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umber 1, June 1, 2020

A Guide to Yale College

This is Yale. We’re glad you asked.

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Lives. p. 8 | First-Year Diaries. Yale’s newest students chronicle a week in the first year and give some advice.

p. 12 | Anatomy of a Residential College. Delving into the layers of Yale’s unique residential college system (14 gorgeous stand-alone “colleges”).

p. 22 | Bright College Years.In many ways, friend-ship defines the Yale experience. One student sums it up:

“It’s about the people, not the prestige.”

p. 26 | Breaking News. A few of the year’s top under-graduate stories.

Studies.p. 30 | Blue Booking. When parties and shopping are academic. Plus: shopping lists, special programs, and some startling numbers.

p. 36 | College Meets University. An undergraduate road map to the intersection of Yale College and the University’s gradu-ate and professional schools.

p. 38 | Eavesdrop-ping on Professors.Why being an amazing place to teach makes Yale an amazing place to learn.

p. 46 | A Hands-On Education. Learning by doing.

p. 48 | Next-Gen Knowledge. For Yalies, one-of-a-kind resources make all the di≠erence.

p. 52 | Think Yale. Think World. Five Elis share their pivotal moments abroad.

p. 56 | Connect the Dots. From start-up capital and internships to top fellowships and a worldwide network of alumni, Yale positions graduates for success in the real world.

Places.p. 62 | Inspired by Icons. Why architecture matters.

p. 70 | Cultural Capital. The modern univer sity, the cosmo-politan college town.

p. 72 | Here, There, Everywhere. Fourteen Yalies, where they’re from, and where they’ve been.

Pursuits.p. 76 | Bulldog!Bulldog! Bow, Wow, Wow! Playing for Yale— The Game, the mission, the teams, the fans, and, of course, Handsome Dan.

p. 80 | State of the Arts. From the digital to the classical, Yale’s spectacular arts options.

p. 82 | The Daily Show. A slice of Yale’s creative life during one spring weekend.

p. 84 | The Science Channel. Life outside the lab.

p. 86 | Shared Communities. Yale’s Cultural Houses, religious communities, and a∞nity organiza-tions and centers.

p. 90 | Difference Makers. Through Dwight Hall, students find their own paths to service and leader-ship in New Haven.

p. 92 | The Student Voice. Student publi-cations and political life.

Apply.p. 95 | The Particulars. How to apply, what we look for, and visiting campus.

p. 96 | Affordable. For Everyone. Our financial aid policy eliminates the need for loans and makes Yale a≠ordable for all.

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

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First-Year Diaries.(Starting out at Yale)

From the moment they arrive, first-years are able to dive into all that Yale has to offer. In part this is because so many programs are in place specifically to welcome and guide them—from preorientation to first- year counselors (Yale seniors) to First-Year Seminars (small classes taught by some of Yale’s most prominent professors) to parties. We caught up with three first-years near the end of their spring semesters. Here they share advice; reflect on their own expectations; discuss their summer plans; and record a day in their lives during the first year.

Nishanth Krishnan

Hometown

San Diego, CA

Anticipated Major

Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

“From the outside, Yale’s academic, cultural, and social opportunities felt a bit overwhelming. But once I started my first year, I found that my Yale experience is entirely in my hands.”

A Tuesday in the life of 8:30 am Wake up and walk to Silliman

to grab a hot breakfast. I usually take eggs, potatoes, a variety of fruit, and prodigious amounts of co≠ee.

9:00 First class of the day, Math Models in Biosciences I. We work on a lot of intriguing ways to apply math to biology; recently, we figured out the safe dosage of a medication using di≠erential equations to predict its breakdown in the bloodstream.

10:15 To Science Hill, where I finish chemistry homework in the CSSSI Library.

11:25 Chemistry discussion section: thermodynamics, partial pressures, melting points— all that good stu≠.

1:00 pm I join nearly 1,200 students in Psychology and the Good Life, where Professor Laurie Santos enlightens us on the science of well-being. If you see cameras, it might just be the New York Times listening in with us.

2:15 I grab the shuttle to the med school campus to monitor my cell cultures in an immunology research lab.

3:00 At the New Haven Works O∞ce, I volunteer with No Closed Doors, working with one or two unemployed New Haven residents to locate jobs online, call recruiters, build a résumé, and submit applications. The work has been transformative, and I get to hear the incredible stories of locals. It motivates me to do my absolute best to help them and their families.

5:00 Unwind over dinner with friends. Sometimes we have a friendly debate over something one of us learned in class.

6:00 I take a co≠ee to go, set up camp in the TD library, and start my homework.

10:00 After a run in the TD gym, I shower and head to the buttery to replenish before going back to the library.

1:15 am Back to my room. I browse the web or watch SNL if I’m not too tired. Lights out by 1:30.

Classes

> Comprehensive University Chemistry I & II> General Chemistry Lab I & II> The Real World of Food> Introduction to Psychology> Ancient Medicine and Disease > Math Models in Biosciences I> Psychology and the Good Life> Biochemistry and Biophysics> Cell Biology and Membrane Physiology

Activities

> No Closed Doors> Yale Farm> Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project> American Red Cross at Yale> Immunology research at the Yale School of Medicine

On FroCos: I’m grateful that Yale assigns every first-year a First-Year Counselor (FroCo). FroCos can play any role—friend, confidant, adviser! I think all my first-year peers would agree that FroCos are invaluable, and they make the transition far less intimidating.

On First-Year Seminars: I’m taking Ancient Medicine and Disease. We’re a tight-knit group, which allows for personal, engag-ing conversations on the medical philosophy of antiquity. We’ve explored surgical manuscripts from Egypt, flipped through fourteenth-century textbooks, and observed the archived brain

samples bequeathed by the father of neurosurgery—and former Yalie—Harvey Cushing.

On extracurriculars: One of the most memorable moments from my first semester was the extracurricular bazaar, where hundreds of student groups introduce themselves to the first-year class. I decided I wanted to be more involved in volunteering and the New Haven community, but that doesn’t preclude me from joining a campus magazine or an activism group if I pick up new interests over time.

On summer plans: In November, a friend invited me to an event at the medical school. At first, I felt out of place among all the graduate students. But I struck up a conversation with a Yale professor and found out that years ago he was also a first-year in TD! We got to know each other better, and I later interviewed to join his lab this summer, where I’ll be working on cutting-edge immunology research. I’m studying a process that allows immune cells to produce diverse antibodies to fight di≠erent pathogens. I’m excited to apply concepts I’ve learned in class to this project.

Preorientation

Programs

Several optional preorientation programs give new students a chance to meet each other prior to the formal First-Year Orientation.

Cultural Connections (CC) introduces first-years to Yale’s cultural resources and explores the diversity of student experiences on campus, with emphasis on the experiences of students of color and on issues related to racial identity.

FOCUS on New Haven takes first-years on a six-day exploration of the urban landscape within and beyond the Yale campus.

First-Year Outdoor Orientation Trips (FOOT) are six-day and four-day back packing trips for all levels in the mountains and hills of Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, led by upper-level students who have extensive training in keeping FOOTies safe and healthy in the backcountry.

Harvest begins at the Yale Farm, and then groups of first-years led by upper-level students head off to spend five days on family-owned organic farms in Connecticut.

Orientation for International Students (OIS) is a four-day program designed to ease the transition of international students to the United States by familiarizing them with academic and social life at Yale. It is organized and led by international upper-level students with support from the Office of International Students and Scholars.

First-Year

Counselors The First-Year Counselor (FroCo) Program was established in 1938 and has been an intrinsic and essential component of Yale’s advising system for first-years ever since. Each first-year student is assigned a counselor who acts as a guide through the transition to life at Yale. FroCos are a diverse group of seniors who are friends/mentors/problem-solvers— but not supervisors or disciplinarians. All first-years except those in Timothy Dwight, Benjamin Franklin, Pauli Murray, and Silliman live together on Old Campus during their first year, and FroCos live among them. (First-years are grouped in Old Campus residences by college affiliation, which allows all first-years no matter their college affilia-tion to get to know each other.)

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Aïssa Guindo

Hometown

I move a lot, but right now, Montreal, QC

Anticipated Major

Cognitive Science

Classes

> Calculus of Functions of One Variable I> Elementary Korean I & II> Introduction to Cognitive Science> Selfhood, Race, Class, and Gender Studies> Introduction to Microeconomic Analysis> Introduction to Psychology> Shakespeare and Music

Activities

> Mixed Company (a cappella)> Actress in Dreamgirls (Fall Mainstage Musical) and In the Heights (Yale Drama Coalition) > Yale Children’s Theater> Voice lessons at Yale School of Music> Yale Wellness Study

“I’ve found a home in the thriving arts community here and learn as much in rehearsal as in lecture halls. I recommend looking into the hundreds of student groups—or starting your own!”

On preorientation: I loved Cultural Connections, an amazing way to be introduced to cultural communities at Yale while making great friends right o≠ the bat.

On adjusting: I’ve never gone to the same school for more than three years, so I knew college would be a big adjustment. A pleasant surprise was the diversity of experiences of the students. Discussing di≠ering political views in our hometowns at dinner, drafting a statement on integating senior a cappella groups with Mixed Company, and participating in meaningful conversations at the

cultural houses have been some of my favorite experiences.

On summer plans: I’ll be interning at a pharmaceutical company in Seoul. Thanks to résumé-building resources at the O∞ce of Career Strategy and Yale fellowship funding, I’ll gain hands-on experience working in the intersection of science and human resources at a major company, while practicing the language skills I learned in L1 and L2 Korean. Then I’m back on campus as a Cultural Connections counselor—coming full circle at the end of my first year at Yale.

A Monday in the life of 9:00 am Wake up, shower, and dress.

I usually heat some tea and grab a granola bar for the road.

9:50 Wake up my suitemate with my Pump Up Song of the Day.

10:15 Catch the Yale Shuttle to the Watson Center for Korean.

10:30 After a quick vocab quiz, we jump right into new material with the help of dictations, cultural lessons, and even some K-pop songs and dances.

11:30 Lunch in Pauli Murray. I grab a table in the back and review class notes, or chat with friends coming down from Science Hill to eat.

12:00 pm Head to the Sterling stacks to do readings or work on Econ P-sets. Sometimes I take a break to read poetry scrawled on the walls of di≠erent study carrels.

1:00 Intro to Psych. Even though it’s a huge lecture, I always have time after class to talk with my professor about the material, or sometimes chat about a cool optical illusion I saw online.

2:30 Shakespeare and Music in Stoeckel Hall, a beautiful build-ing to set the scene for this engaging First-Year Seminar.

3:45 Back to Old Campus to take a nap, watch Netflix, or chat with friends in my entryway. Then I go to a friend’s suite to do some more homework for the week.

5:30 Early dinner in Branford with my wonderful FroCo group.

6:30 Usually rehearsal for a Dramat/YDC/YCT show, a busy time in the day depending on how close we are to show week, but always exciting.

8:30 Mixed Company rehearsal. As we go through our repertoire and work on learning new songs, I feel myself relaxing. I’m currently working on my own arrangements for the group, so after rehearsal some upper-level students help me work on the sheet music.

10:00 Back to Vanderbilt to drink tea with suitemates and finish the last of my homework. I often stop by my FroCo’s suite to say hi and grab a snack.

1:00 am Choose tomorrow’s Pump Up Song of the Day and head to bed.

Madeleine Freeman

Hometown

Oklahoma City, OK

Anticipated Major

History (I’m also pre-med)

Classes

> General Chemistry I, II, & III > General Chemistry Lab I> Colonial Period American History> Introduction to Psychology> Race, Class, Gender, and American Cities> American Indian History since 1890> Writing Seminar: Sound> Painting Basics: Oil

Activities

> Blue Feather Drum Group> Association of Native Americans at Yale (graphic designer)> First-Year Liaison at the Native American Cultural Center (NACC)> Taking Choctaw language classes in the Native American Language Project

“From tough and rigorous courses, to an amazingly diverse population, to Bulldog pride at the Yale-Harvard football game, Yale never disappoints.”

On advising: I’ve been amazed by the amount of support I’ve received at Yale. My adviser was very helpful when it came time to choose classes and think about summer plans. She advised me to think about the future but focus on the now and find what would be best for me currently, which was something I definitely needed to consider. And whenever I was going through a di∞cult time, my sweet and caring FroCo was there to talk me through my problems. He has truly become one of my best friends.

On suitemates: Living with my three awesome suitemates has been really easy, whether we’re planning

fun times over hot chocolate or discussing how classes are going. I did not expect to find such wonderful people whom I would trust as much as I do. They are truly a group of women I can ground myself to when times get tough.

On summer plans: My plans are still in the works. I’ll either use Yale’s Domestic Summer Award (DSA) to work as an intern with the Chickasaw Nation Arts and Humanities Department or take Physics at the University of Oklahoma and hang out with my friends and family.

A Thursday in the life of 9:45 am Wake up and get ready for

the day.

10:20 Make the trek up Science Hill for Gen Chem.

11:20 It’s just a short walk through Sterling Chemistry Lab to my Chem discussion section.

12:20 pm Lunch with a friend at Ben Franklin College, where I reenergize with great pizza and a nice serving of broccoli.

1:15 To York Street for my history seminar on Native American studies, one of my favorite topics to discuss and hear other opinions on.

3:30 Out of class and back to my suite for a quick nap.

5:30 Meet up with a friend to grab some dinner.

7:30 Hang out at the NACC and work on essays.

10:30 Back in my room to do some interesting readings for my Sound seminar on Tuesday.

12:00 am A quick phone call to a family member or friend back home to see how things are going— and to catch up on the latest gossip.

1:00 Turn o≠ the lights and hit the hay!

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Anatomy of a Residential College.(Yale has no dormitories)

Even before first-years arrive they are assigned to one of Yale’s fourteen residential colleges. More than mere dormitories, the colleges are richly endowed with libraries, dining halls, movie theaters, darkrooms, climbing walls, ceramics studios, “butteries” a.k.a. snack bars, and many other kinds of facilities. Rather than grouping students according to interests, majors, or sports, each college is home to its own microcosm of the student body as a whole. So if a certain percentage of Yale’s students hail from the west coast or abroad, you can expect to see roughly that percentage in each college.

Yalies identify with their college throughout their lives, meeting one another in far-off places not only as an Eli but as a Saybrugian, Sillimander, or Morsel as well. A truly little-known fact is that while students always have the option of switching colleges throughout their years at Yale, scant few do. Read the over-the-top boostering by members of each college in the first-year welcome issue of the Yale Daily News and you’ll understand why—they all think they’re the best!

Yale’s college system is the early- 20th-century brainchild of philanthropist and alumnus Edward S.

Harkness (B.A. 1897). Archi-tecture critic Paul Goldberger tells us in Yale in New Haven: Architecture and Urbanism (Yale University, 2004) that Harkness, like many alumni of his genera-tion, took pleasure in Yale’s growing international reputa-tion and stature but worried that as the University grew, the close bonds between students that had meant so much to

him would diminish. In 1927 Harkness and his friend, fellow Eli and architect James Gamble Rogers (B.A. 1889), made a “secret mission” to England to study Oxford and Cambridge universities’ collegiate system. “The men came back convinced,” writes Goldberger, that dividing the undergraduate body into a series of residential colleges

“was the best route to preserving the network of Yale-inspired connections” that had been so important to them through out their lives. In the fall of 1933 the first seven of the fourteen colleges opened.

The Courtyard The image of the secret garden was architect James Gamble Rogers’s inspiration for the courtyards around which each residential college is designed. According to legendary Yale art historian Vincent Scully, Rogers

transformed Yale into a loose association of “little paradises.”

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Home Suite Home

Most first-years live in suites in which four students occupy two bedrooms and share a common living room. After the first year, there are mul-tiple possible living arrangements.

From top: A commonroom in BranfordCollege; a bedroom in Farnam Hall on Old Campus; a bedroom in Berkeley College; a bed room with built-in desk and bookshelves in Ezra Stiles College; and a common room in Pierson College.

