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*A Guide to Yale College, 2017–2018 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 | Freshman 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 Particu- Residential College. lars. How to apply, Delving into the what we look for, layers of Yale’s unique and visiting campus. residential college system (14 gorgeous p. 96 | The Good stand-alone “colleges”). p. 86 | Shared News about Studies. Places. Communities. the Cost of Yale. Yale’s Cultural Houses, Our financial aid p. 30 | Blue Booking. religious communities, policy eliminates the When parties and p. 62 | and a∞nity organiza- need for loans and shopping are academic. Inspired tions and centers. makes Yale a≠ordable Plus: shopping lists, by Icons. for all. special programs, p. 46 | A Hands-On Why p. 90 | Difference and some startling Education. Learning architecture Makers. Through numbers. by doing. matters. Dwight Hall, students find their own paths p. 48 | Next-Gen p. 70 | Nine Squares. to service and leader- Knowledge. For The modern univer­- ship in New Haven. Yalies, one-of-a-kind sity, the cosmopolitan resources make college town. all the di≠erence. p. 72 | Here, There, Everywhere. p. 36 | College Fourteen Yalies, where Meets University. they’re from, and An undergraduate road where they’ve been. p. 22 | Bright map to the intersection p. 52 | Think Yale. College Years. of Yale College and Think World. Five In many ways, friend- the University’s gradu- Elis share their pivotal ship defines the ate and professional moments abroad. Pursuits. Yale experience. One schools. student sums it up: p. 56 | Connect the p. 76 | Bulldog! “It’s about the people, p. 38 | Eavesdrop-­ Dots. From start-up Bulldog! Bow, not the prestige.” ping on Professors. capital and internships Wow, Wow! Why being an amazing to top fellowships and Playing for Yale— p. 26 | Breaking place to teach makes a worldwide network of The Game, the mission, News. A few of Yale an amazing place alumni, Yale positions the teams, the fans, the year’s top under- to learn. graduates for success in and, of course, graduate stories. the real world. Handsome Dan.

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

Yale: A Short History, by George W. Pierson (Professor, Yale Department of History, 1936–73) Mallet Njonkem Preorientation Freshman Programs Counselors The Hometown Freshman Diaries. Several optional Freshman Counselor Richmond, TX preorientation programs (a.k.a. Froco) Program (Life in the first year) Anticipated Major give new students a was established in Economics, Engineering Sciences: Mechanical chance to meet each 1938 and has been other prior to the formal an intrinsic and Freshman Orientation. essential component of Yale’s advising From the moment they Cultural Connections system for freshmen arrive, freshmen are “While it may not be particularly (CC) introduces fresh- ever since. Each men to Yale’s cultural first-year student is able to dive into all that easy to excel at Yale, fnding resources and explores assigned a counselor Yale has to offer. In part the diversity of student who acts as a guide this is because so many out that there are many resources experiences on campus, through the transition programs are in place with emphasis on the to life at Yale. Frocos experiences of students are a diverse group specifically to welcome to help achieve goals was my of color and on issues of seniors who and guide first-year related to racial identity. are friends/mentors/ students— from pre- greatest surprise.” problem-solvers— FOCUS on New Haven but not supervisors orientation to freshman takes freshmen on a or disciplinarians. counselors (Yale seniors) six-day exploration of All freshmen except to Freshman Seminars On preorientation: I did On expectations: I was never the urban landscape those in Timothy (small classes taught Cultural Connections and loved completely sure what I would want within and beyond the Dwight, Benjamin Yale campus. Franklin, Pauli Mur- by some of Yale’s most it! I had a fantastic time going to study in college, so I knew that ray, and Silliman prominent professors) on adventures, participating I wanted to go to a place where I Freshman Outdoor live together on to parties. We caught in stimulating discussions and could engage in several di≠erent Orientation Trips Old Campus during (FOOT) are six-day and their first year, and up with three freshmen conversations, and being ushered pursuits. The ability to easily four-day back­packing Frocos live among near the end of their into some of the finer aspects of switch majors or disciplines was trips for all levels in them. (Freshmen second semesters. student campus life with things one of the main factors that drew the mountains and are grouped in Old Here they share advice like a talent show and poetry me to apply to private schools like hills of Vermont, New Campus residences Hampshire, New York, by college affiliation, on preorientation, performances. I really benefited Yale in addition to my state’s flag- Massachusetts, and which allows all independence, and First Year’s Classes from the program in that I felt a ship school. When I visited Yale Connecticut, led by freshmen no matter schedules; reflect on A Tuesday > Comprehensive General sense of belonging and already during Bulldog Days—a three-day upperclassmen who their college affilia- have extensive training tion to get to know their own freshman in the life of Chemistry II had a network of friends before program for admitted students— > General Chemistry Lab II in keeping FOOTies each other.) expectations; and record 9:30 am Wake up, shower, and (ideally) > Reading and Writing the Camp Yale even started. I’ve I was blown away by the fluidity safe and healthy in the a day in their lives get breakfast at Saybrook. Modern Essay heard similar experiences from and flexibility across several backcountry. during the first year. > Introduction to Ethnicity, Race, friends who participated in FOOT. spheres in the school. It became 10:30 Spanish in Linsly-Chittenden Harvest begins at the and Migration I highly encourage incoming clear to me that integrating into (conveniently located between > Calculus of Functions of One Yale Farm, and then Vanderbilt and Saybrook). Variable I and II students to consider one of Yale’s residential college communities, groups of freshmen > Introductory Microeconomics preorientation programs. extracurricular activities, and led by upperclassmen 11:20 Rush to Hillhouse to make it > Introduction to Engineering, head off to spend to my 11:35 calculus class. the larger Yale community would Innovation, and Design five days on family- On roommates: Whether by be seamless. And now that I’m owned organic farms 1:00 pm Grab lunch at Silliman with > Vikings pure coincidence or by Yale’s here, one of my most pleasant in Connecticut. a friend or two from math. > Elementary Spanish II complex room assignment system, surprises is that there are a ton Orientation for 3:00 Work out at Payne Whitney Activities I was matched with someone I of great resources such as o∞ce International Students Gym, shower, and leave by 4. > Yale Black Men’s Union > Yale PALS Tutoring and had met and hit it o≠ with during hours, tutoring, review sessions, (OIS) is a four-day 6:00 Meet up at Chipotle or another Mentoring the college search process. After intelligent fellow classmates, program designed to ease the transition of local eatery with fellow Black > Yale Undergraduate Diversified we got our suite assignments, etc., all around just waiting to Men’s Union members to work Investments international students on a newsletter for alumni. > Science, Technology, and we texted each other in happy be utilized. to the United States Research Scholars surprise that we would be by familiarizing them 7:30 Weekly meeting with Cluster > Saybrook College Council rooming together. with academic and Technicians at the Student Chair of the Dining Hall Committee social life at Yale. It is Technology Collaborative. > Shaka at Yale Polynesian dance organized and led by group On Freshman Seminars: international upper- 9:00 Watch TV for an hour. These are very popular classes classmen with support from the Office of 10:00 Do homework with a friend at with limited sizes. I definitely International Students Squiche (Saybrook’s buttery). recommend applying to them. and Scholars. 12:30 am Back to my room to get some sleep.

10 | lives 11 Eliza Dach A Wednesday Oscar Pocasangre A Thursday Hometown in the life of Hometown in the life of Washington, DC San Salvador, El Salvador 8:25 am Wake up and get ready for 9:00 am Comparative Latin American Anticipated Major Anticipated Major classes. Politics: Get ready to take a lot Chemistry (although I also want to Economics, Political Science of notes! explore Chemical Engineering) 8:45 Walk with my roommate to Branford for hot breakfast. 10:15 Breakfast. At Berkeley College, Our favorite day is chocolate I usually get a bagel, mu∞ns, First Year’s Classes chip pancake day. wa±e, or fruit and yogurt, and > Directed Studies: Literature 6:45 am. Wake up, shower, and walk orange juice. 9:25 Organic Chemistry class. With (both semesters) the help of giant styrofoam 10:30 I go back to my room and > Directed Studies: Historical models, we’ve been learning to Payne Whitney for archery practice. work on homework or an and Political Thought (both about synthetic mechanisms assigned reading. That is, semesters) and about how the smallest when I don’t end up talking > Directed Studies: Philosophy change in a molecule’s orienta- with people on the floor. (both semesters) tion can change its smell, > Quantitative Foundations of 11:35 French class: a small class look, reactivity, toxicity... General Chemistry where we practice French > Laboratory for Quantitative 10:15 Head to the Blue State co≠ee through class discussions of Foundations of General shop for an hour. Usually I di≠erent novels, short stories, Chemistry work on my chemistry problem and films. > Organic Chemistry set or review DS reading for 12:25 pm Run to lunch at one of the > Laboratory for Organic the afternoon section meeting. residential colleges, usually Chemistry I 11:35 DS Philosophy lecture. I love Berkeley. The cool thing about > Advanced Dance Composition DS lectures. Each professor eating at the dining halls is has a di≠erent area of expertise that you always meet up with Activities and eloquently synthesizes that a friend or someone you know. > Yaledancers week’s reading with the course > Yale team for the Solar 1:00 Statistics for Political Science: as a whole (especially useful if Decathlon Standard deviation? Multi- we’re reading Kant or Hegel). linear regression? Multicol- 12:25 pm Lunch in TD with a big group linearity among regressors? of DSers. These lunches are Yes, yes, and yes. We learn a hidden gem of DS: because about statistical tools that you “Directed Studies provides a valuable you spend so much time with a can apply to political studies, relatively small group, you end such as in election polls. foundation in the humanities and up making a lot of friends over 2:30 Have a co≠ee with a friend, go the course of the year’s lectures, to o∞ce hours, and/or work sections, and lunches. reminds me that science and the grading Spanish homework 1:00 O≠ to the discussion section assignments. humanities used to be intricately for DS Historical and Political 6:00  The Yale Globalist, meeting Thought. over dinner. We usually linked. Only recently did people start 2:15 Back to Old Campus to relax. discuss possible themes for the If it’s sunny, I sit out on the On adjusting: A di≠erent First Year’s Classes next issue, evaluate the previ- to consider them such separate felds.” benches and chat with friends culture, di≠erent weather, and > Microeconomics with ous issue, or talk with journal- who are passing by or playing Environmental Applications ists about how to improve the frisbee. Eventually I head to a di≠erent language, but the > Comparative Latin American magazine. my room or the JE library to transition was not hard because Politics 7:30 Time to go to the library to do fnish up the week’s DS paper > Intermediate and Advanced On orientation: FOOT is sections are at the heart of the of the help I got from the O∞ce problem sets or readings. a great way to kick o≠ your program: they let you engage or work on a lab report. of International Students and French > Introductory Statistics for 10:00 Hang out with friends, have 6:00 Dinner with my amazing freshman year! I did the four-day with the texts, the other students, other students. I also did Political Science random conversations, go to suitemates in JE. Afterward, we Appalachian Trail trip and made and the professors in a small an amazing preorientation for > Reading and Writing the a party, a play, or go to get a stop in the Froco’s suite for an Modern Essay late-night snack. an instant group of friends. group setting. impromptu dance party (or just International Students. > Political Psychology to grab a piece of candy). 1:30 am (Sometimes it’s 3 or 4 am) Go > The Modern Unconscious to bed and get some sleep! On Directed Studies (DS): The On extracurriculars: There 8:15 Jazz night at Yaledancers class. On Old Campus and Frocos: > Introductory Macroeconomics yearlong DS humanities program is such strong support for the Fun and tiring, YD classes are a Living on Old Campus with almost > Calculus of Functions of is unique to Yale and a wonderful arts on campus. I’ve been able to highlight of my week. all other freshmen gives you a great One Variable 10:00 Back to my dorm to shower, way to make sure you are taking keep up and improve my dancing way to know people from all the Activities talk with friends, and fnish up small seminars, having lectures and have had the chance to colleges. Frocos are freshman > The Yale Globalist whatever work I have left. with world-class professors, choreograph pieces of my own. counselors. They become friends International a≠airs magazine 1:00 am Bedtime. I pack up my books > International Student quickly improving your writing Most importantly, I’ve found a and notes for Thursday so who give great advice. The cool Organization skills, and reading the classics, community of amazingly talented that I don’t wake up my room- thing is that although you have > AIESEC We help find internships from ancient Greece through the dancers and friends who have mate when I leave for my 9 am your own Froco, you end up being all over the world for Yalies. twentieth century. Discussion defned my time at Yale so far. Literature class. helped by them all. > Yale Club Archery

