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admissions.yale.edu *A Guide to Yale College, 2020–2021 A Guide to Yale College This is Yale. We’re glad you asked. p. 80 | State of the Lives. Arts. From the digital to the classical, Yale’s p. 8 | First-Year spectacular arts options. Diaries. Yale’s newest students chronicle a p. 82 | The Daily week in the first year Show. A slice of Yale’s and give some advice. creative life during p. 92 | The Student one spring weekend. Voice. Student publi- cations and political life. p. 84 | The Science Channel. Life outside the lab. Apply.

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

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

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

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

12 | lives 13 Home Suite Home FLOOR 2 FLOOR 1 Most first-years live in Yale in Dean’s Office Dean’s suites in which four If a student is having Apartment BASEMENT students occupy two Miniature. Game Room di∞culty with a particular Dean Angie Gleason FLOOR 2 bedrooms and share course, the college dean can lives in the Morse Head of (A tour of Conveniently a common living often help by talking with Dean’s Apartment, with College’s Office located next to the room. After the first the student’s instructor a beautiful view of The head of college is the Morse College) Morsel, the Game year, there are mul- or with the relevant the Lipstick and happily chief administrative o∞cer Room is a social tiple possible living department’s director of close to both the and the presiding faculty hub where students arrangements. undergraduate studies, or buttery and the gym. presence in each residential get together to by referring the student college. During the year, watch TV or play From top: A common BASEMENT to one of the programs that the head of college hosts pool, table tennis, room in Branford Buttery o≠er tutoring assistance. lectures, study breaks air hockey, and College; a bedroom Run by Getting to know each (especially during finals), foosball. in Farnam Hall on students, “The student as an individual and College Teas—intimate Old Campus; a Morsel” is open helps the dean to address gatherings during which bedroom in Berkeley Sunday through concerns as personally students have the oppor- College; a bed­room Thursday from and e≠ectively as possible. tunity to engage with with built-in desk and 10:30 pm to 1 am. renowned guests from bookshelves in Ezra Hang out with the academy, government, Stiles College; and friends over the and popular culture. a common room popular Jim Stanley, in Pierson College. a quesadilla with chicken nuggets.

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

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

14 | lives 15 Catherine Panter-Brick, A Head Start. the Bruce A. and Davi- Ellen Chabner Professor of What really makes a residential appreciation of student life. It’s Anthropology, Health, and college a college versus simply changed the way I teach because Global A≠airs, has been the a place to live is that each has its I now share with students more Morse head of college since July own dean and head of college— than the classroom experience, 2015. She teaches courses on health equity and humanitarian adults living among students so I make my relationships with interventions and publishes in microcosms of Yale College as students as personal as possible.” extensively on mental health, a whole. The head of college is the violence, and resilience in adversity, having directed more leader of the college, responsible “In a residential college, students than forty interdisciplinary for the physical well-being and grow as a community, and my role projects situated in Africa, Asia, safety of students who live there, is to care for this community: to and the Middle East. She has as well as for fostering and shaping create a welcoming space, to show coedited seven books, most recently Pathways to Peace (2014) the college’s academic, intellectual, love for college life, to pay attention. and Medical Humanitarianism: social, athletic, and artistic life. When life is stressful, students Ethnographies of Practice (2015), Head of Morse College Catherine find support and comfort in a and received the Lucy Mair Medal & Marsh Prize for Applied Panter-Brick is a professor of close-knit community, and when Anthropology, an award that Anthropology, Health, and Global life is wonderful, fellow Morsels honors excellence in the active A≠airs and, like all heads of are happy to share their excitement. recognition of human dignity. college, preeminent in her field. By providing a consistent space “I love my college: it’s a family,” where we are present in each she says. “I’m with students in the other’s daily lives, the residential dining hall, on the sports field, in college serves as an anchor point the dance studio, and for events in for how students navigate four my own house. This has definitely years of university life.” given me a multidimensional

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

16 | lives 17 Debate This. (Pierson Dining Hall conversations in progress)

Students Malini Wimmer and Hannah Armistead are talking with Professor Sandy Chang, Meghanlata Gupta and Ethan associate dean for science Brown are comparing their education, about paths to research experiences and medical school for students who debating the ethics of informing major in the humanities and human research subjects about social sciences. how their data might be used and shared. Ethan relates the issue to our expectations of privacy on social media platforms.

First-year students Tasnim Islam, Claudia Meng, and Diego Meucci are talking about their plans for going abroad during the summer. Tasnim writes for the Yale Globalist, which is sponsoring a reporting trip to Rwanda to research girls’ education. Diego is getting recommendations for his upcoming French language program They may run out of your favorite they did that day and the answer from Claudia, who has dual citizenship veggie-Caesar wrap, but no matter would be remarkable. So much with France. what time you arrive or whom you of my Yale education came from sit with, no dining hall will have a talking to people over dinner.” Says shortage of interesting conversa- another alum, “I only thought I was tion. “Dinner for me was something open-minded before Yale. Debating extraordinarily important,” says a an issue could turn my views upside recent alum. “I’d sit down across down in a single conversation. from someone and ask them what That was the fun of it.”

18 | lives 19 Decoding the Colleges. Spine-Tyngling Fun. (Residential College rundown) (Intramural sports)

So you played sports in high the college accumulating the Fall College Shield Architecture Style Points How We Boola Boola school but aren’t quite hardcore greatest number of points through Flag Football Coed Volleyball Coed enough to suit up for the Bulldogs. intramural play, was first presented Berkeley Collegiate Gothic, with a touch Delicious reputation: as test Annual snowball fight, Pickleball Coed of Tudor; built in 1934 kitchen for Yale’s Sustainable North Court vs. South Court You’re in luck. The residential in 1933. The Tyng continues Soccer Coed Food Project, Berkeley pioneered college intramural scene o≠ers to be the most coveted of all intra­ Cross Country Coed a sustainable menu for all a chance to continue your career mural awards, spawning com- Table Tennis Coed the colleges at a surprisingly high level of petitive rivalries that make IMs a Winter Branford Collegiate Gothic; Robert Frost described our Independence Day, when competition or to start playing a way of life for former high school Hoops Men (A,B,C) opened 1933; home to courtyard as “the most beautiful Branford declares its indepen- new sport—not to mention a way all-stars and P.E. dropouts alike. Hoops Women Harkness Tower and college courtyard in America” dence from Yale in a day Broomball Coed to prove that your college reigns its bells of barbecues and parties Much of the above first appeared in “Intramu- Inner-Tube Coed supreme. The Tyng Cup, annually rals at Yale are spine-Tyngling fun” by Aaron Water Polo Davenport One of its facades is Collegiate The Gnome, who watches Annual Louisiana crawfish awarded for overall excellence to Lichtig (1999) writing for the Yale Herald. Bowling Coed a.k.a. D’Port Gothic, the other is Georgian; over us, when he’s not boil and Cajun music ball; Swim Meet Coed opened in 1933 being abducted Take Your Professor to Dinner Nights Spring Dodgeball Coed Georgian; opened in 1935 Dumpling Night; pumpkin TD’s motto and cheer is Timothy Badminton Coed carving and gingerbread baking; “Àshe!” which means “We Dwight Hoops Playoffs Men (A,B,C) TD art studio gallery shows make it happen” in Yorùbá a.k.a. TD Hoops Playoffs Women Indoor Soccer Coed Jonathan Collegiate Gothic; opened Hundreds of tulips planted each Great Awakening Fall Festival; Golf Coed Edwards in 1933 year; Culture Draw, a ra±e of the formal Spider Ball; JE SUX! Spikeball Coed a.k.a. JE tickets to Broadway and beyond

Benjamin Collegiate The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Mural painting in the basement; Franklin Gothic; opened edited and published by the bike repair shop, ideal in 2017 Yale scholars, have reached 43 for our location next to the volumes, with four to go Farmington Canal Greenway More than Oolong. Grace Hopper Collegiate Gothic; opened The Cabaret in the basement, Trolley Night: Clang, clang, (College Teas) in 1933 with hugely popular student clang goes the party shows College Teas are informal Q&A’s Morse Modern; designed by Eero Our sculpture, Lipstick Great Morse Easter Egg Hunt; hosted by the head of each Saarinen; built in 1961 (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, Italian Night with espresso, residential college and often with a 14-story tower and by Claes Oldenburg tiramisu, and an Italian film no right angles cohosted by campus organizations such as the Film Society or the Pauli Murray Collegiate Gothic; Our namesake was a opened in 2017 scholar, lawyer, and civil and Our college mascot, the Lemur; Yale Daily News. The teas give small women’s rights activist who the MY talent show; and groups of students an intimate helped change the landscape of our own sprung-floor theater opportunity to pick the brains of opportunity in the U.S. world leaders, thinkers, and talents. Pierson Georgian; built Our traditional letterpress Tuesday Night Club; our cheer: Members of the hosting college in 1933 print shop, with six presses and P is for the P in Pierson College, get first dibs on front-row seats. 1,000+ cases of hand type I is for the I in Pierson College … Recent guests Timothy Dwight Saybrook Collegiate Gothic; completed We’re in a chase scene in Most recent Tyng Cup social-change initiative Revolution of Hope; TwoSet Violin, comedy Ti≠any Pham, founder and CEO of Mogul; music duo and YouTube sensation; Deqo in 1933 Indiana Jones and the champions; always Trumbull Lois Lowry, author of The Giver; Evan Wolfson, gay rights advocate. Mohamed, physician and CEO of DHAF in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; respond “Saybrook!” Joan Acocella, dance and book reviewer for Somalia; Clemantine Wamariya, author of our own recording studio when asked, “Say what?” The New Yorker; Biz Stone, co-founder of Ezra Stiles Amitava Kumar, author and The Girl Who Smiled Beads; George Takei, Twitter; Karen Diver, former chair of Fond journalist; Benjamin Grant, visual artist and Silliman Varied: Collegiate Gothic, Biggest college; biggest Sillifest, a year-end carnival; actor and activist. du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. founder of Daily Overview; Angélique Kidjo, modified French Renaissance, courtyard; our own handbell The Acorn, a sustainable café singer-songwriter and activist; Eli Kintisch, Grace Hopper Leigh Bardugo, author of Georgian; completed group, The Silliringers with specialty goods; Silligloos Branford Ai-jen Poo, director of National science journalist and author of Hack the The Grisha Trilogy; Michael Twitty, food in 1940 in the courtyard Domestic Workers Alliance; Robert Pinsky, Planet; Cherríe Moraga, poet and playwright. blogger; Claudia Rankine, author and former U.S. poet laureate; Chris Bridges, poet; Nevline Nnaji, director of Reflections Ezra Stiles Modern masterpiece, Our memorial moose mascot Medieval (K)night Festival; a.k.a. Ludacris, rapper and actor; Ira Davenport Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights. designed by Eero Saarinen; in the Dining Hall; annual sidewalk Parisian bistro in the Helfand, co-founder of Physicians for Social Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; opened in 1962 Student Film Festival spring Responsibility. Conchita Cruz, founder and co-director Morse Madeleine Albright, former U.S. of Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project; Erin Secretary of State; Kevin Olusola, member Trumbull Quintessential Yale/Collegiate Potty Court, where our gargoyle Rumble in Trumbull (bounce- Silliman Nihad Awad, activist and CEO Morley, Metropolitan Opera singer; Daniel of Pentatonix; Robert S. Ford, former U.S. Gothic; completed in 1933 “Thinker” is enthroned and house “fights”); Pamplona of Council on American-Islamic Relations; Ziv, documentary flmmaker and social ambassador to Syria; Lauren Gallo, global decorated every year (running of the [Trum]Bulls David France, founder of the arts-for- around campus) justice advocate. head of content marketing at Snap Inc.

20 | lives 21 Bright College Years. (Defining Yale through friendship)

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

22 | lives 23 Met at Yale

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

24 | lives 25 Breaking News. (A few of the year’s top undergraduate stories)