Yale in Miniature.(A tour of Morse College)

BAsem*nTButteryRun by students, “The Morsel” is open Sunday through Thursday from 10:30 pm to 1 am. Hang out with friends over the popular Jim Stanley, a quesadilla with chicken nuggets.

BAsem*nTGame RoomConveniently located next to the Morsel, the Game Room is a social hub where students get together to watch TV or play pool, table tennis, air hockey, and foosball.

FLOOR 1Art GalleryArtistic Morsels can exhibit their latest work in this sophisticated venue.

FLOOR 1Common RoomWith comfortable seating and ample desk space, the Common Room is a welcoming place, whether you want to work on a problem set, play the concert grand, or just hang out by the fireplace on a chilly night.

BAsem*nTShared SpacesMorse and neighbor Ezra Stiles College share several under-ground performance and activity spaces. But don’t let their location in the basem*nt fool you: skylights flood these rooms with light.

With adjustable tiered seating, a full-featured sound system, a sprung floor, and theatrical lighting, the Cres-

cent Underground

Theater showcases student-directed and student- performed shows.

The Music Suite has three individual practice rooms and one group rehearsal room, each with an upright or baby grand piano.

The Dance and

Aerobics Studio was designed for all types of dance, from ballroom to classical Indian bharatanatyam.

The Fabric Arts

Studio has six looms, several sewing machines, a knitting machine, and more.

FLOOR 2Dean’s OfficeIf a student is having di∞culty with a particular course, the college dean can often help by talking with the student’s instructor or with the relevant department’s director of undergraduate studies, or by referring the student to one of the programs that o≠er tutoring assistance. Getting to know each student as an individual helps the dean to address concerns as personally and e≠ectively as possible.

FLOOR 1Dean’s ApartmentDean Angie Gleason lives in the Morse Dean’s Apartment, with a beautiful view of the Lipstick and happily close to both the buttery and the gym.

FLOOR 2Head of College’s OfficeThe head of college is the chief administrative o∞cer and the presiding faculty presence in each residential college. During the year, the head of college hosts lectures, study breaks (especially during finals), and College Teas—intimate gatherings during which students have the oppor-tunity to engage with renowned guests from the academy, government, and popular culture.

FLOOR 1Morse HouseCatherine Panter-Brick is joined in Morse College by her husband, Associate Head of College Mark Eggerman, and their sons, Dominic and Jannik.

The Exercise and

Weight Room o≠ers a full range of state-of-the-art equipment including treadmills, ellipticals, free weights, punch-ing bags, and weight machines.

There are also a fully equipped Digital

Media Room and a Recording Studio.

FLOOR 1Dining HallOne of the social centers in every col-lege. At night, light glowing from the Dining Hall’s 40-foot floor-to-ceiling windows illuminates the courtyard and outdoor dining patio.

BAsem*nTStudent KitchenAll the tools you need, whether you’re preparing a four-course dinner for friends or just heating some ramen.

CourtyardAn outdoor room for barbecues, leaf and snowball fights, and spontaneous and formal events. Or cool your toes in Morse’s water feature, known as

“the Beach.”

FLOOR S 1 & 2LibraryOpen 24 hours a day, the library has big tables, comfort-able couches, and individual kiosks for studying, as well as a large collec-tion of books and magazines, from The Economist to People.

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A Head Start.What really makes a residential college a college versus simply a place to live is that each has its own dean and head of college—adults living among students in microcosms of Yale College as a whole. The head of college is the leader of the college, responsible for the physical well-being and safety of students who live there, as well as for fostering and shaping the college’s academic, intellectual, social, athletic, and artistic life. Head of Morse College Catherine Panter-Brick is a professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global A≠airs and, like all heads of college, preeminent in her field.

“I love my college: it’s a family,” she says. “I’m with students in the dining hall, on the sports field, in the dance studio, and for events in my own house. This has definitely given me a multidimensional

appreciation of student life. It’s changed the way I teach because I now share with students more than the classroom experience, so I make my relationships with students as personal as possible.”

“In a residential college, students grow as a community, and my role is to care for this community: to create a welcoming space, to show love for college life, to pay attention. When life is stressful, students find support and comfort in a close-knit community, and when life is wonderful, fellow Morsels are happy to share their excitement. By providing a consistent space where we are present in each other’s daily lives, the residential college serves as an anchor point for how students navigate four years of university life.”

Catherine Panter-Brick,

the Bruce A. and Davi-Ellen Chabner Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global A≠airs, has been the Morse head of college since July 2015. She teaches courses on health equity and humanitarian interventions and publishes extensively on mental health, violence, and resilience in adversity, having directed more than forty interdisciplinary projects situated in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. She has coedited seven books, most recently Pathways to Peace (2014) and Medical Humanitarianism: Ethnographies of Practice (2015), and received the Lucy Mair Medal & Marsh Prize for Applied Anthropology, an award that honors excellence in the active recognition of human dignity.

Angela (Angie) Gleason has served as the dean of Morse since 2017. Her research and teaching focus on the legal and social history of early medieval Europe, primarily those areas outside the former Roman Empire. She is particularly interested in how kinship-based societies organized and kept order within customary legal systems, and, perhaps more interestingly, how they spent their leisure time. Among the seminars she has taught are Civilization of the Early Medieval West; Brehon Law; Language and Society of Early Ireland; and the History of Sport. As a lecturer in History, she encourages students to work with primary sources to investigate and understand early societies in their own words. Her seminars are also often writing-intensive, with the aim of helping students develop the analytical skills to write well-reasoned, well-supported, and persuasive academic arguments.

A Dean of One’s Own.Residential college deans serve as chief academic and personal advisers to students in their col-leges. Morse College Dean Angela Gleason says the college system o≠ers a genuine and stable com-munity in a world of constant but often virtual contact. The college system provides a means for students to develop connections and relationships not just in class but at dinner, at social events, and in the many common spaces of the college such as the buttery, the library, and the courtyard.

Whenever she can, Dean Gleason attends concerts, shows, and athletic competitions. “Perhaps because I grew up in a small community, I’m inclined to be an avid and loyal fan, whether as a spectator at an athletic event, an audience member at a student

concert, or a participant in IMs. It’s a pleasure to live and work within the college, and a true privilege to assist in the challenges and share in the accomplishments that happen every day.” But advis-ing is the foundation of her job.

“I advise students on nearly every aspect of their academic life, from selecting courses to choosing a major to taking advantage of the seemingly limitless opportuni-ties at Yale, such as study abroad programs and fellowships,” says Dean Gleason. “I’m also a personal adviser to students, especially when things get in the way of academics, such as illness, loss, conflicts with roommates, and, perhaps most commonly, when hard work and the desire to do well don’t lead to the results the student expected.”

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Debate This.(Pierson Dining Hall conversations in progress)

Meghanlata Gupta and Ethan

Brown are comparing their research experiences and debating the ethics of informing human research subjects about how their data might be used and shared. Ethan relates the issue to our expectations of privacy on social media platforms.

First-year students Tasnim Islam, Claudia Meng, and Diego Meucci are talking about their plans for going abroad during the summer. Tasnim writes for the Yale Globalist, which is sponsoring a reporting trip to Rwanda to research girls’ education. Diego is getting recommendations for his upcoming French language program from Claudia, who has dual citizenship with France.

Students Malini Wimmer and Hannah Armistead are talking with Professor Sandy Chang, associate dean for science education, about paths to medical school for students who major in the humanities and social sciences.

They may run out of your favorite veggie-Caesar wrap, but no matter what time you arrive or whom you sit with, no dining hall will have a shortage of interesting conversa-tion. “Dinner for me was something extraordinarily important,” says a recent alum. “I’d sit down across from someone and ask them what

they did that day and the answer would be remarkable. So much of my Yale education came from talking to people over dinner.” Says another alum, “I only thought I was open-minded before Yale. Debating an issue could turn my views upside down in a single conversation. That was the fun of it.”

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Decoding the Colleges.(Residential College rundown)

College Shield Architecture Style Points How We Boola Boola

Berkeley Collegiate Gothic, with a touch of Tudor; built in 1934

Delicious reputation: as test kitchen for Yale’s Sustainable Food Project, Berkeley pioneered a sustainable menu for all the colleges

Annual snowball fight, North Court vs. South Court

Branford Collegiate Gothic; opened 1933; home toHarkness Tower and its bells

Robert Frost described our courtyard as “the most beautiful college courtyard in America”

Independence Day, when Branford declares its indepen-dence from Yale in a day of barbecues and parties

Davenport

a.k.a. D’Port

One of its facades is Collegiate Gothic, the other is Georgian; opened in 1933

The Gnome, who watches over us, when he’s not being abducted

Annual Louisiana crawfish boil and Cajun music ball; Take Your Professor to Dinner Nights

Timothy

Dwight

a.k.a. TD

Georgian; opened in 1935 Dumpling Night; pumpkin carving and gingerbread baking; TD art studio gallery shows

TD’s motto and cheer is “Àshe!” which means “We make it happen” in Yorùbá

Jonathan

Edwards

a.k.a. JE

Collegiate Gothic; opened in 1933

Hundreds of tulips planted each year; Culture Draw, a ra±e of tickets to Broadway and beyond

Great Awakening Fall Festival; the formal Spider Ball; JE SUX!

Benjamin

Franklin

Collegiate Gothic; opened in 2017

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, edited and published by Yale scholars, have reached 43 volumes, with four to go

Mural painting in the basem*nt; the bike repair shop, ideal for our location next to the Farmington Canal Greenway

Grace Hopper Collegiate Gothic; opened in 1933

The Cabaret in the basem*nt, with hugely popular student shows

Trolley Night: Clang, clang, clang goes the party

Morse Modern; designed by Eero Saarinen; built in 1961 with a 14-story tower and no right angles

Our sculpture, Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, by Claes Oldenburg

Great Morse Easter Egg Hunt; Italian Night with espresso, tiramisu, and an Italian film

Pauli Murray Collegiate Gothic; opened in 2017

Our namesake was a scholar, lawyer, and civil and women’s rights activist who helped change the landscape of opportunity in the U.S.

Our college mascot, the Lemur; the MY talent show; and our own sprung-floor theater

Pierson Georgian; built in 1933

Our traditional letterpress print shop, with six presses and 1,000+ cases of hand type

Tuesday Night Club; our cheer: P is for the P in Pierson College, I is for the I in Pierson College …

Saybrook Collegiate Gothic; completed in 1933

We’re in a chase scene in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; our own recording studio

Most recent Tyng Cup champions; always respond “Saybrook!” when asked, “Say what?”

Silliman Varied: Collegiate Gothic, modified French Renaissance, Georgian; completed in 1940

Biggest college; biggest courtyard; our own handbell

group, The Silliringers

Sillifest, a year-end carnival; The Acorn, a sustainable café with specialty goods; Silligloos in the courtyard

Ezra Stiles Modern masterpiece, designed by Eero Saarinen; opened in 1962

Our memorial moose mascot in the Dining Hall; annual Student Film Festival

Medieval (K)night Festival; sidewalk Parisian bistro in the spring

Trumbull Quintessential Yale/Collegiate Gothic; completed in 1933

Potty Court, where our gargoyle “Thinker” is enthroned and decorated every year

Rumble in Trumbull (bounce-house “fights”); Pamplona (running of the [Trum]Bulls around campus)

Spine-Tyngling Fun.(Intramural sports)

So you played sports in high school but aren’t quite hardcore enough to suit up for the Bulldogs. You’re in luck. The residential college intramural scene o≠ers a chance to continue your career at a surprisingly high level of competition or to start playing a new sport—not to mention a way to prove that your college reigns supreme. The Tyng Cup, annually awarded for overall excellence to

the college accumulating the greatest number of points through intramural play, was first presented in 1933. The Tyng continues to be the most coveted of all intra-mural awards, spawning com-petitive rivalries that make IMs a way of life for former high school all-stars and P.E. dropouts alike.

Much of the above first appeared in “Intramu-rals at Yale are spine-Tyngling fun” by Aaron Lichtig (1999) writing for the Yale Herald.

Fall

Flag FootballVolleyballPickleballSoccerCross CountryTable Tennis

CoedCoedCoedCoedCoedCoed

Winter

HoopsHoopsBroomballInner-Tube

Water PoloBowlingSwim Meet

Men (A,B,C) WomenCoedCoed

CoedCoed

Spring

DodgeballBadmintonHoops PlayoffsHoops PlayoffsIndoor SoccerGolfSpikeball

CoedCoedMen (A,B,C)WomenCoedCoedCoed

More than Oolong.(College Teas)

College Teas are informal Q&A’s hosted by the head of each residential college and often cohosted by campus organizations such as the Film Society or the Yale Daily News. The teas give small groups of students an intimate opportunity to pick the brains of world leaders, thinkers, and talents. Members of the hosting college get first dibs on front-row seats.

Recent guests

Trumbull Lois Lowry, author of The Giver; Joan Acocella, dance and book reviewer for The New Yorker; Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter; Karen Diver, former chair of Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

Branford Ai-jen Poo, director of National Domestic Workers Alliance; Robert Pinsky, former U.S. poet laureate; Chris Bridges, a.k.a. Ludacris, rapper and actor; Ira Helfand, co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility.

Silliman Nihad Awad, activist and CEO of Council on American-Islamic Relations; David France, founder of the arts-for-

social-change initiative Revolution of Hope; Ti≠any Pham, founder and CEO of Mogul; Evan Wolfson, gay rights advocate.

Ezra Stiles Amitava Kumar, author and journalist; Benjamin Grant, visual artist and founder of Daily Overview; Angélique Kidjo, singer-songwriter and activist; Eli Kintisch, science journalist and author of Hack the Planet; Cherríe Moraga, poet and playwright.

Davenport Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; Conchita Cruz, founder and co-director of Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project; Erin Morley, Metropolitan Opera singer; Daniel Ziv, documentary filmmaker and social justice advocate.

Timothy Dwight TwoSet Violin, comedy music duo and YouTube sensation; Deqo Mohamed, physician and CEO of DHAF in Somalia; Clemantine Wamariya, author of The Girl Who Smiled Beads; George Takei, actor and activist.

Grace Hopper Leigh Bardugo, author of The Grisha Trilogy; Michael Twitty, food blogger; Claudia Rankine, author and poet; Nevline Nnaji, director of Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights.

Morse Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State; Kevin Olusola, member of Pentatonix; Robert S. Ford, former U.S. ambassador to Syria; Lauren Gallo, global head of content marketing at Snap Inc.

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Bright College Years.(Defining Yale through friendship)

“Time and change shall naught avail / To break the friendships formed at Yale.” from “Bright College Years,” Yale’s alma mater

It’s no accident that playwright John Guare, who wrote Six Degrees of Separation (theorizing that everyone in the world is connected by no more than five friends of other friends), went to Yale. As one senior put it, that kind of connectedness— which morphs into new friend-ships and affects other interactions down the line—“is what Yale feeds on.” Recognizing one’s unique impact on people here and their impact on you is central to the Yale experience. These bonds very often begin in the residential colleges (you’ll soon learn that all roads lead to the residential col-leges). The twelve friends on these pages all belong to Morse College. Here they talk about chance meetings, their impact on one another, and friend-ship at Yale.

“Going to a restaurant in New Haven has become a favorite tradition. On birthdays it’s Prime 16, a juicy burger place, or Pepe’s, a New Haven pizza classic. Whenever it’s Thai food, I’m given full ordering power for the family-style meal. Once I booked out the Morse kitchen to have a Thai cooking session with friends. Aaron, Ethan, Mark, Caroline, and Hannah helped with the chopping. On the menu were stir-fry vegetables with oyster sauce, Thai-style omelet with fresh shrimp, green curry with eggplant, and rice I had brought from Thailand. It’s a challenge when you’re trying to

time a bunch of di≠erent stir-fry dishes and coordinate preparation with five other people! In the end the dinner was a delicious success. Sometimes late at night I go into the kitchen to cook my own food as a way to de-stress. I’ll call Richard to come and help me finish what I’ve made as a fun study break. He’s a fan of my Thai milk tea.” Hanoi

Hanoi, Mark (above left), Ethan (above right), and

Aaron were assigned to be suitemates in their first year. They realized

they all played instruments and started a band called

Suite Spot.

