theater (Thornton Wilder, Paul Security and Creativity: The and Claude Chabrol, respec- Wei-Jen Yuan. with friends to see Leonard performance of Robin Hood. Belly Dance Society The Musical Cure group) Politics and Economics of tively, and loosely based Bernstein’s Candide at a Or step on stage yourself in Newman, Maya Lin, Danceworks Opera Theatre of Global Creative Cities.” What on real-life scandals. Every discounted rate and explore afternoon rehearsals of the New Haven Dance Jodie Foster) and satisfy- Cinema at the Dramat A Different Drum Yale College are the precedents for mobility weekend the set’s production on a ’s production of Tony and Drummings Whitney ing pretty much any in architecture and how are , an interschool backstage tour. Or enjoy a Kushner’s Angels in America: Groove Dance Pan, Jam, and Lime Student Productions artistic desire any day they related to a general sense student group of undergrads night of theater right on Millennium Approaches Irish Dancers Steel Band ¡Teatro! Yale Reper- of unease? and graduate students, campus at the (one of 200 student theatrical of the week. We picked tory Theatre Jashan Bhangra Team Paul Huggins African Yale Children’s Theater presents­ a pair of films for , where lords productions each year). Whitney Humani- Drumming Core one weekend in spring. free at the and ladies are gathering for Konjo! African Dance Yale Drama Coalition ties Center Channel your inner Indiana auditorium. Oscar Wilde’s comedy of Troupe Raga Society (Indian Yale Dramat Peabody Jones at the serial seducers and moralizing Close the weekend with an Lion Dance Troupe classical music) Museum ’s special exhibition monogamists, A Woman of eclectic mix of live music Saybrook College Comedy/Improv BAR Mostly Waltz “Las Artes de México,” with If that’s too highbrow for your No Importance. options: new bands at ’s Orchestra The Fifth Humour artifacts from more than a mood, start your night with Take the Masterpiece Tour “Sundazed” series; a student Phoenix Dance Troupe Toad’s Yale University Art 1701 Records dozen pre-Columbian cultures. the all-ages show at at the Choral Conducting Recital Rhythmic Blue Just Add Water Place Gallery YUAG Battell Chapel Society Electronica , then head over to the ( ), stopping at ; the Outside Joke Criterion Cinema Sabrosura ’s exclusive into the special exhibitions Great Organ Music series Undergraduate Marquand Chapel The Purple Crayon Soothe your soul with Insomnia Theater film series, “Colorful Impressions: The at . Or Steppin’ Out Madrigal Musicians Mendelssohn’s Elijah which “brings the best cult Printmaking Revolution learn some new steps in a Swing & Blues Red Hot Poker Yale Baroque Opera performed by Yale’s classics back to the big screen!” in 18th-Century France” and Swing & Blues Dance Practi- Sphincter Troupe Philharmonia Orchestra Afro-American Tango Club Project , Or shake o≠ Le Boucher “Master Drawings from the cum at the Camerata Glee Club AFTERPARTY, Cultural Center The Viola Question , and . (literally) at the Yale University Art Gallery.” . Taps Yale Concert Band After lunch at Atticus Café Undergraduate Ballet Yale Klezmer Band The Yale Exit Players across the street, return for Company Yale University Guild The Yale Record student guide Susan Morrow’s Enjoy a concert to benefit Unity Korean Drum of Carillonneurs talk “Angles on Art.” children’s literacy given by the Spoken Word Whiffenpoofs and Dance Troupe , the world’s Sunday Singing Groups ¡Oye! oldest and best-known Yale Dance Theater Gospel Or gallery-hop from the As a member of the collegiate a cappella group. Yale Rangeela: Fusion Alley Cats Teeth Slam Poets School of Art Choir ’s Senior , sing at Sunday The Whi≠s are one of Dance Asempa! WORD Performance Thesis Show Paintings Part I services. more than a dozen Yaledancers Baker’s Dozen Poetry (see Part II on Sunday) to the a cappella groups Architecture Gallery for and have Ya-Yue Chinese Dance Duke’s Men Unique Troupe “Painting the Glass House: Help your friend set up her become one Gospel Choir Despierta Anti-Gravity Society Artists Revisit Modern Archi- paintings at the of Yale’s most Boricua Living Water tecture.” As you move through ’s art opening. Come celebrated The Magic Society La the gallery, you and your date back for the reception at and hallowed Magevet Yale Wushu Casa rue the fact that you missed later in the afternoon. traditions. Mixed Company 104 pursuits 105 | Shared Communities. (Identity, culture, gender, and politics sheltered and nurtured)