A Force for Change Debate Kudos politics; and Political Science a bridge between the people here Emme Zhou took the bronze The latest stats major Marwan Safar Jalani, the at Yale and those like me before I medal in women’s foil at the Senior Keera Annamaneni, a Seniors Will Arnesen and Shruti frst Yale recipient of the Rhodes arrived here.” Junior Olympic Championships on who goes to Yale Political Science major, won Baxi made it to the fnal round of Scholarship for the Syria, Jordan, in Ohio. Sophomore golfer 1,554 30% a Yale Je≠erson Award for the fve-day World Universities Lebanon, and Palestine region, Invisible Hands Ami Gianchandani won the Class of 2023 major in the Arts public service. Committed to Debating Championship in will pursue a master’s in com- individual championship at and Humanities working at the intersection of Bangkok. Both fnished as parative government. As a Gates In response to COVID-19, junior the Princeton Invitational for 50 social justice, public service, top-ten debaters, and Baxi was scholar at Cambridge, Anin Luo, Liam Elkind cofounded Invisible the second year. Senior Jordan states + D.C., Virgin 35% and journalism, she was the named the best woman debater. a double major in MB&B and Hands with recent alum Simone Bruner of the men’s basketball Islands, Puerto Rico major in the Social producer of the award-winning History, will pursue a master’s Policano. Volunteers provide free team recorded the frst triple- Sciences documentary short flm 120 in history and philosophy of delivery of groceries and other double in school history in a win 57 50 Women 150 34% Years, which tells the story of science and medicine. And as supplies to those most at risk over Cornell. At the end of the countries major in STEM New Haven native Scott Lewis, In conjunction with the campus- Churchill scholars in Cambridge, in New York City, with plans to fall rowing season, the women’s who was wrongfully convicted wide celebration of the 50th Mathematics major Catherine expand to other locations. varsity eight was the second 50% 99% of homicide and served almost anniversary of coeducation Lee will pursue a master’s in collegiate fnisher and top Ivy men of first-years return twenty years of a 120-year at Yale College and the 150th math, and Computer Science Boola Boola fnisher in the Championship 50% sophomore year sentence before his exoneration anniversary of women students major Jasmine Stone will work Eight at the famed Head of the women and release in 2014. at Yale, seniors Valentina Connell toward a master’s in engineering Trailing by 17 in the fourth Charles in Boston. And as last 95% and Mari Melin-Corcoran each with a focus on neuroscience. quarter, the football team year’s edition of this viewbook 51% graduate within curated an exhibition at Sterling staged a dramatic comeback in went to press, heavyweight crew five years Real-World minority students Memorial Library. Connell, a The Game, defeating Harvard won its third straight national Problem-Solving To the Stars 84% Political Science major, looked in double OT, 50–43, to win title, and all boats medaled for 13% live on campus First-years Maria Bambrick- at the evolution of housing Senior Astrophysics major Katie its second Ivy title in three the frst time in Yale’s history. international students Santoyo, Connor Mann, Joe policy and residential life since Melbourne won a Distinguished years. Senior quarterback 59% Murphy, and Kaitlyn Sandor— women were admitted in 1969; Undergraduate Research Award Kurt Rawlings, who threw 17% Green Innovation have jobs on campus all students in Introduction to and Achitecture major Melin- from the Universities Space two touchdown passes in the will be the first in their Engineering, Innovation, and Corcoran’s exhibit explored the Research Association, recogniz- fnal 88 seconds of regulation The university approved a Yale family to graduate 11% Design—worked with con- history of women at Yale School ing students who are poised to to force the OT, owns every College Council proposal spear- from a four-year college or university have double majors servators and scientists in the of Architecture. make signifcant contributions to passing record in Eli history. headed by sophomores Abey Egyptian department at New aerospace engineering and space Ten Yalies representing seven Philip and Keon Azar to establish 63% 47% York’s Metropolitan Museum of science. Her research focuses on sports made the fall 2019 Ivy a $100,000 Green Innovation Across the Pond from public schools participate in Art on a vibration-dampening M dwarf stars with exoplanets. League All-Academic team: Fund for student projects that community service system to protect the depart- Seven seniors—and two recent seniors Frances Arnautou and promote energy reduction 37% ment’s fragile wooden co∞ns. Yale College grads—were named Bridge-Building Izzy Simqu (volleyball), Aerial and environmental action on from private or 80%+ Rhodes, Gates Cambridge, and Chavarin and Noelle Higginson campus. Winning projects will parochial schools participate in inter­ Churchill scholars, among U.S. Navy SEAL veteran James (soccer), Bridget Condie (feld be launched in the fall. collegiate, club, or Snackpass intramural athletics the most coveted awards for Hatch, at 52 the oldest frst-year hockey), and JP Shohf and 64% Two years after its launch by postgraduate study. As Rhodes in the Class of 2023, published Sterling Strother (football); receive financial Space Engineering assistance 79% Neuroscience major Jamie scholars at Oxford, Lily Moore- an essay about his frst semes- and juniors Nick Dahl (cross of recent graduates Marshall and recent alum Kevin Eissenberg, a double major in ter at Yale in the online writers’ country), Kayley DeLay (cross Junior Andrew Reardon, an report their intention 20% Tan, the Snackpass app—which English and Philosophy, will forum Medium that went viral. country), and Mark Winhoffer Electrical Engineering major, to pursue an advanced are Pell Grant lets students order ahead, earn pursue a B.Phil. in philosophy; Enrolled in the Directed Studies (soccer). The volleyball team won $5,000 from the NASA degree within five recipients years, and 17% begin rewards, and connect with Christina Pao, a double major program, he wrote of his classes won its eighth Ivy champion- Connecticut Space Grant an advanced degree friends by sending gifts—has in Political Science and Classics, as “a place where people can ship in ten years, the men’s Consortium to design a system 92% immediately after graduation expanded to eleven campuses will study for a master’s in assault ideas openly and discuss soccer team won its frst since of wearable sensors that astro- ranked in the top and earned a $21 million invest- sociology and demography; them vigorously and respectfully” 2005, and the men’s basketball nauts can use to control an tenth of high school ment from venture capital Economics major Liana Wang and described the essay as “my team won its second consecu- external robotic arm without graduating class frm Andreessen Horowitz. will work toward a master’s in frst brick in attempting to build tive Ivy title. First-year fencer leaving their spacecraft.

26 | lives 27 Whether they major Studies. in the social sciences, humanities, or arts, in science, mathematics, or engineering, Yale students graduate with a thirst for learning, a greater appreciation for creativity, and a respect for education that they bring to positions of leadership­ and civic life.

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

Yale is one of the only Evening Evening universities in the After dinner and rehearsal It’s been a long time since country that lets you test- with the Spizzwinks, I take we’ve all been together, so a last look at my schedule my suitemates and I go to a drive your classes. During for tomorrow. It’s pretty favorite local restaurant to “shopping period” at the straightforward, but I just celebrate the o∞cial start of start of each semester, want to be sure. a new semester. After dinner, rehearsal continues for the students can visit dozens Spizzwinks. I stay a little late of classes that interest to rehearse a dance with a few them to decide which Tuesday other ’Winks that we put in they will actually take. for one of our songs, Marvin 9:30 am Gaye’s “I Heard It through Preparing to shop is a I’m back at the School of the Grapevine.” much anticipated ritual in Art to shop Introduction and of itself, called “Blue to Graphic Design. Even though this is an introductory Art Seminar, a required to Science Hill to check out Booking” (from the days TanTan Wang studio course, it’s still very Wednesday course for my major that I’m another class, Computer of hard copies only, when Hometown intimate. I enter the room excited to take. It addresses Graphics. It introduces the blue-covered catalog Warren, nj to fnd about ffty people 9:00 am the role of art in visual culture mathematical concepts related shopping the thirteen-person Wednesday morning is a and other topics in art history. to two- and three-dimensional listing approximately Major class. We all have to do a brief repeat of Monday. After computer graphics, and it’s Computing & the Arts 2,000 courses was assignment as a way for the breakfast with my suitemates, an important course for my Class professor to determine who I get ready for the second major. But its meeting time Junior will make it into the class. meetings of Asian American overlaps with Introduction History and Information to Graphic Design, so I Security in the Real World. can’t take both. 1:00 pm After a quick lunch, I get to 11:30 am 12:45 pm work on the assignment: 12:30 pm 10:30 am Sunday Next I sit in on Information I grab lunch with friends at our professor wants to see I head back to central campus Deciding to save Computer Security in the Real World. Saybrook and learn about what we can do with a few for lunch with a few friends. Graphics for next year— Evening It seems really interesting, another interesting class, The 8:50 pm that’s the beauty of shopping I’m just back in New Haven covering topics that range Screenwriter’s Craft. But I sprint to Dwight Hall on period!—I confrm my spot from a retreat with my from cryptography to social I don’t think I’ll be able to ft Old Campus for the big in Introduction to Graphic dog-eared, highlighted, a cappella group, the Yale engineering to security it into my schedule. Oh well, a cappella rush event, known Design and settle in for the and Post-It flagged by Spizzwinks(?), and it’s great breaches! Our professor maybe next year! as Dwight Jam. After new second class meeting. the start of shopping to fnally see my Saybrook will be inviting a few guest students listen to each group period). Today, Elis have College suitemates again and speakers over the course of perform, they rush to sign catch up on what everyone the semester, including the 1:30 pm up for auditions. I’m a rush 9:00 pm been known to message did over the summer. Some former deputy director of At the School of Art, I manager for my group, so I After a Spizzwinks rehearsal, each other around the of us held internships in New the National Security Agency check out Typography, a stay until the very end. some friends and I catch world with word that the York, while others traveled and a guest from Microsoft’s fascinating studio class that a movie at the local theater. abroad for language study. Digital Crimes Unit. And I’ll be taking for my major, It’s one we promised over new Blue Book is online. We are a pretty diverse since the Blue Book is online, Computing & the Arts. The Late night the summer to see together. Blue Booking takes place bunch—half of us play on I was able to fnd out that frst project of the semester It’s been a long night’s work, around multiple screens, an athletic team, and the a bunch of my friends are involves working on visual and I head over to the always and the making of wish other half participate in the taking the course as well. arrangements of type by hand. open Good Nature Market Naval ROTC program. with the other rush managers Friday lists of courses is done sheets of paper and a pair of After learning that Asian to grab a sandwich. Then o≠ individually, in small scissors. The prompt asks us American History is only to bed! 9:30 am groups of friends, and to create four compositions, taught every other year, I I run around getting my Monday one embodying “Order,” one decide to take it! schedule signed by my en masse at parties. “Chaos,” one “Public,” and academic adviser and my 10:30 am one “Private.” The rules are Thursday residential college dean. In the I hop across the street from straightforward: we have 1:30 pm end, I’ve decided to register Saybrook to the Loria Center to work in a predetermined Back to Typography. 8:00 am for Asian American History, for a class called Asian grid in 90-degree angles, but I wake up to an email Junior Art Seminar, American History. As the we can vary the length and saying that I’ve made it into Typography, Information lecture begins about what it thickness of our lines. With 7:00 pm Introduction to Graphic Security in the Real means to be Asian American, limited space in the course, After dinner, I go to the frst Design! Once I fnish World, and Introduction I’m instantly hooked. I’ve got to do a good job! meeting of the weekly Junior rejoicing at breakfast, I head to Graphic Design. 30 | studies 31 First-Year STARS (Science, financial aid who pur- Shopping Lists. Seminars are Technology, and sue summer learning small classes just for Research Scholars) experiences abroad. first-years, with some provides undergradu- Every DSA recipient Yale’s “shopping period” at the of Yale’s most dis- ates an opportunity to receives a $4,000 start of every semester allows tinguished faculty combine course-based stipend. The ISA students to visit classes they members. Some study, research, men- stipend is capped at seminars provide an torship, networking, $14,500. might want to take before introduction to a par- and career planning fnalizing their schedules. ticular field of study; in the fields of science Preparing for Here, a few wish lists from others take an inter­ and technology. The Medical, Law, or disciplinary approach program is designed Business School recent semesters. to a variety of topics. to support women, Yale students have All seminars provide minority, economicallly an outstanding record an intimate context underprivileged, and of admission to top for developing rela- other historically medical, business, tionships with faculty underrepresented stu- and law schools, but members and peers. dents in the sciences, Yale College offers engineering, and no pre-professional Directed Studies mathematics. More degree programs. is a selective first- than 100 students Students here prepare year interdisciplinary each year participate for entrance to pro- program in Western in the academic fessional schools by civilization that year and summer choosing any one of includes three yearlong STARS programs. Yale’s undergraduate courses — literature, majors and working philosophy, and International with a Yale adviser historical and political Study Understanding who knows what is thought — in which the dynamics of a glo- needed to advance students read the balizing world begins to the next level of central works of the in the classroom, with education. So it’s not Western tradition. studies ranging from unusual to find an international develop- English or Political Science and ment to statecraft and Science major going Engineering power, from ethnicity on to medical school Undergraduate and culture to public or an Environmental Research As one of health. But Yale recog- Studies or Chinese the world’s foremost nizes that experience major going on to law research universities, abroad is essential or business school. Yale offers countless to preparing students opportunities for for global citizenship Academic Advis- independent under- and leadership. Such ing is a collective graduate research experience may include effort by the residential projects. Students course work in foreign colleges, academic in the science and universities, intensive departments, and vari- engineering disciplines language training, ous offices connected can begin conduct- directed research, to the Yale College ing original research independent projects, Dean’s Office. The as early as their first internships, laboratory residential college dean year through access to work, and volunteer serves as a student’s Yale’s more than 1,200 service. (See pages primary adviser for all faculty laboratories 52–55) academic and personal in 50+ degree-granting concerns. College programs in the Summer Awards deans live in residential Faculty of Arts and Yale’s Domestic colleges and supervise Sciences, Yale School Summer Award (DSA) the advising networks of Medicine, and Yale supports undergradu- in the college. Students School of the Environ- ates on financial aid also have a first-year ment. And First-Year who are pursuing adviser who is a Yale Summer Research unpaid arts apprentice- faculty member or Fellowships annually ships or internships administrator affiliated provide support with nonprofits, NGOs, with the advisees’ resi- for more than 100 government agencies, dential colleges. Each science and engineer- and laboratory or other academic department ing first-years. research facilities. has a director of under- It complements the graduate studies (DUS) International Summer who can discuss the Award (ISA) — unique in department’s course the Ivy Leage — which offerings and require- supports students on ments for the major.