12 | lives 13 The Courtyard The image of Vincent Scully, Rogers transformed the secret garden was architect Yale into a loose association of Anatomy of a Residential College. James Gamble Rogers’s inspiration “little paradises.” for the courtyards around which (Yale has no dormitories) each residential college is designed. According to legendary art historian and Yale professor emeritus

Even before freshmen Yalies identify with their arrive they are assigned college throughout their to one of Yale’s 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 freshman welcome issue its own microcosm of the of the Yale Daily News student body as a whole. and you’ll understand So if a certain percentage why—they all think of Yale’s students hail from they’re the best! the west coast or abroad, you can expect to see roughly that percentage in each college.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

So you played sports in high the college accumulating the Fall school but aren’t quite hardcore greatest number of points through Golf Coed College Shield Architecture Style Points How We Boola Boola Football Men, Coed enough to suit up for the Bulldogs. intramural play, was first presented Volleyball Coed Collegiate Gothic, with a touch Delicious reputation: as test Annual snowball fight, Berkeley You’re in luck. The residential in 1933. The Tyng continues Tennis Coed of Tudor; built in 1934 kitchen for Yale’s Sustainable North Court vs. South Court Soccer Men, Women Food Project, Berkeley pioneered college intramural scene o≠ers to be the most coveted of all intra­ Cross Country Men, Women a sustainable menu for all the a chance to continue your career mural awards, spawning com- Table Tennis Coed colleges at a surprisingly high level of petitive rivalries that make IMs a Winter Branford Collegiate Gothic; Robert Frost described our Independence Day, when competition or to start playing a way of life for former high school opened 1933; home to courtyard as “the most beautiful Branford declares its indepen- new sport—not to mention a way all-stars and P.E. dropouts alike. Squash Men, Women Basketball Men, Women Harkness Tower and college courtyard in America” dence from Yale in a day to prove that your college reigns its bells of barbecues and parties Much of the above first appeared in “Intramu- Volleyball Men, Women supreme. The Tyng Cup, annually rals at Yale are spine-Tyngling fun” by Aaron Broom Ball Coed Davenport One of its facades is Collegiate The Gnome, who watches Late nights at the Dive awarded for overall excellence to Lichtig (1999) writing for the Yale Herald. Inner-Tube Coed a.k.a. D’Port Gothic, the other is Georgian; over us, when he’s not grill; Davensports! Water Polo opened in 1933 being abducted; our own Bowling Coed orchestra, the DPops Swimming Coed Indoor Soccer Coed Timothy Georgian; opened in 1935 Bluegrass music, art studio, TD’s motto and cheer is Dwight beat poetry: the laid-back “Àshe!” which means “We Spring a.k.a. TD alternative make it happen” in Yorùbá Dodgeball Coed Badminton Coed Jonathan Collegiate Gothic; opened Our amazing letter­­ Great Awakening Fall Soccer Coed Edwards in 1933 press; Tyng Cup winners Festival; the formal Spider Ultimate Coed a.k.a. JE three years in a row Ball; JE SUX! Softball Coed Golf Coed Collegiate The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Fix it yourself in our bicycle Benjamin Spikeball Coed Franklin Gothic; opening edited and published by repair shop; take a hike on the in fall 2017 Yale scholars, have reached 41 Farmington Canal Greenway volumes, with six to go in our backyard

Grace Hopper Collegiate Gothic; opened The Cabaret in the basement, Trolley Night: Clang, clang, More than Oolong. in 1933 with hugely popular student clang goes the party (College Teas) shows

Morse Modern; designed by Eero Our sculpture, Lipstick All-day Apple Bakefest in the College Teas are informal Q&A’s Saarinen; built in 1961 (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, head of college’s kitchen; Great hosted by the head of each with a 14-story tower and no by Claes Oldenburg Morse Easter Egg Hunt right angles residential college and often cohosted by campus organizations Pauli Murray Collegiate Gothic; Our namesake was a such as the Film Society or the opening in fall 2017 scholar, lawyer, and civil and Make your mark on Murray women’s rights activist who College: kick-o≠ a yearly dance Yale Daily News. The teas give small helped change the landscape of party or found a drama troupe groups of students an intimate opportunity in the U.S. in our own sprung-floor theater opportunity to pick the brains of Pierson Georgian; built Wrestling in the Jello Pit Tuesday Night Club; our cheer: world leaders, thinkers, and talents. in 1933 of Justice on Pierson Day P is for the P in Pierson College, Members of the hosting college I is for the I in Pierson College … get first dibs on front-row seats. Saybrook Collegiate Gothic; completed We’re in a chase scene in the Party in the “12 Pack” and in 1933 latest Indiana Jones movie; always respond “Saybrook!” Recent guests Internet personality; Nihad Awad, activist Timothy Dwight Deqo Mohamed, and executive director of the Council on physician and CEO of DHAF in Somalia; our own Chamber Orchestra when asked, “Say what?” Trumbull Lois Lowry, author of The Giver; American-Islamic Relations. Alice Wells, U.S. ambassador to Jordan; (known as SYChO) Joan Acocella, dance and book reviewer Rahul Pandita, conflict journalist; Susan for The New Yorker; Biz Stone, co-founder Ezra Stiles Junot Díaz, Pulitzer Prize- Silliman Varied: Collegiate Gothic; Biggest college; biggest court- Sunday music brunch, a feast Choi, novelist. modified French Renaissance, yard; winner of cooking and of sound and taste; the Ball of Twitter; Amy Brooks-Kayal, pediatric winning author and MacArthur Fellow; Georgian; completed in 1940 spirit prizes at Final Cut on College and Wall, neurologist. Angélique Kidjo, singer-songwriter and Morse Unni Karunakara, international activist; Cesar Pelli, architect; Ed Norton, president of Médecins Sans Frontières; Mark (Yale’s “Iron Chef”) a spring classic Branford Jennifer Staple-Clark, founder actor and director; Joann Lo, co-director of Penn, author of Microtrends and adviser to and CEO of Unite For Sight; Robert Pinsky, Modern masterpiece, designed Our memorial moose mascot Medieval (K)night Festival; the Food Chain Workers Alliance. the Clintons, Tony Blair, and Bill Gates; Ezra Stiles former U.S. poet laureate; Chris Bridges, by Eero Saarinen; opened in 1962 in the Dining Hall; annual Baby Animal Petting Zoo Bobby Lopez, composer and lyricist of a.k.a. Ludacris, rapper and actor; Paul Davenport Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Student Film Festival in the courtyard Avenue Q; Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Farmer, co-founder, Partners in Health. Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; Carole Tipping Point and Blink. King, singer-songwriter; Mike Gordon, Trumbull Quintessential Yale/Collegiate Potty Court, where our gargoyle Rumble in Trumbull (bounce- Silliman Denzel Washington, Academy guitarist, Phish; Margaret Hamburg, fda Jonathan Edwards Katie Couric, journal- Gothic; completed in 1933 “Thinker” is enthroned and house “fights”); Pamplona Award-winning actor, producer, and commissioner; Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, ist; Jon Pareles, music critic; Michael Pollan, decorated every year (running of the [Trum]Bulls director; Brandon Scott Sessoms, gay Doonesbury; Mukesh Kapila, humanitarian author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma; Gary around campus) blogger, celebrity commentator, and and author of Against a Tide of Evil. Beach, Tony Award-winning actor. 22 | lives 23 Bright College Years. (Defining Yale through friendship)

“Time and change shall naught avail / To break the friendships 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 fve 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 fnished 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 goofness that trip leader, French to Morse College. Here for the family-style meal. Once I’ll call Richard to come and help Applied Physics, defne our friendship.” Hannah language tutor, they talk about chance I booked out the Morse kitchen me fnish 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” freshman year. They and inspired his participa- brought from Thailand. It’s a realized they all played tion in Bulldog Bots, challenge when you’re trying to instruments and started a Yale’s undergraduate band called Suite Spot. robotics organization.

24 | lives 25 Met at Yale

“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 freshman year, so Carlee remembers Aaron as her frst 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 fve 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 their frst week of freshman 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 Freshman Counselor, mistakes, and danced until our great conversation.” Aaron Proof of the Pudding legs couldn’t move any more. Kevin (above) (jazz a cappella), We have found so much joy in and Danny Yale Dance Theater, compete Steppin’ Out (step learning more about each other.” Danny, Aaron, and together in team) president, Caroline Kevin and Jessica met in a Carlee and Ethan know Deena Final Cut, a Harvest preorienta- music history class and also Deena have through Yale Hillel, where university- tion trip leader took Roman Architecture been suite­ she was co-president in her wide and Opera Libretto: mates since junior year. They regularly “Iron Chef”- “subjects that were o≠ sophomore attend Friday night style culinary our radar but turned out year. Shabbat dinners together. competition. to be fascinating.”

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

Pushing College teams admitted into the major Simone Seiver will pursue the outstanding performers generation of STEAM [science, The latest stats Boundaries Yale Entrepreneurial Institute’s an M.Phil. in criminology. were senior Lilybet MacRae, technology, engineering, arts, on who goes to Yale frst Venture Creation Program, who won the 3-meter diving and mathematics] pioneers.” Senior Celine Tien’s senior project which provides support and STEM Matters competition; junior Cailley Marquez has fled several 1,373 29% flm, “Pippa’s Pan 盼”—believed resources for students and faculty Silbert, who fnished frst in the patent applications for her Class of 2020 major in the Arts and to be the frst hybrid live-action, to grow their early-stage ven- Three juniors were selected as long-distance freestyle; junior invention, the Cellodoisome, Humanities virtual reality short flm—won tures. Their start-up, Roammi, Goldwater Scholars for 2017 by Heidi VanderWel, winner of the and is a passionate advocate 50 39% third prize in the AT&T VR/AR connects travelers to locals who the Barry Goldwater Scholarship 200-yard backstroke; sophomore for young women and people states + D.C. and Puerto Rico major in the Social Challenge. Tien, a Film and run activities rooted in the travel- Program, which was created to Isabella Hindley, winner of the of color in the sciences. Sciences Media Studies major, worked ers’ passions and an area’s culture. encourage outstanding under- 100-yard freestyle; and freshman 54 with a team of twenty, includ- graduates to pursue research Charlotte O’Leary, who touched 32% Slam Poetry countries ing fellow seniors Julien Soros, Record careers in the STEM disciplines. frst in the 200-yard breaststroke. major in the Biological an Electrical Engineering major, Attendance Alexander Epstein, who plans The Yale Gymnastics team won A team of fve represented Yale 50% and Physical Sciences and Charlie Proctor, a Computer to pursue a doctorate and a its frst ECAC championship in at the College Unions Poetry or Engineering men Science major, to develop the With funding from Yale and university research career, is school history in March. Junior Slam Invitational in Chicago 96% flm, which tells the story of a other sources, more than thirty double-majoring in Chemistry Megan Ryan tied for frst place in April: senior Sophie Dillon 50% graduate within five woman with Alzheimer’s who Yale College students repre- and Molecular, Cellular, and on the uneven bars with a was joined by freshmen women years is trying to recapture memories sented the Computer Science Developmental Biology. Colin career-high score; and fresh- Lola Hourihane, Sidney of her husband. department at this year’s Grace Hemez, who is double-majoring man Jade Buford, who fnished Saint-Hilaire, Arya Sundaram, 42.5% 84% Hopper Celebration of Women in Biomedical Engineering third overall, was named ECAC and Kamau Walker. minority students live on campus Education App in Computing. The three-day and the History of Art, plans Co-Rookie of the Year. At the international conference, which to devote his career to fghting Ivy League indoor track and Creative Writing 11.5% 55% The free mobile app Py, co- promotes women in technology, infectious diseases through engi- feld championships, senior international students have jobs on campus developed by senior Derek Lo to provided networking opportuni- neering and synthetic biology. James Randon was named Most In this year’s Norman Mailer help students master the Python ties with leaders from industry, And Chemistry major Andrew Outstanding Performer. The Yale Writing Awards, a national 15% 14% programming language, was academia, and government; Saydjari plans to earn a doctorate Football team defeated Harvard, competition administered will be the first in their earn double majors family to graduate from featured in the fall on Product sessions on such subjects as data in chemistry and pursue a career 21–14, in the 133rd playing of by the National Council of a four-year college or 47% Hunt, a website that allows users science and social entrepreneur- at a major research university. “The Game.” Freshman quarter- Teachers of English, four of the university to discover and rate the best new ship; a career fair; and more. back Kurt Rawlings threw two fve fnalists in the Four-Year participate in community service tech products. Since its launch Word Play touchdowns to wide receiver and College Creative Nonfction 60% last year, Py has added courses in Across the Pond fellow freshman Reed Klubnik. category were Yale College from public schools 80%+ other programming languages, Senior Linguistics major Tom Running back Alan Lamar, also seniors or recent graduates. participate in such as Java and Swift, as well Three seniors—in addition to McCoy, a member of the Yale a freshman, scored the team’s Winner Lucy Fleming gradu- 40% intercollegiate, club, or as such subjects as astrophysics, three recent Yale College gradu- Grammatical Diversity Project, frst touchdown. Two successful ated in 2016. from private or intramural athletics calculus, and U.S. history. ates—have been named Rhodes published his 25th New York trick plays—a fake feld goal on parochial schools or Gates Cambridge Scholars, Times crossword puzzle in fourth-and-four and an onside 50%+ Debating Kudos 64% among the most coveted aca- March. It was inspired by a core kick to start the second half— of graduates go on Undergraduate receive financial to earn M.D.s, J.D.s, demic awards for postgraduate belief of most linguists that and a defense that held Harvard Seniors Henry Zhang and Entrepreneurs assistance M.B.A.s, or doctoral study. On a Rhodes scholarship the ways in which grammar scoreless in the fnal 23 minutes, Evan Lynyak of the Yale degrees The start-up Chops Snacks, at Oxford, Anthropology major varies across dialects should be sealed the win for the Bulldogs. Debate Association advanced 95% founded by seniors Aaron Jones Olivia Klevorn will pursue embraced, not disparaged. to the four-team fnals at this ranked in the top and Luke Sellers, was one of six a D.Phil. in socio-legal stud- year’s World Universities tenth of high school Patent Pending graduating class teams admitted into yogurt giant ies. And as Gates Scholars at Boola Boola Debating Championship in Chobani’s new incubator for Cambridge, Julian Menzel, an Junior Samantha Marquez, who the Netherlands; and Lynyak 98% food-related ventures. And senior Intensive Physics major, will The women’s Swimming & is majoring in Psychology on the was ranked the sixth-best of freshmen return Sharon Welch and sophomores pursue an M.Phil. in the history Diving team won the Ivy League neuroscience track, was named individual debater in the sophomore year Zoe Henry and Ellis Burgoon and philosophy of science and title, setting 12 Yale records one of the Hu∞ngton Post’s “20 competition, which had Miskell make up one of three Yale medicine; and Political Science and 5 Ivy records. Among Under 20,” honoring “the next more than 750 participants.

