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

Even before first-years Yalies identify with their arrive they are assigned college throughout their to one of Yale’s fourteen lives, meeting one another residential colleges. More in far-off places not than mere dormitories, only as an Eli but as a the colleges are richly Saybrugian, Sillimander, endowed with libraries, or Morsel as well. A dining halls, movie truly little-known fact theaters, darkrooms, is that while students climbing walls, ceramics always have the option studios, “butteries” a.k.a. of switching colleges snack bars, and many throughout their years other kinds of facilities. at Yale, scant few do. Rather than grouping Read the over-the-top students according to boostering by members interests, majors, or sports, of each college in the each college is home to first-year welcome issue its own microcosm of the of the 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 B.A. 20th-century Gamble Rogers ( 1889), brainchild of made a “secret mission” to philanthropist England to study Oxford and alumnus and Cambridge universities’ Edward S. collegiate system. “The men B.A. Harkness ( 1897). Archi­ came back convinced,” writes tecture critic Paul Goldberger Goldberger, that dividing the tells us in Yale in New Haven: undergraduate body into a Architecture and Urbanism (Yale series of residential colleges University, 2004) that Harkness, “was the best route to preserving like many alumni of his genera- the network of Yale-inspired tion, took pleasure in Yale’s connections” that had been so growing international reputa- important to them through­out tion and stature but worried their lives. In the fall of 1933 that as the University grew, the the first seven of the fourteen close bonds between students colleges opened. that had meant so much to

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

BASEMENT Shared Spaces FLOORS 1 & 2 Dance and Exercise and Library Morse and neighbor With adjustable The The Aerobics Studio Weight Room tiered seating, a Open 24 hours a day, BASEMENT share several under- full-featured sound was designed for o≠ers a full range Student the library has big ground performance system, a sprung all types of dance, of state-of-the-art Kitchen tables, comfort- and activity spaces. floor, and theatrical from ballroom equipment including able couches, and Cres- But don’t let their lighting, the to classical Indian treadmills, ellipticals, All the tools you individual kiosks cent Underground location in the bharatanatyam. free weights, punch- need, whether for studying, as well Theater basement fool you: showcases ing bags, and weight you’re preparing as a large collec- Fabric Arts skylights flood these student-directed The machines. a four-course tion of books and Studio rooms with light. and student- has six dinner for friends magazines, from The FLOOR 1 performed shows. looms, several There are also a fully or just heating Economist to People. Digital Dining Hall sewing machines, a equipped some ramen. Music Suite Media Room The knitting machine, and a One of the social Recording Studio has three individual and more. . centers in every col- practice rooms and lege. At night, light one group rehearsal glowing from the room, each with Dining Hall’s 40- an upright or baby foot floor-to-ceiling grand piano. windows illuminates the courtyard and outdoor dining patio. 14 lives 15 | Catherine Panter-Brick, a professor of Anthropology, A Head Start. 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 humanitarian interventions and own dean and head of college— than the classroom experience, 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) and Medical Humanitarianism: as well as for fostering and shaping create a welcoming space, to show 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 Medal & Marsh Prize for Applied Head of Morse College Catherine find support and comfort in a Anthropology, an award that honors excellence in the active Panter-Brick is a professor of close-knit community, and when recognition of human dignity. Anthropology, Health, and Global life is wonderful, fellow Morsels A≠airs and, like all heads of are happy to share their excitement. college, preeminent in her field. By providing a consistent space “I love my college: it’s a family,” where we are present in each she says. “I’m with students in the other’s daily lives, the residential dining hall, on the sports field, in college serves as an anchor point the dance studio, and for events in for how students navigate four my own house. This has definitely years of university life.” given me a multidimensional

Angela (Angie) Gleason has served as the dean of Morse since 2017. Her research and teaching A Dean of One’s Own. focus on the legal and social Residential college deans serve concert, or a participant in IMs. history of early medieval Europe, as chief academic and personal It’s a pleasure to live and work primarily those areas outside advisers to students in their col- within the college, and a true the former Roman Empire. She is particularly interested in how leges. Morse College Dean Angela privilege to assist in the challenges kinship-based societies organized Gleason says the college system and share in the accomplishments and kept order within customary o≠ers a genuine and stable com- that happen every day.” But advis- legal systems, and, perhaps munity in a world of constant but ing is the foundation of her job. more interestingly, how they spent their leisure time. Among often virtual contact. The college the seminars she has taught are system provides a means for “I advise students on nearly every Civilization of the Early Medieval students to develop connections aspect of their academic life, from West; Brehon Law; Language and Society of Early Ireland; and and relationships not just in class selecting courses to choosing a the History of Sport. As a lecturer but at dinner, at social events, major to taking advantage of the in History, she encourages and in the many common spaces seemingly limitless opportuni- students to work with primary of the college such as the buttery, ties at Yale, such as study abroad sources to investigate and understand early societies in their the library, and the courtyard. programs and fellowships,” says own words. Her seminars are Dean Gleason. “I’m also a personal also often writing-intensive, Whenever she can, Dean Gleason adviser to students, especially with the aim of helping students develop the analytical skills attends concerts, shows, and when things get in the way of to write well-reasoned, well- athletic competitions. “Perhaps academics, such as illness, loss, supported, and persuasive because I grew up in a small conflicts with roommates, and, academic arguments. community, I’m inclined to be an perhaps most commonly, when avid and loyal fan, whether as hard work and the desire to do a spectator at an athletic event, well don’t lead to the results the an audience member at a student student expected.” 16 lives 17 | Debate This. (Pierson Dining Hall conversations in progress)

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

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

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

Fall So you played sports in high the college accumulating the College Shield Architecture Style Points How We school but aren’t quite hardcore greatest number of points through Golf Coed Flag Football Coed Berkeley Collegiate Gothic, with a touch Delicious reputation: as test Annual snowball fight, enough to suit up for the Bulldogs. intramural play, was first presented Volleyball Coed of Tudor; built in 1934 kitchen for Yale’s Sustainable North Court vs. South Court You’re in luck. The residential in 1933. The Tyng continues Pickleball Coed Food Project, Berkeley pioneered college intramural scene o≠ers to be the most coveted of all intra­ Soccer Coed Cross Country Men, Women a sustainable menu for all a chance to continue your career mural awards, spawning com- the colleges Table Tennis Coed at a surprisingly high level of petitive rivalries that make IMs a Branford Winter 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- Hoops Men, Women and college courtyard in America” dence from Yale in a day new sport—not to mention a way all-stars and P.E. dropouts alike. Volleyball Coed its bells of barbecues and parties to prove that your college reigns Much of the above first appeared in “Intramu- Broomball Coed Davenport supreme. The Tyng Cup, annually Inner-Tube Coed One of its facades is Collegiate The Gnome, who watches Annual Louisiana crawfsh rals at Yale are spine-Tyngling fun” by Aaron a.k.a. D’Port awarded for overall excellence to Lichtig (1999) writing for . Water Polo Gothic, the other is Georgian; over us, when he’s not boil and Cajun music ball; Bowling Coed opened in 1933 being abducted Take Your Professor to Swim Meet Coed Dinner Nights Spring Timothy Georgian; opened in 1935 Dumpling Night; pumpkin TD’s motto and cheer is Dodgeball Coed Dwight carving and gingerbread baking; “Àshe!” which means “We Badminton Coed a.k.a. TD TD art studio gallery shows make it happen” in Yorùbá Soccer Coed Jonathan Collegiate Gothic; opened Hundreds of tulips planted each Great Awakening Fall Festival; Indoor Soccer Coed Edwards in 1933 year; Culture Draw, a ra±e of the formal Spider Ball; JE SUX! Ultimate Coed a.k.a. JE tickets to Broadway and beyond Golf Coed Spikeball Coed Benjamin Collegiate The Papers of , Mural painting in the basement; Franklin Gothic; opened edited and published by the bike repair shop, ideal in 2017 Yale scholars, have reached 43 for our location next to the volumes, with four to go Farmington Canal Greenway More than Oolong. Grace Hopper Collegiate Gothic; opened The Cabaret in the basement, Trolley Night: Clang, clang, in 1933 with hugely popular student clang goes the party (College Teas) shows Q&A College Teas are informal ’s Morse Modern; designed by Eero Our sculpture, Lipstick Great Morse Easter Egg Hunt; hosted by the head of each Saarinen; built in 1961 (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, Italian Night with espresso, with a 14-story tower and by Claes Oldenburg tiramisu, and an Italian flm residential college and often no right angles cohosted by campus organizations

Pauli Murray Collegiate Gothic; Our namesake was a such as the Film Society or the opened in 2017 scholar, lawyer, and civil and Our college mascot, the Lemur; Yale Daily News. The teas give small women’s rights activist who the MY talent show; and groups of students an intimate helped change the landscape of our own sprung-floor theater opportunity to pick the brains of opportunity in the U.S. world leaders, thinkers, and talents. Pierson Georgian; built Our traditional letterpress Tuesday Night Club; our cheer: Members of the hosting college in 1933 print shop, with six presses and P is for the P in Pierson College, 1,000+ cases of hand type I is for the I in Pierson College … get first dibs on front-row seats. Timothy Dwight Saybrook Recent guests social-change initiative Revolution of Hope; TwoSet Violin, comedy Collegiate Gothic; completed We’re in a chase scene in Most recent Tyng Cup CEO Trumbull Ti≠any Pham, founder and of Mogul; music duo and YouTube sensation; Deqo in 1933 Indiana Jones and the champions; always Lois Lowry, author of The Giver; CEO DHAF Evan Wolfson, gay rights advocate. Mohamed, physician and of in Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; respond “Saybrook!” Joan Acocella, dance and book reviewer for Ezra Stiles Somalia; Clemantine Wamariya, author of our own recording studio when asked, “Say what?” The New Yorker; Biz Stone, co-founder of Amitava Kumar, author and The Girl Who Smiled Beads; Rahul Pandita, Silliman Twitter; Karen Diver, former chair of Fond journalist; Benjamin Grant, visual artist and Varied: Collegiate Gothic, Biggest college; biggest Sillifest, a year-end carnival; conflict journalist. du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. founder of Daily Overview; Angélique Kidjo, modified French Renaissance, courtyard; our own handbell The Acorn, a sustainable café Grace Hopper Branford singer-songwriter and activist; Eli Kintisch, Leigh Bardugo, author of Georgian; completed group, The Silliringers with specialty goods Ai-jen Poo, director of National science journalist and author of Hack the The Grisha Trilogy; Michael Twitty, food in 1940 Domestic Workers Alliance; Robert Pinsky, Planet; Cherríe Moraga, poet and playwright. blogger; Claudia Rankine, author and former U.S. poet laureate; Chris Bridges, Ezra Stiles Davenport poet; Nevline Nnaji, director of Reflections Modern masterpiece, Our memorial moose mascot Medieval (K)night Festival; a.k.a. Ludacris, rapper and actor; Ira Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights. designed by Eero Saarinen; in the Dining Hall; annual sidewalk Parisian bistro in the Helfand, co-founder of Physicians for Social Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; Morse opened in 1962 Student Film Festival spring Responsibility. Conchita Cruz, founder and co-director Roberta Gatti, World Bank Trumbull Silliman CEO of Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project; Erin economist; Kevin Olusola, member of Quintessential Yale/Collegiate Potty Court, where our gargoyle Rumble in Trumbull (bounce- Nihad Awad, activist and Morley, Metropolitan Opera singer; Daniel Pentatonix; Robert S. Ford, former U.S. Gothic; completed in 1933 “Thinker” is enthroned and house “fights”); Pamplona of Council on American-Islamic Relations; Ziv, documentary flmmaker and social ambassador to Syria; Lauren Gallo, head of decorated every year (running of the [Trum]Bulls David France, founder of the arts-for- around campus) justice advocate. talent marketing for Snapchat. 20 lives 21 | . (Defining Yale through friendship)