Lamthran “Hanoi” Hantrakul(above center)

Hometown Bangkok, Thailand

Majors Applied Physics, Music

Activities

Yale Jazz Ensemble, WYBC Radio, Asian American Cultural Center, Salsa dancing, CEID Workshop designer

“Deena, Caroline, and I have organized several late-night Zumba-style dance parties. Once we choreographed a dance routine to “Countdown” by Beyoncé. After about an hour of teamwork and laughter at how silly we looked in the dance mirrors—after all, Caroline is the only real dancer among us—we recorded a video of our finished dance on Caroline’s computer. It’s fun to remember the moments of spontaneous goofiness that define our friendship.” Hannah

Hannah Untereiner(above right)

Hometown

Takoma Park, MD

Major

American Studies

Activities

Whim ’n Rhythm (a cappella), Tangled Up in Blue (American folksinging group), Harvest preorientation trip leader, French language tutor, Morse College Buttery manager

Hanoi invited Richard (right) to take an Electrical

Engineering class with him. Richard says it’s a

course he “probably never would have considered, but it became one of my favorite courses at Yale”

and inspired his participa-tion in Bulldog Bots, Yale’s undergraduate

robotics organization.

Richard, Danny, and

Mark go sledding on

the big hill by the Divinity

School during snowstorms.

Deena and Danny (below)

are involved in the Yale

Hunger and Homelessness Action Project.

Deena (left) goes to every one

of Hannah’s performances

with TUIB, Yale’s folksinging group. Over

the years, she’s learned the words to all their songs.

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“The most important factor in my closest friendships is how much we prioritize each other, even in the face of homework or extra curriculars or other life.”Caroline

Aaron Effron(above)

Hometown Brookline, MA

Major Physics

Activities

Society of Orpheus and Bacchus (a cappella), intramural soccer co-captain

“At 1 a.m. before a snow day, Hanoi was showing everyone some music he’d been working on. Mark got his trombone to play along, and after five minutes, he, Ethan, Hanoi, and I were all playing our respective instruments. Then Ethan’s girl-friend joined in on the vocals, and we jammed for two hours. The best lesson I’ve learned outside of the classroom is to cherish every moment with friends. It’s tempting to have a concrete plan for every moment to maximize productivity and happiness, but it’s just as important to let a meal that was going to be an hour be 2+ hours if you’re having a truly great conversation.” Aaron

Aaron and Carlee (below) met through a mutual friend the summer before their first year, so Carlee

remembers Aaron as

her first Yale friend. They get dinner

together with a group of

friends every Sunday.

Carlee and

Deena have been suite-mates since sophom*ore

year.

Danny, Aaron, and Ethan know Deena

through Yale Hillel, where she was co-president in her junior year. They regularly

attend Friday night Shabbat dinners together.

Kevin (above)and Danny

compete together in Final Cut, a university-

wide “Iron Chef ”-style culinary competition.

Kevin and Jessica met in a music history class and also took Roman Architecture

and Opera Libretto: “subjects that were o≠

our radar but turned out to be fascinating.”

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Caroline asked Jessica

(above, second from left) to go running with her

in the first week of their first year, and they’ve

been running together regularly ever since—even

though Caroline says “Jessica is much more

athletic than I am!”

Caroline Andersson(above, second from right)

Hometown Hudson, OH

Major Mathematics & Philosophy

Activities

Morse College Head First-Year Counselor, Proof of the Pudding (jazz a cappella), Yale Dance Theater, Steppin’ Out (step team) president, Harvest preorienta-tion trip leader

“My friendships at Yale are amazing. Together we have talked excitedly for hours about classes, despaired about mountains of homework in those same classes, laughed and celebrated when we got through midterms, watched each other’s incredible performances, had our hearts broken, tried new things and met new people, made mistakes, and danced until our legs couldn’t move any more. We have found so much joy in learning more about each other.” Caroline

Met at Yale

Bob Woodward and John Kerry

George W. Bush and Garry Trudeau

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Bill Clinton

Allison Williams and Kurt Schneider

Sigourney Weaver and Meryl Streep

Angela Bassett and Tony Shalhoub

Frances McDormand and David Henry Hwang

Jodie Foster and Jennifer Beals

David Duchovny and Paul Giamatti

Edward Norton and Jennifer Connelly

Paul Sciarra and Ben Silbermann

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Breaking News.(A few of the year’s top undergraduate stories)

A Force for Change

Senior Keera Annamaneni, a Political Science major, won a Yale Je≠erson Award for public service. Committed to working at the intersection of social justice, public service, and journalism, she was the producer of the award-winning documentary short film 120 Years, which tells the story of New Haven native Scott Lewis, who was wrongfully convicted of homicide and served almost twenty years of a 120-year sentence before his exoneration and release in 2014.

Real-World Problem-Solving

First-years Maria Bambrick-Santoyo, Connor Mann, Joe Murphy, and Kaitlyn Sandor—all students in Introduction to Engineering, Innovation, and Design—worked with con-servators and scientists in the Egyptian department at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on a vibration-dampening system to protect the depart-ment’s fragile wooden co∞ns.

Snackpass

Two years after its launch by Neuroscience major Jamie Marshall and recent alum Kevin Tan, the Snackpass app—which lets students order ahead, earn rewards, and connect with friends by sending gifts—has expanded to eleven campuses and earned a $21 million invest-ment from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Debate Kudos

Seniors Will Arnesen and Shruti Baxi made it to the final round of the five-day World Universities Debating Championship in Bangkok. Both finished as top-ten debaters, and Baxi was named the best woman debater.

50 Women 150

In conjunction with the campus-wide celebration of the 50th anniversary of coeducation at Yale College and the 150th anniversary of women students at Yale, seniors Valentina Connell and Mari Melin-Corcoran each curated an exhibition at Sterling Memorial Library. Connell, a Political Science major, looked at the evolution of housing policy and residential life since women were admitted in 1969; and Achitecture major Melin-Corcoran’s exhibit explored the history of women at Yale School of Architecture.

Across the Pond

Seven seniors—and two recent Yale College grads—were named Rhodes, Gates Cambridge, and Churchill scholars, among the most coveted awards for postgraduate study. As Rhodes scholars at Oxford, Lily Moore-Eissenberg, a double major in English and Philosophy, will pursue a B.Phil. in philosophy; Christina Pao, a double major in Political Science and Classics, will study for a master’s in sociology and demography; Economics major Liana Wang will work toward a master’s in

politics; and Political Science major Marwan Safar Jalani, the first Yale recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship for the Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine region, will pursue a master’s in com-parative government. As a Gates scholar at Cambridge, Anin Luo, a double major in MB&B and History, will pursue a master’s in history and philosophy of science and medicine. And as Churchill scholars in Cambridge, Mathematics major Catherine Lee will pursue a master’s in math, and Computer Science major Jasmine Stone will work toward a master’s in engineering with a focus on neuroscience.

To the Stars

Senior Astrophysics major Katie Melbourne won a Distinguished Undergraduate Research Award from the Universities Space Research Association, recogniz-ing students who are poised to make significant contributions to aerospace engineering and space science. Her research focuses on M dwarf stars with exoplanets.

Bridge-Building

U.S. Navy SEAL veteran James Hatch, at 52 the oldest first-year in the Class of 2023, published an essay about his first semes-ter at Yale in the online writers’ forum Medium that went viral. Enrolled in the Directed Studies program, he wrote of his classes as “a place where people can assault ideas openly and discuss them vigorously and respectfully” and described the essay as “my first brick in attempting to build

a bridge between the people here at Yale and those like me before I arrived here.”

Invisible Hands

In response to COVID-19, junior Liam Elkind cofounded Invisible Hands with recent alum Simone Policano. Volunteers provide free delivery of groceries and other supplies to those most at risk in New York City, with plans to expand to other locations.

Boola Boola

Trailing by 17 in the fourth quarter, the football team staged a dramatic comeback in The Game, defeating Harvard in double OT, 50–43, to win its second Ivy title in three years. Senior quarterback Kurt Rawlings, who threw two touchdown passes in the final 88 seconds of regulation to force the OT, owns every passing record in Eli history. Ten Yalies representing seven sports made the fall 2019 Ivy League All-Academic team: seniors Frances Arnautou and Izzy Simqu (volleyball), Aerial Chavarin and Noelle Higginson (soccer), Bridget Condie (field hockey), and JP Shohfi and Sterling Strother (football); and juniors Nick Dahl (cross country), Kayley DeLay (cross country), and Mark Winhoffer (soccer). The volleyball team won its eighth Ivy champion-ship in ten years, the men’s soccer team won its first since 2005, and the men’s basketball team won its second consecu-tive Ivy title. First-year fencer

Emme Zhou took the bronze medal in women’s foil at the Junior Olympic Championships in Ohio. Sophom*ore golfer Ami Gianchandani won the individual championship at the Princeton Invitational for the second year. Senior Jordan Bruner of the men’s basketball team recorded the first triple-double in school history in a win over Cornell. At the end of the fall rowing season, the women’s varsity eight was the second collegiate finisher and top Ivy finisher in the Championship Eight at the famed Head of the Charles in Boston. And as last year’s edition of this viewbook went to press, heavyweight crew won its third straight national title, and all boats medaled for the first time in Yale’s history.

Green Innovation

The university approved a Yale College Council proposal spear-headed by sophom*ores Abey Philip and Keon Azar to establish a $100,000 Green Innovation Fund for student projects that promote energy reduction and environmental action on campus. Winning projects will be launched in the fall.

Space Engineering

Junior Andrew Reardon, an Electrical Engineering major, won $5,000 from the NASA Connecticut Space Grant Consortium to design a system of wearable sensors that astro-nauts can use to control an external robotic arm without leaving their spacecraft.

The latest stats on who goes to Yale1,554 Class of 2023

50states + D.C., Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico

57countries

50% men

50%women

51% minority students

13%

international students

17%

will be the first in their family to graduate from a four-year college or university

63%

from public schools

37%

from private or parochial schools

64%

receive financial assistance

20%

are Pell Grant recipients

92%

ranked in the top tenth of high school graduating class

30%

major in the Arts and Humanities

35%

major in the Social Sciences

34%

major in STEM

99%

of first-years return sophom*ore year

95%

graduate within five years

84%

live on campus

59%

have jobs on campus

11%

have double majors

47%

participate in community service

80%+participate in inter-collegiate, club, or intramural athletics

79%of recent graduates report their intention to pursue an advanced degree within five years, and 17% begin an advanced degree immediately after graduation

Studies. Whether they major in the social sciences, humanities, or arts, in science, mathematics, or engineering, Yale students graduate with a thirst for learning, a greater appreciation for creativity, and a respect for education that they bring to positions of leader ship and civic life.Peter Salovey, President of Yale University

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Blue Booking.(When shopping and parties are academic)

Yale is one of the only universities in the country that lets you test-drive your classes. During

“shopping period” at the start of each semester, students can visit dozens of classes that interest them to decide which they will actually take. Preparing to shop is a much anticipated ritual in and of itself, called “Blue Booking” (from the days of hard copies only, when the blue-covered catalog listing approximately 2,000 courses was

dog-eared, highlighted, and Post-It flagged by the start of shopping period). Today, Elis have been known to message each other around the world with word that the new Blue Book is online. Blue Booking takes place around multiple screens, and the making of wish lists of courses is done individually, in small groups of friends, and en masse at parties.

TanTan Wang Hometown

Warren, nj

Major

Computing & the Arts

Class

Junior

SundayEveningI’m just back in New Haven from a retreat with my a cappella group, the Yale Spizzwinks(?), and it’s great to finally see my Saybrook College suitemates again and catch up on what everyone did over the summer. Some of us held internships in New York, while others traveled abroad for language study. We are a pretty diverse bunch—half of us play on an athletic team, and the other half participate in the Naval ROTC program.

Monday10:30 am I hop across the street from Saybrook to the Loria Center for a class called Asian

American History. As the lecture begins about what it means to be Asian American, I’m instantly hooked.

11:30 am Next I sit in on Information

Security in the Real World. It seems really interesting, covering topics that range from cryptography to social engineering to security breaches! Our professor will be inviting a few guest speakers over the course of the semester, including the former deputy director of the National Security Agency and a guest from Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit. And since the Blue Book is online, I was able to find out that a bunch of my friends are taking the course as well.

12:45 pmI grab lunch with friends at Saybrook and learn about another interesting class, The

Screenwriter’s Craft. But I don’t think I’ll be able to fit it into my schedule. Oh well, maybe next year!

1:30 pm At the School of Art, I check out Typography, a fascinating studio class that I’ll be taking for my major, Computing & the Arts. The first project of the semester involves working on visual arrangements of type by hand.

EveningAfter dinner and rehearsal with the Spizzwinks, I take a last look at my schedule for tomorrow. It’s pretty straightforward, but I just want to be sure.

Tuesday9:30 am I’m back at the School of Art to shop Introduction

to Graphic Design. Even though this is an introductory studio course, it’s still very intimate. I enter the room to find about fifty people shopping the thirteen-person class. We all have to do a brief assignment as a way for the professor to determine who will make it into the class.

1:00 pm After a quick lunch, I get to work on the assignment: our professor wants to see what we can do with a few

sheets of paper and a pair of scissors. The prompt asks us to create four compositions, one embodying “Order,” one

“Chaos,” one “Public,” and one “Private.” The rules are straightforward: we have to work in a predetermined grid in 90-degree angles, but we can vary the length and thickness of our lines. With limited space in the course, I’ve got to do a good job!

EveningIt’s been a long time since we’ve all been together, so my suitemates and I go to a favorite local restaurant to celebrate the o∞cial start of a new semester. After dinner, rehearsal continues for the Spizzwinks. I stay a little late to rehearse a dance with a few other ’Winks that we put in for one of our songs, Marvin Gaye’s “I Heard It through the Grapevine.”

Wednesday 9:00 am Wednesday morning is a repeat of Monday. After breakfast with my suitemates, I get ready for the second meetings of Asian American

History and Information

Security in the Real World.

12:30 pmI head back to central campus for lunch with a few friends.

After learning that Asian

American History is only taught every other year, I decide to take it!

1:30 pmBack to Typography.

7:00 pmAfter dinner, I go to the first meeting of the weekly Junior

Art Seminar, a required course for my major that I’m excited to take. It addresses the role of art in visual culture and other topics in art history.

8:50 pmI sprint to Dwight Hall on Old Campus for the big a cappella rush event, known as Dwight Jam. After new students listen to each group perform, they rush to sign up for auditions. I’m a rush manager for my group, so I stay until the very end.

Late nightIt’s been a long night’s work, and I head over to the always open Good Nature Market with the other rush managers to grab a sandwich. Then o≠ to bed!

Thursday 8:00 am I wake up to an email saying that I’ve made it into Introduction to Graphic

Design! Once I finish rejoicing at breakfast, I head

to Science Hill to check out another class, Computer

Graphics. It introduces mathematical concepts related to two- and three-dimensional computer graphics, and it’s an important course for my major. But its meeting time overlaps with Introduction

to Graphic Design, so I can’t take both.

10:30 amDeciding to save Computer

Graphics for next year—that’s the beauty of shopping period!—I confirm my spot in Introduction to Graphic

Design and settle in for the second class meeting.

9:00 pmAfter a Spizzwinks rehearsal, some friends and I catch a movie at the local theater. It’s one we promised over the summer to see together.

Friday9:30 am I run around getting my schedule signed by my academic adviser and my residential college dean. In the end, I’ve decided to register for Asian American History, Junior Art Seminar, Typography, Information

Security in the Real

World, and Introduction

to Graphic Design.

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Yale’s “shopping period” at the start of every semester allows students to visit classes they might want to take before finalizing their schedules. Here, a few wish lists from recent semesters.

Shopping Lists.First-Year

Seminars are

small classes just for first-years, with some of Yale’s most dis-tinguished faculty members. Some seminars provide an introduction to a par-ticular field of study; others take an inter-disciplinary approach to a variety of topics. All seminars provide an intimate context for developing rela-tionships with faculty members and peers.