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

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

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

32 | studies 33 Freshman STARS (Science, Preparing for Shopping Lists. Seminars are Technology, and Medical, Law, or small classes just for Research Scholars) Business School freshmen, with some provides undergradu- Yale students have Yale’s “shopping period” at the of Yale’s most dis- ates an opportunity to an outstanding record start of every semester allows tinguished faculty combine course-based of admission to top students to visit classes they members. Some study, research, men- medical, business, seminars provide an torship, networking, and law schools, but might want to take before introduction to a par- and career planning Yale College offers registering. Here, a few wish ticular field of study; in the fields of science no pre-professional lists from recent semesters. others take an inter­ and technology. The degree programs. disciplinary approach program is designed Students here prepare to a variety of topics. to support women, for entrance to profes- All seminars provide minority, economicallly sional schools (e.g., an intimate context underprivileged, and medicine, business, for developing rela- other historically law) by choosing any tionships with faculty underrepresented stu- one of Yale’s under- members and peers. dents in the sciences, graduate majors and engineering, and working with a Yale Directed Studies mathematics. More adviser who knows is a selective fresh- than 100 students what is needed to man interdisciplinary each year participate advance to the next program in Western in the academic year level of education. So, civilization that and summer STARS it’s not unusual to find includes three yearlong programs. an English or Political courses — literature, Science major going philosophy, and International on to medical school historical and political Study Understanding or an Environmental thought — in which the dynamics of a glo- Studies or Chinese students read the balizing world begins major going on to law central works of the in the classroom, with or business school. Western tradition. studies ranging from international develop- Academic Advis- Science and ment to statecraft and ing is a collective Engineering power, from ethnicity effort by the residential Undergraduate and culture to public colleges, academic Research As one of health. But Yale recog- departments, and vari- the world’s foremost nizes that experience ous offices connected research universities, abroad is essential to the Yale College Yale offers countless to preparing students Dean’s Office. The opportunities for for global citizenship residential college dean independent under- and leadership. Such serves as a student’s graduate research experience may include primary adviser for all projects. Students course work in foreign academic and personal in the science and universities, intensive concerns. College engineering disciplines language training, deans live in residential can begin conduct- directed research, colleges and supervise ing original research independent projects, the advising networks as early as freshman internships, laboratory in the college. Students year through access to work, and volunteer also have a freshman Yale’s more than 800 service. (See pages adviser who is a Yale faculty laboratories 52–55) faculty member or in 50+ degree-granting administrator affiliated programs in the with the advisees’ resi- Faculty of Arts and dential colleges. Each Sciences, Yale School academic department of Medicine, and Yale has a director of under- School of Forestry & graduate studies (DUS) Environmental Studies. who can discuss the And Freshman Summer department’s course Research Fellowships offerings and require- provide support for ments for the major. more than 100 science and engineering freshmen each year.

34 | studies 35 Majors in Global Affairs Yale College Greek, Ancient & African American Modern 80+ 3+3=breadth 1:1 15,000,000+ Studies History African Studies History of Art There is no specific class you have to take at Classes range from Majors. Holdings in Yale’s library, making American Studies History of Science, Yale, but students are required to learn broadly one-on-one tutorials Anthropology Medicine, & Public Health and deeply. Depth is covered in one’s major. to a small seminar to a it one of the largest university library Applied Mathematics Humanities Breadth is covered by taking courses in three study lecture course of several Applied Physics systems in the United States. Italian areas (the humanities and arts, the sciences, and hundred students. Archaeological Studies 6:1 the social sciences) and three skill areas (writing, Judaic Studies Architecture quantitative reasoning, and foreign language). Latin American Student-to- Art Studies faculty ratio. Astronomy 74% Linguistics Astrophysics Literature Of Yale College Chemistry courses enroll fewer Mathematics 2:1 60+ Classical Civilization Freshman Seminars than 20 students. Mathematics & Ratio of declared in 2016–2017, each open only 200+ Creative and Classics (Greek, Latin, Philosophy Summer fellowships for or Greek & Latin) STEM majors to ffteen or twenty freshmen. performing arts Mathematics & Physics undergraduate science and Cognitive Science 66 grants awarded to Modern Middle East to STEM faculty. 30% engineering students each year. student playwrights, Computer Science Studies dancers, writers, Computer Science & Molecular Biophysics Mathematics Enroll fewer than 10. musicians, and & Biochemistry Computer Science & Molecular, Cellular, flmmakers­ each Psychology semester. & Developmental Computing & the Arts Biology 40 East Asian Languages Music + & Literatures (Chinese Near Eastern 2,000 Approximate number or Japanese) Languages & Courses o≠ered each year in more than of the 2,000 courses 800+ East Asian Studies Civilizations that enroll more Science, math, and engineering 24/7 Ecology & Neuroscience 70 academic programs and departments. than 100 students. labs at Yale College and the Evolutionary Biology Philosophy Hours the Center for graduate and professional schools. Economics Physics Engineering Innovation Economics & Physics & Geosciences and Design is Mathematics Physics & Philosophy open for student use. Electrical Engineering Political Science & Computer Science Portuguese Engineering: 44 1,252 Biomedical, Psychology International study, research, and internship experiences Chemical, Electrical, Religious Studies 200,000+ Environmental, Russian Languages o≠ered undertaken by Yale College students in 2015–2016. or Mechanical 40%+ Russian & East Objects in the Engineering Sciences: to undergraduates, Percentage of Yale College European Studies permanent collection Chemical, Electrical, students graduating with a STEM Environmental, Sociology from Akkadian of the Yale University major who are women. or Mechanical South Asian Studies* $2,970,133 Art Gallery. to isiZulu. English Spanish Funding for international experiences in the Environmental Studies Special Divisional 2015–2016 academic year. Ethics, Politics, & Major Economics Statistics & 36/8 Ethnicity, Race, & Data Science Migration Theater Studies Film & Media Studies 70% 83% The degree requirements Women’s, Gender, & 1,000+ French Sexuality Studies for graduation are 36 term Geology & Geophysics Faculty members in Yale’s Of seniors in the most recent Medical school admission courses in eight terms, 98% *May be taken only Faculty of Arts and Sciences. graduating class participated in rate for Yale College about a third in the major. Freshmen who return Geology & Natural as a second major. Resources international study, research, graduates (national Students typically take four sophomore year. German Studies and/or internships while at Yale. average, 40%). or five courses per term.

36 | studies 37 Divinity School Institute of Sacred College Meets University. Take a walk to the Music Find yourself Sterling Divinity Quadrangle at the interdisciplinary center to enjoy the quiet Georgian- of the Divinity and Music (One of the world’s greatest research universities at your fingertips) style campus. The courtyard schools through the Institute’s is a great getaway when you concerts, art exhibitions, flms, want to read outdoors without literary readings, plays, and the distractions of central lectures. Hear world premieres School of Forestry campus. View an exhibition of new choral compositions. & Environmental Physically and philosophi- of the artifacts and documents Meet scholars debating divides Studies Take one of cally, Yale College for School of from the personal papers of between liturgical traditions. the School’s graduate-level undergraduates is at the Engineering & Law School Have Protestant missionaries who courses. Earn a fve-year Applied Science Join fellow lunch in the Law School served in China during the frst bachelor’s and master’s in heart of Yale University. creators from across Yale in dining hall with Constitutional half of the twentieth century. Forestry, Forest Science, An extraordinary commit- the Center for Engineering Law professor Akhil Amar. Environmental Science, or ment to undergraduate Innovation and Design Listen to speeches by visiting Environmental Management. to collaborate, create, and School of Music Supreme Court Justices. Partner with the School’s teaching sets Yale apart share functional solutions \ Explore the resources Wander the Law School stacks. School of grad students and faculty from other great research to meaningful problems. of the Gilmore Music Library, The Law Library is also a Management on environmental initiatives universities in the world. with one of the largest collec- favorite study spot. Enroll for a course at SOM through Yale’s O∞ce of More than 70 depart- tions of music scores, sound and rub elbows with the Sustainability. Bookmark recordings, and music research next generation of corporate the School’s website to keep ments and programs materials in the United States. a five- and NGO leaders and entre- up with all of the events offer approximately 2,000 Take lessons for credit with minute Science preneurs. Become a Silver happening each week, or tune walk undergraduate courses School of Music faculty. Attend Hill Scholar—one of a select into the site’s weekly podcasts. free concerts at Sprague Hall handful of seniors who are each year—many of them given by Music School students admitted to SOM directly taught by Yale’s most and visiting performers. from Yale College, some of distinguished historians, whom are awarded a merit literary critics, scientists scholarship for the two years of study. and engineers, math- ematicians, artists and School of Drama composers, poets, and Get a student season pass to the Yale Repertory Graduate School social scientists. Faculty Theatre and see fve plays a of Arts & Sciences call it a stunningly vibrant year at one of America’s lead- Continue conversations from Hillhouse intellectual atmosphere ing professional theaters. graduate-level seminars over that can’t happen at Read original manuscripts co≠ee and mu∞ns at the from Eugene O’Neill’s Long Blue Dog Café. Take graduate School of Medicine undergraduate-only Day’s Journey into Night. Study courses in science and engi- On Yale’s medical institutions or at research light plots from the original neering, almost all of which campus, just three blocks from universities that do not production of Gershwin’s School of are open to undergraduates. the College, you don’t have to Porgy and Bess. Audition for Architecture On Friday afternoons, join be pre-med to take advantage focus on teaching. Yale School of Drama and Yale Meet with professors and grad undergraduates and graduate of the extraordinary research Cabaret shows. Put on student students in Rudolph Hall students in the Physics depart- opportunities available to productions at the University (named for its architect, Paul ment to eat pizza, and hear undergraduates—in felds Theatre, with 96 feet of Rudolph, faculty 1958–65). Cross and present weekly talks on ranging from genetics to Campus fly space and seating for 640. Check out student shows and current research. Make heads biomedical engineering and curated exhibitions in the turn as you graduate wearing nanoscience, studying cancer, Architecture Gallery. Attend an your yellow hood indicating neurological disorders, and evening lecture by one of the Old New that you’ve earned both a bach- cardiovascular disease. Take School’s professors, who are Campus Haven elor’s and a master’s degree classes taught by medical luminaries in the field, includ- Green in Molecular Biophysics and school professors, work in ing the dean, Deborah Berke. Biochemistry. their labs, shadow doctors on their rounds, or volunteer at Yale New Haven Hospital. School of Art Apply to do feldwork in Peru Discover the next with your biochem professor Chuck Close (M.F.A. 1964) a five- School of Nursing and perhaps discover new at the School’s open studios. minute Nursing’s home on West species of fungi and bacteria walk Participate in group shows Campus is just a 10-minute living in plant tissues. School of Public in the same gallery in Green ride on the Yale Shuttle. Health Take a course Hall where master’s students Medical Sign up for Professor Ruth in epidemiology in conjunction mount their thesis shows. Center McCorkle’s popular course with an independent research Attend a graduate painting Living with Dying. After some project you’re working on in a critique by visiting artists. preparatory social science lab on Science Hill. a ten-minute course work, gain experience ride to West as a paid research assistant Campus interviewing patients for the Chronic Illnesses program. 38 | studies 39 Eavesdropping on Professors. (Great minds talk about teaching)