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

22 lives 23 | Met at Yale

Bob Woodward “The most important factor in my and George W. Bush closest friendships is how much we and Garry Trudeau Hillary Rodham Clinton prioritize each other, even in the and Bill Clinton Allison Williams and face of homework or ­curriculars Kurt Schneider or other life.” Sigourney Weaver Caroline and Meryl Streep Angela Bassett and Tony Shalhoub Frances McDormand and David Henry Hwang Jodie Foster and Jennifer Beals David Duchovny and Paul Giamatti Aaron and Edward Norton and Carlee (below) Jennifer Connelly met through a Paul Sciarra mutual friend and Ben Silbermann the summer before their first year, so Carlee remembers Aaron as her first Yale friend. They get dinner Aaron together with “At 1 a.m. before a snow day, Hanoi Effron a group of was showing everyone some music friends every (above) Sunday. he’d been working on. Mark got his Hometown trombone to play along, and after MA Brookline, five minutes, he, Ethan, Hanoi, and Major I were all playing our respective Physics instruments. Then Ethan’s girl­ Activities Caroline friend joined in on the vocals, and “My friendships at Yale are amazing. Andersson Society of Orpheus we jammed for two hours. The Together we have talked excitedly and Bacchus (above, second Caroline Jessica (a cappella), best lesson I’ve learned outside for hours about classes, despaired asked from right) intramural soccer of the classroom is to cherish about mountains of homework (above, second from left) Hometown co-captain to go running with her every moment with friends. It’s OH in those same classes, laughed and tempting to have a concrete plan Hudson, celebrated when we got through in the first week of Major their first year, and they’ve

for every moment to maximize midterms, watched each other’s been running together Mathematics & regularly ever since—even productivity and happiness, but Philosophy incredible performances, had though Caroline says it’s just as important to let a meal Activities our hearts broken, tried new “Jessica is much more that was going to be an hour be Morse College Head things and met new people, made athletic than I am!” 2+ hours if you’re having a truly First-Year Counselor, mistakes, and danced until our Proof of the Pudding great conversation.” Aaron Kevin legs couldn’t move any more. (above) (jazz a cappella), Danny We have found so much joy in and Yale Dance Theater, compete Steppin’ Out (step learning more about each other.” Danny Aaron Kevin Jessica , , and together in team) president, Caroline and met in a Carlee Ethan Deena and know Final Cut, a Harvest preorienta- music history class and also Deena have through Yale Hillel, where university- tion trip leader took Roman Architecture been suite­ she was co-president in her wide and Opera Libretto: mates since junior year. They regularly “Iron Chef”- “subjects that were o≠ sophomore attend Friday night style culinary our radar but turned out year. Shabbat dinners together. competition. to be fascinating.”

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

A Force for Change 30 Under 30 at Oxford, Global A≠airs major Blast Off! Basketball team was named Ivy Rayan Alsemeiry will pursue League Rookie of the Week a The latest stats Senior Ashtan Towles was Sophomore Ziad Ahmed, who as an M.Phil. in international A team from the Yale Under- record fve times this season. on who goes to Yale CEO featured in the frst episode of JÜV Consulting divides relations; Eren Orbey, a double graduate Aerospace Association And fellow frst-year Nathan NASA 1,578 27% of Netfix’s Taking Up Space his time between New Haven major in Computer Science and was chosen by as one of Chen won his third consecutive Class of 2022 major in the Arts and Humanities series on its “Strong Black Lead” and New York City, was named English, will study for master’s sixteen across the country whose national title at the U.S. Figure Facebook channel. Towles, a a Forbes “30 Under 30” entrepre- degrees in global and imperial CubeSat research satellites will Skating Championships and suc- 50 Political Science major and neur. Ahmed is cofounder of the history and in world literatures be fown into space as auxiliary cessfully defended his world title states + D.C. and Puerto Rico major35% in the Social member of the a cappella group company, which provides advice in English; and Riley Tillitt, a payloads on space missions in Japan. As last year’s edition Sciences Shades, said the series “demon- and ideas from a Generation Z double major in History and in 2020–22. Yale’s Bouchet of this viewbook went to press, strates that progress comes perspective to companies, non- Ethics, Politics, & Economics, Low-Earth Alpha/Beta Space the men’s Lacrosse team, led by 57 BLAST countries as a result of people coming profts, and campaigns. will pursue master’s degrees in Telescope ( ) will map the senior captain Ben Reeves— major38% in STEM together and demanding the public policy and in criminol- distribution of galactic cosmic a frst-team All-American change they seek.” Fed Challenge ogy and criminal justice. As a radiation, providing insight for the third straight season— 50% NCAA men Gates scholar at Cambridge, into the orgins of the universe. defeated Duke to win the of99% first-years return Outstanding Taking their studies of monetary History major Fernando Rojas national championship. And sophomore year Research policy and the U.S. economy will work toward an M.Phil. in Boola Boola Heavyweight Crew won its women50%

from the theoretical to the Latin American studies. And second straight national title. 96%graduate within Junior Valerie Chen won the top practical, the team of seniors senior Political Science major The Volleyball team won its ACM five years undergraduate Student Sienna Gough, Rohit Goyal, and Makayla Haussler, a Mitchell seventh Ivy title in nine years and Students First minority47% students Research Competition prize for David Rubio, and juniors Ramiz scholar in the program’s swept the Ivy awards, with junior 84% her poster, “Experimental Multi- Colak and Lydia Wickard—all twentieth-anniversary class, Frances Arnautou named Player The students—mostly sopho- 11% live on campus Party Computation on Real Data majoring in Economics—won will pursue a master’s degree of the Year, senior Kate Swanson mores—in ’s international students SPDZ Using .” And Michihiro the Federal Reserve’s ffteenth in the gender studies program Defensive Player of the Year, and Intermediate Macroeconomics 59% Yasunaga, a senior double major- annual College Fed Challenge in at University College Dublin. frst-year Ellis DeJardin Rookie course met him with fowers and 18% have jobs on campus Washington, D.C. of the Year. The men’s Basketball cheers on the morning he won will be the first in their ing in Computer Science and family to graduate Mathematics, was one of four The Poetry Beat team defeated Harvard to win the Nobel Prize in Economics from a four-year winners of the 2019 Outstanding Affordable Yale the Ivy championship; and for his work on environmental college or university have14% double majors Undergradute Researcher Award First-year poet Kinsale Hueston junior Miye Oni was named Ivy economics. Professor Nordhaus,

from the Computing Research Nearly 200 juniors, sophomores, was one of 34 “People Changing League Player of the Year. The who is himself a Yale College 65% 47% Association. His research centers and frst-years on fnancial How We See Our World” in a Gymnastics team claimed the Ivy graduate, postponed his frst from public schools participate in community service on natural language processing aid received an inaugural Yale special issue of TIME magazine title for the second year in a row, Nobel press conference so as not

and machine learning. Domestic Summer Award. on “The Art of Optimism.” with frst-place fnishes by senior to miss the class meeting. 35% The award’s $4,000 stipends Hueston, an enrolled member of Jessica Wang, junior Jade Buford, from private or parochial schools participate80%+ in inter­ Bulldog Bash allowed them to pursue unpaid the Navajo Nation, was named and sophomore Jacey Baldovino. Filmmaking collegiate, club, or intramural athletics internships with 174 unique a National Student Poet in 2017. Senior Bella Hindley of the The inaugural Bulldog Bash organizations and artists in 33 women’s Swimming and Diving 120 Years, by senior Lukas Cox, receive64% financial party on Old Campus welcomed states and tribal nations. Inaugural Fellow team broke the Ivy League record sophomore Matt Nadel, and assistance the Class of 2022 and provided in the 100-yard backstroke and junior Keera Annamaneni, won of59% recent graduates pursue an advanced an opportunity for returning Across the Pond Senior David Ya≠e-Bellany is set meet records at this year’s Best Short Documentary flm degree within five years students to catch up with friends one of two Yalies named to the Ivy championship in the 50- and at the annual Pan African Film 20%are Pell Grant and meet the frst-years. Live Five seniors—and two recent inaugural class of journalism 100-yard freestyles. Senior Nicky Festival in Los Angeles. It tells recipients music, snacks, pizza, and sangria Yale College grads—were fellows at the New York Times. Downs of the men’s Soccer team the story of New Haven native

and beer for students over 21 named Rhodes, Gates An English major and former signed a professional contract Scott Lewis, who was wrong- 95% were highlights of what will Cambridge, and Mitchell managing editor of the Yale with the U.S. Soccer League’s fully convicted of homicide and ranked in the top tenth of high school be an annual event celebrating scholars, among the most Daily News, Ya≠e-Bellany will newest team, the Hartford served almost twenty years of graduating class what’s best about social life at coveted awards for postgradu- serve as a business reporter for Athletic. First-year forward a 120-year sentence before his Yale: the people. ate study. As Rhodes scholars the Times. Camilla Emsbo of the women’s exoneration and release in 2014. 26 lives 27 | Whether they major in the social sciences, humanities, or arts, in Studies. 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. , President of Yale University Blue Booking. (When shopping and parties are academic)