Directed Studies

is a selective first-year interdisciplinary program in Western civilization that includes three yearlong courses —literature, philosophy, and historical and political thought—in which students read the central works of the Western tradition.

Science and

Engineering

Undergraduate

Research As one of the world’s foremost research universities, Yale offers countless opportunities for independent under-graduate research projects. Students in the science and engineering disciplines can begin conduct-ing original research as early as their first year through access to Yale’s more than 1,200 faculty laboratories in 50+ degree-granting programs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, and Yale School of the Environ-ment. And First-Year Summer Research Fellowships annually provide support for more than 100 science and engineer-ing first-years.

STARS (Science, Technology, and Research Scholars) provides undergradu-ates an opportunity to combine course-based study, research, men-torship, networking, and career planning in the fields of science and technology. The program is designed to support women, minority, economicallly underprivileged, and other historically underrepresented stu-dents in the sciences, engineering, and mathematics. More than 100 students each year participate in the academic year and summer

STARS programs.

International

Study Understanding the dynamics of a glo-balizing world begins in the classroom, with studies ranging from international develop-ment to statecraft and power, from ethnicity and culture to public health. But Yale recog-nizes that experience abroad is essential to preparing students for global citizenship and leadership. Such experience may include course work in foreign universities, intensive language training, directed research, independent projects, internships, laboratory

work, and volunteer service. (See pages 52–55)

Summer Awards

Yale’s Domestic Summer Award (DSA) supports undergradu-ates on financial aid who are pursuing unpaid arts apprentice-ships or internships with nonprofits, NGOs, government agencies, and laboratory or other research facilities. It complements the International Summer Award (ISA) — unique in the Ivy Leage — which supports students on

financial aid who pur-sue summer learning experiences abroad. Every DSA recipient receives a $4,000 stipend. The ISA stipend is capped at $14,500.

Preparing for

Medical, Law, or

Business School Yale students have an outstanding record of admission to top medical, business, and law schools, but Yale College offers no pre-professional degree programs. Students here prepare for entrance to pro-fessional schools by choosing any one of Yale’s undergraduate majors and working with a Yale adviser who knows what is needed to advance to the next level of education. So it’s not unusual to find an English or Political Science major going on to medical school or an Environmental Studies or Chinese major going on to law or business school.

Academic Advis-

ing is a collective effort by the residential colleges, academic departments, and vari-ous offices connected to the Yale College Dean’s Office. The residential college dean serves as a student’s primary adviser for all academic and personal concerns. College deans live in residential colleges and supervise the advising networks in the college. Students also have a first-year adviser who is a Yale faculty member or administrator affiliated with the advisees’ resi-dential colleges. Each academic department has a director of under-graduate studies (DUS) who can discuss the department’s course offerings and require-ments for the major.

2,000+ Courses o≠ered each year in more than

70 academic programs and departments.

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80+ Majors.

6:1Student-to- faculty ratio.

2:1 Ratio of declared

STEM majors to STEM faculty.

3+3=breadth There is no specific class you have to take at

Yale, but students are required to learn broadly and deeply. Depth is covered in one’s major.

Breadth is covered by taking courses in three study areas (the humanities and arts, the sciences, and the social sciences) and three skill areas (writing,

quantitative reasoning, and foreign language).

1:1 Classes range from

one-on-one tutorials to a small seminar to a

lecture course of several hundred students.

73%Of Yale College

courses enroll fewer than 20 students.

26%Enroll fewer than 10.

40Approximate number of the 2,000+ courses

that enroll more than 100 students.

84 First-Year Seminars in 2019–2020, each open only to fifteen or twenty first-years.

63Languages

taught at Yale, from Akkadian

to isiZulu.

1,000+Faculty members in Yale’s

Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

1,306International study, research, and internship experiences

undertaken by Yale College students in 2018–2019.

$10,500,000Fellowship and International Summer Award (ISA) funding for international study, research, and internship experiences

undertaken by Yale College students in 2018–2019.

62% Of seniors in the most recent

graduating class participated in international study, research,

and/or internships while at Yale.

90%Medical school admission

rate for Yale College graduates (national

average, 41%).

15,000,000+Holdings in Yale’s library, making

it one of the largest university library systems in the United States.

200+Summer fellowships for

undergraduate science and engineering students each year.

1,200+ Science, math, and engineering

labs at Yale College and the graduate and professional schools.

46%Percentage of Yale College

students graduating with a STEM major who are women.

60+ Creative and

performing arts grants awarded to

student playwrights, dancers, writers, musicians, and

film makers each semester.

24/7 Hours the Center for

Engineering Innovation and Design is

open for student use.

250,000+ Objects in the

permanent collection of the Yale University

Art Gallery.

36/8The degree requirements

for graduation are 36 term courses in eight

terms, about a third in the major. Students

typically take four or five courses per term.

99% First-years who return

sophom*ore year.

Majors in

Yale College

African American Studies

African Studies

American Studies

Anthropology

Applied Mathematics

Applied Physics

Archaeological Studies

Architecture

Art

Astronomy

Astrophysics

Chemistry

Classical Civilization

Classics (Greek, Latin, or Greek & Latin)

Cognitive Science

Comparative Literature

Computer Science

Computer Science & Economics

Computer Science & Mathematics

Computer Science & Psychology

Computing & the Arts

Earth & Planetary Sciences

East Asian Languages & Literatures (Chinese or Japanese)

East Asian Studies

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Economics

Economics & Mathematics

Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Engineering: Biomedical, Chemical, Electrical, Environmental, or Mechanical

Engineering Sciences: Chemical, Electrical, Environmental, or Mechanical

English

Environmental Studies

Ethics, Politics, & Economics

Ethnicity, Race, & Migration

Film & Media Studies

French

German Studies

Global Affairs

Greek, Ancient & Modern

History

History of Art

History of Science, Medicine, & Public Health

Humanities

Italian

Judaic Studies

Latin American Studies

Linguistics

Mathematics

Mathematics & Philosophy

Mathematics & Physics

Modern Middle East Studies

Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry

Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology

Music

Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations

Neuroscience

Philosophy

Physics

Physics & Geosciences

Physics & Philosophy

Political Science

Portuguese

Psychology

Religious Studies

Russian

Russian & East European Studies

Sociology

South Asian Studies*

Spanish

Special Divisional Major

Statistics & Data Science

Theater & Performance Studies

Urban Studies

Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

*May be taken only as a second major.

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School of the

New Haven Green

OldCampus

CrossCampus

Science Hill

Hillhouse

MedicalCenter

a ten-minute ride to West Campus

a five- minute walk

a five- minute walk

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College Meets University.(One of the world’s greatest research universities at your fingertips)

Physically and philosophi-cally, Yale College for undergraduates is at the heart of Yale University. An extraordinary commit-ment to undergraduate teaching sets Yale apart from other great research universities in the world. More than 70 depart-ments and programs offer approximately 2,000 undergraduate courses each year—many of them taught by Yale’s most distinguished historians, literary critics, scientists and engineers, math-ematicians, artists and composers, poets, and social scientists. Faculty call it a stunningly vibrant intellectual atmosphere that can’t happen at undergraduate-only institutions or at research universities that do not focus on teaching.

School of

Engineering &

Applied Science Join fellow creators from across Yale in the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design to collaborate, create, and share functional solutions to meaningful problems.

School of Drama

Get a student season pass to the Yale Repertory Theatre and see five plays a year at one of America’s lead-ing professional theaters. Read original manuscripts from Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night. Study light plots from the original production of Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess. Audition for Yale School of Drama and Yale Cabaret shows. Put on student productions at the University Theatre, with 96 feet of fly space and seating for 640.

School of Public

Health Take a course in epidemiology in conjunction with an independent research project you’re working on in a lab on Science Hill.

School of Music

Explore the resources of the Gilmore Music Library, with one of the largest collec-tions of music scores, sound recordings, and music research materials in the United States. Take lessons for credit with School of Music faculty. Attend free concerts at Sprague Hall given by Music School students and visiting performers.

School of Art

Discover the next Chuck Close (M.F.A. 1964) at the School’s open studios. Participate in group shows in the same gallery in Green Hall where master’s students mount their thesis shows. Attend a graduate painting critique by visiting artists.

Law School Have lunch in the Law School dining hall with Constitutional Law professor Akhil Amar. Listen to speeches by visiting Supreme Court Justices. Wander the Law School stacks. The Law Library is also a favorite study spot.

School of

Architecture Meet with professors and grad students in Rudolph Hall (named for its architect, Paul Rudolph, faculty 1958–65). Check out student shows and curated exhibitions in the Architecture Gallery. Attend an evening lecture by one of the School’s professors, who are luminaries in the field, includ-ing the dean, Deborah Berke.

Take a walk to the Sterling Divinity Quadrangle to enjoy the quiet Georgian- style campus. The courtyard is a great getaway when you want to read outdoors without the distractions of central campus. View an exhibition of the artifacts and documents from the personal papers of Protestant missionaries who served in China during the first half of the twentieth century.

School of

Management

Enroll for a course at SOM and rub elbows with the next generation of corporate and NGO leaders and entre-preneurs. Become a Silver Scholar—one of a select handful of seniors who are admitted to SOM directly from Yale College, some of whom are awarded a merit scholarship for the two years of study.

Graduate School

of Arts & Sciences

Continue conversations from graduate-level seminars over co≠ee and mu∞ns at the newly renovated Humanities Quadrangle on York Street. Take graduate courses in science and engineering, almost all of which are open to undergraduates. On Friday afternoons, join undergradu-ates and graduate students in the Physics department for pizza and talks on current research. Make heads turn as you graduate wearing your yellow hood indicating that you’ve earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.

School of Nursing

Nursing’s home on West Campus is just a 10-minute ride on the Yale Shuttle. Its one-year GEPN program for college grads with no previous nursing education prepares them to pursue a master’s in Nursing. GEPN students develop observational and auscultative skills at the Yale Center for British Art and the School of Music.

Environment

Take one of the School’s graduate-level courses. Earn a five-year bachelor’s and master’s in Forestry, Forest Science, Environmental Science, or Environmental Management. Partner with the School’s grad students and faculty on environmental initiatives through Yale’s O∞ce of Sustainability. Bookmark the School’s website to keep up with the many events happening each week.

School of Medicine

On Yale’s medical campus, just three blocks from the College, you don’t have to be pre-med to take advantage of the extraordinary research opportunities available to undergraduates—in fields ranging from genetics to biomedical engineering and nanoscience, studying cancer, neurological disorders, and cardiovascular disease. Take classes taught by medical school professors, work in their labs, shadow doctors on their rounds, or volunteer at Yale New Haven Hospital. Apply to do fieldwork in Peru with your biochem professor and perhaps discover new species of fungi and bacteria living in plant tissues.

Divinity School Institute of Sacred

Music Find yourself at the interdisciplinary center of the Divinity and Music schools through the Institute’s concerts, art exhibitions, films, literary readings, plays, and lectures. Hear world premieres of new choral compositions. Meet scholars debating divides between liturgical traditions.

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Eavesdropping on Professors.(Great minds talk about teaching)

One fall afternoon some of Yale’s (and the world’s) leading thinkers in history, biomedical engineering, evolutionary biology, religious studies, literature, psychology, biochemistry, astrophys-ics, earth and planetary sciences, and philosophy got together for a conver-sation. Some knew each other and others did not, but they came to similar conclusions in talking about why they teach, the uniqueness of the Yale undergraduate, and why common notions about large research universities aren’t true here.

Q People here always

say Yale is devoted to undergraduate teaching. How can that be true?

Stephen Pitti “I’ve always loved the fact that at Yale I can present the newest research in my field to our undergraduates. And when I do, their feedback inevitably prompts me to think di≠erently about what I’ve been writing, to change how I present material in future semesters and even rethink my own research questions.

Each semester I enjoy in-class discus-sions about immigration, California politics, youth cultures, and Latino civil rights that carry over to my o∞ce hours or long lunch sessions with students in a residential college dining hall.”

Michael Della Rocca “I find that myself. When I’m teaching, I’m not just teaching philosophy. I’m doing philosophy with the students. I really advance my own research and we come to philosophical insights and conclu-sions together in the course. One of

our biggest strengths in recruiting professors here is the undergraduates. People love teaching them. It’s the drawing card we stress whenever the Philosophy department is trying to recruit a faculty member from another good institution.”

Meg Urry “It’s not just how smart they are or how hard they work—you can find that at other places—but it’s their cleverness, their thoughtfulness. I teach an intro to physics class. Many of the kids in my class are headed for medical school, so physics isn’t their passion. But I can guarantee that at least once a week I get a question that is just incredibly creative, intro-ducing an idea or thought that I have never had before, and this is from people who aren’t even going to be physicists.”

Christine Hayes “When I think about what I’m going to teach I often think, ‘What do I want to study with a whole bunch of smart people?’”

Mark Saltzman “There are 17 faculty members in Biomedical Engineering and we have about 30 majors each year, so nobody is anonymous. Every student does research. They all do a significant senior project. They all take classes with most of the faculty during their time here. When I meet their parents at graduation, I know something significant about each student. That’s pretty rare.”

Ruth Blake

Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Engineering; Professor in the School of the Environment

Professor Blake teaches courses in geochemistry, environmental geomicrobiol-ogy, minerals, and human health/medical geology. Her research focuses broadly on the co-evolution of Earth and life. Her motto is, “where there is life, there is phos-phorus,” and recent work has focused on development of new geochemical tools and biomarkers to study microbial phosphorus cycling in the deep oceans and beneath the seafloor, and to detect early life. She has participated in several ocean exploration and research expeditions and was chief scientist on the explora-tion vessel E/ V Nautilus.

Recent Courses

Minerals and Human Health; Environmental Geomicrobi-ology; Introduction to Geo-chemistry; Extremophiles: Life on the Edge

Stephen Pitti

Professor of History and American Studies; Director of the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration; former Head of Ezra Stiles College

Professor Pitti teaches courses in Latino studies, Western his-tory, immigration history, civil rights, and related subjects. He is the author of The Devil in Silicon Valley: Northern California, Race, and Mexican Americans (2003) and Ameri-can Latinos and the Making of the United States (2012), and he is currently writing a book on César Chávez. He is an editor of the Politics and Culture in Modern America series, a member of the California History editorial board, and chair of the National Historic Landmarks Committee.

Recent Courses

Comparative Ethnic Studies; Radical California; Mexicans and Mexican Americans since 1848; Latina/o Histories

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Q Why does teaching

these students in particular matter to you? If you can find smart, hardworking

students at other places, then what makes these students a

“drawing card”?

Meg Urry “None of them are one-notes. They are exceptional in many areas. The diversity of their talents makes them incredibly interesting to interact with.”

Ruth Blake “As bright as they are, the ‘aha’ moments that come when they are presented with new knowledge they find fascinating, or upon figuring something out on their own after mastering new skills, are priceless.”

Michael Della Rocca “I teach in Directed Studies [a yearlong advanced first-year course in Western civiliza-tion]. It’s a lot of fun because you get students with di≠erent backgrounds

taking subjects they’ve never heard of before. Some of these students are not cut out for philosophy, but they all get into it.”

Meg Urry “I was not in a university before coming here. I worked in the lab that ran the Hubble telescope for NASA, which was exciting. But when I came here I felt like I had died and gone to heaven. I think I was born to teach and should have been teaching all along. The quality of the Yale under-graduate was a big eye-opener for me. We have First-Year Summer Research Fellowships that allow students to begin research early at Yale. My first summer I thought, ‘Well, I’m going to get this first-year who doesn’t know anything. It’s going to take a lot of my time, but that’s why I came to university.’ So I laid out a project about an area I wanted to look into but hadn’t done any work on myself yet. I told the student, ‘Why don’t you go and do a little research online and we’ll talk about it when I come back in a week.’

I came back and she had finished the entire summer’s project! She’d figured everything out. She’d gotten it all to work. She’d collected all the data she needed. My jaw was hanging down. I thought, ‘Okay, now I have a better understanding of where Yale under-graduates are.’”