One fall afternoon some People here always Each semester I enjoy in-class discus- of Yale’s (and the world’s) say Yale is devoted sions about immigration, California Mark Saltzman “There are 17 faculty members leading thinkers in history, to undergraduate politics, youth cultures, and Latino Stephen Pitti biomedical engineering, Q teaching. How can civil rights that carry over to my o∞ce in Biomedical Engineering and we have Professor of History and American Studies; Director evolutionary biology, reli- that be true? hours or long lunch sessions with about 35 majors each year, so nobody is of the Center for the Study gious studies, literature, students in a residential college of Race, Indigeneity, and psychology, biochemistry, Stephen Pitti “I’ve always loved dining hall.” anonymous. Every student does research. Transnational Migration; astrophysics, political the fact that at Yale I can present the Head of Ezra Stiles College science, and philosophy newest research in my field to our Michael Della Rocca “I find that They all do a significant senior project. Professor Pitti teaches courses got together for a conver- undergraduates. And when I do, their myself. When I’m teaching, I’m not in Latino studies, U.S. history, sation. Some knew each feedback inevitably prompts me to just teaching philosophy. I’m doing They all take classes with most of the and related subjects. He is the author of The Devil in Silicon other and others did not, think di≠erently about what I’ve been philosophy with the students. I really faculty during their time here. When Valley: Northern California, but they came to similar writing, to change how I present advance my own research and we come Race, and Mexican Americans conclusions in talking material in future semesters and even to philosophical insights and conclu- I meet their parents at graduation, I (2003) and American Latinos about why they teach, the rethink my own research questions. sions together in the course. One of and the Making of the United States (2013), and he is cur- uniqueness of the Yale know something significant about each rently writing The World of undergraduate, and why César Chávez (forthcoming, common notions about student. That’s pretty rare.” Yale University Press). He served on the American Latino large research universities Scholars panel for the U.S. aren’t true here. Secretary of the Interior and has provided expert testimony on comprehensive immigration Karuna Mantena our biggest strengths in recruiting reform for the U.S. Congress. Associate Professor of professors here is the undergraduates. Political Science People love teaching them. It’s the Recent Courses Comparative Ethnic Studies; Professor Mantena has taught drawing card we stress whenever the Radical California; Mexicans courses on Indian politics, Philosophy department is trying to and Mexican Americans since empire and political thought, recruit a faculty member from another 1848; Latina/o Histories postcolonial political thought, and history and politics in the good institution.” Directed Studies program. Her research interests include Meg Urry “It’s not just how smart modern political thought, modern social theory, the they are or how hard they work—you theory and history of empire, can find that at other places—but it’s and South Asian politics and their cleverness, their thoughtfulness. history. Her first book, Alibis I teach an intro to physics class. Many of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism of the kids in my class are headed (2010), analyzed the transfor- for medical school, so physics isn’t mation of nineteenth-century their passion. But I can guarantee that British imperial ideology. Her current work focuses on at least once a week I get a question political realism and the politi- that is just incredibly creative, intro- cal thought of M.K. Gandhi. ducing an idea or thought that I have never had before, and this is from Recent Courses Gandhi, King, and the Politics people who aren’t even going to be of Nonviolence; Directed physicists.” Studies: Historical and Politi- cal Thought; Means and Ends Christine Hayes in Politics; Modern Political “When I think Philosophy; Indian Political about what I’m going to teach I often Thought think, ‘What do I want to study with a whole bunch of smart people?’”

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

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

W. Mark Saltzman Why does teaching heard of before. Some of these students I came back and she had finished the Scott Strobel “The beauty of it is Goizueta Foundation these students in are not cut out for philosophy, but they entire summer’s project! She’d figured watching them take ownership of a Professor of Biomedical particular matter to Engineering and Chemical & all get into it.” everything out. She’d gotten it all to project and recognize that it’s theirs to Environmental Engineering; Q you? If you can find work. She’d collected all the data she work on creatively and independently. Professor of Cellular and smart, hardworking Meg Urry “I was not in a university needed. My jaw was hanging down. We have undergrads going toe to toe Molecular Physiology; Head students at other places, then before coming here. I worked in the I thought, ‘Okay, now I have a better with grad students in the lab. You of Jonathan Edwards College what makes these students a lab that ran the Hubble telescope for understanding of where Yale under- might say, ‘Well that’s only supposed Professor Saltzman is the “drawing card”? NASA, which was exciting. But when graduates are.’” to be available to grad students,’ but founding chair of Yale’s Bio- I came here I felt like I had died and what I’ve seen over and over again medical Engineering depart- Meg Urry Christine Hayes ment. His research interests “None of them are one- gone to heaven. I think I was born to “Which connects is that these Yale undergrads are John Merriman include drug delivery to the notes. They are exceptional in many teach and should have been teaching all to what was formulating in my own not afraid to take on hard projects Charles Seymour Professor brain, materials for vaccine areas. The diversity of their talents along. The quality of the Yale under- mind–they are able to do that deep and to take them on in a creative way. of History delivery, and tissue engineer- makes them incredibly interesting to graduate was a big eye-opener for me. academic research and are also able to Last year, over spring break, we ing; he has published three Professor Merriman teaches textbooks and more than 250 interact with.” We have Freshman Summer Research apply it to some real-world situation. took a group of students to study a and writes about modern research papers. In 2009 he Fellowships that allow students to At some of the other places I’ve been, rain forest in Peru. Each was given France, modern European was awarded Yale’s She∞eld David Bromwich “The students begin research early at Yale. My first there has been either too much inde- complete autonomy over identifying history, and urbanization. Teaching Prize for excellence in Among his many publica- the classroom, and his course here have a high average of intellectual summer I thought, ‘Well, I’m going to pendence and arrogance or too much 15 to 20 plant samples they wanted tions are the second edition Frontiers of Biomedical Engi- alertness. With luck, they bring out get this freshman who doesn’t know need of hand-holding. We seem to to collect. They brought them back to of The Dynamite Club: How a neering is available worldwide that quality in one another, and sustain anything. It’s going to take a lot of attract kids who excel at many, many the lab and did amazing things with Bombing in Fin-de-Siècle Paris through the online Open Yale it in their teachers.” my time, but that’s why I came to things. They have the right mix of them. On the whole, they discovered Ignited the Age of Modern Courses program. Terror (2016) and the third university.’ So I laid out this project independent intellectual curiosity as several dozen di≠erent new species edition of A History of Modern Recent Courses Michael Della Rocca “I teach in for the student. It was about an area I well as the ability to work with others, of fungi, many of which have demon- Europe (2009). Physiological Systems; Directed Studies [a yearlong advanced wanted to look into but hadn’t done any to ask questions, to get help, to be part strated bioactivity against pathogens Frontiers of Biomedical Recent Courses Engineering; Engineering freshman course in Western civiliza- work on myself yet. I told the student, of a team. You need both—the solitary in plants and humans. So these European Civilization, 1648– of Drug Delivery; Biological tion]. It’s just a lot of fun because ‘Why don’t you go and do a little research and the ability to bring it back students are able to make not just a 1945; Revolutionary France, and Physiological Determi- you get students with di≠erent back- research online and we’ll talk about it and put it together and make something creative impact on science but to 1789–1871; The Dark Years: nants of Health grounds taking subjects they’ve never when I come back in a week.’ bigger and better with other people.” actually discover things of importance Collaboration and Resistance in Vichy France

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

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

44 | studies 45 Marvin Chun Biology, providing links Richard M. Colgate Professor among E&EB, the Peabody of Psychology; Professor of Museum, Geology and Neuroscience; former Head Geophysics, and Forestry & of Berkeley College; newly Environmental Studies. The announced Dean of Yale Donoghue lab team includes College undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs, and Professor Chun is a cognitive focuses primarily on plant neuroscientist whose research diversity and evolution. uses functional brain imag- Michael Donoghue “A lot of it is about scale. ing to understand how to Recent Courses improve memory, attention, Diversity of Life; Plant Diver- conscious perception, and Yale is just that much smaller and sity and Evolution; Principles decision making. He has of Ecology and Evolutionary been awarded the American more intimate than some of the other Biology Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award universities where I’ve taught. So I find for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of a lot better connection to students and cognition and learning, and the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of integration across disciplines. I have Sciences, often considered the most prestigious early-career friends and colleagues spanning very honor that can be earned by an experimental psychologist. di≠erent parts of the University, and At Yale, he received the Lex Hixon Prize for teaching excel- that’s something that comes with the lence in the social sciences and Meg Urry the DeVane Award for Teach- Israel Munson Professor of ing and Scholarship, the oldest territory of being smaller. Yale doesn’t Physics and Astronomy; undergraduate teaching prize. Director of the Yale Center for The presentation of the award just talk about making connections and Astronomy and Astrophysics began with “Marvin Chun is the man!,” praising Professor integrating students into research—it Professor Urry studies actively Chun for the clarity of his accreting supermassive black teaching and his devotion to actually happens here very e≠ectively.” holes, also known as Active his students. Galactic Nuclei (AGN), and the co-evolution of these black Recent Courses holes with normal galaxies. Introduction to Psychology; She came to Yale in 2001 Mind, Brain, and Society from her tenured position on the senior scientific sta≠ at Scott Strobel Michael Donoghue the Space Telescope Science “The opportunity to an environment where there is a clear “The other is what energizes me in the classroom. Institute (STScI), which runs interact with and teach undergrads is a human application (via the School of thing that I think is so distinctive If something I teach lingers with the Hubble Space Telescope big reason I’m here. There are plenty of Medicine) to the science that you do is Yale’s resources in terms of the students so that it helps them do the for NASA. Using deep imaging good schools where research is all they as an undergraduate is quite unique.” museums and collections that are right thing outside of the classroom, with NASA’s three Great Observatories, her group has do, and you sit in your lab and work here. We have actual physical objects that’s my reward.” charted the history of super- with grad students or postdocs and David Bromwich “I admired the that we’re very keen to use in teaching. massive black hole growth never see an undergraduate. Beyond intellectual strength of the English You can read about things in a book, John Merriman “I’ve almost been throughout the universe. Professor Urry has worked to that, Yale is also a place where you department. I thought Yale had the but to hand a kid a 60,000,000-year- wooed away to other universities increase the number of women have tremendous colleagues. At a lot of virtues of a liberal arts college, along old fossil to study is pretty amazing.” three times. Once it came down to the in the physical sciences, Michael J. Donoghue places the caliber of Yale, there is sort with the attractions, and not too wire and I was making my decision in organizing national meetings Sterling Professor of Ecology of a silo mentality when it comes to lab many of the drawbacks, of a large Marvin Chun “I came for the the last hour or two. But there I was and chairing the Committee and Evolutionary Biology; on the Status of Women in Curator of Botany, Peabody research. At Yale you have this amazing research university.” students. They’re not just smart, but teaching my modern French history Astronomy for the American Museum of Natural History ability to collaborate with other labs well balanced in a way that makes it course to about 150 students, walking Astronomical Society. so that collectively you do everything Christine Hayes “It’s really the special to teach and do research here. up and down the aisle of the lecture Professor Donoghue is a lead- Recent Courses ing authority on biodiversity better. The other thing is that we have best of both worlds because you Whether I stand before a classroom hall as I often do, and I thought, ‘What University Physics; and the author of more than a fantastic School of Medicine. The have this distinctive undergraduate full of students or meet with someone am I doing, I couldn’t possibly leave.’ Advanced General Physics; 200 published papers and department I’m in has joint faculty experience embedded in this larger one-on-one, I try to treat each student Each morning, I wake up and think, Gravity, Astrophysics, and several books. He has helped with the medical school. And med intellectual universe of people at as somebody who is going to do some- ‘God, I’m lucky because I get to go Cosmology; Modern Physical to shape Yale’s Department Measurement (co-taught); of Ecology and Evolutionary school faculty host undergraduates all levels of academic inquiry and all thing very meaningful and influential and teach’ whatever the subject is that Perspectives on Science and (continued in right column) doing research in their labs. To have stages of academic careers.” in life. Our alumni bear that out. This day. For me there’s just nothing like it.” Engineering (co-taught)