Yale is one of the only Evening Evening universities in the After dinner and rehearsal It’s been a long time since country that lets you test- with , I take we’ve all been together, so drive your classes before a last look at my schedule my suitemates and I go to a you register. During for tomorrow. It’s pretty favorite local restaurant to straightforward, but I just celebrate the o∞cial start of “shopping period” at the want to be sure. a new semester. After dinner, start of each semester, rehearsal continues for the students can visit dozens Spizzwinks. I stay a little late to rehearse a dance with a few of classes that interest Tuesday other ’Winks that we put in them to decide which for one of our songs, Marvin they will actually take. 9:30 am Gaye’s “I Heard It through I’m back at the School of the Grapevine.” Preparing to shop is a Introduction Art to shop to Graphic Design much anticipated ritual in . Even Art Seminar and of itself, called “Blue TanTan Wang though this is an introductory , a required to Science Hill to check out Computer studio course, it’s still very course for my major that I’m another class, Booking” (from the days Hometown Wednesday Graphics intimate. I enter the room excited to take. It addresses . It introduces nj of hard copies only, when Warren, to fnd about ffty people 9:00 am the role of art in visual culture mathematical concepts related the blue-covered catalog Major shopping the thirteen-person Wednesday morning is a and other topics in art history. to two- and three-dimensional class. We all have to do a brief repeat of Monday. After computer graphics, and it’s listing approximately Computing & the Arts assignment as a way for the breakfast with my suitemates, an important course for my Class professor to determine who I get ready for the second major. But its meeting time Asian American Introduction Junior will make it into the class. meetings of overlaps with History Information to Graphic Design and , so I Security in the Real World . can’t take both. 1:00 pm After a quick lunch, I get to 11:30 am 12:45 pm work on the assignment: 12:30 pm 10:30 am Information Computer Next I sit in on I grab lunch with friends at our professor wants to see I head back to central campus Deciding to save Sunday Security in the Real World Graphics . Saybrook and learn about what we can do with a few for lunch with a few friends. for next year— The Evening It seems really interesting, another interesting class, 8:50 pm that’s the beauty of shopping Screenwriter’s Craft I’m just back in New Haven covering topics that range . But I sprint to Dwight Hall on period!—I confrm my spot Introduction to Graphic 2,000 courses was from a retreat with my from cryptography to social I don’t think I’ll be able to ft Old Campus for the big in Design dog-eared, highlighted, a cappella group, the Yale engineering to security it into my schedule. Oh well, a cappella rush event, known and settle in for the Spizzwinks(?), and it’s great breaches! Our professor maybe next year! as Dwight Jam. After new second class meeting. and Post-It flagged by to fnally see my Saybrook will be inviting a few guest students listen to each group the start of shopping College suitemates again and speakers over the course of perform, they rush to sign period). Today, Elis have catch up on what everyone the semester, including the 1:30 pm up for auditions. I’m a rush 9:00 pm did over the summer. Some former deputy director of At the School of Art, I manager for my group, so I After a Spizzwinks rehearsal, been known to message Typography of us held internships in New the National Security Agency check out , a stay until the very end. some friends and I catch each other around the York, while others traveled and a guest from Microsoft’s fascinating studio class that a movie at the local theater. world with word that the abroad for language study. Digital Crimes Unit. And I’ll be taking for my major, It’s one we promised over new Blue Book is online. We are a pretty diverse since the Blue Book is online, Computing & the Arts. The Late night the summer to see together. bunch—half of us play on I was able to fnd out that frst project of the semester It’s been a long night’s work, Blue Booking takes place an athletic team, and the a bunch of my friends are involves working on visual and I head over to the always around multiple screens, other half participate in the taking the course as well. arrangements of type by hand. open Good Nature Market ROTC Naval program. with the other rush managers and the making of wish Asian Friday sheets of paper and a pair of After learning that to grab a sandwich. Then o≠ lists of courses is done American History scissors. The prompt asks us is only to bed! 9:30 am individually, in small to create four compositions, taught every other year, I I run around getting my groups of friends, and Monday one embodying “Order,” one decide to take it! schedule signed by my en masse at parties. “Chaos,” one “Public,” and academic adviser and my 10:30 am one “Private.” The rules are Thursday residential college dean. In the I hop across the street from straightforward: we have 1:30 pm end, I’ve decided to register Typography Asian American History Saybrook to the Loria Center to work in a predetermined Back to . 8:00 am for , Asian Junior Art Seminar for a class called grid in 90-degree angles, but I wake up to an email , American History Typography Information . As the we can vary the length and saying that I’ve made it into , Introduction to Graphic Security in the Real lecture begins about what it thickness of our lines. With 7:00 pm Design World Introduction means to be Asian American, limited space in the course, After dinner, I go to the frst ! Once I fnish , and Junior to Graphic Design I’m instantly hooked. I’ve got to do a good job! meeting of the weekly rejoicing at breakfast, I head . 30 studies 31 | First-Year STARS (Science, Yale awarded more Seminars are Technology, and than $3 million in ISA small classes just for Research Scholars) funding alone last year. Shopping Lists. first-years, with some provides undergradu- Every DSA recipient Yale’s “shopping period” at the of Yale’s most dis- ates an opportunity to receives a $4,000 tinguished faculty combine course-based stipend. The ISA start of every semester allows members. Some study, research, men- stipend is capped at students to visit classes they seminars provide an torship, networking, $12,500. might want to take before introduction to a par- and career planning ticular field of study; in the fields of science Preparing for registering. Here, a few wish others take an inter­ and technology. The Medical, Law, or lists from recent semesters. disciplinary approach program is designed Business School to a variety of topics. to support women, Yale students have All seminars provide minority, economicallly an outstanding record an intimate context underprivileged, and of admission to top for developing rela- other historically medical, business, tionships with faculty underrepresented stu- and law schools, but members and peers. dents in the sciences, Yale College offers engineering, and no pre-professional Directed Studies mathematics. More degree programs. is a selective first- than 100 students Students here prepare year interdisciplinary each year participate for entrance to profes- program in Western in the academic year sional schools (e.g., civilization that and summer STARS medicine, business, includes three yearlong programs. law) by choosing any courses — literature, one of Yale’s under- philosophy, and International graduate majors and historical and political Study Understanding working with a Yale thought — in which the dynamics of a glo- adviser who knows students read the balizing world begins what is needed to central works of the in the classroom, with advance to the next Western tradition. studies ranging from level of education. So international develop- it’s not unusual to find Science and ment to statecraft and an English or Political Engineering power, from ethnicity Science major going Undergraduate and culture to public on to medical school Research As one of health. But Yale recog- or an Environmental the world’s foremost nizes that experience Studies or Chinese research universities, abroad is essential major going on to law Yale offers countless to preparing students or business school. opportunities for for global citizenship independent under- and leadership. Such Academic Advis- graduate research experience may include ing is a collective projects. Students course work in foreign effort by the residential in the science and universities, intensive colleges, academic engineering disciplines language training, departments, and vari- can begin conduct- directed research, ous offices connected ing original research independent projects, to the Yale College as early as their first internships, laboratory Dean’s Office. The year through access to work, and volunteer residential college dean Yale’s more than 800 service. (See pages serves as a student’s faculty laboratories 52–55) primary adviser for all in 50+ degree-granting academic and personal programs in the Summer Awards concerns. College Faculty of Arts and Yale’s Domestic deans live in residential Sciences, Yale School Summer Award (DSA), colleges and supervise of Medicine, and Yale which supports under- the advising networks School of Forestry & graduates on financial in the college. Students Environmental Studies. aid who are pursuing also have a first-year And First-Year Summer unpaid arts apprentice- adviser who is a Yale Research Fellowships ships or internships faculty member or annually provide sup- with nonprofits, NGOs, administrator affiliated port for more than 100 and government agen- with the advisees’ resi- science and engineer- cies, complements the dential colleges. Each ing first-years. International Summer academic department Award (ISA) — unique in has a director of under- the Ivy Leage — which graduate studies (DUS) supports students on who can discuss the financial aid who pur- department’s course sue summer learning offerings and require- experiences abroad. ments for the major. 32 studies 33 | Majors in Greek, Ancient & Yale College Modern African American History Studies History of Art African Studies History of Science, 3+3There is no=br specific class youeadth have to take at Classes1:1 range from American Studies Medicine, & Public Health 80Majors.+ Yale, but students are required to learn broadly one-on-one tutorials 15Holdings,000,000+ in Yale’s library, making Anthropology Humanities and deeply. Depth is covered in one’s major. to a small seminar to a Applied Mathematics it one of the largest university library Italian Breadth is covered by taking courses in three study lecture course of several Applied Physics Judaic Studies areas (the humanities and arts, the sciences, and hundred students. systems in the United States. Archaeological Studies Latin American the social sciences) and three skill areas (writing, Architecture Studies quantitative reasoning, and foreign language). Art Student-to-6:1 Linguistics Astronomy faculty ratio. Literature, Astrophysics Comparative 73% Chemistry Of Yale College Literature & courses enroll fewer Classical Civilization Comparative First-Year Seminars Cultures than 20 students. 2 + Classics (Greek, Latin, Ratio2:1 of declared in 2018–2019, each open only Creative and or Greek & Latin) Mathematics STEM Summer fellowships for majors to fifteen or twenty first-years. 60+performing arts Cognitive Science Mathematics & STEM undergraduate science and Philosophy to faculty. grants awarded to Computer Science engineering students each year. student playwrights, Mathematics & Physics 00 Computer Science & 81 26% dancers, writers, Mathematics Modern Middle East Enroll fewer than 10. Studies musicians, and Computer Science & filmmake rs each Psychology Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry semester. Computing & the Arts Molecular, Cellular, East Asian Languages & Developmental & Literatures (Chinese Biology Approximate40 number or Japanese) Music of the 2,000+ courses East Asian Studies Near Eastern Courses o≠ered each year in more than that enroll more Ecology & Science, math, and engineering Languages & than 100 students. 24/7 Evolutionary Biology 70 academic programs and departments.+ labs at Yale College and the Hours the Center for Civilizations , Economics graduate and professional schools. Neuroscience 2 000 800+ Engineering Innovation Economics & Philosophy and Design is Mathematics Physics open for student use. Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Physics & Geosciences Engineering: Physics & Philosophy Biomedical, Political Science Chemical, Electrical, Portuguese International study, research, and internship experiences Environmental, Langua44ges o≠ered undertaken 1by Yale,197 College students in 2017–2018. 250,000+ or Mechanical Psychology Objects in the Engineering Sciences: Religious Studies to undergraduates, Percentage of Yale College Chemical, Electrical, Russian STEM permanent collection Environmental, Russian & East 40%+students graduating with a of the Yale University or Mechanical from Akkadian European Studies major who are women. Art Gallery. English $6,932,103 Sociology ISA Environmental Studies to isiZulu. Fellowship and International Summer Award ( ) funding South Asian Studies* Ethics, Politics, & for international study, research, and internship experiences Spanish Economics undertaken by Yale College students in 2017–2018. Special Divisional Ethnicity, Race, & Major Migration Statistics & 36/8 Film & Media Studies Data Science The degree requirements French Theater Studies for graduation are Geology & Geophysics Urban Studies Faculty members in Yale’s 71% 84% 36 term courses in eight Geology & Natural Women’s, Gender, & 1,000+Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Of seniors in the most recent Medical school admission terms, about a third First-years who return Resources Sexuality Studies graduating class participated in rate for Yale College in the major. Students sophomore year. German Studies international study, research, graduates (national typically take four 99% Global Affairs *May be taken only and/or internships while at Yale. average, 41%). or five courses per term. as a second major. 34 studies 35 | Divinity School Institute of Sacred Music Take a walk to the Find yourself Sterling Divinity Quadrangle at the interdisciplinary center College Meets University. to enjoy the quiet Georgian- of the Divinity and Music (One of the world’s greatest research universities at your fingertips) style campus. The courtyard schools through the Institute’s is a great getaway when you concerts, art exhibitions, films, want to read outdoors without literary readings, plays, and School of Forestry the distractions of central lectures. Hear world premieres & Environmental campus. View an exhibition of new choral compositions. Physically and philosophi- Studies of the artifacts and documents Meet scholars debating divides Take one of cally, Yale College for School of from the personal papers of between liturgical traditions. the School’s graduate-level Engineering & Law School undergraduates is at the Have Protestant missionaries who courses. Earn a five-year Applied Science heart of Yale University. Join fellow lunch in the Law School served in China during the bachelor’s and master’s in creators from across Yale in dining hall with Constitutional first half of the twentieth Forestry, Forest Science, An extraordinary commit- School of the Center for Engineering Law professor Akhil Amar. century. Environmental Science, or Management ment to undergraduate Innovation and Design Listen to speeches by visiting Environmental Management. School of Music SOM teaching sets Yale apart to collaborate, create, and Supreme Court Justices. Enroll for a course at Partner with the School’s from other great research share functional solutions Explore the resources Wander the Law School stacks. and rub elbows with the next grad students and faculty to meaningful problems. of the Gilmore Music Library, The Law Library is also a generation of corporate on environmental initiatives universities in the world. NGO with one of the largest collec- favorite study spot. and leaders and entre- through Yale’s O∞ce of More than 70 depart- tions of music scores, sound preneurs. Become a Silver Sustainability. Bookmark recordings, and music research Scholar—one of a select the School’s website to keep ments and programs a five- materials in the United States. minute handful of seniors who are up with the many events offer approximately 2,000 Science SOM Take lessons for credit with walk admitted to directly happening each week. Hill undergraduate courses School of Music faculty. Attend from Yale College, some of each year—many of them free concerts at Sprague Hall whom are awarded a merit taught by Yale’s most given by Music School students scholarship for the two years and visiting performers. of study. distinguished historians, literary critics, scientists and engineers, math- Graduate School ematicians, artists and School of Drama of Arts & Sciences composers, poets, and Get a student season Continue conversations from social scientists. Faculty pass to the Yale Repertory graduate-level seminars over call it a stunningly vibrant Theatre and see five plays a co≠ee and mu∞ns at a nearby co≠ee shop during the renova- year at one of America’s lead- Hillhouse School of Medicine intellectual atmosphere tion of the Hall of Graduate ing professional theaters. that can’t happen at Read original manuscripts Studies as a central home for On Yale’s medical undergraduate-only from Eugene O’Neill’s Long the humanities at Yale. Take campus, just three blocks from graduate courses in science the College, you don’t have to institutions or at research Day’s Journey into Night. Study light plots from the original and engineering, almost all of be pre-med to take advantage School of universities that do production of Gershwin’s which are open to undergradu- of the extraordinary research Architecture not focus on teaching. Porgy and Bess. Audition for ates. On Friday afternoons, join opportunities available to Yale School of Drama and Yale Meet with professors and grad undergraduates and graduate undergraduates—in fields Cabaret shows. Put on student students in Rudolph Hall students in the Physics depart- ranging from genetics to productions at the University (named for its architect, Paul Cross ment for pizza and talks on biomedical engineering and Theatre, with 96 feet of Rudolph, faculty 1958–65). Campus current research. Make heads nanoscience, studying cancer, fly space and seating for 640. Check out student shows and turn as you graduate wearing neurological disorders, and curated exhibitions in the your yellow hood indicating cardiovascular disease. Take Architecture Gallery. Attend an that you’ve earned both a bach- classes taught by medical Old New evening lecture by one of the elor’s and a master’s degree school professors, work in Campus Haven School’s professors, who are in Molecular Biophysics and their labs, shadow doctors Green luminaries in the field, includ- Biochemistry. on their rounds, or volunteer ing the dean, Deborah Berke. at Yale New Haven Hospital. Apply to do fieldwork in Peru with your biochem professor School of Nursing School of Art and perhaps discover new

Discover the next Nursing’s home on West species of fungi and bacteria M.F.A. a five- Campus is just a 10-minute living in plant tissues. Chuck Close ( 1964) minute at the School’s open studios. ride on the Yale Shuttle. Its walk GEPN Participate in group shows one-year program for School of Public in the same gallery in Green college grads with no previous Health Medical Take a course Hall where master’s students nursing education prepares Center in epidemiology in conjunction mount their thesis shows. them to pursue a master’s in GEPN with an independent research Attend a graduate painting Nursing. students project you’re working on in a critique by visiting artists. a ten-minute develop observational and lab on Science Hill. ride to auscultative skills at the Yale West Center for British Art and the Campus School of Music.