Christine Hayes “Which connects to what was formulating in my own mind–they are able to do that deep academic research and are also able to apply it to some real-world situation. At some of the other places I’ve been, there has been either too much inde-pendence and arrogance or too much need of hand-holding. We seem to attract kids who excel at many, many things. They have the right mix of independent intellectual curiosity as well as the ability to work with others, to ask questions, to get help, to be part of a team. You need both—the solitary research and the ability to bring it back and put it together and make something bigger and better with other people.”

W. Mark Saltzman

Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Chemical & Environmental Engineering; Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology; Head of Jonathan Edwards College

Professor Saltzman’s research is motivated by the desire to create safer and more e≠ective medical and surgical therapies. He focuses on tissue engineer-ing and on creating better methods for drug delivery. He has published three textbooks and more than 250 research papers. In 2009 he was awarded Yale’s She∞eld Teaching Prize for excellence in the classroom, and his course Frontiers of Biomedi-cal Engineering is available worldwide through the online Open Yale Courses program.

Recent Courses

Physiological Systems; Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering; Biotransport and Kinetics; Biological and Physiological Determinants of Health

Marta Figlerowicz “Students here do not merely want to do well within preexisting systems; they want to question how the world works, and eventually to change it. The atmosphere this perspective creates in the classroom is incredibly stimulating. It’s a space where everyone is challenged and constantly learning. At Yale, more than anywhere else I’ve been, my research and my teaching feel inseparable.”

Scott A. Strobel

Henry Ford II Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry; Professor of Chemistry; Provost

Professor Strobel’s research focuses on biologically critical reactions catalyzed by RNA. His lab explores the class of RNA riboswitches that regulate gene expression by binding small molecule metabolites. His work embraces biochemistry, enzyme kinetics, X-ray crystal-lography, organic synthesis, and molecular biology.

Recent Courses

Rain Forest Expedition and Laboratory; Biology, the World, and Us; Methods and Logic in Molecular Biology

John Merriman

Charles Seymour Professor of History

Professor Merriman teaches modern European urban and social history. In 2019 he won the DeVane Medal for distinguished undergraduate teaching. Among his many publications are the second edition of The Dynamite Club: How a Bombing in Fin-de-Siècle Paris Ignited the Age of Modern Terror (2016) and the fourth edition of A History of Modern Europe (2019).

Recent Courses

European Civilization, 1648– 1945; Revolutionary France; The Dark Years: Collaboration and Resistance in Vichy France

Scott Strobel “The beauty of it is watching them take ownership of a project and recognize that it’s theirs to work on creatively and independently. We have undergrads going toe to toe with grad students in the lab. You might say, ‘Well that’s only supposed to be available to grad students,’ but what I’ve seen over and over again is that these Yale undergrads are not afraid to take on hard projects and to take them on in a creative way. Last year, over spring break, we took a group of students to study a rain forest in Peru. Each was given complete autonomy over identifying 15 to 20 plant samples they wanted to collect. They brought them back to the lab and did amazing things with them. On the whole, they discovered several dozen di≠erent new species of fungi, many of which have demon-strated bioactivity against pathogens in plants and humans. So these students are able to make not just a creative impact on science but to actually discover things of importance

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and interest to a broad community. When I described their work to School of Medicine faculty, the faculty lined up to participate in the project with these undergraduates.”

Marta Figlerowicz “The students here are ambitious and diligent, like many other students, but they also think in terms of the ‘big picture.’ Undergraduates are also at the heart of Yale’s public-facing intellectual life. Some of the most fascinating events I have attended here, such as a poetry performance by Andrea Gibson, were organized and led by student groups.”

Marvin Chun “I really think the residential college system is what brings everything together—the small-college feel with world-class university resources. Being the head of Berkeley College has shown me that. It’s impos-sible to describe in words, but it works in a phenomenal way to ensure that each student receives individual attention.”

Q Just like students

looking at colleges, as a professor you had a lot of choices too. What brought you here?

Mark Saltzman “There’s something di≠erent about rigorous training in engineering embedded in a liberal arts tradition. One of the features of a liberal

arts education is that you’re required to take courses in all sorts of di≠erent things. For instance, we think it’s impor-tant that our students study a foreign language as well as the social sciences. Taking di≠erent kinds of classes creates a di≠erent sort of curiosity. Our stu-dents bring that curiosity to the kinds of questions they’re asking and trying to answer in science classes and engineer-ing research labs. It’s certainly a di≠erent

experience than at other places I’ve been where, if you’re an engineering or science major, you’re studying the same kinds of things in the same kind of way that other students around you are studying. You’re also living with other science and engineering majors. Here, students are living among future historians, future economists, English majors, and political science majors, all bringing their own brands of thought to questions and ideas.”

Christine Hayes “One of the things that has been so wonderful for me as a teacher at Yale is the ability to teach introductory courses but also seminars where graduate students and under-graduates mix. Surprisingly enough, the presence of a strong graduate program has an extraordinary impact on the

quality of the undergraduate program. You might think that the two stand in tension, but in fact they don’t. We not only have a very rich graduate program in my field–one in which there is a great deal of mixing among graduate and undergraduate students in classes, outside of class, in activities–but we’re also situated within a larger univer-sity that has very active professional schools. The institution I was at didn’t have professional schools. Having the School of Architecture does wonderful things for Yale undergraduates. Having a fantastic School of Music does wonderful things for Yale undergradu-ates. And they’re all close by. That’s something very special about Yale, and it gives the Yale undergraduate a completely di≠erent kind of experience.”

John Merriman “Plenty of students come here without a clue what they want to do, and then all these doors open up for them because there are so many opportunities.”

Christine Hayes

Robert F. and Patricia Ross Weis Professor of Religious Studies in Classical Judaica

Professor Hayes, a specialist in talmudic-midrashic studies, was awarded a Yale College prize for distinguished under-graduate teaching. Her most recent book, What’s Divine about Divine Law? Early Perspec-tives, won the 2015 National Jewish Book Award in Scholar-ship; and her Introduction to the Bible was published in 2012 by Yale University Press as part of the Open Yale Courses series.

Recent Courses

Interpreting the Bible in Antiquity; Divine Law in Historical Perspective; Elementary Biblical Hebrew

Michael Della Rocca

Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy

Professor Della Rocca’s areas of interest are the history of early modern philosophy and contemporary metaphysics. He has published dozens of papers in those fields and is the author, most recently, of The Oxford Handbook of Spinoza (2017).

Recent Courses

Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Kant; Directed Studies: Philosophy; Meaning, Paradox, and Methodology; Knowledge and Action

Professors Hayes and Della Rocca are married.

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Marta Figlerowicz

Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and English

Professor Figlerowicz teaches courses on philosophies of the self, literary and critical theory, modernism, and world cinema. Her research articulates a counter-tradition to aesthetic individualism that has been present in Western art and literature at least since the seventeenth century, and which has particular resonance in today’s digitally mediated environments. Her publications include Flat Protagonists: A Theory of Novel Character (2016) and Spaces of Feeling: A≠ect and Awareness in Modernist Literature (2017). Among her current projects is a book on global histories of selfhood.

Recent Courses

Selfhood, Race, Class, and Gender; How to Compare; Internet Cultures, Histories, Networks, and Practices; World Cinema; Readings in English Poetry I and II; Introduction to Narrative; Feminist and Queer Theory

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Scott Strobel “The opportunity to interact with and teach undergrads is a big reason I’m here. There are plenty of good schools where research is all they do, and you sit in your lab and work with grad students or postdocs and never see an undergraduate. Beyond that, Yale is a place where you have tremendous colleagues. At a lot of places the caliber of Yale, there is sort of a silo mentality when it comes to lab research. At Yale you have this amazing ability to collaborate with other labs so that collectively you do everything better. The other thing is that we have a fantastic School of Medicine. The department I’m in has joint faculty with the medical school. And med school faculty host undergraduates doing research in their labs. To have

an environment where there is a clear human application to the science that you do as an undergraduate is unique.”

Ruth Blake “Yale o≠ers tremendous support and freedom to pursue inde-pendent research and develop novel courses that incorporate real research materials and data. I especially enjoy teaching lab-based courses where students get hands-on, discovery-based learning opportunities.”

Marta Figlerowicz “My work is interdisciplinary, and it matters a lot to me that all of the departments it relates to are of the highest caliber here. And I’m impressed by the university’s readi-ness to give new ideas and teaching methods room to grow.”

Michael Donoghue “The other thing that I think is so distinctive is Yale’s resources in terms of the museums and collections that are here. We have actual physical objects that we’re very keen to use in teaching. You can read about things in a book, but to hand a kid a 60,000,000-year-old fossil to study is pretty amazing.”

Marvin Chun “I came for the students. They’re not just smart, but well balanced in a way that makes it special to teach and do research here. Whether I stand before a classroom full of students or meet with someone one-on-one, I try to treat each student as somebody who is going to do some-thing very meaningful and influential in life. Our alumni bear that out. This

is what energizes me in the classroom. If something I teach lingers with students so that it helps them do the right thing outside of the classroom, that’s my reward.”

John Merriman “I’ve almost been wooed away to other universities three times. Once it came down to the wire and I was making my decision in the last hour or two. But there I was teaching my modern French history course to about 150 students, walking up and down the aisle of the lecture hall as I often do, and I thought, ‘What am I doing, I couldn’t possibly leave.’ Each morning, I wake up and think, ‘God, I’m lucky because I get to go and teach’ whatever the subject is that day. For me there’s just nothing like it.”

Michael Donoghue “A lot of it is about scale. Yale is just that much smaller and more intimate than some of the other universities where I’ve taught. So I find a lot better connection to students and integration across disciplines. I have friends and colleagues spanning very di≠erent parts of the University, and that’s something that comes with the territory of being smaller. Yale doesn’t just talk about making connections and integrating students into research—it actually happens here very e≠ectively.”

Marvin Chun

Dean of Yale College; Richard M. Colgate Professor of Psychology; Professor of Neuroscience; former Head of Berkeley College

Dean Chun is a cognitive neuroscientist whose research uses functional brain imag-ing to understand how to improve memory, attention, conscious perception, and decision-making. He has been awarded the American Psychological Association’s Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the area of cognition and learning, and the Troland Research Award from the National Academy of Sciences, often considered the most prestigious early-career honor that can be earned by an experimental psychologist. At Yale, he received the Lex Hixon Prize for teaching excel-lence in the social sciences and the DeVane Award for Teach-ing and Scholarship, the oldest undergraduate teaching prize. The presentation of the award began with “Marvin Chun is the man!,” praising him for the clarity of his teaching and his devotion to his students.

Recent Courses

Introduction to Psychology; Mind, Brain, and Society

Michael J. Donoghue

Sterling Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; Curator of Botany, Peabody Museum of Natural History

Professor Donoghue is a lead-ing authority on biodiversity and the author of more than 200 papers and several books; several current projects focus on elucidating the evolution of Viburnum. He has helped to shape Yale’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary (continued in right column)

Biology, providing links among E&EB, the Peabody Museum, Earth and Planetary Sciences, and the School of the Environment. The Donoghue lab team includes undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs, and focuses primarily on plant diversity and evolution.

Recent Courses

Diversity of Life; Plant Diversity and Evolution; Principles of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Meg Urry

Israel Munson Professor of Physics and Astronomy; Director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics

Professor Urry studies actively accreting supermassive black holes, also known as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), and the co-evolution of these black holes with normal galaxies. She came to Yale in 2001 from her tenured position on the senior scientific sta≠ at the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which runs the Hubble Space Telescope for NASA. Using deep imaging with NASA’s three Great Observatories, her group has charted the history of super-massive black hole growth throughout the universe. Professor Urry has worked to increase the number of women in the physical sciences, organizing national meetings and chairing the Committee on the Status of Women in Astronomy for the American Astronomical Society.

Recent Courses

Expanding Ideas of Time and Space; University Physics; General Physics Laboratory; Modern Physical Measure-ment (team-taught)

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A Hands-On Education.(And why six hands are better than two)

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.

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“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

Senior design project teammates and Engineering majors Joshua

Ruck, Brigid Blakeslee, and Adam Goone in the Center for Engineering Innovation and Design, where they developed

a tele-operated robotic arm for retrieving objects dropped off a boat or dock.

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

Adding to what the world knows is not easy, especially when, at 19 or 20, you haven’t even been in the world that long yourself. But as a former student said,

“This is not a mediocre place. Everywhere you turn there’s something incredible to attract your eye. In a more ordi-nary place, you’re not going to be so startled into thought.” From paintings by Picasso to pterodactyl remains to 3D printers and tools for photoelectron spectros-copy, Yale pro vides a treasure trove through which undergraduates chase down new knowl-edge for themselves and sometimes for the world.

Environmental Intersections

Cesar Garcia Lopez works in the Peabody Museum laboratory of Professor David Skelly, where he uses the museum’s vertebrate zool-ogy collection in his research on how suburban landscapes a≠ect frog morphology. Cesar was born in Mexico and grew up in Watson-ville, California, where his parents worked in agriculture. “I saw a constant battle between environ-mentalists who want to protect the wetlands and the people who depend on agriculture to make a living. I’m interested in bridging that divide and hope to have a career that combines environmen-tal education and field research.”

Eyes Wide Open

As a first-year, Alana Thyng planned to study French literature or Classics. But when she went to the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) to examine Greek vases for a course on Plato, Aristotle, and Euripides, she was immediately interested in the material aspect of history—“the way that objects provide a sense of what life was like in previous periods.”

Alana became a History of Art major and had unique opportuni-ties through Yale to work for a summer at the National Gallery of Copenhagen, study at the École du Louvre in Paris, and spend a

summer researching Oceanic art in England and Germany for her senior thesis. And as a fellow at the YUAG, she was able to design an avant-garde film installation for the exhibition Everything Is Dada. “It was an incredible oppor-tunity to see my vision come entirely to life. These experiences have been vital in cultivating my skills as an art historian and in preparing me for the collaboration and practical planning necessary to complete projects in the work-force beyond college.”

After graduation, Alana will be pursuing her passion for art at the auction firm Sotheby’s in New York.

The collections of the Yale

University Art Gallery number more than 250,000 objects representing world cultures from ancient times to the present. Recent exhibitions include Modern Art from the Middle East, celebrating the 175th anniversary of Arabic studies at Yale; Matthew Barney: Redoubt; and Place, Nations, Generations, Beings: 200 Years of Indigenous North American Art.

Alana Thyng, an alumna of the Directed Studies program for first-years, dances with the Rhythmic Blue and Yaledancers groups on campus and is a sta≠ photographer for the Yale Daily News.

Opposite page: At the Peabody Museum

of Natural History, which recently celebrated its 150th anniversary, curators work with scientists around the world to advance our understanding of Earth’s history, life, and cultures.

Junior Cesar Garcia Lopez has spent the past two summers in Tanzania, studying the impact of humans on wildlife; and in Panama, studying the chytrid fungus, an infectious disease that a≠ects amphibians world-wide. On campus, he enjoys the community at La Casa Cultural, Yale’s Latino cultural center. And as a member of Math and Science (MAS) Familias, he mentors a group of New Haven first graders studying snail habi-tats in a local nature preserve. Cesar plans to enroll in the joint-degree program with the School of the Environment and earn a Master of Environmental Management degree in a fifth year at Yale.

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A Smashing Success

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

Lawrence spent two summers at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Geneva, Switzerland, study-ing the production and decay of the tau lepton particle with Professor Sarah Demers, and she was in attendance at the historic announcement of the discovery of the Higgs boson. She says that

“Professors Demers and Meg Urry were important mentors through-out my years at Yale, especially as women in a male-dominated field. I’m most grateful for the strong relationships I developed with Yale faculty members, who continue to inspire my goal of pursuing an academic career.”

Awarded a prestigious Hertz Fellowship at the end of her senior year, Lawrence is now a doctoral student in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics at MIT.