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

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

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

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

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

50 | studies 51 A Smashing Success

Katherine Lawrence came to Yale with an interest in experimental high-energy physics, but little idea of what a working physicist’s life might be like. That changed quickly. “Starting freshman 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 feld. the sun’s damaging rays, is an Molecular, Cellular, and 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 ffteenth centuries. And when it Roman, which had the nobles cur- the national championships. comes to performing in the space, rying Fauvel to gain his approval.”

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

A nontraditional approach to gaining international experi- ence gives Yale students access to multiple opportunities to study, research, and intern abroad during their four years. Over and above ordinary finan- cial aid, Yale awards more than $2.9 million annually for fellowships, internships, and relief from summer earnings obligations 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 “I spent six unforgettable weeks in South experiences students can Africa and Swaziland with the Yale Summer undertake during school Session class Visual Approaches to Global

years and summers: Health. Both countries have some of the South study at a major univer- highest rates of HIV/AIDS in the world. In Africa & sity in another country; the wake of that epidemic, our task was to Swaziland; France field-based or laboratory fnd a public health issue that we were research; interning with “The summer before sophomore year, internalizing the hopes and dreams it Andrew passionate about exploring—be it domestic Yale alumni around I received the Yale International represented, I realized the value of Siaw-Asamoah violence, mental health, or the orphan Sarah Naco the world; Yale Summer 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 Session courses taught to Bilbao, a colorful port city in the have in mine, as a Ghanaian American. Spain; Major Applied Mathematics a documentary flm. In Mbabane, Swazi- Major History of Science, by Yale faculty abroad; 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 or study, work, or service Classroom learning was fun and came with, my own web now inter­ Experience Summer in UNICEF, government agencies, and Yale International Experience projects of one’s own enriching, and the professors from the connected with theirs.” Andrew Europe studying Spanish hospitals, talking to physicians and patients Spent one week in Johannesburg design. Students are University of Deusto met us with open language and culture in about the struggles of living with HIV and and fve weeks in Mbabane on a Bilbao through the Yale Yale Summer Session scholarship. encouraged to begin arms, personally introducing us to the e≠ects it has had on the community. Summer Session Study After freshman year, had an exploring the globe their beautiful home. In learning the Abroad Program, in addition I learned that the power of stigma can International Summer Award the summer after their history of Bilbao and meeting its to studying economics unravel seemingly sound and e≠ective for study in Paris. and fnance at the London freshman year. Here, residents, I encountered the web of policies to deliver free treatment to all. Post-Yale Plan “Taking a few School of Economics. five Elis map a glimpse culture that connected them all. There Successful interventions require a nuanced weeks for a road trip across the of the world through 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 frst their experiences as a stubborn resilience that kept the city with a research focus in traditions, and for policy makers to listen time!). Afterwards, I intend to global citizens. 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 flmmaking, focusing on public hospital management, health health and scientifc 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 nonprofts.” the halls of the Guggenheim Museum,

54 | studies 55 Stephanie Brockman Yalies Abroad Internships 2015– 2016 The Office of Career Hometown Thompson, ND Africa: 95 Strategy offers Yale- Major Near Eastern Languages sponsored internships & Civilizations, with a Asia: 283 in 22 countries around Oman India & concentration in Arabic and Australasia: 16 the world. These & Morocco South Islamic Studies internships provide Africa Europe: 657 opportunities to Yale International Experience Latin America: 128 explore career fields Spent a spring semester in the Middle East: 56 in an international Sultanate of Oman through a environment, with sup- program sponsored by the School Multiple regions: 11 port and oversight from for International Training; North America: 6 Yale and from alumni interned in Morocco through Brazil Total: 1,252 networks. Placements Yale’s Auerbach and Grayson/ reflect the full range of Leitner international internship. Center for interests among Yale Post-Yale Plan “A summer or International students, from journal- year of advanced Arabic study and Professional ism to the arts, politics abroad, followed by law school. “My professor in Oman took us on a daytrip Grace Alofe “In the rural South African township of Experience to public health, and I’m leaning toward the idea Yale’s Center for finance to technology. to explore the nearby mountains. It was in Hometown Union, Nj Zwelethemba where we stayed for ten of going into corporate law International and Yale also partners with the middle of our rural homestays, so I was days, there was no Internet access, and for and working with companies Majors Molecular, Cellular, Professional Experience other organizations with strong business ties to dressed in a long black abaya (the tradi- & Developmental Biology; the frst time in my life, I was genuinely (CIPE) encourages to provide many the Middle East.” tional robes for women on the Gulf ) and a Ethnicity, Race, & Migration disconnected from the larger world. and supports safe, additional internship extraordinary­ inter­ opportunities. headscarf. I remember sitting on a park Yale International Experience The frst couple of days were tough, I’m national experiences Spent the fall semester of junior bench, texting my host mom in Arabic, and ashamed to say. Then, my study abroad of every kind. Laboratory and year as one of thirty students worrying about how scandalized my host group started playing soccer with kids Field Research in studying public health care Study the Sciences and family would be if I was out past magrib, systems and conducting feld in the area, hanging out at each others’ Yale programs include Public Health research in urban and rural the evening call to prayer. And out of host homes, and attending local gumboot Yale in London; Yale Students can combine settings in India, South Africa, nowhere everything that was happening dancing class in the community center. Summer Session international experi- and Brazil with the School for (most recently, courses ence with deepening began to sink in: I was thousands of miles International Training. A man named Jazz, who was incredibly from home, wearing something I had active in the larger community, taught were offered in Brazil, their understanding Post-Yale Plan “Before going China, Croatia, Czech of science by spending only seen in pictures, and I realized how to medical school, I would love the classes about this historical dance Republic, Ecuador, a summer working “After sophomore year, I took a gap year thoroughly I had immersed myself in a to spend two years working in form and spent so much time making us France, Germany, Italy, in a laboratory at to study Mandarin in China. There was a culture that had once seemed so mysteri- marketing in California or with comfortable in Zwelethemba. One day he Japan, Morocco, Peru, an institution abroad, Médecins Sans Frontières in Russia, Singapore, or by participating in ously foreign. That realization flled me gave some of us a walking tour, pointing monthlong break between my two language a Spanish-speaking country.” Spain, Swaziland, a field-based project. programs, so I stu≠ed my backpack, with an incredible sense of accomplish- out structures that have changed since the and Tanzania); and hopped on a train, and spent the next four ment.” Stephanie end of apartheid and how that a≠ected his year or term abroad Independent weeks making my way 1,600 miles through lived experience. We still had classes and approved programs run Initiatives by other institutions or Students who are western China by myself. The frst week, I homework during that time, but it felt providers. ready to develop their decided to hike Emei Shan, one of the Four Arizona Greene so freeing to be fully present in my inter­- own activities abroad Research are encouraged to Sacred Mountains of Buddhism. I stayed at Hometown Carrollton, GA actions with my host family, my peers, The possibilities for discuss their plans one of the monasteries along the trail, and and community members like Jazz. By the Major Applied Mathematics international research with advisers and as I was sitting in the courtyard one of the end of our stay, I was so grateful to have are extensive. Students faculty, to register Yale International Experience work with their resi- their travel and under­ monks sat next to me and motioned for me Was awarded a Richard U. Light been forced o≠ the digital grid; I can’t dential college dean, stand the support to cross my legs and meditate with him. Fellowship to study Mandarin imagine having been distracted at all from academic advisers, provided by Yale, in Beijing and Harbin, China, Afterwards, we talked for a while about his such a remarkable community.” Grace and departments to and to use the institu- for seven months; worked in life at the monastery. Then he reached into define projects. Many tion’s extraordinary Nicaragua for a summer on a Yale students spend resources to make his robes, whipped out his smartphone, Thomas C. Barry Travel the summer following the most of their Fellowship. and added me on WeChat (the Chinese their junior year experience abroad. equivalent of Facebook). I set out for China Post-Yale Plan “Pursuing a abroad doing research with less than a year of Mandarin under my Ph.D. in applied mathematics for a senior essay belt, and I learned a ton in my language with a focus in computational or thesis. linguistics, but only after taking classes. But the most enriching and memo- advantage of post-graduation rable moments all came from interacting fellowships at Yale to continue with people, many of whom I still keep in my language study abroad.” touch with today.” Arizona China Nicaragua

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

Yale students are sur- Recoding Yale Connections Top Fellowship rounded by opportunities Gaining Perspective Education Yale has more than Producer Aaron arrives at Yale with interests in 160,000 graduates Yale is consistently from the moment they politics and education, and the hope Aaron Feuer and hundreds of a top producer of arrive on campus as to someday return to Los Angeles to Residential College alumni groups all over Fulbright Fellowships. freshmen—intellectual, “work toward a vision for the city.” But Ezra Stiles the world, providing Since 2010, in entrepreneurial, artistic, first, he needs some global perspective. unequaled networking addition to 168 He takes a freshman seminar with Major opportunities, from an Fulbright Fellowships, international, profes- Cold War historian John Gaddis and a Political Science online career network, Yale students have sional, and research seminar on the Iraq War taught by New to mentoring programs been awarded 31 opportunities that Yorker journalist Sarah Stillman and for students, to Rhodes, 17 Marshall, U.S. Army o∞cer Robert Chamberlain. regional and campus 18 Goldwater, 10 launch them toward “They took us on a whirlwind journey Summer in L.A. events for alumni. Truman, and 24 both long-term ambi- of military tactics, philosophy, Combining his commitment Whatever you are Gates Cambridge tions and unforeseen journalism, history, and politics. to education with a talent interested in—social Scholarships, as for programming, Aaron achievements. Yalies After class, we went out for sushi and justice, sustainability, well as 214 National continued the conversation.” builds Classroom Compass, entertainment, law, Science Foundation leverage these oppor- a computer system that journalism, media, Graduate Research tunities in countless surveys L.A. public school entrepreneurship, Fellowships. Just as impressive ways and students about their classes technology—you will importantly, these and provides feedback to find alumni in those major awards only learn how to ask good teachers. Funded by two fields ready to network scratch the surface of questions, seek out Yale fellowships, the project with you! the hundreds of other the right mentors, and occupies Aaron’s evenings highly valuable, funded while he works for a legal create experiences that Career Services sources of support services organization by day. Whether you are just that Yale students are professionally and starting to think about tap every single year. personally rewarding. career options or have In this chapter, we Duty above Self already started down a path, Yale’s Office chronicle the trajecto- Back at Yale, Aaron enrolls in a seminar with retired general Stanley of Career Strategy is ries of three soon-to-be McChrystal, who “showed me what equipped to support graduates who have real devotion to duty above self looks “I’ve taken seminars with amazing you at every stage of successfully connected like.” With a Yale community outreach the career process. The office offers workshops, the dots between a group, he teaches health education people who pursued public service classes in New Haven public schools. networking events, and Yale education and the internships. And real world. from totally di≠erent angles. That’s through its on-campus Policy Practice recruiting program, Aaron spends the summer in D.C. how I realized that running a start- more than 130 on a Yale-funded internship with the employers conduct House Committee on Foreign A≠airs. over 2,200 student Researching and writing policy memos, up is a valid public service path Grand Grill Session interviews every year. he synthesizes classroom exposure to As a junior, Aaron puts this politics with some real-life practice. and, for me, the most e≠ective one.” practical experience to use 5 Graduate in the international policy Schools Most course Grand Strategy. Attended “My group presented When they enroll in business, law, medical, a radical proposal for Within months, the Double Duty Panoramic Views or graduate school, Yale responding to the Arab Panorama team garners Aaron finds himself a college senior graduates most often Spring: funding high-tech Aaron recruits three students $50,000 in funding and CEO of a fast-growing start-up. attend Yale, Harvard, start-ups as a vehicle for to help overhaul Classroom through the Yale By March, Panorama Education Oxford, Cambridge, cultural change. Halfway Entrepreneurial Institute. is collaborating with three state Compass and founds and Stanford. through our presentation, This serious sum allows governments, several major school Senator John McCain a technology start-up, them to work full-time over districts, and Teach for America. walked in and started Panorama Education. He the summer, expanding Following graduation, Aaron plans grilling us. That was fun.” also gains faculty support beyond L.A. to envision to expand the team and develop a a product that might from education expert John new platform to further transform help schools nationwide how schools use data. Bryan Starr, who becomes identify opportunities his senior project adviser. for improvement.