32 | studies 33 Majors in German Studies Yale College Global Affairs African American Greek, Ancient & 80+ 3+3=breadth 1:1 15,000,000+ Studies Modern African Studies History There is no specific class you have to take at Classes range from Majors. Holdings in Yale’s library, making American Studies History of Art Yale, but students are required to learn broadly one-on-one tutorials Anthropology History of Science, and deeply. Depth is covered in one’s major. to a small seminar to a it one of the largest university library Applied Mathematics Medicine, & Public Health Breadth is covered by taking courses in three study lecture course of several Applied Physics systems in the United States. Humanities areas (the humanities and arts, the sciences, and hundred students. Archaeological Studies 6:1 the social sciences) and three skill areas (writing, Italian Architecture quantitative reasoning, and foreign language). Judaic Studies Student-to- Art Latin American faculty ratio. 73% Astronomy Studies Astrophysics Of Yale College Linguistics Chemistry courses enroll fewer Mathematics 2:1 60+ Classical Civilization First-Year Seminars than 20 students. Mathematics & Ratio of declared in 2019–2020, each open only 200+ Creative and Classics (Greek, Latin, Philosophy or Greek & Latin) STEM majors to fifteen or twenty first-years. Summer fellowships for performing arts Mathematics & Physics undergraduate science and Cognitive Science to STEM faculty. 84 grants awarded to Modern Middle East 26% engineering students each year. student playwrights, Comparative Studies Literature dancers, writers, Molecular Biophysics Enroll fewer than 10. Computer Science musicians, and & Biochemistry Computer Science & Molecular, Cellular, film­makers each Economics semester. & Developmental Computer Science & Biology 40 Mathematics Music + Approximate number Computer Science & Near Eastern , Psychology 2 000 1,200+ Languages & of the 2,000+ courses Courses o≠ered each year in more than Computing & the Arts Civilizations that enroll more Science, math, and engineering 24 7 labs at Yale College and the / Earth & Planetary Neuroscience 70 academic programs and departments. than 100 students. Sciences graduate and professional schools. Hours the Center for Philosophy Engineering Innovation East Asian Languages Physics & Literatures (Chinese Physics & Geosciences and Design is or Japanese) Physics & Philosophy open for student use. East Asian Studies Political Science Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Portuguese 63 1,306 Economics Psychology International study, research, and internship experiences 250,000+ Economics & Religious Studies Languages undertaken by Yale College students in 2018–2019. 46% Mathematics Russian Electrical Engineering Percentage of Yale College Objects in the Russian & East taught at Yale, & Computer Science European Studies students graduating with a STEM permanent collection Engineering: Sociology from Akkadian major who are women. of the Yale University Biomedical, $10,500,000 South Asian Studies* Art Gallery. Chemical, Electrical, to isiZulu. Environmental, Spanish Fellowship and International Summer Award (ISA) funding or Mechanical Special Divisional for international study, research, and internship experiences Engineering Sciences: Major undertaken by Yale College students in 2018–2019. Chemical, Electrical, Statistics & Environmental, Data Science 36/8 or Mechanical Theater & English Performance Studies The degree requirements 1,000+ Environmental Studies Urban Studies for graduation are 62% 90% Ethics, Politics, & Women’s, Gender, & Faculty members in Yale’s 36 term courses in eight 99% Economics Sexuality Studies Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Of seniors in the most recent Medical school admission terms, about a third First-years who return Ethnicity, Race, & graduating class participated in rate for Yale College in the major. Students sophomore year. Migration *May be taken only as a second major. international study, research, graduates (national typically take four Film & Media Studies and/or internships while at Yale. average, 41%). or five courses per term. French 34 | studies 35 Divinity School Institute of Sacred College Meets University. Take a walk to the Music Find yourself Sterling Divinity Quadrangle at the interdisciplinary center to enjoy the quiet Georgian- of the Divinity and Music (One of the world’s greatest research universities at your fingertips) style campus. The courtyard schools through the Institute’s is a great getaway when you concerts, art exhibitions, films, want to read outdoors without literary readings, plays, and the distractions of central lectures. Hear world premieres School of the campus. View an exhibition of new choral compositions. Environment Physically and philosophi- of the artifacts and documents Meet scholars debating divides Take one of the School’s cally, Yale College for School of from the personal papers of between liturgical traditions. graduate-level courses. Earn a five-year bachelor’s and undergraduates is at the Engineering & Law School Have Protestant missionaries who Applied Science Join fellow lunch in the Law School served in China during the master’s in Forestry, Forest heart of Yale University. creators from across Yale in dining hall with Constitutional first half of the twentieth Science, Environmental An extraordinary commit- the Center for Engineering Law professor Akhil Amar. century. School of Science, or Environmental ment to undergraduate Innovation and Design Listen to speeches by visiting Management Management. Partner with to collaborate, create, and School of Music Supreme Court Justices. Enroll for a course at SOM the School’s grad students teaching sets Yale apart share functional solutions Explore the resources Wander the Law School stacks. and rub elbows with the next and faculty on environmental from other great research to meaningful problems. of the Gilmore Music Library, The Law Library is also a generation of corporate initiatives through Yale’s universities in the world. with one of the largest collec- favorite study spot. and NGO leaders and entre- O∞ce of Sustainability. Bookmark the School’s More than 70 depart- tions of music scores, sound preneurs. Become a Silver recordings, and music research Scholar—one of a select website to keep up with ments and programs materials in the United States. a five- handful of seniors who are the many events happening offer approximately 2,000 minute admitted to SOM directly each week. Take lessons for credit with walk Science undergraduate courses School of Music faculty. Attend Hill from Yale College, some of free concerts at Sprague Hall whom are awarded a merit each year—many of them given by Music School students scholarship for the two years taught by Yale’s most and visiting performers. of study. distinguished historians, literary critics, scientists and engineers, math- Graduate School ematicians, artists and School of Drama of Arts & Sciences composers, poets, and Get a student season Continue conversations from pass to the Yale Repertory graduate-level seminars over social scientists. Faculty Theatre and see five plays a co≠ee and mu∞ns at the call it a stunningly vibrant year at one of America’s lead- newly renovated Humanities Hillhouse intellectual atmosphere ing professional theaters. Quadrangle on York Street. School of Medicine On Yale’s medical that can’t happen at Read original manuscripts Take graduate courses in from Eugene O’Neill’s Long science and engineering, campus, just three blocks from undergraduate-only Day’s Journey into Night. Study almost all of which are open the College, you don’t have to institutions or at research light plots from the original to undergraduates. On Friday be pre-med to take advantage universities that do production of Gershwin’s School of afternoons, join undergradu- of the extraordinary research Porgy and Bess. Audition for Architecture ates and graduate students in opportunities available to not focus on teaching. Yale School of Drama and Yale Meet with professors and grad the Physics department for undergraduates—in fields Cabaret shows. Put on student students in Rudolph Hall pizza and talks on current ranging from genetics to productions at the University (named for its architect, Paul research. Make heads turn as biomedical engineering and Theatre, with 96 feet of Rudolph, faculty 1958–65). Cross you graduate wearing your nanoscience, studying cancer, Campus fly space and seating for 640. Check out student shows and yellow hood indicating that neurological disorders, and curated exhibitions in the you’ve earned both a bachelor’s cardiovascular disease. Take Architecture Gallery. Attend an and a master’s degree in classes taught by medical evening lecture by one of the Old New Molecular Biophysics and school professors, work in School’s professors, who are Campus Haven Biochemistry. their labs, shadow doctors luminaries in the field, includ- Green on their rounds, or volunteer ing the dean, Deborah Berke. at Yale New Haven Hospital. Apply to do fieldwork in Peru School of Nursing with your biochem professor School of Art Nursing’s home on West and perhaps discover new Discover the next Campus is just a 10-minute species of fungi and bacteria Chuck Close (M.F.A. 1964) a five- ride on the Yale Shuttle. Its living in plant tissues. at the School’s open studios. minute one-year GEPN program for walk Participate in group shows college grads with no previous School of Public in the same gallery in Green nursing education prepares Health Take a course Hall where master’s students Medical them to pursue a master’s in in epidemiology in conjunction mount their thesis shows. Center Nursing. GEPN students with an independent research Attend a graduate painting develop observational and project you’re working on in a critique by visiting artists. auscultative skills at the Yale lab on Science Hill. a ten-minute Center for British Art and the ride to West School of Music. Campus

36 | studies 37 Eavesdropping on Professors. (Great minds talk about teaching)

One fall afternoon People here always Each semester I enjoy in-class discus- some of Yale’s (and the say Yale is devoted sions about immigration, California Mark Saltzman “There are 17 faculty members world’s) leading thinkers to undergraduate politics, youth cultures, and Latino Stephen Pitti in history, biomedical Q teaching. How can civil rights that carry over to my o∞ce in Biomedical Engineering and we have Professor of History and American Studies; Director engineering, evolutionary that be true? hours or long lunch sessions with about 30 majors each year, so nobody is of the Center for the Study biology, religious studies, students in a residential college of Race, Indigeneity, and literature, psychology, Stephen Pitti “I’ve always loved dining hall.” anonymous. Every student does research. Transnational Migration; biochemistry, astrophys- the fact that at Yale I can present the former Head of Ezra Stiles College ics, earth and planetary newest research in my field to our Michael Della Rocca “I find that They all do a significant senior project. sciences, and philosophy undergraduates. And when I do, their myself. When I’m teaching, I’m not Professor Pitti teaches courses got together for a conver- feedback inevitably prompts me to just teaching philosophy. I’m doing They all take classes with most of the in Latino studies, Western his- tory, immigration history, civil sation. Some knew each think di≠erently about what I’ve been philosophy with the students. I really faculty during their time here. When rights, and related subjects. other and others did not, writing, to change how I present advance my own research and we come He is the author of The Devil but they came to similar material in future semesters and even to philosophical insights and conclu- I meet their parents at graduation, I in Silicon Valley: Northern conclusions in talking rethink my own research questions. sions together in the course. One of California, Race, and Mexican Americans (2003) and Ameri- about why they teach, the know something significant about each can Latinos and the Making of uniqueness of the Yale the United States (2012), and he undergraduate, and why student. That’s pretty rare.” is currently writing a book on César Chávez. He is an editor common notions about of the Politics and Culture large research universities in Modern America series, aren’t true here. a member of the California History editorial board, and Ruth Blake our biggest strengths in recruiting chair of the National Historic Professor of Earth and professors here is the undergraduates. Landmarks Committee. Planetary Sciences and Environmental People love teaching them. It’s the Recent Courses Engineering; Professor in the drawing card we stress whenever the Comparative Ethnic Studies; School of the Environment Philosophy department is trying to Radical California; Mexicans recruit a faculty member from another and Mexican Americans since Professor Blake teaches 1848; Latina/o Histories courses in geochemistry, good institution.” environmental geomicrobiol- ogy, minerals, and human Meg Urry “It’s not just how smart health/medical geology. Her research focuses broadly on they are or how hard they work—you the co-evolution of Earth and can find that at other places—but it’s life. Her motto is, “where their cleverness, their thoughtfulness. there is life, there is phos- I teach an intro to physics class. Many phorus,” and recent work has focused on development of of the kids in my class are headed new geochemical tools and for medical school, so physics isn’t biomarkers to study microbial their passion. But I can guarantee that phosphorus cycling in the deep oceans and beneath the at least once a week I get a question seafoor, and to detect early that is just incredibly creative, intro- life. She has participated in ducing an idea or thought that I have several ocean exploration and never had before, and this is from research expeditions and was chief scientist on the explora- people who aren’t even going to be tion vessel E/V Nautilus. physicists.”

Recent Courses Christine Hayes Minerals and Human Health; “When I think Environmental Geomicrobi- about what I’m going to teach I often ology; Introduction to Geo- think, ‘What do I want to study with chemistry; Extremophiles: a whole bunch of smart people?’” Life on the Edge 38 | studies 39 Marta Figlerowicz “Students here do not Scott A. Strobel merely want to do well within preexisting Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and systems; they want to question how the Biochemistry; Professor of Chemistry; Provost

world works, and eventually to change it. Professor Strobel’s research focuses on biologically critical The atmosphere this perspective creates reactions catalyzed by RNA. His lab explores the class of RNA in the classroom is incredibly stimulating. riboswitches that regulate gene expression by binding small It’s a space where everyone is challenged molecule metabolites. His work embraces biochemistry, enzyme kinetics, X-ray crystal- and constantly learning. At Yale, more than lography, organic synthesis, anywhere else I’ve been, my research and and molecular biology. Recent Courses my teaching feel inseparable.” Rain Forest Expedition and Laboratory; Biology, the World, and Us; Methods and Logic in Molecular Biology

W. Mark Saltzman Why does teaching taking subjects they’ve never heard of I came back and she had finished the Scott Strobel “The beauty of it is Goizueta Foundation these students in before. Some of these students are not entire summer’s project! She’d figured watching them take ownership of a Professor of Biomedical particular matter to Engineering and Chemical & cut out for philosophy, but they all get everything out. She’d gotten it all to project and recognize that it’s theirs to Environmental Engineering; Q you? If you can find into it.” work. She’d collected all the data she work on creatively and independently. Professor of Cellular and smart, hardworking needed. My jaw was hanging down. We have undergrads going toe to toe Molecular Physiology; Head students at other places, then Meg Urry “I was not in a university I thought, ‘Okay, now I have a better with grad students in the lab. You of Jonathan Edwards College what makes these students a before coming here. I worked in the understanding of where Yale under- might say, ‘Well that’s only supposed Professor Saltzman’s research “drawing card”? lab that ran the Hubble telescope for graduates are.’” to be available to grad students,’ but is motivated by the desire to NASA, which was exciting. But when what I’ve seen over and over again create safer and more e≠ective Meg Urry Christine Hayes John Merriman medical and surgical therapies. “None of them are one- I came here I felt like I had died and “Which connects is that these Yale undergrads are Charles Seymour Professor He focuses on tissue engineer- notes. They are exceptional in many gone to heaven. I think I was born to to what was formulating in my own not afraid to take on hard projects of History ing and on creating better areas. The diversity of their talents teach and should have been teaching all mind–they are able to do that deep and to take them on in a creative way. methods for drug delivery. makes them incredibly interesting to along. The quality of the Yale under- academic research and are also able to Last year, over spring break, we Professor Merriman teaches He has published three modern European urban and textbooks and more than 250 interact with.” graduate was a big eye-opener for me. apply it to some real-world situation. took a group of students to study a social history. In 2019 he research papers. In 2009 he We have First-Year Summer Research At some of the other places I’ve been, rain forest in Peru. Each was given won the DeVane Medal for was awarded Yale’s She∞eld Ruth Blake “As bright as they are, Fellowships that allow students to there has been either too much inde- complete autonomy over identifying distinguished undergraduate Teaching Prize for excellence teaching. Among his many in the classroom, and his the ‘aha’ moments that come when they begin research early at Yale. My first pendence and arrogance or too much 15 to 20 plant samples they wanted publications are the second course Frontiers of Biomedi- are presented with new knowledge summer I thought, ‘Well, I’m going to need of hand-holding. We seem to to collect. They brought them back to edition of The Dynamite Club: cal Engineering is available they fnd fascinating, or upon fguring get this first-year who doesn’t know attract kids who excel at many, many the lab and did amazing things with How a Bombing in Fin-de- worldwide through the online something out on their own after anything. It’s going to take a lot of things. They have the right mix of them. On the whole, they discovered Siècle Paris Ignited the Age of Open Yale Courses program. mastering new skills, are priceless.” my time, but that’s why I came to independent intellectual curiosity as several dozen di≠erent new species Modern Terror (2016) and the fourth edition of A History of Recent Courses university.’ So I laid out a project about well as the ability to work with others, of fungi, many of which have demon- Modern Europe (2019). Physiological Systems; Michael Della Rocca “I teach in an area I wanted to look into but hadn’t to ask questions, to get help, to be part strated bioactivity against pathogens Frontiers of Biomedical Recent Courses Engineering; Biotransport Directed Studies [a yearlong advanced done any work on myself yet. I told of a team. You need both—the solitary in plants and humans. So these European Civilization, 1648– and Kinetics; Biological and first-year course in Western civiliza- the student, ‘Why don’t you go and research and the ability to bring it back students are able to make not just a 1945; Revolutionary France; Physiological Determinants tion]. It’s a lot of fun because you get do a little research online and we’ll talk and put it together and make something creative impact on science but to The Dark Years: Collaboration of Health students with di≠erent backgrounds about it when I come back in a week.’ bigger and better with other people.” actually discover things of importance and Resistance in Vichy France