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

One fall afternoon some People here always Each semester I enjoy in-class discus- of Yale’s (and the world’s) say Yale is devoted Mark Saltzman sions about immigration, California leading thinkers in history, to undergraduate “There are 17 faculty members Stephen Pitti politics, youth cultures, and Latino biomedical engineering, teaching. How can civil rights that carry over to my o∞ce Professor of History and evolutionary biology, reli- that be true? in Biomedical Engineering and we have American Studies; Director hours or long lunch sessions with gious studies, literature, of the Center for the Study Q students in a residential college about 30 majors each year, so nobody is of Race, Indigeneity, and psychology, biochemistry, Stephen Pitti “I’ve always loved dining hall.” Transnational Migration; astrophysics, political Head of Ezra Stiles College the fact that at Yale I can present the anonymous. Every student does research. science, and philosophy Michael Della Rocca newest research in my field to our “I find that Professor Pitti teaches courses got together for a conver- They all do a significant senior project. undergraduates. And when I do, their myself. When I’m teaching, I’m not in Latino studies, U.S. history, sation. Some knew each feedback inevitably prompts me to just teaching philosophy. I’m doing and related subjects. He is the other and others did not, They all take classes with most of the author of The Devil in Silicon think di≠erently about what I’ve been philosophy with the students. I really but they came to similar Valley: Northern California, writing, to change how I present advance my own research and we come faculty during their time here. When Race, and Mexican Americans conclusions in talking material in future semesters and even to philosophical insights and conclu- (2003) and American Latinos about why they teach, the and the Making of the United rethink my own research questions. sions together in the course. One of I meet their parents at graduation, I uniqueness of the Yale States (2012), and he is cur- rently writing a book on César undergraduate, and why know something significant about each Chávez. He is an editor of the common notions about Politics and Culture in Mod- large research universities student. That’s pretty rare.” ern America series, a member aren’t true here. of the U.S. Latina & Latino Oral History Journal advisory board, and chair of the Karuna Mantena National Historic Landmarks our biggest strengths in recruiting Committee. Associate Professor of professors here is the undergraduates. Political Science Recent Courses People love teaching them. It’s the 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, 1848; Latina/o Histories postcolonial political thought, recruit a faculty member from another and history and politics in the good institution.” Directed Studies program. Meg Urry Her research interests include “It’s not just how smart modern political thought, modern social theory, the they are or how hard they work—you theory and history of empire, can find that at other places—but it’s and South Asian politics and their cleverness, their thoughtfulness. history. Her first book, Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and I teach an intro to physics class. Many the Ends of Liberal Imperialism of the kids in my class are headed (2010), analyzed the transfor- for medical school, so physics isn’t mation of nineteenth-century their passion. But I can guarantee that British imperial ideology. Her current work focuses on at least once a week I get a question political realism, the politics of that is just incredibly creative, intro- nonviolence, and the political ducing an idea or thought that I have thought of M.K. Gandhi. never had before, and this is from Recent Courses people who aren’t even going to be Gandhi, King, and the Politics physicists.” of Nonviolence; Directed Studies: Historical and Christine Hayes Political Thought; Theories “When I think of Political Action; Advanced about what I’m going to teach I often Topics in Modern Political think, ‘What do I want to study with Philosophy; Gandhi and His Critics a whole bunch of smart people?’” 38 studies 39 | Karuna Mantena “What makes students here Scott A. Strobel Henry Ford II Professor of appealing to teach is their genuine Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Professor enthusiasm. I’ve also noticed how rarely of Chemistry I receive late papers, which I take to Professor Strobel’s research focuses on biologically critical RNA reactions catalyzed by . His RNA be a sign of responsibility and maturity. lab explores the class of riboswitches that regulate gene These qualities allow one to focus on expression by binding small molecule metabolites. His the substance of teaching—how to work embraces biochemistry, enzyme kinetics, X-ray crystal- think through important ideas, events, lography, organic synthesis, and molecular biology. problems, etc.—rather than on how Recent Courses Rain Forest Expedition and to motivate interest in a .” Laboratory; Biology, the World, and Us; 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 “The beauty of it is these students in Goizueta Foundation are not cut out for philosophy, but they entire summer’s project! She’d figured watching them take ownership of a Professor of Biomedical particular matter to all get into it.” everything out. She’d gotten it all to project and recognize that it’s theirs to Engineering and Chemical & you? If you can find Environmental Engineering; work. She’d collected all the data she work on creatively and independently. smart, hardworking Meg Urry Professor of Cellular and “I was not in a university needed. My jaw was hanging down. We have undergrads going toe to toe Molecular Physiology; 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 Q what makes these students a lab that ran the Hubble telescope for understanding of where Yale under- might say, ‘Well that’s only supposed “drawing card”? NASA Professor Saltzman’s research , which was exciting. But when graduates are.’” to be available to grad students,’ but is motivated by the desire to I came here I felt like I had died and what I’ve seen over and over again create safer and more e≠ective Meg Urry Christine Hayes John Merriman medical and surgical therapies. “None of them are one- gone to heaven. I think I was born to “Which connects is that these Yale undergrads are Professor He focuses on tissue engineer- notes. They are exceptional in many teach and should have been teaching all to what was formulating in my own not afraid to take on hard projects of History ing and on creating better areas. The diversity of their talents along. The quality of the Yale under- mind–they are able to do that deep and to take them on in a creative way. methods for drug delivery. Professor Merriman teaches He has published three 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 and writes about modern textbooks and more than 250 interact with.” We have First-Year Summer Research apply it to some real-world situation. took a group of students to study a France, modern European 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 history, and urbanization. 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 Among his many publica- Teaching Prize for excellence tions are the second edition in the classroom, and his here have a high average of intellectual summer I thought, ‘Well, I’m going to pendence and arrogance or too much 15 to 20 plant samples they wanted of The Dynamite Club: How a course Frontiers of Biomedi- alertness. With luck, they bring out get this first-year who doesn’t know need of hand-holding. We seem to to collect. They brought them back to Bombing in Fin-de-Siècle Paris cal Engineering is available that quality in one another, and sustain anything. It’s going to take a lot of attract kids who at many, many the lab and did amazing things with Ignited the Age of Modern worldwide through the online Terror (2016) and the third Open Yale Courses program. 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 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 Europe (2009). “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- 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 Recent Courses Frontiers of Biomedical European Civilization, 1648– Engineering; Biotransport and first-year course in Western civiliza- work on myself yet. I told the student, of a team. You need both—the solitary in plants and humans. So these 1945; Revolutionary France, Kinetics; Physiology of Health 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 1789–1871; France since 1871; 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 The Dark Years: Collaboration grounds taking subjects they’ve never when I come back in a week.’ bigger and better with other people.” actually discover things of importance and Resistance in Vichy France 40 studies 41 | 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 David Bromwich Between the Babylonian and of Medicine faculty, the faculty lined Palestinian Talmuds; The 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 from the Bible to the Talmud. books include The Intellectual have a kind of self-direction, the moti- 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 as Thinking, which examines the part of the Open Yale Courses ideological debate over liberal opportunities to do extraordinary 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 Elementary Biblical Hebrew appeared in The Times Literary residential college system is what I; Biblical Interpretation: Supplement, The New Republic, brings everything together—the small- Midrash Seminar and The New York Review of Books. college feel with world-class university resources. Being the head of Berkeley Michael Della Rocca Recent Courses College has shown me that. It’s impos- Andrew Downey Orrick English Literature and the sible to describe in words, but it works Professor of Philosophy French Revolution; Directed Studies: Historical and Political in a phenomenal way to ensure that each Professor Della Rocca’s areas Thought; American Imagina- student receives individual attention.” of interest are the history of tion: From the Gilded Age to early modern philosophy and the Cold War (c0-taught); contemporary metaphysics. Modernities: Literature in the John Merriman experience than at other places I’ve been quality of the undergraduate program. He has published dozens Era of Tyrannies, 1919–1960 where, if you’re an engineering or science You might think that the two stand in “Plenty of students come here of papers in those fields, (co-taught); Shakespeare’s major, you’re studying the same kinds tension, but in fact they don’t. We not including “Causation Without Political Plays; The English 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 Lyric, 1820–1920; Style, Without God in Descartes” Purpose, and Persuasion in other students around you are studying. in my field–one in which there is a in A Companion to Descartes, Literature; Lincoln in Thought then all these doors open up for them You’re also living with other science and great deal of mixing among graduate ed. Janet Broughton and and Action; Empire and engineering majors. Here, students are and undergraduate students in classes, John Carriero. He is also the Modern Political Thought because there are so many opportunities.” author of three books, most (with Karuna Mantena) living among future historians, future outside of class, in activities–but we’re economists, English majors, and political also situated within a larger univer- recently The Oxford Handbook Just like students of Spinoza (2017). arts education is that you’re required science majors, all bringing their own sity that has very active professional looking at colleges, to take courses in all sorts of di≠erent brands of thought to questions and ideas.” schools. The institution I was at didn’t Recent Courses as a professor you things. For instance, we think it’s impor- have professional schools. Having the Introduction to Modern had a lot of choices Christine Hayes tant that our students study a foreign “One of the things School of Architecture does wonderful Philosophy from Descartes too. What brought to Kant; Directed Studies: language as well as the social sciences. that has been so wonderful for me as things for Yale undergraduates. Having you here? Philosophy; Meaning, Q Taking di≠erent kinds of classes creates a teacher at Yale is the ability to teach a fantastic School of Music does Paradox, and Methodology; a di≠erent sort of curiosity. Our stu- introductory courses but also seminars wonderful things for Yale undergradu- Reconsidering Rationalism; Mark Saltzman Action and Metaphysics “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 di≠erent about rigorous training in questions they’re asking and trying to graduates mix. Surprisingly enough, the something very special about Yale, Professors Hayes and Della engineering embedded in a liberal arts answer in science classes and engineer- presence of a strong graduate program and it gives the Yale undergraduate a Rocca are married. tradition. One of the features of a liberal ing research labs. It’s certainly a di≠erent has an extraordinary impact on the completely di≠erent kind of experience.” 42 studies 43 | Marvin Chun Biology, providing links E&EB Dean of Yale College; among , the Peabody Richard M. Colgate Professor Museum, Geology and of Psychology; Professor of Geophysics, and Forestry & Neuroscience; former Head Environmental Studies. The of Berkeley College Donoghue lab team includes undergraduate and graduate Dean Chun is a cognitive students and postdocs, and neuroscientist whose research focuses primarily on plant uses functional brain imag- diversity and evolution. ing to understand how to Michael Donoghue Recent Courses improve memory, attention, “A lot of it is about scale. conscious perception, and Diversity of Life; Plant decision-making. He has Yale is just that much smaller and Diversity and Evolution; been awarded the American Principles of Ecology and Psychological Association’s Evolutionary Biology Distinguished Scientific Award more intimate than some of the other for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of universities where I’ve taught. So I find cognition and learning, and the Troland Research Award a lot better connection to students and from the National Academy of Sciences, often considered the integration across disciplines. I have most prestigious early-career honor that can be earned by an experimental psychologist. friends and colleagues spanning very At Yale, he received the Lex Hixon Prize for teaching excel- di≠erent parts of the University, and lence in the social sciences and Meg Urry the DeVane Award for Teach- that’s something that comes with the ing and Scholarship, the oldest Israel Munson Professor of undergraduate teaching prize. territory of being smaller. Yale doesn’t Physics and Astronomy; The presentation of the award Director of the Yale Center for began with “Marvin Chun is Astronomy and Astrophysics the man!,” praising him for the just talk about making connections and clarity of his teaching and his Professor Urry studies actively devotion to his students. integrating students into research—it accreting supermassive black holes, also known as Active Recent Courses AGN actually happens here very e≠ectively.” Galactic Nuclei ( ), and Introduction to Psychology; the co-evolution of these black Mind, Brain, and Society holes with normal galaxies. She came to Yale in 2001 from her tenured position on the senior scientific sta≠ at Scott Strobel Michael Donoghue the Space Telescope Science “The opportunity to an environment where there is a clear “The other is what energizes me in the classroom. Institute (STScI), which runs the Hubble Space Telescope 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 NASA for . Using deep imaging NASA 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 with ’s three Great good schools where research is all they as an undergraduate is quite unique.” museums and collections that are right thing outside of the classroom, 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- David Bromwich with grad students or postdocs and “I admired the that we’re very keen to use in teaching. massive black hole growth John Merriman throughout the universe. never see an undergraduate. Beyond intellectual strength of the English You can read about things in a book, “I’ve almost been Professor Urry has worked to Michael J. Donoghue that, Yale is also a place where you department. I thought Yale had the but to hand a kid a 60,000,000-year- wooed away to other universities increase the number of women Sterling Professor of Ecology have tremendous colleagues. At a lot of virtues of a liberal arts college, along old fossil to study is pretty amazing.” three times. Once it came down to the in the physical sciences, and Evolutionary Biology; organizing national meetings places the caliber of Yale, there is sort with the attractions, and not too wire and I was making my decision in Curator of Botany, Peabody Marvin Chun and chairing the Committee Museum of Natural History of a silo mentality when it comes to lab many of the drawbacks, of a large “I came for the the last hour or two. But there I was on the Status of Women in research. At Yale you have this amazing research university.” students. They’re not just smart, but teaching my modern French history Astronomy for the American Professor Donoghue is a lead- Astronomical Society. ing authority on biodiversity ability to collaborate with other labs well balanced in a way that makes it course to about 150 students, walking Christine Hayes Recent Courses and the author of more than so that collectively you do everything “It’s really the special to teach and do research here. up and down the aisle of the lecture 200 papers and several books; better. The other thing is that we have best of both worlds because you Whether I stand before a classroom hall as I often do, and I thought, ‘What Expanding Ideas of Time and several current projects focus a fantastic School of Medicine. The have this distinctive undergraduate full of students or meet with someone am I doing, I couldn’t possibly leave.’ Space; University Physics; on elucidating the evolution General Physics Laboratory; of Viburnum. He has helped 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, Modern Physical Measure- to shape Yale’s Department 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 ment (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 (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.” 44 studies 45 | Senior design project teammates a tele-operated robotic arm for and Engineering majors Joshua retrieving objects dropped off a Ruck, Brigid Blakeslee, boat or dock. A Hands-On Education. and Adam Goone in the Center for Engineering Innovation and (And why six hands are better than two) Design, where they developed