58 | studies 59 Global Healing Journalist “At dinner with my writing class, the World Starting Out Summer in Swaziland Omar looks toward a career as Omar wins a Yale Summer Sanjena Sathian author Gay Talese told me that ‘the Omar Njie a doctor, but that goal doesn’t Research Fellowship to Residential College Residential College pigeonhole him academically. intern at the Swaziland Morse definitive New Yorker article on Nepal Silliman “I knew early on that I did not Ministry of Health, where want to take the traditional he helps develop a plan to Major Major pre-med route and major in market HIV-prevention English has not yet been written. You should Global A≠airs biology or chemistry.” He’s and counseling resources. write it.’ I realized then that my keeping his options open. proclivity for going places and caring

Write and Think about communities that others Developing Interests Freshman year, the course Sophomore year connects Omar with Professor Understanding Bollywood don’t necessarily flock to gives me a Kaveh Khoshnood, whose seminar on tropical connects Sanjena with her disease campaigns “sparked my interest in macro Indian background, an health issues, especially those that a±ict developing important mentor, and her responsibility to tell those stories.” nations.” He applies for the Global A≠airs major true desire to become a writer. and the Global Health Fellows Program. And “My professor, visiting scholar he runs for vice president of the Yale College Ashish Chadha, told me, ‘I Council (YCC). All three pan out. think you’re the kind of person who’s going to be a journalist or an academic.’ That sounds reductive, but it wasn’t. It was so clarifying. In high school, Sanjena attends a teachers would say, ‘you’re College Tea and dinner smart, be a lawyer.’ Or, ‘you with Louise Story, have really sharp opinions on World Health Yale alum and award- politics, do that.’ But Professor winning New York The Global Health Fellows Program Chadha looked at me and said, Times business reporter. ‘you like to write and think.’” sponsors Omar’s summer internship Having recently joined with the Tropical Health and Education the Yale Daily News, Sanjena is new to Trust in London, which works to journalism, but “I strengthen health systems in the remember thinking how developing world. much I respected the way Story was talking Off She Goes about the world.” Sanjena lands a coveted summer at the Boston Globe. Afterward, she Big Man on Campus is considering a move Junior year brings big YCC to India to pursue duties. Meanwhile, Omar a career in foreign Omar is one of 30 college juniors to be guaranteed gains clarity on his future. “My correspondence. She is Going Global admission to the Humanities and Medicine Program image of a career in medicine also likely to continue Sophomore year, at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. changed as I took more global work with her creative Sanjena leaves the YDN He spends the summer in an intensive program at and public health courses.” He writing adviser, author for the Yale Globalist Icahn, exploring science and clinical disciplines and is accepted into the B.A./B.S./ John Crowley. magazine. “The Globalist getting to know the other students in his cohort. M.P.H. program, which enables was my perfect home: students to leave Yale with it melded writing and both bachelor’s and master’s travel, literariness, degrees in public health. and a fascination with Making Connections global politics.” A As a junior, Sanjena takes a seminar spring-break outreach trip to Bolivia yields a Humility Just for Fun with author Anne Fadiman and talks Globalist story on the Back on campus, Omar “Because Yale o≠ers so many Sanjena wraps up two at length with New Yorker writers Ian tiny indigenous Aymara completes his senior project for senior essays: a research Frazier, Adam Gopnik, and Gay Talese. community. After a the Global A≠airs major. And interdisciplinary programs, I’ve paper on Zadie Smith Globalist trip to Turkey because senior year is a great and a creative fiction Come spring, the Globalist sta≠ travels in May, Sanjena spends opportunity to take those “just developed the skills necessary piece (one required, the to Chile, where Sanjena reports the summer studying for fun” classes, he enrolls in other just for fun!). on the mining industry. She also wins gender disparity and Humility, taught by New York to apply creative strategies a Yale fellowship to intern at the economic development Times columnist David Brooks. in rural Nepal on a There may be no more fitting Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that summer. Yale Summer Research description for the attitude to pressing global concerns.” “It cemented my interest in reporting.” Fellowship. Omar himself maintains.

60 | studies 61 Yale, like Ulysses, is Places. part of all that she has met, part of all the scholars and students who have trod paths of learning across her campus, of their ideals and accomplishments, and of their lives and times . . .

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

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

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

66 | places 67 Connecticut Hall The oldest Malone Engineering Center of Architecture, houses under­ building on campus, a Georgian Built in 2005 according to state- graduate teaching labs and among the Gothic, opened as a of-the-art sustainable building the University’s Department of dorm in 1752 and is a National standards, Malone adds considerably Biomedical Engineering. Historic Landmark. Nathan Hale to Yale’s engineering facilities. (B.A. 1773)—that’s him, on The building, designed by Cesar guard outside —was one of its Pelli (of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects), early residents. a former dean of the Yale School 68 | places 69 70 | places 71 Eating Out. Nine Squares. (When you need a (Yale and the city) break from the dining halls)

The great debate: Sally’s vs. Pepe’s New Haven’s Wooster “New Haven…has been reemerging Street is well known for its Yale Campus delicious pizza. Lines outside its as a culinary wonderland, a cultural Yale has been in New Haven since 1716, and its most popular establishments relocation fifteen years after its founding was due in large are often 20 people long. center, breeding ground for new part to New Haven’s belief that a college was essential theater, a hotbed of cross-promotion, to its own success. All of Yale University is involved East Rock in the city and the cultural, recreational, and political Park Louis’ and one of only a few places in the opportunities it o≠ers. Thousands of New Haven Lunch children and teens participate in intensive academic and Credited world where you can stand within enrichment programs at Yale. And more than 2,000 Yale by Broadway College students participate as volunteers, interns, and some inches of an intact Gutenberg Bible; National brand-names tend work-study employees in New Haven schools, hospitals, with to congregate here: Apple Store, community organizations, and businesses. inventing the hamburger in 1903. all within a very compact and J. Crew, Urban Outfitters, Barnes & Science (Just don’t ask for ketchup!) walkable downtown.” Noble (a.k.a. the Yale Bookstore). Hill Bring your Yale ID for some good Ninth Square For a more The Hu∞ngton Post, 2012 discounts. Busy with students elegant night out, Ninth Square, day and night, Broadway and a short walk from campus, o≠ers Yale and New Haven of New Haven and Yale intersecting York Street are also the the upscale and hip spots. place to go for a late-night snack. are creating the template might not recognize Hillhouse Coffee or Koffee? for the 21st-century city, the modern university Ave New Haven has investing together in or the cosmo­politan Whitney Avenue You can cover a lot of its share of great a new biotech industry college town, they would Grove St intellectual ground traveling this independent co≠ee and partnering in an recognize the cooperation avenue. It borders the Audubon shops where Audubon urban renaissance that between the two neigh- Arts District, always worth a students can study or catch up with has become a national bors as Yale moves ramble. And at 170 Whitney, the Howe St friends. Whitney Ave world-class collections of the model. While the founders into its fourth century. Cross Campus Peabody Museum of Natural Chapel Street History provide a remarkable Ashley’s Ice Cream For decades In counterpoint to big record of Earth’s history, life, a New Haven favorite, located Broadway, Chapel Street is jam- Old and cultures. on York Street, and voted “New packed with local bookstores, Campus Haven’s Best” by the local press. boutiques, cafes, and restaurants that range from student-budget New Haven to upscale. In between shopping Mory’s: Green and noshing, visit the newly A Yale renovated and expanded Yale Tradition University Art Gallery and the Founded Yale Center for British Art. Orange St in 1861, Mory’s is

College St a unique Yale dining experience—­ Ninth City Hall / Amistad membership in this supper club Square Memorial is open to Yale students, faculty, and alums. Mory’s is known Church St City Hall is on the southeast side of the Green. Next to it is the especially for its toasting nights Amistad Memorial to the African and entertainment by superb Yale captives who rebelled against a cappella groups including Yale’s Medical slavery. Yale professors, students, most famous, the Whi≠enpoofs. Center and alumni argued their case A textbook case of city leaders of future generations. The New Haven Green in court. The sculpture stands International Fare Walk just planning Nine perfect squares: pattern held true: their college The center of the city’s original grid, the 17-acre on the site of the jail that held a few blocks from campus for a geometry of profound faith. New would become paramount in Green is bordered by Yale, New Haven government o∞ces, the rebels. any food you crave—American, Haven was planned by founders preparing leaders, amid a setting Chapel Street shops, and a lot of history. The Yale Daily Ninth Square Brazilian, Chinese, Cuban, who believed in the recurring pat- carefully planned as a tangible News calls it the city’s epicenter and says, “Whenever It may be the ninth square, Ethiopian, French, Greek, Indian, tern of Providence. In 1639, they expression of the power of something major comes to New Haven, it shows up on the but it’s turning into a blockbuster Long Island Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, laid out a grid of blocks around the mind and soul. See Yale in Green,” from festivals to concerts to protests. It’s the stage for upscale nightlife, thanks to a Sound Malaysian, Mexican, Middle a central commons, a tangible New Haven: Architecture and for the New Haven Jazz Festival and other concerts—and it’s continuing retail and residential Eastern, Moroccan, Spanish, expression of their belief. The next Urbanism (Yale University, 2004). where the bodies are buried (in the Center Church Crypt, boom. Thai, Turkish, or Vietnamese. step was a college to train the an historic cemetery with gravestones from 1687 to 1812).