40 | studies 41 Marta Figlerowicz Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English

Professor Figlerowicz teaches courses on philosophies of the self, literary and critical theory, modernism, and and interest to a broad community. world cinema. Her research When I described their work to School articulates a counter-tradition to aesthetic individualism that Christine Hayes of Medicine faculty, the faculty lined has been present in Western Robert F. and Patricia Ross up to participate in the project with art and literature at least since Weis Professor of Religious the seventeenth century, Studies in Classical Judaica these undergraduates.” and which has particular resonance in today’s digitally Professor Hayes, a specialist Marta Figlerowicz “The students mediated environments. Her in talmudic-midrashic studies, here are ambitious and diligent, like publications include Flat was awarded a Yale College Protagonists: A Theory of Novel prize for distinguished under- many other students, but they also Character (2016) and Spaces of graduate teaching. Her most think in terms of the ‘big picture.’ Feeling: A≠ect and Awareness recent book, What’s Divine Undergraduates are also at the heart in Modernist Literature (2017). about Divine Law? Early Perspec- Among her current projects is tives, won the 2015 National of Yale’s public-facing intellectual life. a book on global histories of Jewish Book Award in Scholar- Some of the most fascinating events selfhood. ship; and her Introduction to the I have attended here, such as a poetry Bible was published in 2012 by performance by Andrea Gibson, were Recent Courses Yale University Press as part of Selfhood, Race, Class, and the Open Yale Courses series. organized and led by student groups.” Gender; How to Compare; Internet Cultures, Histories, Recent Courses Marvin Chun “I really think the Networks, and Practices; Interpreting the Bible in World Cinema; Readings Antiquity; Divine Law in residential college system is what in English Poetry I and II; Historical Perspective; brings everything together—the small- Introduction to Narrative; Elementary Biblical Hebrew college feel with world-class university Feminist and Queer Theory resources. Being the head of Berkeley College has shown me that. It’s impos- sible to describe in words, but it works in a phenomenal way to ensure that each student receives individual attention.”

experience than at other places I’ve been quality of the undergraduate program. John Merriman “Plenty of students come here where, if you’re an engineering or science You might think that the two stand in without a clue what they want to do, and major, you’re studying the same kinds tension, but in fact they don’t. We not Michael Della Rocca of things in the same kind of way that only have a very rich graduate program Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy then all these doors open up for them other students around you are studying. in my field–one in which there is a You’re also living with other science and great deal of mixing among graduate Professor Della Rocca’s areas because there are so many opportunities.” engineering majors. Here, students are and undergraduate students in classes, of interest are the history of living among future historians, future outside of class, in activities–but we’re early modern philosophy and contemporary metaphysics. He economists, English majors, and political also situated within a larger univer- has published dozens of papers Just like students arts education is that you’re required science majors, all bringing their own sity that has very active professional in those fields and is the author, looking at colleges, to take courses in all sorts of di≠erent brands of thought to questions and ideas.” schools. The institution I was at didn’t most recently, of The Oxford as a professor you Handbook of Spinoza (2017). things. For instance, we think it’s impor- have professional schools. Having the Q had a lot of choices tant that our students study a foreign Christine Hayes “One of the things School of Architecture does wonderful Recent Courses too. What brought language as well as the social sciences. that has been so wonderful for me as things for Yale undergraduates. Having Modern Philosophy from you here? Taking di≠erent kinds of classes creates a teacher at Yale is the ability to teach a fantastic School of Music does Descartes to Kant; Directed Studies: Philosophy; Meaning, a di≠erent sort of curiosity. Our stu- introductory courses but also seminars wonderful things for Yale undergradu- Paradox, and Methodology; Mark Saltzman “There’s something dents bring that curiosity to the kinds of where graduate students and under- ates. And they’re all close by. That’s Knowledge and Action di≠erent about rigorous training in questions they’re asking and trying to graduates mix. Surprisingly enough, the something very special about Yale,

Professors Hayes and Della engineering embedded in a liberal arts answer in science classes and engineer- presence of a strong graduate program and it gives the Yale undergraduate a Rocca are married. tradition. One of the features of a liberal ing research labs. It’s certainly a di≠erent has an extraordinary impact on the completely di≠erent kind of experience.”

42 | studies 43 Marvin Chun Biology, providing links Dean of Yale College; among E&EB, the Peabody Richard M. Colgate Professor Museum, Earth and Planetary of Psychology; Professor of Sciences, and the School Neuroscience; former Head of the Environment. The of Berkeley College Donoghue lab team includes undergraduate and graduate Dean Chun is a cognitive students and postdocs, and neuroscientist whose research focuses primarily on plant uses functional brain imag- diversity and evolution. ing to understand how to Michael Donoghue “A lot of it is about scale. improve memory, attention, Recent Courses conscious perception, and Diversity of Life; Plant decision-making. He has Yale is just that much smaller and Diversity and Evolution; been awarded the American Principles of Ecology and Psychological Association’s more intimate than some of the other Evolutionary Biology Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution universities where I’ve taught. So I find to Psychology in the area of cognition and learning, and a lot better connection to students and the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences, often considered the integration across disciplines. I have most prestigious early-career honor that can be earned by friends and colleagues spanning very an experimental psychologist. At Yale, he received the Lex di≠erent parts of the University, and Hixon Prize for teaching excel- lence in the social sciences and that’s something that comes with the the DeVane Award for Teach- Meg Urry ing and Scholarship, the oldest Israel Munson Professor of undergraduate teaching prize. territory of being smaller. Yale doesn’t Physics and Astronomy; The presentation of the award Director of the Yale Center for began with “Marvin Chun is just talk about making connections and Astronomy and Astrophysics the man!,” praising him for the clarity of his teaching and his integrating students into research—it Professor Urry studies actively devotion to his students. accreting supermassive black actually happens here very e≠ectively.” holes, also known as Active Recent Courses Galactic Nuclei (AGN), and Introduction to Psychology; the co-evolution of these black Mind, Brain, and Society holes with normal galaxies. She came to Yale in 2001 from her tenured position on the senior scientific sta≠ at the Space Telescope Science Scott Strobel “The opportunity to an environment where there is a clear Michael Donoghue “The other is what energizes me in the classroom. Institute (STScI), which runs interact with and teach undergrads is a human application to the science that thing that I think is so distinctive If something I teach lingers with the Hubble Space Telescope big reason I’m here. There are plenty of you do as an undergraduate is unique.” is Yale’s resources in terms of the students so that it helps them do the for NASA. Using deep imaging with NASA’s three Great good schools where research is all they museums and collections that are right thing outside of the classroom, Observatories, her group has do, and you sit in your lab and work Ruth Blake “Yale o≠ers tremendous here. We have actual physical objects that’s my reward.” charted the history of super- with grad students or postdocs and support and freedom to pursue inde- that we’re very keen to use in teaching. massive black hole growth throughout the universe. never see an undergraduate. Beyond pendent research and develop novel You can read about things in a book, John Merriman “I’ve almost been Professor Urry has worked to Michael J. Donoghue that, Yale is a place where you have courses that incorporate real research but to hand a kid a 60,000,000-year- wooed away to other universities increase the number of women Sterling Professor of Ecology tremendous colleagues. At a lot of materials and data. I especially enjoy old fossil to study is pretty amazing.” three times. Once it came down to the in the physical sciences, and Evolutionary Biology; places the caliber of Yale, there is sort teaching lab-based courses where wire and I was making my decision in organizing national meetings Curator of Botany, Peabody and chairing the Committee Museum of Natural History of a silo mentality when it comes to lab students get hands-on, discovery- Marvin Chun “I came for the the last hour or two. But there I was on the Status of Women in research. At Yale you have this amazing based learning opportunities.” students. They’re not just smart, but teaching my modern French history Astronomy for the American Professor Donoghue is a lead- ability to collaborate with other labs well balanced in a way that makes it course to about 150 students, walking Astronomical Society. ing authority on biodiversity and the author of more than so that collectively you do everything Marta Figlerowicz “My work is special to teach and do research here. up and down the aisle of the lecture Recent Courses 200 papers and several books; better. The other thing is that we have interdisciplinary, and it matters a lot to Whether I stand before a classroom hall as I often do, and I thought, ‘What Expanding Ideas of Time and several current projects focus a fantastic School of Medicine. The me that all of the departments it relates full of students or meet with someone am I doing, I couldn’t possibly leave.’ Space; University Physics; on elucidating the evolution department I’m in has joint faculty to are of the highest caliber here. And one-on-one, I try to treat each student Each morning, I wake up and think, General Physics Laboratory; of Viburnum. He has helped Modern Physical Measure- to shape Yale’s Department with the medical school. And med I’m impressed by the university’s readi- as somebody who is going to do some- ‘God, I’m lucky because I get to go ment (team-taught) of Ecology and Evolutionary school faculty host undergraduates ness to give new ideas and teaching thing very meaningful and influential and teach’ whatever the subject is that (continued in right column) doing research in their labs. To have methods room to grow.” in life. Our alumni bear that out. This day. For me there’s just nothing like it.”

44 | studies 45 Senior design project teammates a tele-operated robotic arm for and Engineering majors Joshua retrieving objects dropped off a A Hands-On Education. Ruck, Brigid Blakeslee, boat or dock. and Adam Goone in the Center (And why six hands are better than two) for Engineering Innovation and Design, where they developed

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

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

46 | studies 47 Next-Gen Knowledge. (One-of-a-kind Yale treasures inspire independent research)

Adding to what the The collections of the Yale world knows is not easy, University Art Gallery number more than 250,000 especially when, at 19 objects representing world or 20, you haven’t even cultures from ancient times to been in the world that the present. Recent exhibitions long yourself. But as include Modern Art from the Middle East, celebrating the a former student said, 175th anniversary of Arabic “This is not a mediocre studies at Yale; Matthew Barney: place. Everywhere you Redoubt; and Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of turn there’s something Indigenous North American Art. incredible to attract your eye. In a more ordi- Alana Thyng, an alumna of nary place, you’re not the Directed Studies program for first-years, dances with the going to be so startled Rhythmic Blue and Yaledancers into thought.” From groups on campus and is a paintings by Picasso to sta≠ photographer for the Yale Daily News. pterodactyl remains to 3D printers and tools for Opposite page: photoelectron spectros- At the Peabody Museum copy, Yale provides­ of Natural History, which recently celebrated its 150th a treasure trove through anniversary, curators work with which undergraduates scientists around the world to chase down new knowl- advance our understanding of Earth’s history, life, and cultures. edge for themselves and sometimes for the world. Junior Cesar Garcia Lopez has spent the past two summers in Environmental Intersections Tanzania, studying the impact of humans on wildlife; and in Panama, studying the chytrid Cesar Garcia Lopez works in the Eyes Wide Open summer researching Oceanic art fungus, an infectious disease Peabody Museum laboratory of in England and Germany for her that a≠ects amphibians world- wide. On campus, he enjoys the Professor David Skelly, where he As a first-year, Alana Thyng senior thesis. And as a fellow at community at La Casa Cultural, uses the museum’s vertebrate zool- planned to study French literature the YUAG, she was able to design Yale’s Latino cultural center. ogy collection in his research on or Classics. But when she went an avant-garde film installation And as a member of Math and how suburban landscapes a≠ect to the Yale University Art Gallery for the exhibition Everything Is Science (MAS) Familias, he mentors a group of New Haven frog morphology. Cesar was born (YUAG) to examine Greek vases for Dada. “It was an incredible oppor- first graders studying snail habi- in Mexico and grew up in Watson- a course on Plato, Aristotle, and tunity to see my vision come tats in a local nature preserve. ville, California, where his parents Euripides, she was immediately entirely to life. These experiences Cesar plans to enroll in the joint-degree program with the worked in agriculture. “I saw a interested in the material aspect have been vital in cultivating my School of the Environment and constant battle between environ- of history—“the way that objects skills as an art historian and in earn a Master of Environmental mentalists who want to protect provide a sense of what life was preparing me for the collaboration Management degree in a fifth the wetlands and the people who like in previous periods.” and practical planning necessary year at Yale. depend on agriculture to make a to complete projects in the work- living. I’m interested in bridging Alana became a History of Art force beyond college.” that divide and hope to have a major and had unique opportuni- career that combines environmen- ties through Yale to work for a After graduation, Alana will be tal education and field research.” summer at the National Gallery pursuing her passion for art of Copenhagen, study at the École at the auction firm Sotheby’s in du Louvre in Paris, and spend a New York.