Some say Yale is a place of reinvention, but others say the undergraduate experi- ence here is about becom- ing more of who you already are. Many students find the most personal routes on this journey through Yale’s Cultural Houses, the Women’s Center, political activism and groups, and sexual identity organizations that make up a microcosm of the world’s views and beliefs. The best part is the friends, traveling com- panions, and guides that students find through these centers and organizations to help them on their way. Alumna Billie Gastic ’98 says, “The work that I did with other Latino students to bring about positive change in our communities Where House played a tremendous part in my identity development Means Home. and paved the way for the (Cultural centers at Yale) work that I will continue Yale’s four Cultural Houses include to do for a lifetime.” the Afro-American Cultural Cen- ter, the Asian American Cultural Center, the Latino Cultural Center (La Casa Cultural, pictured here), and the Native American Cultural Center. All are modeled after the Afro-American Cultural Center (a≠ectionately known as “The House”), founded in 1969. The four centers nourish a sense of cultural identity and educate people in the larger community. They are also home base for doz- ens of a∞liated organizations from fraternities and sororities to dance companies, publications, and social action and political groups.

106 pursuits 107 | Intercultural Afro-American Minority Association of Yale Christian Hanppuri: Korean Sikh Students at Yale Cuban-American Sabrosura: Latino Affairs Council Cultural Center Pre-Medical Students Fellowship International Students South Asian Society Undergraduate Student Dance at Student Association Yale “One of our generation’s major Alpha Phi NAACP (Yale chapter) Yale Gospel Choir HAPA Student Association of Alpha Fraternity National Society Yale West Indian Hindu Students Council Thais at Yale (SATAY) Despierta Boricua Students of Mixed challenges is to determine how Student Organization (Puerto Rican Heritage and Culture The Black Church of Black Engineers InSight (Yale Chapter of Students of Mixed individuals, communities, or undergraduate at Yale New Haven Dance NAPAWF, a national Heritage and Culture ¡Teatro! cultures become marginalized Asian American organization) Black Graduate and Drummings Asian American Taiwanese American Yale Mexican Cultural Center Dominican Student as the Other, and to actively Network OneBody (Black Women’s issues and Society Student Organization resist this process,” is the way ALIVE! (A Learning and advocacy group) Association IAC Black Men’s Union Campus Ministries) Unity Korean Drum Ypsaniola (service members framed a recent Interactive Vietnamese Japanese American La Fuerza organization devoted Black Solidarity Pan, Jam, and and Dance Troupe Experience) Students Union Hispanic Scholars to the Dominican series of events and discussions Conference Lime Steel Band Vietnamese Students Alliance for Southeast Jook Songs Foundation (Yale Republic) focused on “otherness.” The Black Student Paul Huggins African Association (ViSA) Asian Students chapter) Intercultural A≠airs Council Alliance at Yale Drumming Core KASAMA: The Filipino Yale Bhangra Society Native American ASHA for Education Club at Yale Latin American engages in community dialogue; Black Women’s Prism Yale Medical Cultural Center Asian American Students Coalition Shades (a cappella Korean American Professions Outreach promotes cultural awareness, Students Alliance Organization American Indian singing) Students of Yale respect, and appreciation; and Women’s Center Delta Sigma Latino Business Science and Theta Sorority Bridges (English Lion Dance Troupe La Casa Cultural Engineering Society Sphere Magazine Coalition challenges bias on the basis language lessons) (Yale chapter) The center, while open to men, The Ebony Tower blog Steppin’ Out Malaysian and Alianza (pan-Latino of race and ethnicity, gender, Cambodian American MAS Familias primarily is a space for the Singaporean group celebrating and Association of Native Gamma Phi Delta Students of Mixed Multi-Branching (supports Latinos religion, sexual orientation, Association (MASA) learning about Latino Americans at Yale women of Yale. Its mission is to Heritage Theatre Heritage and Culture Outreach (CAMBO) interested in math disability, social class, or other Muslim Students culture) and science) improve the lives of all women, Ensemble Urban Improvement Chinese Adopted distinction. The Council recently Association Amigas (Yale Latinas Kappa Alpha Psi Corps Siblings Program for Movimiento especially at Yale and in New Phoenix Dance Troupe mentor Latina high designed and launched the Fraternity Youth Estudiantil Chicano Haven. As part of a broader Visions of Virtue schoolers) “One Community” campaign, Prism de Aztlán (MEChA) Konjo! African Dance Chinese American feminist movement the center WORD (performance Ballet Folklórico which gives the Yale community Troupe Students Association Raga Society: Indian ¡Oye! poetry) Mexicano works to ensure equal and full Classical Music a visual and united way to Chinese Undergraduate PorColombia opportunity for all, regardless of Yale African Student respond to cultural or racial bias Association Students at Yale Revelasians sex, gender, race, ethnicity, and hate crimes.