72 | places 73 Here, There, Everywhere. (Fourteen students, two simple questions, thirty-fve countries on six continents)

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

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

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

78 | pursuits 79 Varsity Teams Equestrian 800+ Baseball Field Hockey (coed) Men’s Basketball Figure Skating Yalies who participate Women’s Basketball Fishing in varsity athletics Men’s Crew (Heavy Golf each year. and Light) Gymnastics (coed) Women’s Crew Men’s Ice Hockey 2,400+ Men’s Cross Country Indoor Climbing Women’s Cross Country Kendo Students who Men’s Fencing Men’s Lacrosse participate in intramural­ Women’s Fencing Women’s Lacrosse games through the Field Hockey Muay Thai residential colleges. Football Pistol Men’s Golf Polo 80% Women’s Golf Powerlifting Women’s Gymnastics Rifle The percentage of Men’s Ice Hockey Road Running the student body Women’s Ice Hockey Men’s Rugby participating in some Men’s Lacrosse Women’s Rugby form of athletic Women’s Lacrosse Skeet & Trap activity each year. Coed Sailing Skiing (Alpine) Women’s Sailing Skiing (Nordic) Men’s Soccer Men’s Soccer Women’s Soccer Women’s Soccer 200+ Olympians alumni athletes, Softball Squash (coed) Facilities Johnson Field More than 200 Yale including Taylor Ritzel Men’s Squash Swimming A 750-seat synthetic players and coaches ’10, who won gold Women’s Squash Table Tennis Payne Whitney turf complex housing have taken part in rowing on the U.S. Men’s Swimming Tae Kwon Do Gymnasium the field hockey team. modern (post-1896) women’s eight team; and Diving Men’s Tennis At 12 acres, the largest It is adjacent to the Olympic competition, Ashley Brzozowicz Women’s Swimming Women’s Tennis gym in the nation and William O. DeWitt winning 114 medals, ’04, who won silver and Diving Triathlon the second-largest in Jr. ’63 Family Field, 56 of them gold. In with the Canadian Men’s Tennis Men’s Ultimate the world (second only home of Yale softball. 2008 in Beijing, women’s eight; and Women’s Tennis Women’s Ultimate to a gym in Moscow fencer Sada Jacobson Charlie Cole ’07, who Men’s Track and Field Men’s Volleyball that was modeled Championship ’06, who won silver won bronze with the Women’s Track and Women’s Volleyball after Yale’s). Golf Course Yale’s and bronze medals U.S. men’s four team. Field Men’s Water Polo own championship for the United States, In 2014 in Sochi, Women’s Volleyball Women’s Water Polo David S. Ingalls golf course, named #1 was one of five Elis Phoebe Staenz ’17 Wrestling Rink seats more College Golf Course in competing. In 2010 won bronze as a Club Sports than 3,000 and is America by Golfweek in Vancouver, Natalie member of the Swiss Archery Intramurals home to Yale’s varsity magazine in 2016, is a Babony ’06 skated women’s ice hockey Badminton See page 21 men’s and women’s short distance from the on the Slovakian team. And most Ballroom Dance hockey teams. The other athletic facilities, women’s ice hockey recently, eight Elis Men’s Baseball rink is also available in the Westville section team. Yale was competed at the Rio Men’s Basketball for recreational ice of New Haven. represented in Olympics in 2016, in Women’s Basketball skating and instruction, London in 2012 by crew, fencing, sailing, Cricket and intramurals. Gilder Boathouse one coach and seven and track and field. Cycling The Gilder Boat­­house, Yale Bowl a 22,000 square foot Conferences Handsome Dan A spectacular football state-of-the-art facility Yale takes pride in (1889–present) stadium seating more on the Housatonic its broad-based inter­­­­ Yale was the first than 60,000, the River, stretches south collegiate athletic university in the United Bowl is surrounded by to the finish line of program that includes States to adopt a first-rate facilities for Yale’s 2,000-meter competition in the Ivy mascot, and to this indoor and outdoor race course. League Conference and date, none is better tennis, lacrosse, rugby, the Eastern College known than Handsome soccer, field hockey, The McNay Family Athletic Conference Dan. The tradition softball, baseball, and Sailing Center (ECAC). Most of Yale’s was established by a track and field. at Yale University intercollegiate contests young gentleman from Home to Yale’s coed are against traditional Victorian England, who Reese Stadium and women’s varsity east coast opponents attended Yale in the With seating for more sailing teams, the with emphasis on 1890s. The original’s than 1,700, Reese center houses a fleet winning the Ivy League 17 successors have is home to the men’s of 420 racing dinghies, title. All sports, been the intimates of and women’s soccer as well as FJs, Lasers, with the exception deans, directors, and teams in the fall, and and five safety of football, have coaches. One was to the men’s and launches. the ultimate goal of tended by a head women’s lacrosse qualifying for NCAA cheerleader who went teams in the spring. and affiliated post-­ on to become the season championships. Secretary of State.

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

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

82 | pursuits 83 Or DIY by acting, Film Proof of the Pudding performing, singing, Bulldog Productions Redhot & Blue The Daily Show. staging, writing, producing, presenting, East Asian Film Society Shades (A slice of Yale’s creative life during one spring weekend not so long ago) improvising, creating, Undergraduate Film Society of Orpheus and designing, and getting Society Bacchus laughs through more Yale Animation Club Something Extra than 100 (and count- ing) student choirs, Yale Student Film The Spizzwinks(?) Festival Records show that the Be hip at the show and menu at the Yale troupes, clubs, groups, Sur et Veritaal first appearance of Friday Yale Belly Dance Cabaret, where Yale School of ensembles, associa- Yale Film Alliance Tangled Up in Blue Society “Hips Drama performers are never tions, organizations, a band at Yale was in Undergraduate Choral Lose yourself in the art of against Hunger: more than a few feet away, and societies, and collec- Music 1775, when a militia tives including: Society the book at the exhibitions 3rd Annual where your waiter one week Berkeley College

band of Yale students “The Passover Haggadah: Gala Show.” might be on stage the next. Orchestra The Unorthojocks Modern Art in Dialogue Afterward, stop Art/Design accompanied George Blue Feather Drum The Whiffenpoofs with an Ancient Text,” “Art by the Morse Washington to Cambridge, Design at Yale Group Whim ’n Rhythm Is Where You Find It,” and Crescent Design for America Yale Massachusetts. They “Collaboration: The Art of Theater Saturday Concordia Flute Yale Russian Chorus found it “not to their Working Together,” all at at Morse Guild of Bookmakers Ensemble Yale Slavic Chorus liking” and returned to Sterling Memorial Library. College to check Get an early start with a Photography Society Coup de Brass out the band your Froco morning of music at the Theater Political Art Club Davenport Pops New Haven one week is managing and a spoken Woolsey Concerto Competi- The Control Group later. From those humble word performance by the tion, where School of Music YaleMakes Krolik Saxophone roots have sprung the Yale Slam team. instrumentalists and singers architect Frank Gehry’s talk Or sleep in and join the Yale Yale Native American Ensemble Heritage Theatre compete for the opportunity two nights ago, but make FX Crew for an afternoon Ensemble Yale Concert Band, the Arts Council Low Strung to appear as soloists with a plan to come back next of practice. New Music Cooperative Opera Theatre of Yale Symphony Orchestra, Explore the ethical conse- the Philharmonia. Make it a Tuesday for SOA’s Film Series Dance Yale College and the incomparable quences of murder with “wry marathon and head to Sprague “The Future is Asian.” Saybrook College Ballet Folklórico Yale Children’s Theater Face your fears at the School irony and consummate skill” Hall in the afternoon to watch Revisit your childhood and Orchestra Yale Precision Marching Mexicano of Architecture’s symposium through two films: Monsieur the broadcast—live in HD— see your suitemates perform Single Reed Society Yale Drama Coalition Band. Such is Yale’s epic “Mobile Anxieties,” featuring Verdoux and Le Boucher, of the Metropolitan Opera’s Pick up subsidized tickets for New Haven’s youngest at Ballroom Dance Team Tertulia Música Yale Dramat arts story, peopled by keynote address “Mobility, directed by Charles Chaplin performance of Stravinsky’s provided by your residential the Yale Children’s Theater Country Dance Society Security and Creativity: The and Claude Chabrol, respec- The Rake’s Progress. college and head into New performance of Robin Hood. Tiny Baroque Orchestra Comedy/Improv icons (Thornton Wilder, Damhsa Politics and Economics of tively, and loosely based York with friends to see the Or step on stage yourself in of Pierson College Paul Newman, Maya The 5th Humour Global Creative Cities.” What on real-life scandals. Every American Ballet Theatre’s afternoon rehearsals of the Danceworks Undergraduate Lin, Jodie Foster, Lupita are the precedents for mobility weekend, and in special confer- production of Fokine’s Les Dramat’s production of Tony A Different Drum Chamber Orchestra The Good Show in architecture and how are ences and festivals, Films at Sylphides. Or enjoy a night of Kushner’s Angels in America: Nyong’o) and satisfying Dzana Undergraduate Piano Just Add Water they related to a general sense the Whitney helps foster theater right here on campus Millennium Approaches pretty much any artistic Collective Lux Improvitas of unease? Yale’s dynamic film culture at the Yale Repertory (one of 200 student theatrical Groove Dance desire any day of the Yale Concert Band with free screenings at the Theatre, where lords and productions each year). Jashan Bhangra Team The Purple Crayon week. We picked one Whitney Humanities Center ladies are gathering for Oscar Yale Klezmer Band MonstRAASity Red Hot Poker Channel your inner Indiana auditorium. Wilde’s comedy of serial weekend in spring. Yale Precision Sketcherz Jones at the Peabody seducers and moralizing Close the weekend with an Phoenix Dance Troupe Marching Band Museum’s special exhibition monogamists, A Woman of No eclectic mix of live music: the Rhythmic Blue Sphincter “Las Artes de México,” with If that’s too highbrow for your Importance. annual Stan Wheeler Memo- Yale Symphony Sabrosura The Viola Question artifacts from more than a mood, start your night with Take the Masterpiece Tour rial Jazz Concert at the Law Orchestra The Yale Exit Players dozen pre-Columbian cultures. the all-ages show at Toad’s at the Yale University Art School; a student Choral Shaka Yale Undergraduate

Place, then head over to the Gallery (YUAG), stopping Conducting Recital at Battell Steppin’ Out Jazz Collective Spoken Word Criterion Cinema’s exclusive into the special exhibitions Chapel; the Great Organ Swing, Blues & Fusion Yale University Guild Soothe your soul with Insomnia Theater film series, “Colorful Impressions: The Music series at Marquand ¡Oye! of Carillonneurs Mendelssohn’s Elijah which “brings the best cult Printmaking Revolution Chapel. Or learn some new Tango Club Jook Songs performed by Yale’s classics back to the big screen!” in 18th-Century France” and steps in a Swing & Blues Taps Singing Groups Teeth Slam Poets Philharmonia Orchestra, Or shake o≠ Le Boucher “Master Drawings from the Dance Practicum at the Afro- Undergraduate Ballet Camerata, and Glee Club. (literally) with the late-night Yale University Art Gallery.” American Cultural Center. The Alley Cats Telltale Company After lunch at Atticus Café Asempa(!) Voke across the street, return for UNITY Korean Drum The Baker’s Dozen WORD Performance student guide Susan Morrow’s Enjoy a concert to benefit and Dance Troupe Poetry talk “Angles on Art.” children’s literacy given by the C# Yale Breakers Sunday Whiffenpoofs, the world’s Yale Dance Theater The Duke’s Men Unique oldest and best-known Gospel Choir Or gallery-hop from the As a member of the Gospel collegiate a cappella group. Yale Rangeela: Fusion Aerial and Circus Arts School of Art’s Senior Choir, sing at Sunday The Whi≠s are one of Dance Living Water Collective Thesis Show Paintings Part I services. more than a dozen Yaledancers Magevet Drinkers with a (see Part II on Sunday) to the a cappella groups Mixed Company Writing Problem Architecture Gallery for and have Fashion The Freestyle Collective “Painting the Glass House: Help your friend set up her become one The New Blue Society of Shirt Art Artists Revisit Modern Archi- paintings at the Despierta of Yale’s most Out of the Blue Y Pop-Up tecture.” As you move through Boricua’s art opening. Come celebrated Y Fashion House Pitches & Tones Yale Magic Society the gallery, you and your date back for the reception at La and hallowed Yale Wushu rue the fact that you missed Casa later in the afternoon. traditions. Pitnacree 84 | pursuits 85 Student Groups Society of Women Engineers The Science Channel. American Indian Science and Student Partnerships (Life outside the lab) Engineering Society for Global Health American Institute of Synapse Chemical Engineers Tau Beta Pi American Society of TEDx Yale Mechanical Engineers In the early nineteenth Undergraduate Arnold Air Society Mathematics Society century, Yale College Bee Space Undergraduate became the first school in Bioethics Society Pre-Veterinary Society America to offer a modern Biomedical Undergraduate Society science course—chemistry. Engineering Society for the Biological Sciences Today, you can major or Bulldog Bots Undergraduate take courses in twenty- BulldogHacks Women in Science nine STEM disciplines, Bulldogs Racing Ventures in Science from Applied Mathematics Club Geo to Biomedical Engineering Women in Physics Code for Good to Neuroscience to Yale Computer Code Haven Science Physics. And with 60+ CoderDojo student STEM organi­ Yale Data Science Community Health Yale Drop Team zations on campus, the Educators Yale EMS opportunities for extra­ Design for America Yale iGEM Team curricular activities are Dimensions limited only by your YaleMakes Energy Club interests and imagination. Yale Math Competition Engineering World Yale Scientific Join the editorial staff Health at Yale Magazine of Yale Scientific, the Engineers Without Yale Sight Savers nation’s oldest college Borders Yale STEAM science publication. Be FloatYale Yale Student one of more than 1,200 HAPPY Environmental coders participating healthyU Coalition in YHack, the national Math and Science Yale Undergraduate hackathon established by (MAS) Familias Aerospace Association three Yale undergraduates. MathCounts Outreach Yale Undergraduate Earn certification as an Medical Professions Science Olympiad “Being a part of YUAA has been EMT through the student- Outreach Yale Undergraduate an incredibly formative and fun run Yale Emergency MedSci Intelligent Vehicles experience. I went from being Medical Services. Travel MedX Students Yale Undergraduate a freshman who didn’t know the Rover Association to Cameroon with the Minority Association of frst thing about engineering to Pre-Medical Students YEEBUG: Ecology and Yale chapter of Engineers Evolutionary Biology part of the team that won second National Society of Without Borders to work Undergraduate Group place in the Intercollegiate Rocket Black Engineers on a water distribution YHack Engineering Competition’s pay­- Omega Psi project. Tutor New and more load competition for our rocket, oSTEM Haven elementary- and Chronos, and our experiment Project Bright middle-school students to test for e≠ects of special and Project Insight in math. Join the general relativity. Now, as one of Public Health Undergraduate Aerospace the organization’s co-presidents, Coalition Association, featured I’m learning about the manage- Remedy at Yale here, and work in teams ment of engineering projects Student Association to build and fly rockets, (RYSA) and working to create a larger planes, quadcopters, and Simplex Sciences community of people excited about UAVs. Or create a new engineering and science at Yale.” Society of Petroleum organization and make Engineers Genevieve Fowler your own mark on life Society of Physics outside the lab at Yale. Students