Performance at the Beinecke

Kwasi Enin, who is majoring in Molecular, Cellular, & Develop-mental Biology, had never sung early music prior to coming to Yale. But when a friend and fellow a cappella group member suggested Grant Herreid’s course Analysis and Performance of Early Music as a fun music elective that would help improve his sight-reading skills, he decided to dive in. Students in the class form the nucleus of the Yale Collegium Musicum, directed by Herreid.

The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library serves as both an academic resource and perfor-mance venue for the Collegium, o≠ering students the opportunity to see, touch, and study musi-cal manuscripts and prints from as early as the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. And when it comes to performing in the space,

Kwasi says, “the Beinecke allows sound to propagate and echo in an extremely satisfying way. We are privileged to be able to use it.”

“It really doesn’t get any better for a singer at Yale,” Kwasi adds. “I love how open the chords are in early music. And I enjoy learning about the origins of everything we sing. For example, the ‘Federal Overture,’ which involves interplay between male and female voices as well as the orchestra, expresses political rivalries of the 1780s through music. And we spent half a semester preparing for a concert about the medieval manuscript Roman de Fauvel, an allegory designed to shame the corrupt French nobility by depicting them as a fallow-colored horse that represented such major vices as vanity and avarice. The expression ‘to curry favor’ comes from the Roman, which had the nobles cur-rying Fauvel to gain his approval.”

The Beinecke Rare Book

and Manuscript Library, constructed of translucent marble that admits light but screens out the sun’s damaging rays, is an internationally acclaimed center for research in the humanities.

Kwasi Enin sings with the Yale Glee Club and the Society of Orpheus and Bacchus, and will join the Yale Whi≠enpoofs, America’s oldest collegiate a cappella group, in his senior year. A pre-med student, he has also worked on several research proj-ects at the School of Medicine.

Opposite page: Wright Laboratory is home to a broad research program in nuclear, particle, and astro physics, with state-of-the-art facilities for research on neutrinos and dark matter.

Outside of the lab, Katherine

Lawrence took several language classes: Chinese, Korean, and Egyptian hieroglyphs. She was a member of the Yale Drop Team and quartermaster of the Yale Pistol Team, which competed in the national championships.

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Think Yale. Think World.(Study, research, intern around the globe)

A nontraditional approach to gaining international experi-ence gives Yale students access to multiple opportunities to study, research, and intern abroad during their four years. Over and above ordinary financial aid, Yale provides more than $10.5 million annually through fellowships, internships, and sum-mer awards in order to guarantee that every student who wishes will be able to work or study abroad. Beyond these hefty resources is the sheer variety of global experiences students can undertake during school years and summers: study at a major univer-sity in another country; field-based or laboratory research; interning with Yale alumni around the world; Yale Summer Session courses taught by Yale faculty abroad; or study, work, or service projects of one’s own design. Students are encouraged to begin exploring the globe the summer after their first year. Here, five Elis map a glimpse of the world through their experiences as global citizens.

“The summer before sophom*ore year, I received the Yale International Summer Award to sponsor my trip to Bilbao, a colorful port city in the Basque region of northern Spain. Classroom learning was fun and enriching, and the professors from the University of Deusto met us with open arms, personally introducing us to their beautiful home. In learning the history of Bilbao and meeting its residents, I encountered the web of culture that connected them all. There was a certain Bilbao force of character, a stubborn resilience that kept the city alive even after its manufacturing industries moved away, replacing the iron heart with one of art, music, and food. As a visitor walking through the halls of the Guggenheim Museum,

internalizing the hopes and dreams it represented, I realized the value of a central identity, and the privilege I have in mine, as a Ghanaian American. In the end, I left with more than I came with, my own web now inter-connected with theirs.” Andrew

Andrew Siaw-Asamoah

Hometown Bu≠alo, ny

Major Applied Mathematics

Yale International

Experience Summer in Europe studying Spanish language and culture in Bilbao through the Yale Summer Session Study Abroad Program, in addition to studying economics and finance at the London School of Economics.

Post-Yale Plan “Either pursuing an M.D./Ph.D. with a research focus in epidemiology, or an M.D./

M.B.A. with interests in hospital management, health care entrepreneurship, and health care nonprofits.”

Spain;

United

Kingdom

“I spent six unforgettable weeks in South Africa and Swaziland with the Yale Summer Session class Visual Approaches to Global Health. Both countries have some of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS in the world. In the wake of that epidemic, our task was to find a public health issue that we were passionate about exploring—be it domestic violence, mental health, or the orphan crisis—and to represent it in the form of a documentary film. In Mbabane, Swazi-land’s vibrant capital, we visited NGOs, UNICEF, government agencies, and hospitals, talking to physicians and patients about the struggles of living with HIV and the e≠ects it has had on the community. I learned that the power of stigma can unravel seemingly sound and e≠ective policies to deliver free treatment to all. Successful interventions require a nuanced understanding of the local culture and traditions, and for policy makers to listen and not merely dictate. I will carry this insight with me as I pursue a career in public health policy post-Yale.” Sarah

Sarah Naco

Hometown Canberra, Australia

Major History of Science, Medicine, & Public Health

Yale International Experience

Spent one week in Johannesburg and five weeks in Mbabane on a Yale Summer Session scholarship. After my first year, had an International Summer Award for study in Paris.

Post-Yale Plan “Taking a few weeks for a road trip across the USA, then traveling with my boyfriend to Australia (his first time!). Afterwards, I intend to pursue a career in documentary filmmaking, focusing on public health and scientific issues.”

South

Africa &

Swaziland;

France

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Jenna Salameh

Hometown Orland Park, IL

Major Neuroscience

Yale International Experience

Spent the summer in Amman, Jordan, studying Arabic and Middle Eastern culture through the CET Intensive Language Summer Program, funded by a Yale International Summer Award.

Post-Yale Plan “Going to medical school and hopefully exploring more of the world while learning new languages along the way.”

“In Wadi Rum, a desert valley in southern Jordan, we camped out in the middle of the valley with local Bedouins. After sharing a traditional dinner cooked underground in an oven buried in the sand, we all sat around drinking tea while enjoying tunes played on a stringed instrument called the rebab. After sunset, we lay under stars that covered every inch of the sky, one of the most incredible views I’ve ever seen. I spent the entire night sharing and hearing life stories with people I had met only a few weeks back, in a language that I had been studying for only a year. That moment highlighted how, in such a short time, my life had been enriched with so much knowledge and so many new friendships that I will carry with me forever.” Jenna

Jordan

Arizona Greene

Hometown Carrollton, GA

Major Applied Mathematics

Yale International Experience

Was awarded a Richard U. Light Fellowship to study Mandarin in Beijing and Harbin, China, for seven months; worked in Nicaragua for a summer on a Thomas C. Barry Travel Fellowship.

Post-Yale Plan “Pursuing a Ph.D. in applied mathematics with a focus in computational linguistics, but only after taking advantage of post-graduation fellowships at Yale to continue my language study abroad.”

“After sophom*ore year, I took a gap year to study Mandarin in China. There was a monthlong break between my two language programs, so I stu≠ed my backpack, hopped on a train, and spent the next four weeks making my way 1,600 miles through western China by myself. The first week, I decided to hike Emei Shan, one of the Four Sacred Mountains of Buddhism. I stayed at one of the monasteries along the trail, and as I was sitting in the courtyard one of the monks sat next to me and motioned for me to cross my legs and meditate with him. Afterwards, we talked for a while about his life at the monastery. Then he reached into his robes, whipped out his smartphone, and added me on WeChat (the Chinese equivalent of Facebook). I set out for China with less than a year of Mandarin under my belt, and I learned a ton in my language classes. But the most enriching and memo-rable moments all came from interacting with people, many of whom I still keep in touch with today.” Arizona

China Nicaragua

Grace Alofe

Hometown Union, Nj

Majors Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology; Ethnicity, Race, & Migration

Yale International Experience

Spent the fall semester of junior year as one of thirty students studying public health care systems and conducting field research in urban and rural settings in India, South Africa, and Brazil with the School for International Training.

Post-Yale Plan “Before going to medical school, I would love to spend two years working in marketing in California or with Médecins Sans Frontières in a Spanish-speaking country.”

“In the rural South African township of Zwelethemba where we stayed for ten days, there was no Internet access, and for the first time in my life, I was genuinely disconnected from the larger world. The first couple of days were tough, I’m ashamed to say. Then, my study abroad group started playing soccer with kids in the area, hanging out at each others’ host homes, and attending local gumboot dancing class in the community center. A man named Jazz, who was incredibly active in the larger community, taught the classes about this historical dance form and spent so much time making us comfortable in Zwelethemba. One day he gave some of us a walking tour, pointing out structures that have changed since the end of apartheid and how that a≠ected his lived experience. We still had classes and homework during that time, but it felt so freeing to be fully present in my inter - actions with my host family, my peers, and community members like Jazz. By the end of our stay, I was so grateful to have been forced o≠ the digital grid; I can’t imagine having been distracted at all from such a remarkable community.” Grace

India &

South

Africa

Brazil

Yalies Abroad

2018– 2019

Africa: 105

Asia: 270

Canada: 3

Europe: 694

Latin America & Caribbean: 133

Middle East: 43

Multiple regions: 37

Oceania: 21

Total: 1,306

Center for

International

and Professional

Experience

Yale’s Center for International and Professional Experience (CIPE) encourages and supports safe, extra ordinary inter-national experiences of every kind.

Study Yale programs include Yale in London; Yale Summer Session (most recently, courses were offered in Brazil, Croatia, Czech Repub-lic, Ecuador, Eswatini [Swaziland], France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Russia, Spain, and Tanzania); and year or term abroad approved programs run by other institutions or providers.

Research The possibilities for international research are extensive. Students work with their resi-dential college dean, academic advisers, and departments to define projects. Many Yale students spend the summer following their junior year abroad doing research for a senior essay or thesis.

Summer

Internships The Office of Career Strategy assists students seeking internship experiences throughout the globe. In 2019, students spent the summer in 119 countries outside the United States exploring careers in a global environment. Internship opportuni-ties reflect the full range of interests among Yale students, from journalism to the arts, politics to public health, and finance to technology.

Laboratory and

Field Research in

the Sciences and

Public Health Students can combine international experi-ence with deepening their understanding of science by spending a summer working in a laboratory at an institution abroad, or by participating in a field-based project.

Independent

Initiatives

Students who are ready to develop their own activities abroad are encouraged to discuss their plans with advisers and faculty, to register their travel and under-stand the support provided by Yale, and to use the institu-tion’s extraordinary resources to make the most of their experience abroad.

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

Yale students are sur-rounded by opportunities from the moment they arrive on campus as first-years—intellectual, entrepreneurial, artistic, international, profes-sional, and research opportunities that launch them toward both long-term ambi-tions and unforeseen achievements. Yalies leverage these oppor-tunities in countless impressive ways and learn how to ask good questions, seek out the right mentors, and create experiences that are professionally and personally rewarding. In this chapter, we chronicle the trajecto-ries of three soon-to-be graduates who have successfully connected the dots between a Yale education and the real world.

First-Year Pitch

Matt comes to Yale interested in the biological sciences and dives into biology and chemistry classes. He

quickly becomes friends with Dylan Gastel, a fellow Davenport first-year.

The two find themselves thinking up business ideas late into the night

in their common room. In the spring, at the Yale Youth2 Business Forum at the School of Management, Matt

meets a visiting project manager from Google who helps him come up with

his first pitch. “It was my first real experience with entrepreneurship and

it felt like the best day of my life.”

That summer, Matt finds himself working as the

third employee at a food start-up after a chance encounter at a venture

capital conference. “With just three of

us, we learned how to figure things out on our own, which is critical in

entrepreneurship.” Launch

In the fall of sophom*ore year, Matt and Dylan create Yale Launch, an

undergraduate group designed to help students go from “virtually nothing

to a business idea.” The group hosts a pitch-day competition at the end of the semester. Matt lands on his idea after spending $6 for a co≠ee and granola bar study break. Why not combine the two? Verb energy bars are born.

Recipe for Success

Fellow Yale Launch members André and Bennett hear the pitch and want in. The three experiment with ca≠einated

energy bar recipes in the Saybrook and Davenport student kitchens. As

demand grows, they rent the kitchen of beloved New Haven bakery Katalina’s

Cupcakes on weekends, baking hundreds of bars from 7 pm to 2 am.

Angel Investment

Matt attends a College Tea in JE given by Internet

entrepreneur and Yale alum Kevin Ryan and

hands Ryan a Verb bar. A week later, Ryan calls

and asks, “What do you need to get started?” He provides some of the company’s initial capital. Verb o∞cially launches in the spring of Matt’s

junior year, focused on selling to college

students. They sell out of their first 10,000 bars in thirty days.

Hit the Accelerator Verb is selected to participate

in the Tsai CITY Summer Accelerator, a ten-week fellowship program for student ventures that

combines a $15,000 grant with mentoring and workshops led by experienced entrepreneurs

in the Yale network.

Raising the Bar

Matt Czarnecki

Residential College

Davenport

Major

Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry

“A Tsai CITY mentor recommended deep

customer profiling, and by doing that we were able to realize who our

best customer was.” The team pivots Verb’s

marketing strategy to focus on an older

demographic with more disposable income.

Living the Dream

Senior year, Matt closes a round of nearly $1 million in seed capital as Verb CEO. André (now CTO) has built a text-to-purchase platform,

and the company uses a space provided free by Tsai CITY. In

January, Verb wins a $35,000 grant in Connecticut’s CTNext All-Stars

Competition. The company has sold more than 100,000 bars

to customers in all fifty states. After graduation Matt and André will move to Boston to continue

growing Verb: “We’ve found our dream jobs and become best

friends along the way.”

“I never thought I would be an entrepreneur, but this experience helped me find what I’m really passionate about: building things from the ground up.”

Tsai CITY

The mission of the Tsai Center for Innovative Thinking at Yale is to inspire and support students from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to seek innovative ways to address real-world problems. It organizes workshops, mentor - ship and fellowship programs, start-up and nonprofit accelerators, leaders’ and founders’ labs, co-curricular projects, hackathons, and experimental collaborations across disciplinary lines.

Yale Connections

Yale has more than 160,000 graduates and hundreds of alumni groups all over the world, providing unequaled networking opportunities, from an online career network, to mentoring programs for students, to regional and campus events for alumni. Whatever you are interested in — social justice, sustainability, entertainment, law, journalism, media, entrepreneurship, technology — you will find alumni in those fields ready to network with you!

Career Services

Yale’s Office of Career Strategy offers career advising, professional school advising, employment and internship opportunities, and career development resources. The office works with students and alums to clarify career aspirations, identify opportunities, and offer support at every stage of career development.

5 Graduate

Schools Most

Attended

When they enroll in business, law, medical, or graduate school, recent Yale graduates most often attend Yale, Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, and MIT.

Top Fellowship

Producer

Yale is consistently a top producer of fellowships. Since 2010, in addition to more than 200 Fulbright Fellowships, Yale students have been awarded 41 Rhodes, 20 Marshall, 25 Goldwater, 13 Truman, and 31 Gates Cambridge Scholarships, as well as 286 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Just as importantly, these major awards only scratch the surface of the hundreds of other highly valuable, funded sources of support that Yale students tap every single year.

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Community Scholar

Haylee Kushi

Residential College

Timothy Dwight

Major Ethnicity, Race, & Migration

“Before Yale, I mostly thought of ‘Native’ as Hawaiian. Becoming friends and co-workers with people Indigenous to various parts of the Americas made me realize how much Native people across the world have in common. This was vital to joining my most important community at Yale, to my political consciousness, and to my academic career.”

Finding Community

(and a Major!)

As a first-year, Haylee lands an on-campus job at the Native American Cultural Center,

which “became my community for the rest of my time at Yale.”

That spring, she takes the seminar United States Wars

in the Pacific, her first class in Ethnicity, Race, & Migration.

She writes a paper about the political importance of

one of her favorite Hawaiian songs—originally titled “Mele

‘Ai Pohaku” and popularly known as “Kaulana Na Pua”—starting her on a path toward scholarship in ethnic studies.