nationality, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, back- ground, religion, ability, or age.

Belly Dance Society Manifesta (feminist issues publication) Black Women’s Coalition Prism Circle of Women Sphincter Troupe (all-female sketch Girl Empowerment comedy group) Magazine (for female Afro-American La Casa Cultural Native American New Haven high school Undergraduate Women Cultural Center Cultural Center students) in Science at Yale Since the late 1970s, La Casa Asian American The Lesbian Gay Bisexual Her Campus Women and Afro-America House opened Cultural has been host to count- The Association of Native Cultural Center ANNAY Youth Supporting in 1969 as a locus for political, less cultural, scholarly, and Americans at Yale ( ) was Transgender Student InSight (Yale chapter of AACC Each Other (WYSE) cultural, and social activities. The What can you do at the ? social events and has served as founded in 1989. Although spo- Cooperative NAPAWF, a national name reflected the sentiment that Just about anything: study in the an important focus of Latino radic groups of Native American Asian American Women’s Leadership the House was more than a mere library, cook for your friends student social life at Yale and a students had organized before, The Co-op hosts a number of Women’s issues and Initiative building. The House continued in a full-fledged kitchen, watch tremendous source of student- the new group’s goals included member groups loosely divided advocacy group) earlier Yale gatherings which TV on a widescreen television, community interaction and attracting Native American into three branches: social, brought black students together or play Ping-Pong. Established in enrichment. Founded in 1974 professors and scholars; expand- from many schools to discuss 1981, the center promotes Asian as Casa Boricua, Inc., La Casa ing course o≠erings to include political/activist, and support/ issues pertinent to the black com- American culture and explores the Cultural acquired its present Native American history and discussion. The groups also work munity. With these gatherings, social and political experience of name three years later. Within cultural studies; increasing together on large events and the isolation students experienced Asians in the United States. More the three-story, 19th-century red Native American recruitment and in the late fifties and early six- than thirty-five undergraduate brick house, students socialize, support from the administra- projects. ties gave way to the vigorous organizations are a∞liated with plan activities, cook together in a tion; and creating a permanent Bridges LGBT and queer and AACC exchange of ideas now seen at the the . Students of Chinese, fully equipped kitchen, and create headquarters for the group. De Colores: LGBTQ questioning people House. The common thread is the Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South a warm and robust community. Many of those goals have been of color) Fierce Advocates commitment, confidence, com- Asian (Bangladeshi, Indian, The center also includes a Latino achieved, including the establish- Queer Peers petence, and consciousness that Nepalese, Pakistani, Sri-Lankan), and Latin American topic library, ment of the Native American GaYalies ANNAY Queer Resource Center students, faculty, the New Haven Taiwanese, Thai, Vietnamese, and a computer room, organizational Cultural Center. and the IvyQ community, and the University other Asian backgrounds work o∞ces, student lounges, and center promote Native American Resource Alliance for administration have shown in together to address pan-Asian meeting spaces. La Casa is open culture and explore issues Native Not-So-Straight Frosh Gender Equity making the Afro-American Cul- American issues as well as provide to New Haven Latinos and Americans face today. Programs Prism (a confidential ESL Sappho tural Center vitally essential to programs that focus on individual community-based programs include speakers, dinners, study discussion group for Yale, New Haven, and beyond. ethnic group issues. for non-English speakers. breaks, and movie nights. 108 pursuits 109 | Publications