48 | studies 49 A Smashing Success

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

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

50 | studies 51 Think Yale. Think World. (Study, research, intern around the globe)

A nontraditional approach to gaining international experi- ence gives Yale students access to multiple opportunities to study, research, and intern abroad during their four years. Over and above ordinary financial aid, Yale provides more than $10.5 million annually through fellowships, internships, and sum- mer awards in order to guarantee that every student who wishes will be able to work or study abroad. Beyond these hefty resources is the sheer variety of global experiences students can “I spent six unforgettable weeks in South undertake during school Africa and Swaziland with the Yale Summer years and summers: Session class Visual Approaches to Global

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

52 | studies 53 Jenna Salameh Yalies Abroad Summer 2018– 2019 Internships Hometown Orland Park, IL Africa: 105 The Office of Career Major Neuroscience Strategy assists Asia: 270 students seeking Jordan Yale International Experience India & Canada: 3 internship experiences Spent the summer in Amman, South throughout the globe. Jordan, studying Arabic and Africa Europe: 694 In 2019, students Middle Eastern culture through Latin America & spent the summer in the CET Intensive Language Caribbean: 133 119 countries outside Summer Program, funded by Middle East: 43 the United States a Yale International Summer exploring careers in Award. Multiple regions: 37 a global environment. Brazil Post-Yale Plan “Going to Oceania: 21 Internship opportuni- medical school and hopefully Total: 1,306 ties reflect the full exploring more of the world range of interests while learning new languages Center for among Yale students, along the way.” International from journalism to the “In Wadi Rum, a desert valley in southern Grace Alofe “In the rural South African township of and Professional arts, politics to public Experience health, and finance to Jordan, we camped out in the middle of the Hometown Union, Nj Zwelethemba where we stayed for ten Yale’s Center for technology. valley with local Bedouins. After sharing days, there was no Internet access, and for Majors Molecular, Cellular, International and a traditional dinner cooked underground & Developmental Biology; the first time in my life, I was genuinely Professional Experience Laboratory and in an oven buried in the sand, we all sat Ethnicity, Race, & Migration disconnected from the larger world. (CIPE) encourages Field Research in and supports safe, the Sciences and around drinking tea while enjoying tunes Yale International Experience The first couple of days were tough, I’m extraordinary­ inter­ Public Health Spent the fall semester of junior played on a stringed instrument called the ashamed to say. Then, my study abroad national experiences Students can combine year as one of thirty students rebab. After sunset, we lay under stars that group started playing soccer with kids of every kind. international experi- studying public health care ence with deepening covered every inch of the sky, one of the systems and conducting field in the area, hanging out at each others’ Study their understanding research in urban and rural most incredible views I’ve ever seen. I spent host homes, and attending local gumboot Yale programs include of science by spending settings in India, South Africa, the entire night sharing and hearing life dancing class in the community center. Yale in London; Yale a summer working and Brazil with the School for Summer Session in a laboratory at stories with people I had met only a few International Training. A man named Jazz, who was incredibly weeks back, in a language that I had been active in the larger community, taught (most recently, courses an institution abroad, Post-Yale Plan “Before going were offered in Brazil, or by participating in studying for only a year. That moment to medical school, I would love the classes about this historical dance Croatia, Czech Repub- a field-based project. “After sophomore year, I took a gap year highlighted how, in such a short time, to spend two years working in form and spent so much time making us lic, Ecuador, Eswatini to study Mandarin in China. There was a my life had been enriched with so much marketing in California or with comfortable in Zwelethemba. One day he [Swaziland], France, Independent Médecins Sans Frontières in Germany, Italy, Japan, Initiatives knowledge and so many new friendships gave some of us a walking tour, pointing monthlong break between my two language a Spanish-speaking country.” Morocco, Russia, Students who are programs, so I stu≠ed my backpack, that I will carry with me forever.” Jenna out structures that have changed since the Spain, and Tanzania); ready to develop their hopped on a train, and spent the next four end of apartheid and how that a≠ected his and year or term own activities abroad weeks making my way 1,600 miles through lived experience. We still had classes and abroad approved are encouraged to programs run by discuss their plans western China by myself. The first week, I homework during that time, but it felt other institutions or with advisers and decided to hike Emei Shan, one of the Four Arizona Greene so freeing to be fully present in my inter­- providers. faculty, to register their travel and under­ Sacred Mountains of Buddhism. I stayed at Hometown Carrollton, GA actions with my host family, my peers, Research stand the support one of the monasteries along the trail, and and community members like Jazz. By the Major Applied Mathematics The possibilities for provided by Yale, as I was sitting in the courtyard one of the end of our stay, I was so grateful to have international research and to use the institu- Yale International Experience are extensive. Students tion’s extraordinary monks sat next to me and motioned for me Was awarded a Richard U. Light been forced o≠ the digital grid; I can’t work with their resi- resources to make to cross my legs and meditate with him. Fellowship to study Mandarin imagine having been distracted at all from dential college dean, the most of their in Beijing and Harbin, China, Afterwards, we talked for a while about his such a remarkable community.” Grace academic advisers, experience abroad. for seven months; worked in life at the monastery. Then he reached into and departments to Nicaragua for a summer on a define projects. Many his robes, whipped out his smartphone, Thomas C. Barry Travel Yale students spend Fellowship. and added me on WeChat (the Chinese the summer following equivalent of Facebook). I set out for China Post-Yale Plan “Pursuing a their junior year with less than a year of Mandarin under my Ph.D. in applied mathematics abroad doing research belt, and I learned a ton in my language with a focus in computational for a senior essay linguistics, but only after taking or thesis. classes. But the most enriching and memo- advantage of post-graduation rable moments all came from interacting fellowships at Yale to continue with people, many of whom I still keep in my language study abroad.” touch with today.” Arizona China Nicaragua

54 | studies 55 Connect the Dots. (Three seniors find their careers through Yale’s network of resources)

Yale students are sur- Raising Tsai CITY 5 Graduate rounded by opportunities First-Year Pitch the Bar The mission of the Tsai Schools Most Matt comes to Yale interested in the Center for Innovative Attended from the moment they biological sciences and dives into Matt Czarnecki Thinking at Yale is to When they enroll in arrive on campus as biology and chemistry classes. He Residential College inspire and support business, law, medical, first-years—intellectual, quickly becomes friends with Dylan Davenport students from diverse or graduate school, entrepreneurial, artistic, Gastel, a fellow Davenport first-year. backgrounds and recent Yale graduates The two find themselves thinking Major disciplines to seek most often attend international, profes- up business ideas late into the night Molecular Biophysics innovative ways to Yale, Oxford, Harvard, sional, and research in their common room. In the spring, & Biochemistry address real-world Stanford, and MIT. opportunities that at the Yale Youth2 Business Forum problems. It organizes at the School of Management, Matt workshops, mentor­­- Top Fellowship launch them toward meets a visiting project manager from ship and fellowship Producer both long-term ambi- Google who helps him come up with programs, start-up and Yale is consistently tions and unforeseen his first pitch. “It was my first real nonprofit accelerators, a top producer of That summer, Matt finds experience with entrepreneurship and leaders’ and founders’ fellowships. Since achievements. Yalies himself working as the it felt like the best day of my life.” labs, co-curricular 2010, in addition third employee at a food leverage these oppor- projects, hackathons, to more than 200 start-up after a chance tunities in countless and experimental Fulbright Fellowships, encounter at a venture collaborations across Yale students have impressive ways and capital conference. disciplinary lines. been awarded 41 learn how to ask good “With just three of Rhodes, 20 Marshall, us, we learned how to questions, seek out Yale Connections 25 Goldwater, 13 figure things out on our the right mentors, and Yale has more than Truman, and 31 Launch own, which is critical in 160,000 graduates Gates Cambridge create experiences that In the fall of sophomore year, Matt entrepreneurship.” and hundreds of Scholarships, as well and Dylan create Yale Launch, an are professionally and alumni groups all over as 286 National undergraduate group designed to help personally rewarding. the world, providing Science Foundation students go from “virtually nothing unequaled networking Graduate Research In this chapter, we to a business idea.” The group hosts a opportunities, from an Fellowships. Just as chronicle the trajecto- pitch-day competition at the end of the online career network, importantly, these semester. Matt lands on his idea after ries of three soon-to-be to mentoring programs major awards only spending $6 for a co≠ee and granola graduates who have for students, to scratch the surface of bar study break. Why not combine “I never thought I would be an Recipe for Success regional and campus the hundreds of other successfully connected the two? Verb energy bars are born. Fellow Yale Launch members André events for alumni. highly valuable, funded the dots between a and Bennett hear the pitch and want in. entrepreneur, but this experience Whatever you are sources of support Yale education and the The three experiment with ca≠einated interested in — social that Yale students real world. energy bar recipes in the Saybrook helped me find what I’m really justice, sustainability, tap every single year. and Davenport student kitchens. As entertainment, law, demand grows, they rent the kitchen of passionate about: building things journalism, media, beloved New Haven bakery Katalina’s entrepreneurship, Angel Investment Cupcakes on weekends, baking from the ground up.” technology — you will Matt attends a College hundreds of bars from 7 pm to 2 am. find alumni in those Tea in JE given by Internet fields ready to network entrepreneur and Yale Living the Dream with you! alum Kevin Ryan and Senior year, Matt closes a round of hands Ryan a Verb bar. nearly $1 million in seed capital as Career Services A week later, Ryan calls Hit the Accelerator “A Tsai CITY mentor Verb CEO. André (now CTO) has Yale’s Office of Career and asks, “What do recommended deep built a text-to-purchase platform, Strategy offers career you need to get started?” Verb is selected to participate customer profiling, and and the company uses a space advising, professional He provides some of the in the Tsai CITY Summer by doing that we were provided free by Tsai CITY. In school advising, company’s initial capital. Accelerator, a ten-week able to realize who our January, Verb wins a $35,000 grant employment and Verb o∞cially launches internship opportunities, fellowship program for best customer was.” in Connecticut’s CTNext All-Stars in the spring of Matt’s The team pivots Verb’s Competition. The company has and career development junior year, focused student ventures that marketing strategy sold more than 100,000 bars resources. The office on selling to college combines a $15,000 grant with to focus on an older to customers in all fifty states. works with students students. They sell out mentoring and workshops led demographic with more After graduation Matt and André and alums to clarify of their first 10,000 disposable income. will move to Boston to continue career aspirations, bars in thirty days. by experienced entrepreneurs growing Verb: “We’ve found identify opportunities, in the Yale network. our dream jobs and become best and offer support at friends along the way.” every stage of career development. 56 | studies 57 Community Enhancing Scholar “Before Yale, I mostly thought of Early Learning Starting Out Caitlin designs and teaches The daughter and grand- a course called Positivity: Haylee Kushi ‘Native’ as Hawaiian. Becoming Caitlin Dermody daughter of educators, Caitlin The Power of Optimism to Residential College Residential College has a passion for learning and New Haven middle schoolers Timothy Dwight Morse a desire to study education. through Yale’s Splash and friends and co-workers with people In Foundation of Education Sprout programs. “My Major Major Studies, she realizes that “so positive attitude had always Ethnicity, Race, Indigenous to various parts of the Sociology (and Yale many of the challenges facing helped me conquer academic & Migration Education Studies students today begin due to challenges, so I wanted Americas made me realize how much Scholar) a lack of access to high-quality to share the benefits of this early childhood education.” perspective with younger Native people across the world have students.” in common. This was vital to joining Finding Community (and a Major!) my most important community at As a first-year, Haylee lands an Education Studies on-campus job at the Native Yale, to my political consciousness, After joining the Education Studies Scholar American Cultural Center, program, Caitlin enrolls in the course Early which “became my community and to my academic career.” Childhood Education, which has a classroom for the rest of my time at Yale.” observation requirement at Calvin Hill Daycare. That spring, she takes the She loves observing so much that she becomes seminar United States Wars a volunteer teacher’s assistant there. in the Pacific, her first class in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration. She writes a paper about the political importance of “For a bit, I explored one of her favorite Hawaiian the possibility of Global Perspective songs—originally titled “Mele journalism as a mode ‘Ai P¯ohaku” and popularly of doing the same work Caitlin spends the summer after known as “Kaulana N¯a Pua”— raising awareness about sophomore year studying in Dubrovnik starting her on a path toward Indigenous politics. with Yale’s History and Culture scholarship in ethnic studies. I took Bob Woodward’s Journalism class in of Southeastern Europe course. In my sophomore year and addition to gaining insight into the wrote pieces about impact of war on society, she learns ethnic studies at Yale about Croatia’s post-independence and Indigenous activism for the ydn, Broad education system. Next Chapter Recognition, down Haylee will enroll in Magazine, and Yale Brown University’s Herald.” Ph.D. program in American Studies to Emotional Intelligence continue researching and Volunteering with the writing about the power Supported by an Education Studies Scholar Yale Center for Emotional dynamics and potential summer fellowship, Caitlin interns at the Brookings Called to Lead Intelligence’s Early Childhood for allyships among Institution with the Brown Center on Education Junior year, Haylee Team, Caitlin collects data K¯anaka Maoli and other Policy, employing skills learned in her Sociology works with fellow in preschool classrooms people of color living classes to analyze critical education theory and data members of the and drafts assessments to in Hawai‘i. on contemporary topics. Association of Native assist teachers’ instructional Americans at Yale practices. “I love being able (ANAaY) to plan the to see the role of social and annual Ivy Native emotional learning in Plans Fulfilled Summit. Elected early childhood education.” Haylee writes her senior thesis on East president of the ANAaY in the spring, she heads Future Plans Asian racial formation in Hawai‘i in the planning for a Yale Back on campus, Caitlin relationship to settler colonialism and Indigenous Peoples’ writes her senior Sociology K¯anaka Maoli (Indigenous Hawaiian) Day celebration and thesis and Education Studies also leads the Henry capstone project on the early “Yale reshaped the way that I cultural identity. “I went to an all Roe Cloud Conference childhood education workforce Native high school and came to Yale and Powwow, which in America, analyzing policy understand systems of education hoping to do research about the political bring Native alums and data from all fifty states context of my Hawaiianness. My Yale back to campus and and interviewing New Haven and challenged me to advocate build a genealogy teachers. Now she’s headed to experiences pushed me to think about of Yale Native Oxford for a master’s in child for the world’s youngest learners.” my Indigeneity in a global context.” community members. development and education.