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

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

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

Adding to what the Yale The collections of the University Art Gallery world knows is not easy, especially when, at 19 number more than 250,000 or 20, you haven’t even objects representing Eastern and Western cultures from been in the world that ancient times to the present. long yourself. But as Recent exhibitions include a former student said, Modern Art from the Middle East, celebrating the 175th anniversary “This is not a mediocre of Arabic studies at Yale; Japan’s place. Everywhere you Global Baroque, 1550–1650; and turn there’s something Pompeii: Photographs and incredible to attract Fragments. Alana Thyng your eye. In a more ordi- , an alumna of nary place, you’re not the Directed Studies program going to be so startled for first-years, dances with the Rhythmic Blue and Yaledancers into thought.” From groups on campus and is a paintings by Picasso to sta≠ photographer for the Yale pterodactyl remains to Daily News. 3D printers and tools for Opposite page: Peabody Museum photoelectron spectros- At the of Natural History copy, Yale provides­ , which a treasure trove through recently celebrated its 150th anniversary, curators work with which undergraduates scientists around the world to chase down new knowl- advance our understanding of edge for themselves and Earth’s history, life, and cultures. sometimes for the world. Cesar Garcia Lopez Junior has spent the past two summers in Environmental Intersections Tanzania, studying the impact of humans on wildlife; and in Eyes Wide Open Panama, studying the chytrid Cesar Garcia Lopez works in the summer researching Oceanic art fungus, an infectious disease Peabody Museum laboratory of in England and Germany for her that a≠ects amphibians world- wide. On campus, he enjoys the Professor David Skelly, where he As a first-year, Alana Thyng senior thesis. And as a fellow at YUAG community at La Casa Cultural, uses the museum’s vertebrate zool- planned to study French literature the , she was able to design Yale’s Latino cultural center. And as a member of Math ogy collection in his research on or Classics. But when she went an avant-garde film installation MAS and Science ( ) Familias, how suburban landscapes a≠ect to the Yale University Art Gallery for the exhibition Everything Is YUAG he mentors a group of New frog morphology. Cesar was born ( ) to examine Greek vases for Dada. “It was an incredible oppor- Haven first graders studying in Mexico and grew up in Watson- a course on Plato, Aristotle, and tunity to see my vision come snail habitats in a local nature ville, California, where his parents Euripides, she was immediately entirely to life. These experiences preserve. Cesar plans to enroll in the joint-degree program worked in agriculture. “I saw a interested in the material aspect have been vital in cultivating my with the School of Forestry & constant battle between environ- of history—“the way that objects skills as an art historian and in Environmental Studies and mentalists who want to protect provide a sense of what life was preparing me for the collaboration earn a Master of Environmental Management degree in a fifth the wetlands and the people who like in previous periods.” and practical planning necessary year at Yale. depend on agriculture to make a to complete projects in the work- living. I’m interested in bridging Alana became a History of Art force beyond college.” that divide and hope to have a major and had unique opportuni- career that combines environmen- ties through Yale to work for a After graduation, Alana will be tal education and field research.” summer at the National Gallery pursuing her passion for art of Copenhagen, study at the École at the auction firm Sotheby’s in du Louvre in Paris, and spend a New York. 48 studies 49 | A Smashing Success

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

Lawrence spent two summers CERN at ’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 Beinecke Rare Book Performance at the Beinecke “Professors Demers and Meg Urry The and Manuscript Library Kwasi says, “the Beinecke allows were important mentors through- , sound to propagate and echo in constructed of translucent marble out my years at Yale, especially as that admits light but screens out Kwasi Enin, who is majoring in an extremely satisfying way. We women in a male-dominated field. the sun’s damaging rays, is an Molecular, Cellular, & Develop- are privileged to be able to use it.” I’m most grateful for the strong internationally acclaimed center mental Biology, had never sung for research in the humanities. relationships I developed with early music prior to coming to “It really doesn’t get any better for Yale faculty members, who Kwasi Enin sings with the Yale. But when a friend and fellow a singer at Yale,” Kwasi adds. “I continue to inspire my goal of 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, America’s oldest collegiate a and Performance of Early Music about the origins of everything 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 worked on several research proj- year, Lawrence is now a doctoral skills, he decided to dive in. between male and female voices ects at the School of Medicine. student in Atomic, Molecular, and MIT Students in the class form the as well as the orchestra, expresses Optical Physics at . Opposite page: Wright Laboratory nucleus of the Yale Collegium political rivalries of the 1780s 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 Katherine Outside of the lab, mance venue for the Collegium, French nobility by depicting them Lawrence took several language o≠ering students the opportunity as a fallow-colored horse that classes: Chinese, Korean, and to see, touch, and study musi- represented such major vices as Egyptian hieroglyphs. She was a member of the Yale Drop Team cal manuscripts and prints from vanity and avarice. The expression and quartermaster of the Yale as early as the fourteenth and ‘to curry favor’ comes from the Pistol Team, which competed in fifteenth centuries. And when it Roman, which had the nobles cur- the national championships. comes to performing in the space, rying Fauvel to gain his approval.” 50 studies 51 | Think Yale. Think World. (Study, research, intern around the globe)

A nontraditional approach to gaining international experi- ence gives Yale students access to multiple opportunities to study, research, and intern abroad during their four years. Over and above ordinary financial aid, Yale provides more than $6.9 million annually through fellowships, internships, and sum- mer awards in order to guarantee that every student who wishes will be able to work or study abroad. Beyond these hefty resources is the sheer variety of global experiences students can “I spent six unforgettable weeks in South undertake during school Africa and Swaziland with the Yale Summer years and summers: Session class Visual Approaches to Global study at a major univer- Health. Both countries have some of the South sity in another country; HIV/AIDS Africa & highest rates of in the world. In field-based or laboratory Swaziland; the wake of that epidemic, our task was to France research; interning with find a public health issue that we were Yale alumni around Andrew “The summer before sophomore year, internalizing the hopes and dreams it passionate about exploring—be it domestic the world; Yale Summer Siaw-Asamoah Sarah Naco I received the Yale International represented, I realized the value of violence, mental health, or the orphan Session courses taught Hometown ny Hometown Summer Award to sponsor my trip a central identity, and the privilege I Bu≠alo, crisis—and to represent it in the form of Canberra, Australia by Yale faculty abroad; Spain; Major Major to Bilbao, a colorful port city in the have in mine, as a Ghanaian American. Applied Mathematics a documentary film. In Mbabane, Swazi- History of Science, or study, work, or service United NGO Basque region of northern Spain. In the end, I left with more than I Yale International land’s vibrant capital, we visited s, Medicine, & Public Health projects of one’s own Kingdom UNICEF Classroom learning was fun and came with, my own web now inter­ Experience , government agencies, and Yale International Experience design. Students are Summer in enriching, and the professors from the connected with theirs.” Andrew Europe studying Spanish hospitals, talking to physicians and patients Spent one week in Johannesburg encouraged to begin HIV University of Deusto met us with open language and culture in about the struggles of living with and and five weeks in Mbabane on a exploring the globe the Bilbao through the Yale Yale Summer Session scholarship. arms, personally introducing us to the e≠ects it has had on the community. summer after their first Summer Session Study After my first year, had an their beautiful home. In learning the Abroad Program, in addition I learned that the power of stigma can International Summer Award year. Here, five Elis map history of Bilbao and meeting its to studying economics unravel seemingly sound and e≠ective for study in Paris. a glimpse of the world and finance at the London Post-Yale Plan residents, I encountered the web of policies to deliver free treatment to all. “Taking a few School of Economics. through their experiences weeks for a road trip across the culture that connected them all. There Post-Yale Plan Successful interventions require a nuanced USA as global citizens. “Either , then traveling with my M.D./Ph.D. was a certain Bilbao force of character, pursuing an understanding of the local culture and boyfriend to Australia (his first a stubborn resilience that kept the city with a research focus in traditions, and for policy makers to listen time!). Afterwards, I intend to M.D./ epidemiology, or an pursue a career in documentary alive even after its manufacturing M.B.A. and not merely dictate. I will carry this industries moved away, replacing the with interests in insight with me as I pursue a career filmmaking, focusing on public hospital management, health health and scientific issues.” iron heart with one of art, music, care entrepreneurship, in public health policy post-Yale.” Sarah and food. As a visitor walking through and health care nonprofits.” the halls of the Guggenheim Museum, 52 studies 53 | Stephanie Brockman Yalies Abroad Internships 2017– 2018 The Office of Career Hometown ND Thompson, Africa: 73 Strategy assists Major students seeking Near Eastern Languages Asia: 261 internship experiences Oman & Civilizations, with a India & Canada: 2 throughout the globe. & Morocco concentration in Arabic and South These internships Islamic Studies Africa Europe: 659 provide opportunities Yale International Experience Latin America & in more than 20 coun- Spent a spring semester in the Caribbean: 112 tries to explore career Sultanate of Oman through a Middle East: 50 fields in a global envi- ronment, with support program sponsored by the School Multiple regions: 23 for International Training; and oversight from Yale Brazil interned in Morocco through Oceania: 17 and from alumni net- Yale’s Auerbach and Grayson/ Total: 1,197 works. Opportunities Leitner international internship. reflect the full range of Post-Yale Plan Center for interests among Yale “A summer or International students, from journal- year of advanced Arabic study Grace Alofe and Professional ism to the arts, politics abroad, followed by law school. “My professor in Oman took us on a daytrip “In the rural South African township of Experience to public health, and I’m leaning toward the idea Hometown Nj to explore the nearby mountains. It was in Union, Zwelethemba where we stayed for ten Yale’s Center for finance to technology. of going into corporate law Majors International and Yale also partners with and working with companies the middle of our rural homestays, so I was Molecular, Cellular, days, there was no Internet access, and for Professional Experience other organizations with strong business ties to dressed in a long black abaya (the tradi- & Developmental Biology; the first time in my life, I was genuinely (CIPE) encourages to provide many the Middle East.” Ethnicity, Race, & Migration tional robes for women on the Gulf ) and a disconnected from the larger world. and supports safe, additional internship Yale International Experience headscarf. I remember sitting on a park The first couple of days were tough, I’m extraordinary­ inter­ opportunities. bench, texting my host mom in Arabic, and Spent the fall semester of junior ashamed to say. Then, my study abroad national experiences year as one of thirty students of every kind. Laboratory and worrying about how scandalized my host studying public health care group started playing soccer with kids Field Research in family would be if I was out past magrib, systems and conducting field in the area, hanging out at each others’ Study the Sciences and the evening call to prayer. And out of research in urban and rural host homes, and attending local gumboot Yale programs include Public Health nowhere everything that was happening settings in India, South Africa, dancing class in the community center. Yale in London; Yale Students can combine and Brazil with the School for Summer Session international experi- began to sink in: I was thousands of miles International Training. A man named Jazz, who was incredibly (most recently, courses ence with deepening Post-Yale Plan were offered in Brazil, their understanding from home, wearing something I had “Before going active in the larger community, taught Croatia, Czech Repub- of science by spending only seen in pictures, and I realized how to medical school, I would love the classes about this historical dance lic, Ecuador, France, a summer working to spend two years working in “After sophomore year, I took a gap year thoroughly I had immersed myself in a form and spent so much time making us Germany, Italy, Japan, in a laboratory at marketing in California or with to study Mandarin in China. There was a culture that had once seemed so mysteri- comfortable in Zwelethemba. One day he Morocco, Russia, an institution abroad, Médecins Sans Frontières in Singapore, Spain, or by participating in monthlong break between my two language ously foreign. That realization filled me a Spanish-speaking country.” gave some of us a walking tour, pointing programs, so I stu≠ed my backpack, with an incredible sense of accomplish- out structures that have changed since the and Tanzania); and a field-based project. year or term abroad hopped on a train, and spent the next four ment.” Stephanie end of apartheid and how that a≠ected his approved programs run Independent weeks making my way 1,600 miles through lived experience. We still had classes and by other institutions or Initiatives western China by myself. The first week, I homework during that time, but it felt providers. Students who are Arizona Greene ready to develop their decided to hike Emei Shan, one of the Four so freeing to be fully present in my inter­- Research own activities abroad Hometown GA Sacred Mountains of Buddhism. I stayed at Carrollton, actions with my host family, my peers, The possibilities for are encouraged to Major international research discuss their plans one of the monasteries along the trail, and Applied Mathematics and community members like Jazz. By the are extensive. Students with advisers and as I was sitting in the courtyard one of the Yale International Experience end of our stay, I was so grateful to have work with their resi- faculty, to register monks sat next to me and motioned for me Was awarded a Richard U. Light been forced o≠ the digital grid; I can’t dential college dean, their travel and under­ to cross my legs and meditate with him. Fellowship to study Mandarin imagine having been distracted at all from academic advisers, stand the support Afterwards, we talked for a while about his in Beijing and Harbin, China, such a remarkable community.” Grace and departments to provided by Yale, for seven months; worked in define projects. Many and to use the institu- life at the monastery. Then he reached into Nicaragua for a summer on a Yale students spend tion’s extraordinary his robes, whipped out his smartphone, Thomas C. Barry Travel the summer following resources to make and added me on WeChat (the Chinese Fellowship. their junior year the most of their Post-Yale Plan abroad doing research experience abroad. equivalent of Facebook). I set out for China “Pursuing a Ph.D. for a senior essay in applied mathematics with less than a year of Mandarin under my or thesis. with a focus in computational belt, and I learned a ton in my language 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