Accent Afrika Now ELIterati. L’Amuse-Bouche (Why Yalies are so darned determined to publish) Broad Recognition Dimensions Art Journal Fiat Lux: A Journal of Religious Life and Theology GEM Global21 Habitus Helicon Undergraduate Journal of Classics Her Campus La Fuerza The New Journal The Politic Q Magazine Revelasians Rumpus (humor tabloid) Ventures in Science Vita Bella The Yale Daily News The Yale Daily News Magazine Yale Economic Review The Yale Epicurian The Yale Free Press The Yale Globalist The Yale Herald The Yale Historical Review Yale Journal of “Yale publications are like one of Medicine and Law those giant 40-flavor containers The Yale Journal of Public Health of jelly beans. The possibilities Yale Literary Magazine are endless, as new publications are dispersed seemingly daily The Yale Philosophy Review throughout all the residential The Yale Record colleges. There are a few more Yale Scientific general, universally popular Yale Undergraduate publications—the cherry, lemon, Economics Journal or watermelon jelly beans of Yale Undergraduate the bunch—as well as a handful Film Review that will really please a certain Yale Undergraduate niche—the cappuccino and roasted Journal of Gender, marshmallow flavors. No matter Health, and Sexuality what your taste, if you look hard Yale Undergraduate Law Review enough, you’ll find something to Y.U.M. (literary Members of the Yale Daily best of what the University has suit your mood.” magazine) News editorial board. Tapley to offer: dedication, intensive Sam Dubo≠ for the Yale Daily News Stephenson, editor-in-chief teamwork, a vast range of (back row, third from right), thinks experiences, and the desire to have Originally appeared in the YDN. Reprinted Yale’s publications “represent the one’s thoughts read and discussed.” by permission.

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

Yale’s path to sustain- Student Groups ability began more than Student Taskforce 100 years ago with the for Environmental establishment of one of Partnership (STEP) the first forestry schools Yale Student in the country. Today, Environmental Coalition the University is inter- Engineers Without nationally recognized as Borders a sustainability leader Yale Harvest in both curriculum and institutional practices. Yale Freshman Outdoor Orientation Yale is home to faculty in Trips cutting-edge fields such Social Justice as green chemistry and Network at Yale engineering, sustainable Reach Out landscape management, New Haven Action and business and the Yale Outdoors environment. Students have been instrumental Bulldog Sustainability in building a culture of sustainability across the campus. Their enthusi- asm and energy have led the University to estab- lish several academic programs, a sustainable food project, and more.