58 | studies 59 Yale, like Ulysses, is Places. part of all that she has met, part of all the scholars and students who have trod paths of learning across her campus, of their ideals and accomplishments, and of their lives and times . . .

Whitney Griswold, President of Yale University, 1950–1963 Harkness Memorial Tower James Gamble Rogers and completed is the height of tradition at Yale (216 in 1921, Harkness holds a 54-bell, Inspired by Icons. feet and 284 steps to the roof). The 43-ton carillon rung daily by students tower’s cornerstone was dedicated in the Yale University Guild of Caril- (Why architecture matters) in 1917 exactly 200 years after the lonneurs. Statues of Elihu Yale and first stone for the first Yale building in others plus four student-gargoyles New Haven was placed. Designed by keep watch from on high.

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

62 | places 63 Completed in 1930, Sterling fifteen stack levels and eight floors Yale University Art Gallery masterwork designed by Louis Kahn Memorial Library was designed of reading rooms, offices, and work One of the country’s oldest college (faculty 1947– 57). It was the first by James Gamble Rogers, who areas. The recent restoration of art museums got its start in 1832 notable design of Kahn’s career called the building “as near to the nave has revealed long hidden with 100 Revolutionary War paint- and sits across the street from his modern Gothic as we dared to make decorative details and updated ings. Now it’s noted for the depth final work in the United States, the it.” Devoted primarily to the humani- programmatic areas to better and range of its collections. The Yale Center for British Art. ties and social sciences, it has support the needs of today’s users. main building is itself a modernist

64 | places 65 Connecticut Hall The oldest Malone Engineering Center of Architecture, houses under­ building on campus, a Georgian Built in 2005 according to state- graduate teaching labs and among the Gothic, opened as a of-the-art sustainable building the University’s Department of dorm in 1752 and is a National standards, Malone adds considerably Biomedical Engineering. Historic Landmark. Nathan Hale to Yale’s engineering facilities. (B.A. 1773)—that’s him, on The building, designed by Cesar guard outside —was one of its Pelli (of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects), early residents. a former dean of the Yale School 66 | places 67 68 | places 69 Cultural Capital. Eating Out. (The “#1 Foodie City (Yale and the “Greatest Small City in America”) in America”*) * As ranked by Livability.com

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

world where you can stand within Louis’ Broadway East Rock Park Lunch inches of an intact Gutenberg Bible; National retailers like Apple, Rising 350 feet above the historic Credited J. Crew, Patagonia, and L.L. Bean neighborhood that shares its name, by some all within a very compact and mix with New Haven originals like East Rock is a New Haven landmark with walkable downtown.” Junzi Kitchen—serving Northern and a must-visit spot for all Yale Science inventing Chinese chun bing—and Crêpes students. Run, hike, bike, or climb Hill the hamburger in 1903. (Just The Hu∞ngton Post, 2012 Choupette, started by a French to the summit for stunning views of don’t ask for ketchup!) immigrant who sold crepes from a downtown New Haven and the Long cart attached to his bike. A Yale ID Island Sound. Located two miles Proud New Haveners tag restaurants, and more Coffee or Koffee? nets discounts at most stores. from campus, the park is a popular Whitney Avenue social media posts with than 380 years of history, destination for Yalies looking to stay Skyscrapers mix with Independent cafés #GSCIA for “Greatest the city delights Yalies fit while enjoying the outdoors. historic brownstones on one Ko≠ee? and Blue of New Haven’s most eclectic State Co≠ee draw Small City in America.” as well. New Haven Hillhouse streets. Turn the corner into hundreds of thirsty With two Tony Award- combines the dynamism Ave Yalies a day; or Grove St the award-winning Audubon winning theaters, the and diversity of urban Arts District to find the New catch the Jitter Bus, C a mobile co≠ee country’s second-largest life with the accessibility Haven Ballet and Creative Arts Audubon shop built out of collection of free public and Mamiability of a great Workshop, or continue north to visit the New Haven Museum, an old school bus. art, award-winning collegeY town. Howe St whose collections and exhibitions Cross Whitney Ave Chapel Street bring New Haven history to life. CM Campus Sweet Tooth M&Ms, corn In just a few blocks, pass local flakes, marshmallows, and MY bookstores, clothing boutiques, cannoli cream are a few of the co≠ee shops, and restaurants that CY Old unconventional toppings on range from student-budget (Shake Campus the curious circular confections CMY Shack) to upscale (Union League at Donut Crazy. Boxes of these Cafe). Visit the Yale Art Gallery and New treats are favorites at residential K the Yale Center for British Art, then Haven college study breaks. grab a treat at Arethusa, serving Green farm-fresh ice cream from a dairy Mory’s: in Litchfield, CT. A Yale Orange St City Hall / Amistad Tradition Memorial Founded College St New Haven’s mayor is a Yale in 1861, alumnus, and a Yale undergrad Mory’s is serves as one of 30 elected known for its toasting traditions o∞cials on the Board of Alders. Church St and nightly entertainment by Yale Next to City Hall, a memorial undergraduate singing groups, Medical stands where 54 African captives including Yale’s most famous, A haven for the arts Few Marlon Brando), Margaret Edson’s Center who sought their freedom aboard the Whi≠enpoofs. cities can claim one world-class Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit, and the Amistad were imprisoned in theater. New Haven has three. Pulitzer-winning works by August New Haven Green Yale New Haven Hospital 1839 while awaiting trial. The Shubert, Long Wharf, and Wilson. Fortunately for Yalies, all Since 1639, the 17-acre Green has been at the center Just steps away from À La Cart For a quick bite Yale Rep theaters have produced three offer student tickets. In June, of New Haven. In its more than 380-year history, the Green the residential colleges, YNHH between classes, nothing dozens of shows that went on to New Haven hosts the International has served as a pasture, a burial ground, a Revolutionary provides countless opportunities beats New Haven’s food carts. Broadway, including 11 Richard Festival of Arts & Ideas, which War training ground, and the site of a campaign speech for undergraduates to engage in Scattered all around town, carts Long Island Rodgers musicals, the world boasts almost 200 (mostly free) by Abraham Lincoln. These days the Green hosts major research, clinical work, service, dish out Bengali, Caribbean, Sound premiere of A Streetcar Named events, drawing tens of thousands events like the New Haven Jazz Festival and the New Haven and medical training at one of the Colombian, Ethiopian, Indian, Desire (starring a then unknown of visitors to the Elm City. Road Race as well as a popular weekly Farmer’s Market. country’s premier medical centers. Japanese, Mexican, Middle Eastern, Peruvian, Russian, and Thai specialities for $6 or less.

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

Where are you from? Where have you been? One spring day, fourteen students walking around the campus were asked these questions. Their answers reveal Yale as a cosmopolitan crossroads where students receive “I’m from Harare, Zimbabwe. I “I’m from Athens, Ohio. I’ve I’m from Los Angeles. The “I’m from the suburbs of “I’m from Middletown, “I’m from Washington, D.C. I “I’m from a rural small town, traveled to Turkey to represent visited Argentina, Chile, summer after my frst year, I New York City. Last summer, Wisconsin. Last summer, I spent a term abroad in Nepal, Deep Gap, North Carolina. I an education in global Yale at a conference of AISEC, Iceland, Morocco, South studied in Valencia, Spain. I interned in Geneva, participated in an intensive Jordan, and Chile with an studied in Germany, Austria, fluency. Yalies become the world’s largest youth-run Africa, and the UAE with This winter, I traveled to Switzer­land, at the Stop language program. After four International Human Rights and the Czech Republic after highly skilled at crossing organization. This summer my a cappella group, the Yale Ghana on a trip sponsored by TB Partnership, a UN global weeks of course work in New program. This summer I’ll my frst year and planned boundaries. They speak I’ll be learning Italian in Italy Spizzwinks(?). This summer the Afro-American Cultural health organization, with Haven, I spent four weeks with be in Morocco for a research Model UN conferences in through Yale Summer Session, we’ll be performing in China, Center. I also traveled to Cuba support from a Yale fellowship.” a host family in Germany. I got project through the Women’s Hungary and Taiwan with multiple languages and then traveling to Kenya, Ghana, Myanmar, Singapore, during spring break for my Karen Jiang, Economics and ahead on credits and am still Global Empowerment Initiative, the Yale International Relations quickly adapt to new and Zimbabwe to serve as an and Thailand. Cuban History course. Statistics & Data Science Major close friends with the classmates founded by a Yale Law student. Association. Recently, I traveled environments. The global instructor in the Yale Young Derek Demel, Biomedical Uzo Biosah, Ethics, Politics, I traveled with. Naiya Speight-Leggett, African to Israel with the Slifka Center African Scholars Program.” Engineering Major & Economics Major Mac Schmidt, Computer Science American Studies Major and to Puerto Rico with La is made local for under- Phyllis Mugadza, Mechanical & Psychology Major Casa Cultural. This summer graduates here. The wide Engineering Major I’ll be interning in South world becomes accessible, Africa with support from Yale known, experienced. With fellowships.” Max Schlenker, History Major such experience Yalies can pursue any ambition anywhere in the world.

“I’m from Danville, California. I’m from Columbia, South “I’m from Albuquerque, New “I was born outside of São Paulo, “I’m from Palo Alto, California. “I’m from Accra, Ghana. “I’m from Braintree, I received a Light Fellowship for Carolina, but also lived in Mexico. I studied in Italy with Brazil, and lived in Venezuela This summer, I will spend I spent the summer after my Massachusetts. Last spring a ten-week language program in Washington, D.C. After my the Summer in Rome Humanities and Panama before my family six weeks in Nice, France, sophomore year in Paraty my a cappella group, Mixed Seoul, South Korea. Although frst year, I received the Georg program and in China on a settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. I complet­ing a physician and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Company, performed in four I’m a heritage Korean speaker, Leitner Fellowship from Yale’s Light Fellowship. The Brady- spent the summer after my first shadow­ing program and taking Learning to speak Portuguese cities in China. This summer it was my frst time living MacMillan Center to work Johnson Program in Grand year in Recife, Brazil, as a two classes related to health care: with Brazilians was one of we will be traveling to Morocco. in Korea. This year I studied for an NGO in Amsterdam, Strategy funded my research in marketing intern at a local Public Health in France, and my favorite aspects of the trip, After that I will be studying Philosophy at Oxford, and The Netherlands. Japan, Taiwan, and Korea on education NGO serving kids in Literature and Medicine.” but I also loved the music, public health in Amsterdam. it was a great taste of what Louis DeFelice, English Major East Asian politics.” the favelas.” Chloe Sales, Molecular, Cellular, food, and dancing!” Emma Rutan, Psychology Major graduate school might feel like.” Phil Wilkinson, History/ Ana Barros, Political Science/ & Developmental Biology Major Edwin Edem, Political Sarah Joo, Philosophy Major Global A≠airs Major Education Studies Major Science Major 72 | places 73 . . . and the youthful Pursuits. society thus formed had promptly and enthusiastically set to work to create its own system of self-improvement, a second or social curriculum.