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

Yale students are sur- Raising Tsai CITY 5 Graduate rounded by opportunities First-Year Pitch the Bar The mission of the Tsai Schools Most Center for Innovative Attended from the moment they Matt comes to Yale interested in the Matt Czarnecki Thinking at Yale is to When they enroll in biological sciences and dives into arrive on campus as inspire and support business, law, medical, biology and chemistry classes. He Residential College first-years—intellectual, students from diverse or graduate school, Yale quickly becomes friends with Dylan Davenport backgrounds and graduates most often entrepreneurial, artistic, Gastel, a fellow Davenport first-year. Major disciplines to seek attend Yale, Harvard, The two find themselves thinking international, profes- innovative ways to Cambridge, NYU, and up business ideas late into the night Molecular Biophysics sional, and research address real-world University of Chicago. in their common room. In the spring, & Biochemistry problems. It organizes opportunities that at the Yale Youth2 Business Forum workshops, mentor - Top Fellowship launch them toward at the School of Management, Matt ship and fellowship Producer meets a visiting project manager from both long-term ambi- programs, start-up and Yale is consistently Google who helps him come up with tions and unforeseen nonprofit accelerators, a top producer of his first pitch. “It was my first real That summer, Matt finds leaders’ and founders’ fellowships. Since achievements. Yalies experience with entrepreneurship and himself working as the labs, co-curricular 2010, in addition it felt like the best day of my life.” leverage these oppor- third employee at a food projects, hackathons, to more than 200 tunities in countless start-up after a chance and experimental Fulbright Fellowships, impressive ways and encounter at a venture collaborations across Yale students have capital conference. disciplinary lines. been awarded 36 learn how to ask good “With just three of Rhodes, 20 Marshall, questions, seek out us, we learned how to Yale Connections 22 Goldwater, 12 the right mentors, and figure things out on our Yale has more than Truman, and 29 Launch create experiences that own, which is critical in 160,000 graduates Gates Cambridge In the fall of sophomore year, Matt entrepreneurship.” and hundreds of Scholarships, as well are professionally and and Dylan create Yale Launch, an alumni groups all over as 264 National personally rewarding. undergraduate group designed to help the world, providing Science Foundation In this chapter, we students go from “virtually nothing unequaled networking Graduate Research to a business idea.” The group hosts a opportunities, from an Fellowships. Just as chronicle the trajecto- pitch-day competition at the end of the online career network, importantly, these ries of three soon-to-be semester. Matt lands on his idea after to mentoring programs major awards only graduates who have spending $6 for a co≠ee and granola for students, to scratch the surface of successfully connected bar study break. Why not combine Recipe for Success regional and campus the hundreds of other the two? Verb energy bars are born. “I never thought I would be an events for alumni. highly valuable, funded Fellow Yale Launch members André the dots between a Whatever you are sources of support and Bennett hear the pitch and want in. Yale education and the entrepreneur, but this experience interested in — social that Yale students The three experiment with ca≠einated justice, sustainability, tap every single year. real world. energy bar recipes in the Saybrook entertainment, law, and Davenport student kitchens. As helped me find what I’m really journalism, media, demand grows, they rent the kitchen of entrepreneurship, beloved New Haven bakery Katalina’s passionate about: building things Angel Investment technology — you will Cupcakes on weekends, baking find alumni in those Matt attends a College hundreds of bars from 7 pm to 2 am. from the ground up.” fields ready to network Tea in JE given by Internet with you! entrepreneur and Yale Living the Dream alum Kevin Ryan and Senior year, Matt closes a round of Career Services hands Ryan a Verb bar. nearly $1 million in seed capital as Yale’s Office of Career A week later, Ryan calls Hit the Accelerator CITY CEO CTO “A Tsai mentor Verb . André (now ) has Strategy offers career and asks, “What do recommended deep built a text-to-purchase platform, advising, professional you need to get started?” Verb is selected to participate customer profiling, and and the company uses a space school advising, He provides some of the CITY CITY in the Tsai Summer by doing that we were provided free by Tsai . In employment and company’s initial capital. Accelerator, a ten-week able to realize who our January, Verb wins a $35,000 grant internship opportunities, Verb o∞cially launches best customer was.” in Connecticut’s CTNext All-Stars and career development in the spring of Matt’s fellowship program for The team pivots Verb’s Competition. The company has resources. The office junior year, focused student ventures that marketing strategy sold more than 100,000 bars works with students on selling to college combines a $15,000 grant with to focus on an older to customers in all fifty states. and alums to clarify students. They sell out demographic with more After graduation Matt and André career aspirations, of their first 10,000 mentoring and workshops led disposable income. will move to Boston to continue identify opportunities, bars in thirty days. by experienced entrepreneurs growing Verb: “We’ve found and offer support at in the Yale network. our dream jobs and become best every stage of career friends along the way.” development. 56 studies 57 | Community Enhancing Starting Out Scholar “Before Yale, I mostly thought of Early Learning Caitlin designs and teaches Haylee Kushi Caitlin Dermody The daughter and grand- a course called Positivity: daughter of educators, Caitlin The Power of Optimism to Residential College ‘Native’ as Hawaiian. Becoming Residential College has a passion for learning and New Haven middle schoolers Timothy Dwight Morse a desire to study education. through Yale’s Splash and In Foundation of Education Major friends and co-workers with people Major Sprout programs. “My Studies, she realizes that “so positive attitude had always Ethnicity, Race, Indigenous to various parts of the Sociology (and Yale many of the challenges facing helped me conquer academic & Migration Education Studies students today begin due to challenges, so I wanted Scholar) a lack of access to high-quality to share the benefits of this Americas made me realize how much early childhood education.” perspective with younger Native people across the world have students.”

Finding Community in common. This was vital to joining (and a Major!) Education Studies As a first-year, Haylee lands an my most important community at on-campus job at the Native After joining the Education Studies Scholar American Cultural Center, Yale, to my political consciousness, program, Caitlin enrolls in the course Early which “became my community Childhood Education, which has a classroom for the rest of my time at Yale.” and to my academic career.” observation requirement at Calvin Hill Daycare. That spring, she takes the She loves observing so much that she becomes seminar United States Wars a volunteer teacher’s assistant there. in the Pacific, her first class in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration. She writes a paper about the political importance of “For a bit, I explored one of her favorite Hawaiian the possibility of Global Perspective songs—originally titled “Mele journalism as a mode ‘Ai P¯ohaku” and popularly of doing the same work Caitlin spends the summer after known as “Kaulana N¯a Pua”— raising awareness about sophomore year studying in Dubrovnik starting her on a path toward Indigenous politics. with Yale’s History and Culture scholarship in ethnic studies. I took Bob Woodward’s Journalism class in of Southeastern Europe course. In my sophomore year and addition to gaining insight into the wrote pieces about impact of war on society, she learns ethnic studies at Yale and Indigenous activism about Croatia’s post-independence ydn for the , Broad education system. Next Chapter down Recognition, Haylee will enroll in Magazine, and Yale Brown University’s Herald.” Ph.D. program in American Studies to Emotional Intelligence continue researching and Volunteering with the writing about the power Supported by an Education Studies Scholar Yale Center for Emotional dynamics and potential Called to Lead summer fellowship, Caitlin interns at the Brookings Intelligence’s Early Childhood for allyships among Institution with the Brown Center on Education Junior year, Haylee Team, Caitlin collects data K¯anaka Maoli and other Policy, employing skills learned in her Sociology works with fellow in preschool classrooms people of color living classes to analyze critical education theory and data members of the and drafts assessments to in Hawai‘i. on contemporary topics. Association of Native assist teachers’ instructional Americans at Yale practices. “I love being able ANAaY ( ) to plan the to see the role of social and annual Ivy Native emotional learning in Plans Fulfilled Summit. Elected early childhood education.” ANAaY president of the Future Plans Haylee writes her senior thesis on East in the spring, she heads Asian racial formation in Hawai‘i in the planning for a Yale Back on campus, Caitlin relationship to settler colonialism and Indigenous Peoples’ writes her senior Sociology K¯anaka Maoli (Indigenous Hawaiian) Day celebration and thesis and Education Studies also leads the Henry capstone project on the early “Yale reshaped the way that I cultural identity. “I went to an all Roe Cloud Conference childhood education workforce Native high school and came to Yale and Powwow, which in America, analyzing policy understand systems of education hoping to do research about the political bring Native alums and data from all fifty states back to campus and and interviewing New Haven context of my Hawaiianness. My Yale build a genealogy teachers. Now she’s headed to and challenged me to advocate experiences pushed me to think about of Yale Native Oxford for a master’s in child my Indigeneity in a global context.” community members. development and education. for the world’s youngest learners.” 58 studies 59 | Yale, like Ulysses, is part of all that she has met, part of all the Places. scholars and students who have trod paths of learning across her campus, of their ideals and accomplishments, and of their lives and times . . . Whitney Griswold, President of Yale University, 1950–1963 Harkness Memorial Tower James Gamble Rogers and completed is the height of tradition at Yale (216 in 1921, Harkness holds a 54-bell, feet and 284 steps to the roof). The 43-ton carillon rung daily by students tower’s cornerstone was dedicated in the Yale University Guild of Caril- Inspired by Icons. in 1917 exactly 200 years after the lonneurs. Statues of and (Why architecture matters) first stone for the first Yale building in others plus four student-gargoyles New Haven was placed. Designed by keep watch from on high.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Danville, California Columbia, South Albuquerque, New São Paulo, Palo Alto, California Accra, Ghana Braintree, “I’m from . I’m from “I’m from “I was born outside of “I’m from . “I’m from . “I’m from Carolina Mexico Italy Brazil Venezuela Massachusetts I received a Light Fellowship for , but also lived in . I studied in with , and lived in This summer, I will spend I spent the summer after my . Last spring Washington, D.C. Panama Nice, France Paraty a ten-week language program in After my the Summer in Rome Humanities and before my family six weeks in , sophomore year in my a cappella group, Mixed Seoul, South Korea China Cincinnati, Ohio Rio de Janeiro, Brazil . Although first year, I received the Georg program and in on a settled in . I complet­ing a physician and . Company, performed in four China I’m a heritage Korean speaker, Leitner Fellowship from Yale’s Light Fellowship. The Brady- spent the summer after my first shadow­ing program and taking Learning to speak Portuguese cities in . This summer Recife, Brazil Morocco it was my first time living MacMillan Center to work Johnson Program in Grand year in , as a two classes related to health care: with Brazilians was one of we will be traveling to . NGO Amsterdam, in Korea. This year I studied for an in Strategy funded my research in marketing intern at a local Public Health in France, and my favorite aspects of the trip, After that I will be studying Oxford The Netherlands Japan Taiwan Korea NGO Amsterdam Philosophy at , and . , , and on education serving kids in Literature and Medicine.” but I also loved the music, public health in . it was a great taste of what Louis DeFelice, English Major East Asian politics.” the favelas.” Chloe Sales, Molecular, Cellular, food, and dancing!” Emma Rutan, Psychology Major graduate school might feel like.” Phil Wilkinson, History/ Ana Barros, Political Science/ & Developmental Biology Major Edwin Edem, Political Sarah Joo, Philosophy Major Global A≠airs Major Education Studies Major Science Major 72 places 73 | . . . and the youthful society thus formed had promptly and Pursuits. enthusiastically set to work to create its own system of self-improvement, a second or social curriculum. Yale: A Short History, by George W. Pierson Yale’s first gym was Mission Recent Ivy Titles Yale student athletes built in 1826. By the Baseball “undertake the challenge of Basketball (M) mid-1800s an athletic a high-level education while Heavyweight Crew tradition “dominated the proudly representing Yale Football undergraduate horizon, University in the pursuit Golf (M) of championships. Through Gymnastics (W) and epic victories were exceptional facilities and Ice Hockey (M) celebrated with bonfires coaches, Yale Athletics Lacrosse (M) under the elms, as the ensures that our students Coed Sailing learn the important values Swimming/Diving (W) classes roared out their of leadership, integrity, Volleyball (W) glees from their appointed respect, discipline, respon- perches on the old Yale sibility, and teamwork. The Nationally Ranked Heavyweight Crew fence,” wrote George aspiration is that in the course of preparation and Lightweight Crew Pierson in his history competition, students enter Crew (W) of Yale. The Bulldogs of a co-curricular laboratory for Cross Country (W) today—both men and learning that will fit them Fencing (M, W) to lead in all of their future Football women — compete on 35 endeavors.” Lacrosse (M) teams (of which 29 are Excerpted from the Yale Sailing (Coed, W) Squash (M, W) NCAA Division I) made Athletics Mission Statement Swimming/Diving (W) up of junior-varsity-level players to All-Americans. “The Game” Even for those who Yale also offers student- don’t count themselves run club sports and one as sports fans, “The of the most extensive Game” is one of the most anticipated and popular intramural events every year. programs in the country. Since 1875, the And the fans roar their and glees (that’s fight song Harvard Crimson have met more than 130 in modern parlance) — times in this annual including ’s Yale-Harvard football “Bulldog!”— as loud game. Held the first weekend of Thanks- as ever. ­giving break, the game alternates between the and Harvard Stadium.