“For a bit, I explored the possibility of

journalism as a mode of doing the same work raising awareness about

Indigenous politics. I took Bob Woodward’s

Journalism class in my sophom*ore year and

wrote pieces about ethnic studies at Yale

and Indigenous activism for the ydn, Broad Recognition, down Magazine, and Yale

Herald.”

Called to Lead

Junior year, Haylee works with fellow

members of the Association of Native

Americans at Yale (ANAaY) to plan the

annual Ivy Native Summit. Elected

president of the ANAaY in the spring, she heads the planning for a Yale

Indigenous Peoples’ Day celebration and also leads the Henry

Roe Cloud Conference and Powwow, which bring Native alums back to campus and build a genealogy

of Yale Native community members.

Plans FulfilledHaylee writes her senior thesis on East

Asian racial formation in Hawai‘i in relationship to settler colonialism and Kanaka Maoli (Indigenous Hawaiian)

cultural identity. “I went to an all Native high school and came to Yale

hoping to do research about the political context of my Hawaiianness. My Yale experiences pushed me to think about

my Indigeneity in a global context.”

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Next Chapter

Haylee will enroll in Brown University’s Ph.D. program in

American Studies to continue researching and writing about the power dynamics and potential

for allyships among Kanaka Maoli and other

people of color living in Hawai‘i.

Enhancing Early Learning

Caitlin Dermody

Residential College

Morse

Major

Sociology (and Yale Education Studies Scholar)

Starting Out

The daughter and grand-daughter of educators, Caitlin has a passion for learning and

a desire to study education. In Foundation of Education Studies, she realizes that “so

many of the challenges facing students today begin due to

a lack of access to high-quality early childhood education.”

Caitlin designs and teaches a course called Positivity:

The Power of Optimism to New Haven middle schoolers

through Yale’s Splash and Sprout programs. “My

positive attitude had always helped me conquer academic

challenges, so I wanted to share the benefits of this perspective with younger

students.”

Education Studies

After joining the Education Studies Scholar program, Caitlin enrolls in the course Early

Childhood Education, which has a classroom observation requirement at Calvin Hill Daycare. She loves observing so much that she becomes

a volunteer teacher’s assistant there.

Global PerspectiveCaitlin spends the summer after

sophom*ore year studying in Dubrovnik with Yale’s History and Culture

of Southeastern Europe course. In addition to gaining insight into the impact of war on society, she learns about Croatia’s post-independence

education system.

Emotional Intelligence

Volunteering with the Yale Center for Emotional

Intelligence’s Early Childhood Team, Caitlin collects data

in preschool classrooms and drafts assessments to

assist teachers’ instructional practices. “I love being able to see the role of social and

emotional learning in early childhood education.”

Supported by an Education Studies Scholar summer fellowship, Caitlin interns at the Brookings

Institution with the Brown Center on Education Policy, employing skills learned in her Sociology

classes to analyze critical education theory and data on contemporary topics.

Future Plans

Back on campus, Caitlin writes her senior Sociology

thesis and Education Studies capstone project on the early

childhood education workforce in America, analyzing policy and data from all fifty states

and interviewing New Haven teachers. Now she’s headed to Oxford for a master’s in child development and education.

“Yale reshaped the way that I understand systems of education and challenged me to advocate for the world’s youngest learners.”

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

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Inspired by Icons. (Why architecture matters)

“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. SternJ.M. Hoppin Professor of Architecture

Harkness Memorial Tower

is the height of tradition at Yale (216 feet and 284 steps to the roof). The tower’s cornerstone was dedicated in 1917 exactly 200 years after the first stone for the first Yale building in New Haven was placed. Designed by

James Gamble Rogers and completed in 1921, Harkness holds a 54-bell, 43-ton carillon rung daily by students in the Yale University Guild of Caril-lonneurs. Statues of Elihu Yale and others plus four student-gargoyles keep watch from on high.

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Yale University Art Gallery One of the country’s oldest college art museums got its start in 1832 with 100 Revolutionary War paint-ings. Now it’s noted for the depth and range of its collections. The main building is itself a modernist

masterwork designed by Louis Kahn (faculty 1947–57). It was the first notable design of Kahn’s career and sits across the street from his final work in the United States, the Yale Center for British Art.

Completed in 1930, Sterling

Memorial Library was designed by James Gamble Rogers, who called the building “as near to modern Gothic as we dared to make it.” Devoted primarily to the humani-ties and social sciences, it has

fifteen stack levels and eight floors of reading rooms, offices, and work areas. The recent restoration of the nave has revealed long hidden decorative details and updated programmatic areas to better support the needs of today’s users.

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Connecticut Hall The oldest building on campus, a Georgian among the Gothic, opened as a dorm in 1752 and is a National Historic Landmark. Nathan Hale (B.A. 1773)—that’s him, on guard outside—was one of its early residents.

Malone Engineering Center

Built in 2005 according to state-of-the-art sustainable building standards, Malone adds considerably to Yale’s engineering facilities. The building, designed by Cesar Pelli (of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects), a former dean of the Yale School

of Architecture, houses under-graduate teaching labs and the University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering.

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Cultural Capital.(Yale and the “Greatest Small City in America”)

“New Haven…has been reemerging as a culinary wonderland, a cultural center, breeding ground for new theater, a hotbed of cross-promotion, and one of only a few places in the world where you can stand within inches of an intact Gutenberg Bible; all within a very compact and walkable downtown.” The Hu∞ngton Post, 2012

Proud New Haveners tag social media posts with #GSCIA for “Greatest Small City in America.” With two Tony Award-winning theaters, the country’s second-largest collection of free public art, award-winning

restaurants, and more than 380 years of history, the city delights Yalies as well. New Haven combines the dynamism and diversity of urban life with the accessibility and amiability of a great college town.

A haven for the arts Few cities can claim one world-class theater. New Haven has three. The Shubert, Long Wharf, and Yale Rep theaters have produced dozens of shows that went on to Broadway, including 11 Richard Rodgers musicals, the world premiere of A Streetcar Named Desire (starring a then unknown

Marlon Brando), Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Wit, and Pulitzer-winning works by August Wilson. Fortunately for Yalies, all three offer student tickets. In June, New Haven hosts the International Festival of Arts & Ideas, which boasts almost 200 (mostly free) events, drawing tens of thousands of visitors to the Elm City.

Broadway National retailers like Apple, J. Crew, Patagonia, and L.L. Bean mix with New Haven originals like Junzi Kitchen—serving Northern Chinese chun bing—and Crêpes Choupette, started by a French immigrant who sold crepes from a cart attached to his bike. A Yale ID nets discounts at most stores.

Chapel Street

In just a few blocks, pass local bookstores, clothing boutiques, co≠ee shops, and restaurants that range from student-budget (Shake Shack) to upscale (Union League Cafe). Visit the Yale Art Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art, then grab a treat at Arethusa, serving farm-fresh ice cream from a dairy in Litchfield, CT.

New Haven Green

Since 1639, the 17-acre Green has been at the center of New Haven. In its more than 380-year history, the Green has served as a pasture, a burial ground, a Revolutionary War training ground, and the site of a campaign speech by Abraham Lincoln. These days the Green hosts major events like the New Haven Jazz Festival and the New Haven Road Race as well as a popular weekly Farmer’s Market.

Yale New Haven Hospital

Just steps away from the residential colleges, YNHH provides countless opportunities for undergraduates to engage in research, clinical work, service, and medical training at one of the country’s premier medical centers.

Whitney Avenue

Skyscrapers mix with historic brownstones on one of New Haven’s most eclectic streets. Turn the corner into the award-winning Audubon Arts District to find the New Haven Ballet and Creative Arts Workshop, or continue north to visit the New Haven Museum, whose collections and exhibitions bring New Haven history to life.

City Hall / Amistad

Memorial

New Haven’s mayor is a Yale alumnus, and a Yale undergrad serves as one of 30 elected o∞cials on the Board of Alders. Next to City Hall, a memorial stands where 54 African captives who sought their freedom aboard the Amistad were imprisoned in 1839 while awaiting trial.

East Rock Park

Rising 350 feet above the historic neighborhood that shares its name, East Rock is a New Haven landmark and a must-visit spot for all Yale students. Run, hike, bike, or climb to the summit for stunning views of downtown New Haven and the Long Island Sound. Located two miles from campus, the park is a popular destination for Yalies looking to stay fit while enjoying the outdoors.

Eating Out.(The “#1 Foodie City in America”*) As ranked by Livability.com

“Apizza” Fiercely debated, often imitated, never replicated, New Haven-style pizza (or “Apizza”; pronounced “ah-beetz”) is its own culinary tradition. Try Pepe’s (est. 1925), Modern (est. 1934), and Sally’s (est. 1938) to find your favorite, and then be prepared to defend your choice.

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Lunch

Credited by some with inventing the hamburger in 1903. (Just don’t ask for ketchup!)

Coffee or Koffee? Independent cafés Ko≠ee? and Blue State Co≠ee draw hundreds of thirsty Yalies a day; or catch the Jitter Bus, a mobile co≠ee shop built out of an old school bus.

Sweet Tooth M&Ms, corn flakes, marshmallows, and cannoli cream are a few of the unconventional toppings on the curious circular confections at Donut Crazy. Boxes of these treats are favorites at residential college study breaks.

Mory’s:

A Yale

Tradition

Founded in 1861, Mory’s is known for its toasting traditions and nightly entertainment by undergraduate singing groups, including Yale’s most famous, the Whi≠enpoofs.

À La Cart For a quick bite between classes, nothing beats New Haven’s food carts. Scattered all around town, carts dish out Bengali, Caribbean, Colombian, Ethiopian, Indian, Japanese, Mexican, Middle Eastern, Peruvian, Russian, and Thai specialities for $6 or less.

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Here, There, Everywhere.(Fourteen students, two simple questions, thirty-five countries on five continents)

Where are you from? Where have you been? One spring day, fourteen students walking around the campus were asked these questions. Their answers reveal Yale as a cosmopolitan crossroads where students receive an education in global fluency. Yalies become highly skilled at crossing boundaries. They speak multiple languages and quickly adapt to new environments. The global is made local for under-graduates here. The wide world becomes accessible, known, experienced. With such experience Yalies can pursue any ambitionanywhere in the world.

“I’m from Harare, Zimbabwe. I traveled to Turkey to represent Yale at a conference of AISEC, the world’s largest youth-run organization. This summer I’ll be learning Italian in Italy through Yale Summer Session, then traveling to Kenya, Ghana, and Zimbabwe to serve as an instructor in the Yale Young African Scholars Program.”Phyllis Mugadza, Mechanical Engineering Major

“I’m from Athens, Ohio. I’ve visited Argentina, Chile, Iceland, Morocco, South

Africa, and the UAE with my a cappella group, the Yale Spizzwinks(?). This summer we’ll be performing in China, Myanmar, Singapore, and Thailand.Derek Demel, Biomedical Engineering Major

I’m from Los Angeles. The summer after my first year, I studied in Valencia, Spain. This winter, I traveled to Ghana on a trip sponsored by the Afro-American Cultural Center. I also traveled to Cuba during spring break for my Cuban History course.Uzo Biosah, Ethics, Politics, & Economics Major

“I’m from the suburbs of New York City. Last summer, I interned in Geneva,

Switzer land, at the Stop TB Partnership, a UN global health organization, with support from a Yale fellowship.” Karen Jiang, Economics and Statistics & Data Science Major

“I’m from Middletown,

Wisconsin. Last summer, I participated in an intensive language program. After four weeks of course work in New Haven, I spent four weeks with a host family in Germany. I got ahead on credits and am still close friends with the classmates I traveled with. Mac Schmidt, Computer Science & Psychology Major

“I’m from Washington, D.C. I spent a term abroad in Nepal, Jordan, and Chile with an International Human Rights program. This summer I’ll be in Morocco for a research project through the Women’s Global Empowerment Initiative, founded by a Yale Law student.Naiya Speight-Leggett, African American Studies Major

“I’m from a rural small town, Deep Gap, North Carolina. I studied in Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic after my first year and planned Model UN conferences in Hungary and Taiwan with the Yale International Relations Association. Recently, I traveled to Israel with the Slifka Center and to Puerto Rico with La Casa Cultural. This summer I’ll be interning in South

Africa with support from Yale fellowships.”Max Schlenker, History Major

“I’m from Danville, California. I received a Light Fellowship for a ten-week language program in Seoul, South Korea. Although I’m a heritage Korean speaker, it was my first time living in Korea. This year I studied Philosophy at Oxford, and it was a great taste of what graduate school might feel like.”Sarah Joo, Philosophy Major

I’m from Columbia, South

Carolina, but also lived in Washington, D.C. After my first year, I received the Georg Leitner Fellowship from Yale’s MacMillan Center to work for an NGO in Amsterdam,

The Netherlands. Louis DeFelice, English Major

“I’m from Albuquerque, New

Mexico. I studied in Italy with the Summer in Rome Humanities program and in China on a Light Fellowship. The Brady- Johnson Program in Grand Strategy funded my research in Japan, Taiwan, and Korea on East Asian politics.”Phil Wilkinson, History/ Global A≠airs Major

“I was born outside of São Paulo,

Brazil, and lived in Venezuela and Panama before my family settled in Cincinnati, Ohio. I spent the summer after my first year in Recife, Brazil, as a marketing intern at a local education NGO serving kids in the favelas.” Ana Barros, Political Science/Education Studies Major

“I’m from Palo Alto, California. This summer, I will spend six weeks in Nice, France, complet ing a physician shadow ing program and taking two classes related to health care: Public Health in France, and Literature and Medicine.”Chloe Sales, Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology Major

“I’m from Accra, Ghana. I spent the summer after my sophom*ore year in Paraty and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Learning to speak Portuguese with Brazilians was one of my favorite aspects of the trip, but I also loved the music, food, and dancing!”Edwin Edem, Political Science Major

“I’m from Braintree,

Massachusetts. Last spring my a cappella group, Mixed Company, performed in four cities in China. This summer we will be traveling to Morocco. After that I will be studying public health in Amsterdam.Emma Rutan, Psychology Major

Pursuits. . . . and the youthful society thus formed had promptly and enthusiastically set to work to create its own system of self-improvement, a second or social curriculum.Yale: A Short History, by George W. Pierson

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Yale’s first gym was built in 1826. By the mid-1800s an athletic tradition “dominated the undergraduate horizon, and epic victories were celebrated with bonfires under the elms, as the classes roared out their glees from their appointed perches on the old Yale fence,” wrote George Pierson in his history of Yale. The Bulldogs of today—both men and women—compete on 35 teams (of which 29 are NCAA Division I) made up of junior-varsity-level players to All-Americans. Yale also offers student-run club sports and one of the most extensive and popular intramural programs in the country. And the fans roar their glees (that’s fight song in modern parlance)— including Cole Porter’s

“Bulldog!”— as loud as ever.

Mission

Yale student athletes “undertake the challenge of a high-level education while proudly representing Yale University in the pursuit of championships. Through exceptional facilities and coaches, Yale Athletics ensures that our students learn the important values of leadership, integrity, respect, discipline, respon- sibility, and teamwork. The aspiration is that in the course of preparation and competition, students enter a co-curricular laboratory for learning that will fit them to lead in all of their future endeavors.”Excerpted from the Yale Athletics Mission Statement

“The Game”

Even for those who don’t count themselves as sports fans, “The Game” is one of the most anticipated events every year. Since 1875, the Yale Bulldogs and Harvard Crimson have met more than 130 times in this annual Yale-Harvard football game. Held the first weekend of Thanks- giving break, the game alternates between the Yale Bowl and Harvard Stadium.

Recent Ivy TitlesBaseballBasketball (M)Heavyweight CrewFootballGolf (M)Gymnastics (W)Lacrosse (M)Coed SailingSoccer (M)Swimming/Diving (W)Volleyball (W)

Nationally RankedBasketball (M)Heavyweight Crew Lightweight Crew Crew (W)Fencing (M, W)FootballLacrosse (M)Sailing (Coed, W)Soccer (M)Squash (M, W)

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800+Yalies who participate in varsity athletics each year.