Yale’s O∞ce of Sustainability The Yale Climate and Energy Institute is is created; today it has 6 sta≠ established to foster multidisciplinary programs members and more than 50 in response to the urgency of climate change. student research assistants. Two Yale College The Yale Sustain­ Students launch a bike sharing program; and graduates, Gi≠ord The Yale Student Environmental Coalition able Food Project President Levin commits Yale composting is introduced into the dining halls. GHG Pinchot and Henry hosts the Campus Earth Summit, a student is founded by stu- to a reduction target of leed S. Graves, establish conference with representatives from 120 dents, faculty, and 43% below 2005 levels by 2020. Yale opens Kroon Hall, the eighth - Yale makes the Top 10 leed the Yale Forest School Alumnus Aldo American and 29 international universities. sta≠ with support certified building on campus. With in Sierra magazine’s and pioneer forest Leopold’s seminal Yale College launches Participants draft “The Blueprint for a Green from President Yale completes the Class of 1954 Platinum status, Kroon generates 25% of its annual ranking of management in the A Sand County the Environmental Campus,” which is distributed nationally to Richard Levin and Chemistry Research Building, own electricity and uses 50% less energy than America’s greenest LEED United States. Almanac is published. Studies major. environmental groups and legislators. chef Alice Waters. its first -certified building. a comparable building of its size. colleges.

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Alumnus George Bird Students initiate a recycling program. Environmental issues receive Students break Sustainable food options become available Yale unveils its Sustainability Strategic Plan, Grinnell founds one heightened attention when a ground on in all residential college dining halls. a comprehensive set of goals and tactics of the first environ- The School of Forestry expands its group of undergraduates the Yale Farm, for enhancing sustainability in all areas mental organizations research and teaching to incorporate produces the “Yale Green Plan” transforming a Students help to launch Spring Salvage, of campus life. Major goals accomplished in the world—the broader environmental issues, and and submits its findings brambly acre an initiative to capture reusable by 2012 include a 25% increase in recycling, Audubon Society. changes its name to the Yale School of and recommendations to Yale into a productive goods from students moving out of the a 15% reduction in energy consumption, Forestry & Environmental Studies. College administrators. market garden. residential colleges. and 95% composting of food waste.

112 pursuits 113 | Retired General Stanley A. McChrystal, former Commander of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, led a discussion with Yale Political Political Animals. Union members on “Resolved: (Today’s and tomorrow’s leaders converge at the nation’s oldest debating society) Yalies have a duty to enter national service.”

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

114 pursuits 115 | Here the University Church in Yale Choir performs during the installation of the church’s new pastor, Reverend Keeping the Faiths. Ian Oliver, and Sharmisha Das, a senior, performs classical Hindu dance, (Religious life at a “world university”) representing one of the more than thirty faith traditions celebrated at Yale.

Yale students come from more than thirty diverse religious and spiritual traditions. Founded as an institution with a Protestant vocation, Yale today welcomes those of any or no faith tradition and seeks to nurture all in their spiritual journeys during their college years.

“We consider ourselves quite blessed,” says University Chaplain Sharon M. K. Kugler, “to be part of a community of scholars, seekers, and believers walking together on a remarkable journey of spiritual awakening and human flourishing.” Athletes in Action Presbyterian Undergraduate at Yale BAB:U (Buddhist Located Advisory Board: Reformed University Undergraduate) Fellowship in the St. Mary’s Roman heart Black Church at Yale Catholic Church of Old Chabad House Saint Thomas More Christ Presbyterian Campus Catholic Chapel Church Students where most and Center Christian Science Secular Student of the freshmen Reading Room live, the Chaplain’s Office Alliance Episcopal Church Sikh Student coordinates Yale’s rich and at Yale Association broadly understood religious First & Summerfield Slifka Center for life by supporting various United Methodist Jewish Life worship services and ritu- Church Trinity Baptist Students als across faith traditions Hindu Students Council Undergraduate Friends Impact Fellowship throughout the day and of Minyan Urim evening in numerous set- Islamic Awareness Unitarian- Month Council tings. The office partners Universalist Student Latter-Day Saints with centers for specific Fellowship Student Association faiths and affiliated social The University Church Luther House and community service Yale Christian Meor at Yale organizations, and offers Fellowship Muslim Students Yale Hillel pastoral support, Association educational publications, Yale Students for Christ New Haven Friends films, concerts, lecture Young Israel House Orthodox Christian at Yale series, and service trips Fellowship throughout the year. and more