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

78 pursuits 79 | Known as the Dramat, the Yale Really Trying at the Yale School of Dramatic Association is the second- Drama’s University Theatre, one oldest college theater association of many superb performance venues in the country and the largest under- open to undergraduates. State of the Arts. graduate theater organization at (Playing a major role whether you’re an arts major or not) Yale. Here, the group performs How to Succeed in Business Without

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

80 pursuits 81 | Or DIY by acting, Fashion Redhot & Blue performing, singing, Y Fashion House Shades staging, writing, Society of Orpheus & producing, presenting, Music The Daily Show. improvising, creating, Bacchus (A slice of Yale’s creative life during one spring weekend not so long ago) designing, and getting Berkeley College Something Extra Orchestra laughs through more The Spizzwinks(?) than 130 (and count- Concordia Flute ing) student choirs, Ensemble Tangled Up in Blue Archi- Records show that the II on Sunday), to the traditional Korean folk music troupes, clubs, groups, Coup de Brass Undergraduate Choral tecture Gallery Rudolph first appearance of in played “sitting down.” ensembles, associa- Society Friday Hall tions, organizations, Davenport Pops a band at Yale was in for Japan, Archipelago of The Unorthojocks Enjoy a screening of the docu- the House, which seeks to societies, and collec- Krolik Saxophone 1775, when a militia mentary Charm City, presented contextualize the develop- See your suitemates perform tives including: Ensemble Yale Film Study band of Yale students by the ment and design of the for New Haven’s youngest at Live@MY Whim ’n Rhythm Center Yale African Yale Children’s Theater Art/Design accompanied George and the contemporary Japanese house. the Yale Russian Chorus American Affinity Group Low Strung , performance of Sir Aveline, the Design at Yale Washington to Cambridge, New Music Cooperative Yale Slavic Chorus followed by a community- Brave. Or step on stage your- Design for America Yale Massachusetts. They driven conversation with Pick up subsidized tickets self in afternoon rehearsals of Pan Jam & Lime Steel Dramat Theater found it “not to their Kalfani Nyerere Turè of Yale’s provided by your residential the ’s production of Guild of Bookmakers Band The Control Group liking” and returned to Urban Ethnography Project. college and head to New York Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Memory Project Pauli Murray with friends for a high The Little Prince (one of 200 Heritage Theater New Haven one week American Ballet Origami Club Experimental Orchestra at student theatrical productions Ensemble later. From those humble Theatre Photography Society Pitnacree Be inspired by women who ’s production of each year). Opera Theatre of roots have sprung the blazed trails as musicians, Alexei Ratmansky’s Whipped Woodworking Club Scale & Bones Yale College composers, and philanthro- Cream. Or enjoy a night of Yale Concert Band, the YaleMakes Tiny Baroque Orchestra Yale Children’s Theater pists well before coeducation at with performances ranging theater right here on campus Yale Symphony Orchestra, Yale Repertory of Pierson College Yale College at the exhibition from the Viennese waltz to the at the Yale Drama Coalition Cres- Saturday Theatre Film The Violet Society and the incomparable Musical Daughters of Eli: tango. Then stop by the , where you’ll be cent Underground Theater Yale Dramat Women Pioneers at Yale, Get an early start with a morn­ blown away by a vibrant Bulldog Productions Yale Concert Band Yale Precision Marching Woolsey including a YDN article about at Morse College to check ing of music at the Afro-futurist production of Band. Such is Yale’s epic Concerto Competition Yale Animated Arts Yale DJs Comedy/Improv New Blue, Yale’s frst female out the jazz band your FroCo , Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. School of Music Society Yale Folk Music The Coven arts story, peopled by a cappella group, all at is managing. Or head to the where instru- Sterling Memorial Library Afro-American Cultural Collective icons (Thornton Wilder, . mentalists and singers compete Yale Film Society The Cucumber Center for an open mic slam for the opportunity to appear as Enjoy a concert to beneft Yale Student Cinema Yale Hip-Hop Paul Newman, Maya WORD Performance The Exit Players with soloists with the Philharmonia. children’s literacy given by the Club Yale Klezmer Band Lin, Jodie Foster, Lupita Poetry Whiffenpoofs The 5th Humour . Make it a marathon and head to , the world’s Sprague Hall Yale Undergraduate Yale Precision Nyong’o) and satisfying in the afternoon oldest and best-known colle- Film Alliance The Good Show to watch the broadcast—live in giate a cappella group. The Marching Band pretty much any artistic Metropolitan Just Add Water Bring friends for popcorn and HD—of the Whi≠s are one of more than a Dance Yale Symphony desire any day of the Opera Lux Improvitas a movie, Ava DuVernay’s Selma, ’s performance of Verdi’s dozen a cappella groups and Orchestra Ballet Folklórico week. We picked one followed by a conversation La Traviata. have become one of Yale’s The Odd Ducks Mexicano Yale Taiko weekend in spring. about the historical context most celebrated and hallowed Yale Undergraduate The Purple Crayon of the civil rights march with traditions. Ballroom Dance Team Sunday Chamber Orchestra Red Hot Poker Channel your inner geologist African American Studies Peabody Museum Damhsa at the ’s associate professor Crystal As a member of the family- Yale Undergraduate Sphincter Gospel Choir A Different Drum exhibition California Gold: Feimster. It’s all part of the oriented , sing Close the weekend with an Jazz Collective Whitney Humanities Tilting at Windmills Modern Marvels from the Golden at Sunday services. eclectic mix of live music: the Dzana Center Yale Undergraduate The Viola Question State, with one of the fnest ’s Democracy in annual Stan Wheeler Memo- Law Groove Dance Piano Collective collections of specimens on America Film Series, designed rial Jazz Concert at the School Jashan Bhangra Yale University Guild Spoken Word display anywhere in the world. to foster Yale’s dynamic flm Help your friends set up the ; a student Choral Battell of Carillonneurs culture with free screenings Beading & Bonding intercul- Conducting Recital at Kalaa ¡Oye! Native Chapel and discussions every weekend. tural event at the ; the Great Organ American Cultural Center Marquand MonstRAASity Jook Songs Soothe your soul with a hidden , Music series at Singing Groups NACC Chapel gem in the tuba repertoire, Take the Masterpiece Tour at sponsored by and Yale . Or learn new steps Rhythmic Blue The Alley Cats Teeth Slam Poets Yale University Art Arild Plau’s Concerto for Tuba If that’s too highbrow for your the African Students Association. and lighten your mood in a Sabrosura Telltale Gallery Swing, Blues, and Fusion The Baker’s Dozen and Strings, performed by mood, start your evening with , stopping into the Or sleep in and join the Philharmonia Toad’s Unity Korean Drum Shaka C# Voke Yale’s the all-ages show at special exhibitions A Nation Yale DJed dance practicum at the Orchestra Place Troupe Slifka Center Steppin’ Out WORD and featuring , then head over to the Reflected: Stories in American for an afternoon of . The Doox of Yale Criterion Cinema soloist and recent School of ’s exclusive Glass and Matthew Barney: Taps Gospel Choir Unique Music graduate Jake Fewx. Insomnia Theater flm series, Redoubt. After lunch at Atticus Unity Korean Drum Hangarak which “brings the best cult Cafe across the street, head to Aquascaping Society Hastings Hall & Dance Troupe classics back to the big screen!” for the after- Living Water Off Broadway School of Yale Breakers Eating & Writing Swing by Or unwind with the late-night noon session of the Theater Architecture Magevet The Freestyle Collective for lineup and munchies at the ’s symposium Yale Danceworks Yale Cabaret Mixed Company the late seating , where Clouds, Bubbles, and Waves. Lego Club Yale School of Drama Yale Movement of the The New Blue Ballroom Yale Rangeela The Whistlepoofs performers are never more Dance Team Out of the Blue Yale Magic Society ’s than a few feet away, and Or gallery-hop from the Yale Undergraduate School of Art Pitches & Tones spectacular where your waiter one week ’s Senior Thesis Ballet Company Yale Undergraduate Spring Show, might be on stage the next. Show, Paintings Part I (see Part Yaledancers Proof of the Pudding Fiction Writers 82 pursuits 83 | Student Groups SheCode American Indian Simplex Sciences, Inc. Science & Engineering Society of Hispanic The Science Channel. Society Professional Engineers (Life outside the lab) American Institute of Society of Physics Chemical Engineers Students American Society of Society of Women Mechanical Engineers Engineers In the early nineteenth Arnold Air Society Student Partnerships century, Yale College Bee Space for Global Health became the first school in Bioethics Society Synapse America to offer a modern Biomedical Tau Beta Pi science course—chemistry. Engineering Society TEDx Yale Today, you can major or Boat-Building Club Undergraduate take courses in twenty- BulldogHacks Mathematics Society nine STEM disciplines, Bulldogs Racing Undergraduate Pre-Veterinary Society from Applied Mathematics Code for Good to Biomedical Engineering Volunteers around Code Haven to Neuroscience to the World Community Health Women in Chemistry Physics. And with 70+ Educators Women in Physics student STEM organi­ Design for America Y-IEEE zations on campus, the Dimensions Yale Computer Society opportunities for extra­ Energy Club Yale EMS curricular activities are Engineers Without limited only by your Borders Yale Funbotics interests and imagination. FIRST at Yale Yale iGEM Team Join the editorial staff Float Yale Math Competition of Yale Scientific, the Genetics Club Yale Puzzle League nation’s oldest college Girls in Science Yale Scientific Magazine science publication. Be Global Medical one of more than 1,200 Missions Alliance Yale Solar Decathlon Student Team coders participating GREEN Yale STEAM in YHack, the national HackYale Student hackathon established by Group Yale Student Environmental three Yale undergraduates. HAPPY Coalition Earn certification as an YUAA MathCounts Outreach “Being a part of has been Yale Student Research EMT through the student- Medical Professions Collaborative an incredibly formative and fun Outreach run Yale Emergency Yale Undergraduate Medical Services. Travel experience. I went from being MedSci Aerospace Association a first-year who didn’t know the to Cameroon with the MedX Students Yale Undergraduate Yale chapter of Engineers first thing about engineering to Minority Association of Intelligent Vehicles Without Borders to work part of the team that won second Premedical Students Yale Undergraduate on a water distribution place in the Intercollegiate Rocket National Society of Science Olympiad Black Engineers project. Tutor New Engineering Competition’s pay­- Yale Undergraduate load competition for our rocket, Neuroscience Educa- Sports Analytics Haven elementary- and tion Undergraduate Group middle-school students Chronos, and our experiment Research Organization to test for e≠ects of special and Yale Women in STEM in math. Join the oSTEM general relativity. Now, as one of YEEBUG: Ecology & Undergraduate Aerospace Project Bright Evolutionary Biology the organization’s co-presidents, Undergraduate Group Association, featured Public Health here, and work in teams I’m learning about the manage- Coalition YHack to build and fly rockets, ment of engineering projects Remedy at Yale and more planes, quadcopters, and and working to create a larger Student Association (RYSA) UAVs. Or create a new community of people excited about Safe Water Action organization and make engineering and science at Yale.” Project your own mark on life Genevieve Fowler SciPhi outside the lab at Yale.