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

76 | pursuits 77 Varsity Teams Equestrian 800+ Baseball Field Hockey (coed) Yalies who participate Men’s Basketball Figure Skating in varsity athletics Women’s Basketball Fishing each year. Men’s Crew (Heavy Golf and Light) Gymnastics (coed) Women’s Crew Men’s Ice Hockey 2,400+ Men’s Cross Country Indoor Climbing Students who Women’s Cross Country Kendo participate in intramural­ Men’s Fencing Men’s Lacrosse games through the Women’s Fencing Women’s Lacrosse residential colleges. Field Hockey Muay Thai Football Pistol Men’s Golf Polo 80% Women’s Golf Powerlifting The percentage of Women’s Gymnastics Rifle the student body Men’s Ice Hockey Roundnet (Spikeball) participating in some Women’s Ice Hockey Men’s Rugby form of athletic Men’s Lacrosse Women’s Rugby activity each year. Women’s Lacrosse Running Coed Sailing Skeet & Trap Women’s Sailing Skiing (Alpine) Men’s Soccer Skiing (Nordic) Women’s Soccer Men’s Soccer 200+ Olympians Taylor Ritzel ’10, who Softball Women’s Soccer Facilities Carol Roberts More than 200 Yale won gold with the U.S. Men’s Squash Squash (coed) Field House Yale’s players and coaches women’s eight; Ashley Women’s Squash Swimming Payne Whitney newest athletic facility have taken part in Brzozowicz ’04, who Men’s Swimming Synchronized Gymnasium opened in 2018 and modern Olympic won silver with the and Diving Swimming At 12 acres, the largest is the first dedicated competition, winning Canadian women’s Women’s Swimming Table Tennis gym in the nation and exclusively to women’s 114 medals, 56 of eight; and Charlie and Diving Tae Kwon Do the second-largest in sports teams: softball them gold. In Beijing Cole ’07, who won Men’s Tennis Men’s Tennis the world (second only and field hockey. in 2008, fencer Sada bronze with the U.S. Women’s Tennis Women’s Tennis to a gym in Moscow Jacobson ’06, who men’s four. In 2014 in Men’s Track and Field Triathlon that was modeled Championship won silver and bronze Sochi, Phoebe Staenz Women’s Track and Men’s Ultimate after Yale’s). Golf Course Yale’s for the United States, ’17 won bronze with Field Women’s Ultimate own championship was one of five Elis the Swiss women’s Women’s Volleyball Men’s Volleyball David S. Ingalls golf course, named #1 competing. In 2010 ice hockey team. Women’s Volleyball Rink seats more College Golf Course in in Vancouver, Natalie Eight Elis competed in Club Sports Men’s Water Polo than 3,000 and is America by Golfweek Babony ’06 skated Rio in 2016, in crew, Archery Women’s Water Polo home to Yale’s varsity magazine in 2019, is a on the Slovakian fencing, sailing, and Badminton Wrestling men’s and women’s short distance from the women’s ice hockey track and field; and Ballroom Dance Wushu hockey teams. The other athletic facilities, team. Yale was four reached the Men’s Baseball rink is also available in the Westville section represented in London quarterfinals with Men’s Basketball Intramurals for recreational ice of New Haven. in 2012 by seven the U.S. men’s ice Women’s Basketball See page 21 skating and instruction, alumni athletes and hockey team in Cricket and intramurals. Gilder Boathouse one coach, including Pyeongchang in 2018. Cycling The Gilder Boat­­house, Yale Bowl a 22,000-square-foot Conferences Handsome Dan A spectacular football state-of-the-art facility Yale takes pride in (1889–present) stadium seating more on the Housatonic its broad-based inter­­­­ Yale was the first than 60,000, the River, stretches south collegiate athletic university in the United Bowl is surrounded by to the finish line of program that includes States to adopt a first-rate facilities for Yale’s 2,000-meter competition in the Ivy mascot, and to this indoor and outdoor race course. League Conference and date, none is better tennis, lacrosse, rugby, the Eastern College known than Handsome soccer, field hockey, McNay Family Athletic Conference Dan. The tradition softball, baseball, and Sailing Center (ECAC). Most of Yale’s was established by a track and field. Home to Yale’s coed intercollegiate contests young gentleman from and women’s varsity are against traditional Victorian England, who Reese Stadium sailing teams, the east coast opponents attended Yale in the With seating for more center houses a fleet with emphasis on 1890s. The original’s than 1,700, Reese of 420 racing dinghies, winning the Ivy League 17 successors have is home to the men’s FJs, Lasers, and five title. All sports, been the intimates of and women’s soccer safety launches. with the exception deans, directors, and teams in the fall, and of football, have coaches. One was to the men’s and 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.

78 | pursuits 79 Known as the Dramat, the Yale Drama’s University Theatre, one Dramatic Association is the second- of many superb performance State of the Arts. oldest college theater association venues open to undergraduates. in the country and the largest under- (Playing a major role whether you’re an arts major or not) graduate theater organization at Yale. Here, the group performs Sweeney Todd at the Yale School of

Whether you want to become a professional artist, continue a passion, Tavi Wolfwood is Rebecca Salzhauer is a Matthew Pettus is a Neuroscience try something new, or a Sociology major sophomore in Saybrook College. major in Saybrook College. He works and Global Health She is a member of the improv with the Public Health Coalition, simply immerse yourself Scholar in Pauli group Purple Crayon and works writes for the Yale Global Health in great theater, music, Murray College. He as a Peer Wellness Champion. Review, and sings with the Baker’s dance, films, and exhibi- is a member of the Dozen. Matthew also does research tions, a spectacular array Spizzwinks(?) and in a neuroscience lab at the medical the Glee Club and a school and volunteers with the of options awaits you producer for original Hypertension Awareness and Preven- at Yale. Major or take musical theater. tion Program at Yale (HAPPY). courses in Architecture, Art, Computing and the Arts, Film and Media Studies, Music, or Theater and Performance Studies. Tap into the extraordinary resources of Yale’s Center Simone Williams is an Astrophysics major in Branford College. Her for Collaborative Arts and extracurriculars include club gymnas- Media, Yale University Art tics, the Black Women’s Coalition, Gallery, Yale Center for and Black Students at Yale. Simone is also a recruitment coordinator for the British Art, and world-class Undergraduate Admissions O∞ce. professional schools of Art, Architecture, Drama, and Music. Outside the class- room there are more than 100 officially registered Bradley Nowacek is a frst-year in Morse College who plans to campus-wide arts groups, double major in English and troupes, ensembles, Theater & Performance Studies. societies, and publications LiMei Vera is a Kyra Gee is major- He is a member of the comedy Political Science and ing in English and group Tilting at Windmills. catering to such disparate American Studies Theater & Pefor- interests as hip-hop, major in Silliman mance Studies. A classical chamber music, College. She serves Catherine Alam-Nist is a frst- Ale Campillo is a junior in Jonathan sophomore in Pauli Chinese calligraphy, and on the board of the year in Grace Hopper College. Edwards College pursuing a dual Murray College, she Yale Hunger and She’s also an active member of the degree in Theater & Performance works at Sterling fashion design. Many— Homeless­ness Yale College Democrats. Studies and Ethnicity, Race, & Library and rock like the Yale Glee Club, Action Project and Migration. Ale is also the assistant climbs with the Yale Yale Dramatic Association volunteers for musical director of the a cappella Climbing Team. Project Homeless group Shades and a student (the Dramat), Yale Concert Connect. coordinator at La Casa Cultural. Band, and the a cappella 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.

80 | pursuits 81 Or DIY by acting, Yale Undergraduate Society of Orpheus & performing, singing, Ballet Company Bacchus The Daily Show. staging, writing, Yaledancers Something Extra producing, presenting, The Spizzwinks(?) (A slice of Yale’s creative life during one spring weekend not so long ago) improvising, creating, Fashion designing, and getting Tangled Up in Blue Y Fashion House laughs through more Undergraduate Choral than 130 (and count- Music Society ing) student choirs, Records show that the Friday II on Sunday), to the Archi- traditional Korean folk music troupes, clubs, groups, Berkeley College The Whiffenpoofs first appearance of tecture Gallery in Rudolph played “sitting down.” ensembles, associa- Orchestra Whim ’n Rhythm Hall for Japan, Archipelago of tions, organizations, a band at Yale was in Coup de Brass Yale Russian Chorus Enjoy a screening of the docu- the House, which seeks to societies, and collec- 1775, when a militia mentary Charm City, presented contextualize the develop- See your suitemates perform tives including: Davenport Pops Yale Slavic Chorus

band of Yale students by the Yale Film Study ment and design of the for New Haven’s youngest at Low Strung Center and the Yale African contemporary Japanese house. the Yale Children’s Theater Art/Design Theater accompanied George Music Makers American Affinity Group, performance of Sir Aveline, the Art Exhibition Students The Control Group Washington to Cambridge, followed by a community- Brave. Or step on stage your- New Music Cooperative at Yale Heritage Theater driven conversation with Pick up subsidized tickets self in afternoon rehearsals of Massachusetts. They Red Territory Ensemble Kalfani Nyerere Turè of Yale’s provided by your residential the Dramat’s production of Crafternoons found it “not to their Scale & Bones Urban Ethnography Project. college and head to New York Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Design for America Yale Opera Theatre of liking” and returned to with friends for a sugar high The Little Prince (one of 200 Synth Labyrinth Yale College Guild of Bookmakers New Haven one week at American Ballet student theatrical productions Collective Yale Children’s Theater Be inspired by women who Theatre’s production of each year). Juncture later. From those humble Undergraduate Music Yale Drama Coalition blazed trails as musicians, Alexei Ratmansky’s Whipped roots have sprung the Knit One Give One Production Association composers, and philanthro- Cream. Or enjoy a night of Yale Dramat Memory Project Yale Folk Music Yale Concert Band, the pists well before coeducation at with performances ranging theater right here on campus Collective Yale Shadowcasters Yale Symphony Orchestra, Yale College at the exhibition from the Viennese waltz to the Saturday at the Yale Repertory Photography Society Yale Handbell and the incomparable Musical Daughters of Eli: tango. Then stop by the Cres- Theatre, where you’ll be Society of Calligraphers Comedy/Improv Women Pioneers at Yale, cent Underground Theater Get an early start with a morn­ blown away by a vibrant Ensemble Undergraduate Art The Coven Yale Precision Marching including a YDN article about at Morse College to check ing of music at the Woolsey Afro-futurist production of Society Yale Hip-Hop Band. Such is Yale’s epic New Blue, Yale’s frst female out the jazz band your FroCo Concerto Competition, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The Cucumber Woodworking Club Yale Klezmer Band arts story, peopled by a cappella group, all at is managing. Or head to the where School of Music instru- The Exit Players Sterling Memorial Library. Afro-American Cultural mentalists and singers compete Yale Precision icons (Thornton Wilder, YaleMakes The Fifth Humour Center for an open mic slam for the opportunity to appear as Enjoy a concert to beneft Marching Band

Paul Newman, Maya with WORD Performance soloists with the Philharmonia. children’s literacy given by the The Good Show Film Yale Symphony Lin, Jodie Foster, Lupita Poetry. Make it a marathon and head to Whiffenpoofs, the world’s Orchestra Just Add Water Sprague Hall in the afternoon oldest and best-known colle- Yale Film Society Nyong’o) and satisfying Yale Undergraduate Lux Improvitas to watch the broadcast—live in giate a cappella group. The Yale Undergraduate pretty much any artistic Chamber Orchestra Bring friends for popcorn and HD—of the Metropolitan Whi≠s are one of more than a Film Alliance The Odd Ducks Yale Undergraduate desire any day of the a movie, Ava DuVernay’s Selma, Opera’s performance of Verdi’s dozen a cappella groups and The Opening followed by a conversation La Traviata. have become one of Yale’s Dance Jazz Collective week. We picked one The Purple Crayon about the historical context most celebrated and hallowed Yale Undergraduate weekend in spring. Alliance for Dance of the civil rights march with Sunday traditions. Piano Collective Red Hot Poker Channel your inner geologist African American Studies Ballet Folklórico Yale University Guild Sphincter Troupe at the Peabody Museum’s associate professor Crystal As a member of the family- Mexicano of Carillonneurs Tilting at Windmills exhibition California Gold: Feimster. It’s all part of the oriented Gospel Choir, sing Close the weekend with an A Different Drum Modern Marvels from the Golden Whitney Humanities at Sunday services. eclectic mix of live music: the The Viola Question Dzana Singing Groups State, with one of the fnest Center’s Democracy in annual Stan Wheeler Memo- collections of specimens on America Film Series, designed rial Jazz Concert at the Law Groove Dance The Alley Cats Spoken Word display anywhere in the world. to foster Yale’s dynamic flm Help your friends set up the School; a student Choral Jashan Bhangra The Baker’s Dozen Jook Songs culture with free screenings Beading & Bonding intercul- Conducting Recital at Battell Kalaa C# Teeth Slam Poets and discussions every weekend. tural event at the Native Chapel; the Great Organ Soothe your soul with a hidden American Cultural Center, Music series at Marquand MonstRAASity Cadence Telltale gem in the tuba repertoire, Take the Masterpiece Tour at sponsored by NACC and Yale Chapel. Or learn new steps Rhythmic Blue Contour Voke Arild Plau’s Concerto for Tuba If that’s too highbrow for your the Yale University Art African Students Association. and lighten your mood in a Sabrosura The Doox of Yale WORD and Strings, performed by mood, start your evening with Gallery, stopping into the Or sleep in and join the Swing, Blues, and Fusion