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

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

88 | pursuits 89 Athletes in Action Saint Thomas More Undergraduate Council Black Church at Yale Secular Student Chabad at Yale Alliance Chi Alpha Christian Slifka Center for Fellowship Jewish Life Christ Presbyterian Thomistic Institute at Church Students Yale Christian Union at Yale Afro-American La Casa Cultural Asian American Native American Trinity Baptist Students Episcopal Church Cultural Center Host to countless cultural, schol- Cultural Center Cultural Center Undergraduate at Yale Afro-America House—known arly, and social events, La Casa What can you do at the AACC? The Association of Native Buddhist Sangha as “the House”—opened in 1969 Cultural is an important focus Just about anything: study in Americans at Yale (ANNAY) was Hindu Students Council Undergraduate as a locus for political, cultural, of Latino student social life at the library, cook for friends, founded in 1989 with the aim InterFaith Forum Humanist Society and social activities, continu- Yale and a tremendous source of enjoy the widescreen television, of attracting Native American International Church ing earlier Yale gatherings that student-community interaction. play Ping-Pong. Established in faculty and scholars; expand- United Church of at 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 Westville Inc., it acquired its present name Jews and Muslims 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 on the black community. With these three years later. Within the the social and political experience cultural studies; increasing at Yale Green 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- Latter-Day Saints brick house, students socialize, The University Church had experienced in the late fifties More than forty undergraduate and creating a permanent head- traditions. Founded as an institu- pus, where most freshmen live, Student Association and early sixties gave way to the plan activities, cook together in organizations are a∞liated with quarters for the group. Many of Yale Christian tion with a Protestant vocation, the Chaplain’s O∞ce coordinates Luther House vigorous exchange of ideas now a fully equipped kitchen, and the AACC. Students of Chinese, those goals have been achieved, Fellowship 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 Maimonides Society Yale Faith and Action 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 Meor at Yale Yale Hillel confidence, and consciousness a Latino and Latin American Nepalese, Pakistani, Sri Lankan), Center. ANNAY and the center nurture all in their spiritual jour- faith traditions. It partners with Muslim Students 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 Association Haven community, and the organizational o∞ces, student and other Asian backgrounds ture and explore issues Native Young Israel House University administration have lounges, and meeting spaces. It is work together to address pan- Americans face today. Programs blessed,” says University Chap- a∞liated community service orga- New Haven Friends 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 Orthodox Christian Youth Evangelical American Cultural Center vitally community-based ESL programs provide programs that focus on study breaks, and movie nights. part of a community of scholars, support and social and educational Fellowship Fellowship essential to Yale, New Haven, for non-English speakers. individual ethnic group issues. St. Mary’s Roman and beyond. seekers, and believers walking programs throughout the year. and more Catholic Church

Intercultural

Afro-American National Society La Casa Cultural Organization for DisOrient UNITY Korean Drum Affairs Council Cultural Center and Dance Troupe of Black Engineers Amigas Racial and Ethnic HAPA “One of our generation’s major Openness Vietnamese Students Alpha Phi Alpha New Haven African Ballet Folklórico Hindu Students challenges is to determine how Dance and Drumming Sabrosura: Latin Association (ViSA) Arab Students Mexicano Council individuals, communities, or Dance Team Wushu and Chinese Association Omega Psi Phi Brazil Club Japanese American cultures become marginalized as Yspaniola Kung-fu Asempa(!) Shades a Cappella Cuban-American Students Union the Other, and to actively resist and more and more Black Church at Yale Steppin’ Out Undergraduate Jashan Bhangra this process,” is how members of Student Association Black Men’s Union Students of Nigeria Asian American Jook Songs Native American the Intercultural A≠airs Council De Colores Black Solidarity Undergraduate Cultural Center Kasama: The Filipino Cultural Center of Yale College framed a recent Women’s Center LGBTQ Student Co-op Association for Despierta Boricua Club at Yale Conference ALIVE (A Learning American Indian series of events and discussions The center’s mission is to improve The Co-op is an umbrella student African Peace and Black Student Dominican Student and Interactive Korean American Science and Development Association focused on “otherness.” The IAC the lives of all women, especially organization that works to foster Alliance at Yale Vietnamese Students at Yale Engineering Society strives to support an inclusive at Yale and in New Haven. As part community among all LGBTQ- Undergraduate Black Black Women’s Hispanic Scholars Experience) Malaysian and (Yale chapter) Pre-Law Association and diverse campus environ- of a broader feminist movement, identified people on campus. It Coalition Foundation (Yale Alliance for Southeast Singaporean Association of Native Urban Improvement chapter) Association (MASA) ment that engages in community it works to ensure equal and full hosts weekly meetings and several Delta Sigma Theta Asian Students Americans at Yale Corps La Unidad Latina Muslim Students dialogue; promotes cultural opportunity for all, regardless high-profile events throughout Dominican Student Asian American Blue Feather Drum Yale African Students Association Association Latin American Students Alliance Group awareness, respect, and appre- of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, the year and provides support for Association Student Organization Phoenix Dance DOWN Magazine Bridges (English Indian Health ciation; and challenges bias on nationality, sexual orientation, other LGBTQ organizations. Yale Christian Latina Women at Yale language lessons) Troupe Initiative the basis of race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, back- Dzana Fellowship Latinx Pre-Law Building Bridges Rangeela Yale Native American gender, religion, sexual orienta- ground, religion, ability, or age. De Colores prisme LGBT+ Heritage Theatre in New Haven Yale Gospel Choir Society South Asian Society Arts Council en(d)gender Ensemble C# tion, disability, social class, or Yale West Indian Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Q Magazine Math and Science Chinese Adopted Sibs Student Association Yale Sisters of All other distinction. Ichthys Kappa Alpha Psi Students Organization (MAS) Familias Nations Coalition Action League Program for Youth of Thais at Yale In the Qloset Queer+Asian Minority Association and more MEChA and more Campus Action Interns Unite Against Chinese American Taiwanese American IvyQ Sappho of Pre-Medical Sexual Assault Mexican Student Students Association Society Circle of Women Students Not-So-Straight Frosh Spectrum Fellows WYSE Organization Chinese Games Club Tibetan Cultural Dimensions NAACP (Yale chapter) oSTEM Trans@Yale ¡Oye! Association and more Fierce Advocates and more Non-Mon/K 90 | pursuits 91 Through clubs and Musical Bulldogs organizations devoted Collective Di≠erence Makers. to musical cures, New Haven REACH developing clean New Haven Urban energy, sharing (Yale’s incubator of impact and leadership—Dwight Hall) Debate League community service methods, social No Limits entrepreneurship, PALS Tutoring and or even scientific Mentoring Leadership and service research, Yalies pursue Public Health Coalition to society seem inex- the greater good. RALY tricably linked at Yale. Community ReadySetLaunch Nowhere is that more Service Student Rotaract Club apparent than at Dwight Groups RYSA Hall, the Center for AIDS Walk New Haven Splash at Yale Public Service and “When I came to Yale, I had no idea American Red Cross Social Justice founded that I would have so many oppor- Amnesty International Student Environmental Coalition by undergraduates in tunities to serve others and to rise Animal Welfare Alliance Student Partnerships Assistive Labs at Yale 1886. Dwight Hall is the as a leader. Students design and for Global Health Best Buddies only nonprofit umbrella implement strategic service and Students for Autism campus volunteer orga- advocacy projects, come together Black Student Alliance Awareness nization in the country as a community of friends, and Bridges ESL Students of Salaam run entirely by students. explore the intellectual possibilities Building Bridges Students Organize for Students develop new and palpable opportunities of a life Camp Kesem Yale Syria initiatives in response of service. I serve on the nonprofit CityStep Synapse to community needs board of directors and have been Community Health Teaching Peace and provide resources, elected to co-lead the student cabi- Educators Initiative training, and other net. Work at Dwight Hall is much Co-op after School Thi[NK] support services for more more than volunteering. It’s a job Code Haven Tink Knit than 80 groups ranging and a commitment.” Days of Service Ulysses S. Grant Foundation in scope from tutoring to Amy Rothschild Demos Undergraduate AIDS political activism. With Dive In Support Coalition Dwight Hall’s support, Education and Undergraduate Associ- Community Building Yale undergraduates have ation for African Peace Initiative founded many significant “Through the Yale Hunger and Development Elm City Echo community agencies that and Homelessness Action Project Undergraduates at CT have become a perma- (YHHAP) I have learned how Elmseed Enterprise Hospice Fund nent part of New Haven’s to e≠ect change with others. Unite for Sight Engineers Without Urban Fellows Program social service network. YHHAP has broken down my Borders It’s the kind of impact Urban Improvement preconceptions about hunger and Fair Haven Tutoring Corps they continue to have homelessness. I’ve learned that Fierce Advocates Ventures in Science post-Yale as they answer poverty is nuanced in its causes FOCUS on New Haven the call to serve and and its potential solutions. I am Volunteers around Girl Up Yale the World lead in ways that are continually blown away by the Global Brigades Yale Children’s Theater uniquely their own. energy and compassion that “It’s one thing to take classes on experience I have had here. It is Habitat for Humanity Yale for the Kids drive my fellow YHHAP members. world issues and philanthropy and a three-year program that allows HAPPY Yale Refugee Project Dwight Hall allows me to feel community involvement theory, me to have a sustained mentoring Hear Your Song Yale SEED like a citizen of New Haven—more but through Dwight Hall I’ve relationship with a student at a Hemispheres Yale Sight Savers educated about its flaws and gotten a pragmatic idea about local elementary school. I plan to Hunger and Homeless- appreciative of its many opportu- Yale Undergraduate issues that exist in New Haven, go into finance post-Yale and then ness Action Project Prison Project nities than I ever anticipated.” across the country, and around the work to improve the education Instrumental Yale Undergraduates Eliza Schafler world. I am a co-coordinator of system either by running for o∞ce Connection for UNICEF the Dwight Hall Academic Mentor- or starting a nonprofit.” Jewish Social Action and more Collective ing Program. Without question Bradford Williams Peer Counseling Living History Project it has been the most rewarding Mind Matters MathCounts Outreach Peer Liaisons MEChA Walden MedSci 92 | pursuits 93 Retired general Stanley McChrystal the staff of the Yale Scientific, leading a Yale Political Union America’s oldest college science The Student Voice. discussion. And, left to right: an publication, at the foot of Science editorial board meeting at DOWN Hill; getting the shot for YTV; a (Overheard at Yale—politics and publications) Magazine, an online publication brainstorming session for the next by and for students of color; at issue of the Politic, a journal of work in the Yale Daily News office; politics and culture.

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

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