116 pursuits 117 | Through clubs and The Musical Cure organizations devoted New Haven Action to musical cures, No Closed Doors developing clean Di≠erence Makers. energy, sharing Nourish International (Yale’s incubator of impact and leadership—Dwight Hall) community service PALS Tutoring and methods, social Mentoring entrepreneurship, Panorama Education or even scientific Leadership and service research, Yalies pursue Peace by P.E.A.C.E. to society seem inex- the greater good. Public Health Coalition

tricably linked at Yale. Community Reach Out Nowhere is that more Service Student Ready Set Launch Groups apparent than at Dwight Rotoract Club Hall, the Center for Academic Mentoring RYSA Program Public Service and “When I came to Yale, I had no Salt of the Earth AIDS Walk/Watch Social Justice founded idea that I would have so many SMArT (Science and New Haven by undergraduates in opportunities to serve others and Math Achiever Teams) AIESEC Yale 1886. Dwight Hall is the to rise as a leader. Students design Social Justice Network American Red Cross only nonprofit umbrella and implement strategic service Splatter! (publishing Amnesty International campus volunteer orga- and advocacy projects, come works by children Best Buddies in Yale student-run nization in the country together as a community of friends, writing workshops) Bridges (English run entirely by students. and explore the intellectual possi- language classes) Student Environmental Students develop new bilities and palpable opportunities Coalition BRED initiatives in response of a life of service. I serve on the Students for UNICEF Bulldogs at New to community needs nonprofit Board of Directors and Haven Reads Students for Justice and Peace in Palestine and provide resources, have been elected to co-lead the China Care training, and other Summer Buds 70-member student cabinet. College Council for support services for more Work at Dwight Hall is much more CARE Synergy Science Outreach than 70 groups ranging than volunteering. It’s a job and Colleges Against in scope from tutoring to a commitment.” Cancer Thi[NK] political activism. With Amy Rothschild Community-Based T.I.E.S. (Tutoring in Dwight Hall’s support, Learning Elementary Schools) Yale undergraduates have Community Health Undergraduate Educators Philanthropic Society founded many significant “Through the Yale Hunger DEMOS Undergraduates at community agencies that and Homelessness Action Project CT Hospice YHHAP Elmseed Enterprise have become a perma- ( ) I have learned how Unite For Sight nent part of New Haven’s to e≠ect change with others. Engineers Without YHHAP Borders Unity House social service network. has broken down my pre- FOCUS on New Haven Universities Allied for It’s the kind of impact conceptions about hunger and Essential Medicines GEM they continue to have homelessness. I’ve learned that Urban Debate League Genocide Action post-Yale as they answer poverty is nuanced in its causes Project Wishing Well: Water the call to serve and for the World and its potential solutions. I am Girls Run lead in ways that are Women and Youth continually blown away by the Habitat for Humanity uniquely their own. energy and compassion that Supporting Each Other “It’s one thing to take classes on experience I have had here. It is YHHAP Hunger and Homeless- Women’s Leadership world issues and philanthropy and a three-year program that allows drive my fellow members. ness Action Project Initiative community involvement theory, me to have a sustained mentoring Dwight Hall allows me to feel Hunger Heroes World Micro-Market but through Dwight Hall I’ve relationship with a student at a like a citizen of New Haven—more Instrumental Yale Refugee Project gotten a pragmatic idea about local elementary school. I plan to educated about its flaws and Connection Yale Sight Savers issues that exist in New Haven, go into finance post-Yale and then appreciative of its many opportu- Jews for Justice Youth Together nities than I ever anticipated.” Kitchen to Kitchen across the country, and around the work to improve the education Middle School world. I am a co-coordinator of system either by running for o∞ce Eliza Schafler Luther House Tutoring the Dwight Hall Academic Mentor- or starting a nonprofit.” Manson Prison Peer Counseling Education Initiative ing Program. Without question Bradford Williams Mind Matters Mathcounts Outreach it has been the most rewarding Peer Health Educators Microfinance Brigades Queer Peers Minorities in Medicine Walden 118 pursuits 119 | Apply.

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