Yale’s Philharmonia the all-ages show at Toad’s special exhibitions A Nation Yale Unity Korean Drum DJed dance practicum at the Shaka Gospel Choir Unique Orchestra and featuring Place, then head over to the Reflected: Stories in American Troupe for an afternoon of Slifka Center. Steppin’ Out Hangarak soloist and recent School of Criterion Cinema’s exclusive Glass and Matthew Barney: Aerial & Circus Arts Taps Living Water Music graduate Jake Fewx. Insomnia Theater flm series, Redoubt. After lunch at Atticus Collective which “brings the best cult Cafe across the street, head to Unity Korean Drum Magevet Ink & Vellum: classics back to the big screen!” Hastings Hall for the after- & Dance Troupe Mixed Company Undergraduate Swing by Off Broadway Or unwind with the late-night noon session of the School of Ya’le Dance Team The New Blue Architecture Society Theater for lineup and munchies at the Architecture’s symposium Yale Ballroom Dance The Spenser Society the late seating Yale Cabaret, where Clouds, Bubbles, and Waves. Out of the Blue Team of the Yale School of Drama Pitches & Tones The Whistlepoofs Ballroom performers are never more Yale Breakers Proof of the Pudding Yale Anti-Gravity Dance Team’s than a few feet away, and Or gallery-hop from the Yale Danceworks Society spectacular where your waiter one week School of Art’s Senior Thesis Redhot & Blue Yale Movement Yale Magic Society Spring Show, might be on stage the next. Show, Paintings Part I (see Part Shades Yale Rangeela Y Pop-Up 82 | pursuits 83 Student Groups Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers The Science Channel. American Indian Science & Engineering Society of Physics (Life outside the lab) Society Students American Institute of Society of Women Chemical Engineers Engineers Amoriem Labs Student Partnerships for Global Health Arnold Air Society In the early nineteenth Symposia Bee Space century, Yale College Synapse Biomedical became the first school in Engineering Society Tau Beta Pi America to offer a modern Boat-Building Club TEDx Yale science course—chemistry. Bulldogs Racing Undergraduate Today, you can major or Cognitive Science Code for Good take courses in twenty- Collective Code Haven nine STEM disciplines, Undergraduate Community Health Mathematics Society from Applied Mathematics Educators to Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Data4Humanity Pre-Veterinary Society to Neuroscience to Developer Student United Against Physics. And with 70+ Club Inequities in Disease student STEM organi­ Dimensions Volunteers around zations on campus, the Engineers Without the World opportunities for extra­ Borders Women in Chemistry curricular activities are Environmental Women in Physics limited only by your Education Y-BioIncubator Collaborative interests and imagination. Y-IEEE FIRST at Yale Join the editorial staff Yale Computer Society of Yale Scientific, the Float Yale EMS nation’s oldest college Genetics Club Yale Funbotics science publication. Be Girls in Science Yale Helix Group one of more than 1,200 Global Medical Missions Alliance Yale iGEM Team coders participating GREEN Yale Math Competition in YHack, the national HackMentalHealth Yale Puzzle League hackathon established by three Yale undergraduates. HackYale Student Yale Scientific Group Magazine Earn certification as an “Being a part of YUAA has been HAPPY Yale SIM EMT through the student- an incredibly formative and fun Health & Education Yale STEAM run Yale Emergency experience. I went from being Advocates for Yale Student Medical Services. Travel a first-year who didn’t know the Refugees Environmental to Cameroon with the first thing about engineering to MathCounts Outreach Coalition Yale chapter of Engineers part of the team that won second Medical Professions Yale Summer Science Without Borders to work place in the Intercollegiate Rocket Outreach Research Institute on a water distribution Engineering Competition’s pay­- MedSci Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association project. Tutor New load competition for our rocket, Minority Association of Haven elementary- and Premedical Students Yale Undergraduate Chronos, and our experiment Intelligent Vehicles middle-school students National Society of to test for e≠ects of special and Black Engineers Yale Undergraduate in math. Join the general relativity. Now, as one of Science Olympiad Neuroscience Educa- Undergraduate Aerospace the organization’s co-presidents, tion Undergraduate Yale Undergraduate Association, featured I’m learning about the manage- Research Organization Sports Analytics Group here, and work in teams ment of engineering projects oSTEM to build and fly rockets, Yale Women in STEM and working to create a larger Project Bright planes, quadcopters, and YEEBUG: Ecology & community of people excited about Public Health Evolutionary Biology UAVs. Or create a new Coalition engineering and science at Yale.” Undergraduate Group organization and make Genevieve Fowler SciPhi YHack your own mark on life SheCode outside the lab at Yale. and more

84 | pursuits 85 Shared Communities. (Identity, culture, gender, religion, and politics sheltered and nurtured)

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

86 | pursuits 87 Adventist Campus Orthodox Christian Fellowship Fellowship Athletes in Action Progressive Christian Students Black Church at Yale Saint Thomas More Chabad at Yale Undergraduate Council Chi Alpha Christian Sikh Students Fellowship Association Christ Presbyterian Afro-American La Casa Cultural Asian American Native American Slifka Center for Students Cultural Center Host to countless cultural, schol- Cultural Center Cultural Center Jewish Life Christian Union Lux Afro-America House—known arly, and social events, La Casa What can you do at the AACC? The Association of Native Thomistic Institute at as “the House”—opened in 1969 Cultural is an important focus Just about anything: study in Americans at Yale (ANNAY) was Do a 180 Yale as a locus for political, cultural, of Latino student social life at the library, cook for friends, founded in 1989 with the aim Episcopal Church Trinity Baptist Students and social activities, continu- Yale and a tremendous source of enjoy the widescreen television, of attracting Native American at Yale ing earlier Yale gatherings that student-community interaction. play Ping-Pong. Established in faculty and scholars; expand- Undergraduate First Love Yale brought black students together Founded in 1974 as Casa Boricua, 1981, the center promotes Asian ing course o≠erings to include Keeping the Faiths together on a remarkable journey Deacons Inc., it acquired its present name Hindu Students to discuss issues pertinent to the American culture and explores Native American history and Yale students come from more of spiritual awakening and human United Church of black community. With these three years later. Within the the social and political experience cultural studies; increasing Organization Westville gatherings, the isolation students three-story, 19th-century red of Asians in the United States. Native American recruitment; than thirty religious and spiritual flourishing.” Located on Old Cam- Ichthys United Church on the had experienced in the late fifties brick house, students socialize, More than forty undergraduate and creating a permanent head- traditions. Founded as an institu- pus, where most first-years live, plan activities, cook together in InterFaith Forum Green and early sixties gave way to the organizations are a∞liated with quarters for the group. Many of tion with a Protestant vocation, the Chaplain’s O∞ce coordinates vigorous exchange of ideas now a fully equipped kitchen, and the AACC. Students of Chinese, those goals have been achieved, International Church The University Church Yale today welcomes those of any religious life at Yale, supporting seen at the House. The com- create a warm and robust com- Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South including the establishment at Yale Yale Buddhist Sangha mon thread is the commitment, munity. The center also includes Asian (Bangladeshi, Indian, of the Native American Cultural or no faith tradition and seeks to worship services and rituals across Jewish Christian Bible a Latino and Latin American Yale Hillel confidence, and consciousness Nepalese, Pakistani, Sri Lankan), Center. ANNAY and the center nurture all in their spiritual jour- faith traditions. It partners with Study that students, faculty, the New topic library, computer room, Taiwanese, Thai, Vietnamese, promote Native American cul- Yale Students for Christ neys. “We consider ourselves quite centers for specific faiths and with Latter-Day Saint Haven community, and the organizational o∞ces, student and other Asian backgrounds ture and explore issues Native Young Israel House Student Association University administration have lounges, and meeting spaces. It is work together to address pan- Americans face today. Programs blessed,” says University Chap- a∞liated community service orga- at Yale shown in making the Afro- open to New Haven Latinos and Asian American issues as well as include speakers, dinners, lain Sharon M. K. Kugler, “to be nizations, and it o≠ers pastoral Luther House community-based ESL programs and more American Cultural Center vitally provide programs that focus on study breaks, and movie nights. part of a community of scholars, support and social and educational Muslim Students essential to Yale, New Haven, for non-English speakers. individual ethnic group issues. Association and beyond. seekers, and believers walking programs throughout the year.

Belonging at Yale

Afro-American League of Black La Casa Cultural Asian American Jashan Bhangra Vietnamese Students Yalies come from many back- Cultural Center Scientists Cultural Center Ballet Folklórico Jook Songs Association (ViSA) grounds and places and have A Leg Even Minority Association Mexicano Alliance for Southeast Kalaa Yale Movement many perspectives, talents, and of Premedical Alpha Kappa Alpha Brazil Club Asian Students and more strengths. Those di≠erences Students Kasama: The Filipino Alpha Phi Alpha Club Colombia Asian American Club at Yale and commonalities help make National Society Health Advocates Native American Yale a great university—a place Arab Students of Black Engineers Club Venezuela Korean American Cultural Center Association Asian American Students at Yale where each person belongs and Nigerian Students Contigo Perú Students Alliance American Indian Malaysian & Black Business Association Cuban American Science & Engineering is free to explore the depth of Alliance Asian-ish Singaporean Pan, Jam, & Lime Undergraduate Society (Yale chapter) our intellectual curiosity and our Women’s Center Office of LGBTQ Resources Bridges ESL Association (MASA) Black Church at Yale Student Association Association of Native humanity, and the potential of The center’s mission is to improve The O∞ce of LGBTQ Resources Racial & Ethnic Middle Eastern & Black Men’s Union De Colores C# a Cappella Americans at Yale Openness Club North African our scholarship, research, work, the lives of all women, especially works to create a visible LGBTQ Chinese American Black Solidarity Rhythmic Blue Despierta Boricua Students Association Henry Roe Cloud and practice. In addition to the at Yale and in New Haven. As part community that includes students, Conference Students Association Conference & ROOTS Dominican Student MonstRAASity centers and resources described of a broader feminist movement, faculty, and sta≠ with a wide variety Black Student Association Chinese Powwow Shades a Cappella Undergraduate Muslim Students here, Yale o≠ers many ways it works to ensure equal and full of life experiences. It sponsors Alliance at Yale La Unidad Latina Red Territory Steppin’ Out Students Association to engage in e≠orts to create a opportunity for all, regardless and host events, meets one-on-one Black Women’s Latina Women at Yale Students of Mixed Coalition Students of the Hangarak Negative Space Heritage more inclusive, equitable, and of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, with students, and supports the Diaspora MEChA BlackOut Himalayan Students Queer+Asian and more welcoming community: from nationality, sexual orientation, student-run LGBTQ Co-op. Teeth Slam Poets Mexican Student Association Caribbean Students Rangeela student advisory committeees socioeconomic status, back- Organization Beyond the Binary The Qloset Organization Undergraduate Hindu Students South Asian Society on student life and on diversity, ground, religion, ability, or age. Association for Sabrosura Organization BlackOut Queer+Asian Delta Sigma Theta Student Association equity, and inclusion; to grants African Peace & Hong Kong Students Black Women’s Women’s Athletic Society of Hispanic of Thais at Yale for events that address issues De Colores Sappho DOWN Magazine Development Professional Engineers Association Coalition Council Students for Yemen of belonging and community at Engender Trans@Yale Dzana Yale African Students Students of Mixed Indonesia Yale Broad Recognition Women’s Taiwanese American Yale; to social justice workshops; Ichthys Voke Spoken Word FOLKS Association Heritage Association Circle of Women Empowerment at Yale Society to lectures and symposia that oSTEM W{holy} Queer Heritage Theater and more Sube Japanese American Dimensions Women’s Leadership Ensemble Students Union Unity Korean Drum & o≠er di≠ering perspectives on Initiative at Yale Pride Corp and more and more Dance Troupe Reproductive Justice Prisme LGBT+ issues of broad public concern. Action League (RALY) and more in New Haven 88 | pursuits 89 Through clubs and Miracle League Dance organizations devoted Moneythink Difference Makers. to musical cures, devel- Music Makers oping clean energy, (Yale’s incubator of impact and leadership—Dwight Hall) sharing community New Haven REACH service methods, social PALS Tutoring & entrepreneurship, Mentoring or even scientific Period @ Yale research, Yalies pursue Leadership and service the greater good. Peristalsis Dance Group to society are inextricably Project Access at Yale Community linked at Yale. Nowhere Public Health Coalition “When I was thirteen, I started incredible, and I found a perfect Service Student is that more apparent a nonproft organization, Love ft for my interests. When I’m Groups QuestBridge than at Dwight Hall, the for the Elderly, that has grown working with kids, I’m also A Leg Even RALY Center for Public Service beyond my wildest dreams. I hanging out with my best friends. AIDS Walk New Haven Restaurant Rescue and Social Justice knew service would be a big part It’s a social endeavor that makes AISEC at Yale Project founded by undergradu- of my college experience, and I everyone involved happier. Alzheimer’s Buddies RISE ates in 1886. Dwight wanted to join a community that When you are passionate about American Red Cross Rotaract Club Hall is America’s only truly valued acts of kindness. something and see the impact Animal Welfare Alliance SheCode nonprofit umbrella The dozens of options for doing you’re having, it’s amazing.” Asylum Seeker SNUGS Yale campus volunteer orga- service through Dwight Hall are Jacob Cramer Advocacy Project Splash at Yale nization run entirely Black Student Alliance Student Environmental by students. Yalies Bridges ESL Coalition develop new initiatives Building Bridges Student Partnerships for Global Health in response to commu- Camp Kesem Yale Synapse Outreach nity needs and provide Campus Girl Scouts Teaching Peace resources, training, and Challah for Hunger Initiative support to more than Circle of Women Yale Timmy Global Health 80 groups that range CityStep Yale Undergraduate from tutoring to political Code4Good Association for African activism. With Dwight Code Haven Peace & Development Hall’s support, Yale Community Health Undergraduates at CT undergraduates have Educators Hospice founded many organiza- Crisis Text Line Urban Fellows Program tions that have become Demos Urban Improvement Corps a permanent part of New Elm City Echo Urban Philanthropic Haven’s social service Elmseed Enterprise Fund network. For more than Fund Vida Volunteer twenty years, members Engineers Without Volunteers around of the Yale Children’s Borders the World Theater, showcased Expressive Arts Therapy Women Everywhere Fair Haven Tutoring here, have engaged kids “I think most Yale students would Believe First-Years in Service with the dramatic arts agree that we learn as much by Yale Children’s Theater Flyte Scholastics through student-written giving to others as we do pursuing Yale Effective Altruists Funbotics shows, workshops, and our intellectual interests. For me, Yale EMS story-reading programs Girls on the Run service is just as important as doing Yale Refugee Project at local schools. HAPPY “Children’s Theater is a serious the kids put on their own show. homework. Performing with the Yale Undergraduate commitment, but it’s also a great They are excited and nervous Yale Children’s Theater has been Harbor Scholars Legal Aid Association break from the rest of college life. and proud, and their parents love one of my favorite experiences. I Hear Your Song Yale Undergraduate Prison Project When I’m running a workshop seeing their children having fun. love connecting with the children, Hunger & Homeless- ness Action Project Yale Undergraduates with students or leading a ‘read The experience confrmed my and I hope they are inspired to Immigrant History for UNICEF aloud’ at a local elementary school, interest in becoming an educator pursue the arts and think about Project Y2Y New Haven it doesn’t feel like I’m doing and helped me make important the ideas embedded in our stories, Living History Project and more service. I could spend all day doing connections in New Haven.” like friendship and loyalty.” MathCounts Outreach this work. 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