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

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

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

Belonging at Yale Afro-American Kappa Alpha Psi La Casa Cultural Society of Hispanic Hong Kong Students Taiwanese American Yalies come from many back- Cultural Center Professional Engineers Association Society Minority Association Ballet Folklórico grounds and places and have African Drum and of Premedical Mexicano Sube India at Yale Unity Korean Drum Students many perspectives, talents, and Dance Brazil Club Vibra Latina Japanese American and Dance Troupe Alpha Phi Alpha NAACP (Yale chapter) Students Union Vietnamese Students strengths. Those di≠erences Club Colombia and more and commonalities help make National Society Jashan Bhangra Association (ViSA) Arab Students Club of Argentine of Black Engineers Asian American Yale a great university—a place Association Students Jook Songs and more Cultural Center Black Church at Yale Nigerian Students where each person belongs and Contigo Perú Kalaa Native American Association Alliance for Southeast is free to explore the depth of Black Men’s Union Cuban-American Kasama: The Filipino Cultural Center Women’s Center Office of LGBTQ Resources Rhythmic Blue Asian Students Black Solidarity Undergraduate Club at Yale our intellectual curiosity and our Asian American American Indian LGBTQ Conference Shades a Cappella Student Association Kendo Club humanity, and the potential of The center’s mission is to improve The O∞ce of Resources Health Advocates Science and LGBTQ Black Student Steppin’ Out De Colores Korean American Engineering Society our scholarship, research, work, the lives of all women, especially works to create a visible Asian American Alliance at Yale Students of the Students at Yale (Yale chapter) and practice. In addition to the at Yale and in New Haven. As part community that includes students, Despierta Boricua Students Alliance Black Women’s Diaspora Malaysian and Association of Native centers and resources described of a broader feminist movement, faculty, and sta≠ with a wide variety Dominican Student Asian-ish Coalition Teeth Slam Poets Association Singaporean Americans at Yale here, Yale o≠ers many ways it works to ensure equal and full of life experiences. It sponsors Bridges ESL Association (MASA) Caribbean Students Undergraduate La Unidad Latina Blue Feather Drum to engage in e≠orts to create a opportunity for all, regardless and host events, meets one-on-one Organization Association for C# a Cappella MonstRAASity Group Latina Women at Yale more inclusive, equitable, and of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, with students, and supports the African Peace and Delta Sigma Theta Chinese American Muslim Students Henry Roe Cloud LGBTQ Development Mariachi Tlahuili welcoming community: from nationality, sexual orientation, student-run Co-op. Dominican Student Students Association Association Conference and Yale African Students MEChA Powwow student advisory committeees socioeconomic status, back- Beyond the Binary Queer+Asian Association Chinese Queer+Asian Association Mexican Student Undergraduate Indian Health on student life and on diversity, ground, religion, ability, or age. De Colores Rainbow China+ DOWN Magazine Rangeela Yale Black Network Organization Students Initiative equity, and inclusion; to grants Black Women’s Women’s Athletic Connect Du Bois Society Engender South Asian Coalition Council Yale Gospel Choir Organization for Hangarak Yale Native American for events that address issues Sappho Dzana Millennials Ichthys Racial and Ethnic Arts Council Circle of Women Women’s Yale Hip-Hop Himalayan Students of belonging and community at Sexual Literacy Forum The Freestyle Openness Conference In the Qloset Association Yale Sisters of All Dimensions Empowerment at Yale Collective and more South Asian Society Yale; to social justice workshops; oSTEM Spectrum Fellows ¡Oye! Spoken Word Hindu Students Nations Women’s Leadership to lectures and symposia that Girl Up Yale Trans@Yale Heritage Theater Sabrosura Organization Student Association and more Initiative at Yale Pride Corp Ensemble of Thais at Yale o≠er di≠ering perspectives on Reproductive Justice Prisme LGBT+ W{holy} Queer Action League (RALY) and more issues of broad public concern. in New Haven and more 88 pursuits 89 | Through clubs and MedSci organizations devoted Miracle League Dance to musical cures, devel- Moneythink oping clean energy, Di≠erence Makers. sharing community Music Makers (Yale’s incubator of impact and leadership—Dwight Hall) service methods, social New Haven REACH entrepreneurship, New Haven Urban or even scientific Debate League research, Yalies pursue Leadership and service the greater good. PALS Tutoring & to society are inextricably Mentoring Community linked at Yale. Nowhere Period @ Yale Service Student “When I was thirteen, I started incredible, and I found a perfect Peristalsis Dance Group is that more apparent Groups a nonprofit organization, Love fit for my interests. When I’m than at Dwight Hall, the AIDS Walk New Haven Project Bright for the Elderly, that has grown working with kids, I’m also Center for Public Service AISEC at Yale Public Health Coalition beyond my wildest dreams. I hanging out with my best friends. and Social Justice American Red Cross QuestBridge knew service would be a big part It’s a social endeavor that makes founded by undergradu- RALY of my college experience, and I everyone involved happier. Animal Welfare Alliance ates in 1886. Dwight Refugee & Immigrant wanted to join a community that When you are passionate about Asylum Seeker Hall is America’s only Advocacy Project Student Education truly valued acts of kindness. something and see the impact nonprofit umbrella Black Student Alliance Remedy at Yale The dozens of options for doing you’re having, it’s amazing.” campus volunteer orga- Bridges ESL Rotaract Club service through Dwight Hall are Jacob Cramer nization run entirely Building Bridges Safe Water Action Project by students. Yalies Camp Kesem Yale SheCode develop new initiatives Challah for Hunger Splash at Yale in response to commu- Circle of Women Yale Student Environmental nity needs and provide CityStep Coalition resources, training, and Code for Good Student Partnerships support to more than Code Haven for Global Health 80 groups that range Community Health Synapse Educators from tutoring to political Teaching Peace activism. With Dwight Crisis Text Line Initiative Hall’s support, Yale Demos Timmy Global Health undergraduates have Education & Undergraduate founded many organiza- Community Building Association for African tions that have become Initiative Peace & Development a permanent part of New Elm City Echo Undergraduates at CT Hospice Haven’s social service Elmseed Enterprise Fund Urban Fellows Program network. For more than Engineers Without Urban Improvement twenty years, members Borders Corps of the Yale Children’s Expressive Arts Therapy Urban Philanthropic Theater, showcased Fair Haven Tutoring Fund here, have engaged kids First-Years in Service Volunteers around with the dramatic arts “I think most Yale students would the World Scholastics through student-written agree that we learn as much by Voluntoken Funbotics shows, workshops, and giving to others as we do pursuing Yale Children’s Theater Girl Up Yale story-reading programs our intellectual interests. For me, Yale Refugee Project Girls on the Run at local schools. service is just as important as doing Yale Undergraduate HAPPY “Children’s Theater is a serious the kids put on their own show. homework. Performing with the Legal Aid Association Harbor Scholars commitment, but it’s also a great They are excited and nervous Yale Children’s Theater has been Yale Undergraduate break from the rest of college life. and proud, and their parents love one of my favorite experiences. I Hear Your Song Prison Project When I’m running a workshop seeing their children having fun. love connecting with the children, Hunger & Homeless- Yale Undergraduates ness Action Project with students or leading a ‘read The experience confirmed my and I hope they are inspired to for UNICEF aloud’ at a local elementary school, interest in becoming an educator pursue the arts and think about Knit One Give One Y2Y New Haven it doesn’t feel like I’m doing and helped me make important the ideas embedded in our stories, A Leg Even and more Living History Project service. I could spend all day doing connections in New Haven.” like friendship and loyalty.” Peer Counseling MathCounts Outreach this work. The best part is when Jackson Richmond Jessica Magro Mind Matters Matriculate Peer Liaisons MEChA Walden 90 pursuits 91 | Retired general Stanley McChrystal the staff of the Yale Scientific, leading a America’s oldest college science discussion. And, left to right: an publication, at the foot of Science editorial board meeting at DOWN Hill; getting the shot for YTV; a The Student Voice. Magazine, an online publication brainstorming session for the next (Overheard at Yale—politics and publications) by and for students of color; at issue of the Politic, a journal of work in the Yale Daily News office; politics and culture.

Speaking up and speak- Political Publications Organizations ing out are Yale traditions, Accent Multilingual as you’ll see if you pick ACLU of Yale Magazine up a copy of the Yale The Conservative Party The Boola Daily News (America’s Disability Empower- Broad Recognition ment for Yale oldest college daily) or China Hands The Egalitarian Society attend a debate hosted DOWN Magazine The Federalist Party by the Yale Political Fifth Wall The Independent Party Union (the largest Hippopotamus Literary undergraduate organiza- The Liberal Party Magazine tion on campus, founded MEChA Journal of Literary Translation in 1934). Opportuni- Middle Eastern Resolution through Journal of Political ties for discussion and Education, Action, Thought expression outside the & Dialogue Kalliope classroom are limitless Objective Study Group The Logos here. Be an investigative at Yale Paprika reporter or beat blogger Party of the Left The Politic for the Yale Globalist and Party of the Right Q Magazine join its annual outreach Peace & Dialogue Rumpus trip abroad. Write about Leadership Initiative Standby groundbreaking STEM The Progressive Party The Yale Daily News research at Yale for the Soapbox Oratory Collective The Yale Daily News Yale Scientific, or about Magazine Students for a New bioethics and healthcare American Politics Yale Economic Review economics for the Yale Students for Justice Yale Entrepreneurship Journal of Medicine & in Palestine Magazine Law. Hone your talent Students for Sensible Yale Global Health for satire at the Yale Drug Policy at Yale Review Record, the country’s The Tory Party The Yale Globalist oldest college humor William F. Buckley, Jr. The Yale Herald magazine. In politics, Program at Yale The Yale Historical Yale students identify as Yale Animal Welfare Review Alliance staunch conservatives, Yale Journal of Health Yale College Democrats Economics radical liberals, diehard Yale Journal of monarchists, and nearly Yale College Republicans Human Rights everything in between. Yale Debate Association Yale Journal of But even when they dis- Medicine & Law Yale Energy Club agree, a strong sense of The Yale Layer Yale Israel Public community allows them Affairs Committee to engage each other in Yale Ivy Council The Yale Literary vigorous debate. It’s easy Review Yale Model Congress to see why so many Yale Yale Political Union alums have gone on to Yale Scientific Yale Undergraduate Magazine shape conversations on Legal Aid Association Yale State & Local the national and inter­ Yale Undergraduate Policy Review national level. Young Democratic Socialists Yale Women’s Health Journal and more and more 92 pursuits 93 | The Particulars.

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