2,400+Students who participate in intra mural games through the residential colleges.

80%The percentage of the student body participating in some form of athletic activity each year.

200+ Olympians

More than 200 Yale players and coaches have taken part in modern Olympic competition, winning 114 medals, 56 of them gold. In Beijing in 2008, fencer Sada Jacobson ’06, who won silver and bronze for the United States, was one of five Elis competing. In 2010 in Vancouver, Natalie Babony ’06 skated on the Slovakian women’s ice hockey team. Yale was represented in London in 2012 by seven alumni athletes and one coach, including

Taylor Ritzel ’10, who won gold with the U.S. women’s eight; Ashley Brzozowicz ’04, who won silver with the Canadian women’s eight; and Charlie Cole ’07, who won bronze with the U.S. men’s four. In 2014 in Sochi, Phoebe Staenz

’17 won bronze with the Swiss women’s ice hockey team. Eight Elis competed in Rio in 2016, in crew, fencing, sailing, and track and field; and four reached the quarterfinals with the U.S. men’s ice hockey team in Pyeongchang in 2018.

Handsome Dan

(1889–present) Yale was the first university in the United States to adopt a mascot, and to this date, none is better known than Handsome Dan. The tradition was established by a young gentleman from Victorian England, who attended Yale in the 1890s. The original’s 17 successors have been the intimates of deans, directors, and coaches. One was tended by a head cheerleader who went on to become the Secretary of State.

Conferences

Yale takes pride in its broad-based inter -collegiate athletic program that includes competition in the Ivy League Conference and the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC). Most of Yale’s intercollegiate contests are against traditional east coast opponents with emphasis on winning the Ivy League title. All sports, with the exception of football, have the ultimate goal of qualifying for NCAA

and affiliated post - season championships.

Varsity Teams

BaseballMen’s BasketballWomen’s BasketballMen’s Crew (Heavy

and Light)Women’s CrewMen’s Cross CountryWomen’s Cross CountryMen’s FencingWomen’s FencingField HockeyFootballMen’s GolfWomen’s GolfWomen’s GymnasticsMen’s Ice HockeyWomen’s Ice HockeyMen’s LacrosseWomen’s LacrosseCoed SailingWomen’s SailingMen’s SoccerWomen’s SoccerSoftballMen’s SquashWomen’s SquashMen’s Swimming

and DivingWomen’s Swimming

and DivingMen’s TennisWomen’s TennisMen’s Track and FieldWomen’s Track and

FieldWomen’s Volleyball

Club Sports

ArcheryBadmintonBallroom DanceMen’s BaseballMen’s BasketballWomen’s BasketballCricketCycling

EquestrianField Hockey (coed)Figure SkatingFishingGolfGymnastics (coed)Men’s Ice HockeyIndoor ClimbingKendoMen’s LacrosseWomen’s LacrosseMuay ThaiPistolPoloPowerliftingRifleRoundnet (Spikeball)Men’s RugbyWomen’s RugbyRunningSkeet & TrapSkiing (Alpine)Skiing (Nordic)Men’s SoccerWomen’s SoccerSquash (coed)Swimming Synchronized

SwimmingTable TennisTae Kwon DoMen’s TennisWomen’s TennisTriathlonMen’s UltimateWomen’s UltimateMen’s VolleyballWomen’s VolleyballMen’s Water PoloWomen’s Water PoloWrestlingWushu

Intramurals

See page 21

Facilities

Payne Whitney

Gymnasium

At 12 acres, the largest gym in the nation and the second-largest in the world (second only to a gym in Moscow that was modeled after Yale’s).

David S. Ingalls

Rink seats more than 3,000 and is home to Yale’s varsity men’s and women’s hockey teams. The rink is also available for recreational ice skating and instruction, and intramurals.

Yale Bowl

A spectacular football stadium seating more than 60,000, the Bowl is surrounded by first-rate facilities for indoor and outdoor tennis, lacrosse, rugby, soccer, field hockey, softball, baseball, and track and field.

Reese Stadium

With seating for more than 1,700, Reese is home to the men’s and women’s soccer teams in the fall, and to the men’s and women’s lacrosse teams in the spring.

Carol Roberts

Field House Yale’s newest athletic facility opened in 2018 and is the first dedicated exclusively to women’s sports teams: softball and field hockey.

Championship

Golf Course Yale’s own championship golf course, named #1 College Golf Course in America by Golfweek magazine in 2019, is a short distance from the other athletic facilities, in the Westville section of New Haven.

Gilder Boathouse

The Gilder Boat house, a 22,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility on the Housatonic River, stretches south to the finish line of Yale’s 2,000-meter race course.

McNay Family

Sailing Center

Home to Yale’s coed and women’s varsity sailing teams, the center houses a fleet of 420 racing dinghies, FJs, Lasers, and five safety launches.

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State of the Arts.(Playing a major role whether you’re an arts major or not)

Whether you want to become a professional artist, continue a passion, try something new, or simply immerse yourself in great theater, music, dance, films, and exhibi-tions, a spectacular array of options awaits you at Yale. Major or take courses in Architecture, Art, Computing and the Arts, Film and Media Studies, Music, or Theater and Performance Studies. Tap into the extraordinary resources of Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale Center for British Art, and world-class professional schools of Art, Archi tecture, Drama, and Music. Outside the class-room there are more than 100 officially registered campus-wide arts groups, troupes, ensembles, societies, and publications catering to such disparate interests as hip-hop, classical chamber music, Chinese calligraphy, and fashion design. Many—like the Yale Glee Club, Yale Dramatic Association (the Dramat), Yale Concert Band, and the a cappella groups—are part of the long-established, deeply rooted history and lore of Yale College. Within this vibrant creative life, students have the freedom to create something totally new even as they become part of Yale’s legendary arts tradition.

Known as the Dramat, the Yale Dramatic Association is the second- oldest college theater association in the country and the largest under-graduate theater organization at Yale. Here, the group performs Sweeney Todd at the Yale School of

Drama’s University Theatre, one of many superb performance venues open to undergraduates.

Tavi Wolfwood is a Sociology major and Global Health Scholar in Pauli Murray College. He is a member of the Spizzwinks(?) and the Glee Club and a producer for original musical theater.

Simone Williams is an Astrophysics major in Branford College. Her extracurriculars include club gymnas-tics, the Black Women’s Coalition, and Black Students at Yale. Simone is also a recruitment coordinator for the Undergraduate Admissions O∞ce.

Catherine Alam-Nist is a first-year in Grace Hopper College. She’s also an active member of the Yale College Democrats.

LiMei Vera is a Political Science and American Studies major in Silliman College. She serves on the board of the Yale Hunger and Homeless ness Action Project and volunteers for Project Homeless Connect.

Bradley Nowacek is a first-year in Morse College who plans to double major in English and Theater & Performance Studies. He is a member of the comedy group Tilting at Windmills.

Matthew Pettus is a Neuroscience major in Saybrook College. He works with the Public Health Coalition, writes for the Yale Global Health Review, and sings with the Baker’s Dozen. Matthew also does research in a neuroscience lab at the medical school and volunteers with the Hypertension Awareness and Preven-tion Program at Yale (HAPPY).

Ale Campillo is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College pursuing a dual degree in Theater & Performance Studies and Ethnicity, Race, & Migration. Ale is also the assistant musical director of the a cappella group Shades and a student coordinator at La Casa Cultural.

Rebecca Salzhauer is a sophom*ore in Saybrook College. She is a member of the improv group Purple Crayon and works as a Peer Wellness Champion.

Kyra Gee is major-ing in English and Theater & Pefor-mance Studies. A sophom*ore in Pauli Murray College, she works at Sterling Library and rock climbs with the Yale Climbing Team.

From the digital to the classical, from the academic to the extra-curricular, from private lessons to group ensembles, from beginning painting to professional exhibitions —Yale arts offer every opportunity.

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The Daily Show.(A slice of Yale’s creative life during one spring weekend not so long ago)

Records show that the first appearance of a band at Yale was in 1775, when a militia band of Yale students accompanied George Washington to Cambridge, Massachusetts. They found it “not to their liking” and returned to New Haven one week later. From those humble roots have sprung the Yale Concert Band, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, and the incomparable Yale Precision Marching Band. Such is Yale’s epic arts story, peopled by icons (Thornton Wilder, Paul Newman, Maya Lin, Jodie Foster, Lupita Nyong’o) and satisfying pretty much any artistic desire any day of the week. We picked one weekend in spring.

FridayEnjoy a screening of the docu-mentary Charm City, presented by the Yale Film Study

Center and the Yale African

American Affinity Group, followed by a community-driven conversation with Kalfani Nyerere Turè of Yale’s Urban Ethnography Project.

Be inspired by women who blazed trails as musicians, composers, and philanthro-pists well before coeducation at Yale College at the exhibition Musical Daughters of Eli: Women Pioneers at Yale, including a YDN article about New Blue, Yale’s first female a cappella group, all at Sterling Memorial Library.

Channel your inner geologist at the Peabody Museum’s exhibition California Gold: Modern Marvels from the Golden State, with one of the finest collections of specimens on display anywhere in the world.

Soothe your soul with a hidden gem in the tuba repertoire, Arild Plau’s Concerto for Tuba and Strings, performed by Yale’s Philharmonia

Orchestra and featuring soloist and recent School of Music graduate Jake Fewx.

Swing by Off Broadway

Theater for the late seating of the Yale

Ballroom

Dance Team’s spectacular Spring Show,

with performances ranging from the Viennese waltz to the tango. Then stop by the Cres-

cent Underground Theater at Morse College to check out the jazz band your FroCo is managing. Or head to the Afro-American Cultural

Center for an open mic slam with WORD Performance

Poetry.

Bring friends for popcorn and a movie, Ava DuVernay’s Selma, followed by a conversation about the historical context of the civil rights march with African American Studies associate professor Crystal Feimster. It’s all part of the Whitney Humanities

Center’s Democracy in America Film Series, designed to foster Yale’s dynamic film culture with free screenings and discussions every weekend.

If that’s too highbrow for your mood, start your evening with the all-ages show at Toad’s

Place, then head over to the Criterion Cinema’s exclusive Insomnia Theater film series, which “brings the best cult classics back to the big screen!” Or unwind with the late-night

lineup and munchies at the Yale Cabaret, where School of Drama performers are never more than a few feet away, and where your waiter one week might be on stage the next.

Saturday Get an early start with a morn-ing of music at the Woolsey

Concerto Competition, where School of Music instru-mentalists and singers compete for the opportunity to appear as soloists with the Philharmonia. Make it a marathon and head to Sprague Hall in the afternoon to watch the broadcast—live in HD—of the Metropolitan

Opera’s performance of Verdi’s La Traviata.

Take the Masterpiece Tour at the Yale University Art

Gallery, stopping into the special exhibitions A Nation Reflected: Stories in American Glass and Matthew Barney: Redoubt. After lunch at Atticus Cafe across the street, head to Hastings Hall for the after-noon session of the School of

Architecture’s symposium Clouds, Bubbles, and Waves.

Or gallery-hop from the School of Art’s Senior Thesis Show, Paintings Part I (see Part

II on Sunday), to the Archi-

tecture Gallery in Rudolph

Hall for Japan, Archipelago of the House, which seeks to contextualize the develop-ment and design of the contemporary Japanese house.

Pick up subsidized tickets provided by your residential college and head to New York with friends for a sugar high at American Ballet

Theatre’s production of Alexei Ratmansky’s Whipped Cream. Or enjoy a night of theater right here on campus at the Yale Repertory

Theatre, where you’ll be blown away by a vibrant Afro-futurist production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

Sunday As a member of the family-oriented Gospel Choir, sing at Sunday services.

Help your friends set up the Beading & Bonding intercul-tural event at the Native

American Cultural Center, sponsored by NACC and Yale African Students Association.Or sleep in and join the Yale Unity Korean Drum

Troupe for an afternoon of

traditional Korean folk music played “sitting down.”

See your suitemates perform for New Haven’s youngest at the Yale Children’s Theater performance of Sir Aveline, the Brave. Or step on stage your-self in afternoon rehearsals of the Dramat’s production of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince (one of 200 student theatrical productions each year).

Enjoy a concert to benefit children’s literacy given by the Whiffenpoofs, the world’s oldest and best-known colle-giate a cappella group. The Whi≠s are one of more than a dozen a cappella groups and have become one of Yale’s most celebrated and hallowed traditions.

Close the weekend with an eclectic mix of live music: the annual Stan Wheeler Memo-rial Jazz Concert at the Law

School; a student Choral Conducting Recital at Battell

Chapel; the Great Organ Music series at Marquand

Chapel. Or learn new steps and lighten your mood in a Swing, Blues, and Fusion DJed dance practicum at the Slifka Center.

Or DIY by acting, performing, singing, staging, writing, producing, presenting, improvising, creating, designing, and getting laughs through more than 130 (and count-ing) student choirs, troupes, clubs, groups, ensembles, associa-tions, organizations, societies, and collec-tives including: Art/Design

Art Exhibition Students at Yale

Crafternoons

Design for America Yale

Guild of Bookmakers

Juncture

Knit One Give One

Memory Project

Photography Society

Society of Calligraphers

Undergraduate Art Society

Woodworking Club

YaleMakes

Film

Yale Film Society

Yale Undergraduate Film Alliance Dance

Alliance for Dance

Ballet Folklórico Mexicano

A Different Drum

Dzana

Groove Dance

Jashan Bhangra

Kalaa

MonstRAASity

Rhythmic Blue

Sabrosura

Shaka

Steppin’ Out

Taps

Unity Korean Drum & Dance Troupe

Ya’le Dance Team

Yale Ballroom Dance Team

Yale Breakers

Yale Danceworks

Yale Movement

Yale Rangeela

Yale Undergraduate Ballet Company

Yaledancers Fashion

Y Fashion House Music

Berkeley College Orchestra

Coup de Brass

Davenport Pops

Low Strung

Music Makers

New Music Cooperative

Red Territory

Scale & Bones

Synth Labyrinth Collective

Undergraduate Music Production Association

Yale Folk Music Collective

Yale Handbell Ensemble

Yale Hip-Hop

Yale Klezmer Band

Yale Precision Marching Band

Yale Symphony Orchestra

Yale Undergraduate Chamber Orchestra

Yale Undergraduate Jazz Collective

Yale Undergraduate Piano Collective

Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs

Singing Groups

The Alley Cats

The Baker’s Dozen

C#

Cadence

Contour

The Doox of Yale

Gospel Choir

Hangarak

Living Water

Magevet

Mixed Company

The New Blue

Out of the Blue

Pitches & Tones

Proof of the Pudding

Redhot & Blue

Shades

Society of Orpheus & Bacchus

Something Extra

The Spizzwinks(?)

Tangled Up in Blue

Undergraduate Choral Society

The Whiffenpoofs

Whim ’n Rhythm

Yale Russian Chorus

Yale Slavic Chorus Theater

The Control Group

Heritage Theater Ensemble

Opera Theatre of Yale College

Yale Children’s Theater

Yale Drama Coalition

Yale Dramat

Yale Shadowcasters Comedy/Improv

The Coven

The Cucumber

The Exit Players

The Fifth Humour

The Good Show

Just Add Water

Lux Improvitas

The Odd Ducks

The Opening

The Purple Crayon

Red Hot Poker

Sphincter Troupe

Tilting at Windmills

The Viola Question Spoken Word

Jook Songs

Teeth Slam Poets

Telltale

Voke

WORD Unique

Aerial & Circus Arts Collective

Ink & Vellum: Undergraduate Architecture Society

The Spenser Society

The Whistlepoofs

Yale Anti-Gravity Society

Yale Magic Society

Y Pop-Up

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The Science Channel.(Life outside the lab)

In the early nineteenth century, Yale College became the first school in America to offer a modern science course—chemistry. Today, you can major or take courses in twenty-nine STEM disciplines, from Applied Mathematics to Biomedical Engineering to Neuroscience to Physics. And with 70+ student STEM organi-zations on campus, the opportunities for extra-curricular activities are limited only by your interests and imagination. Join the editorial staff of Yale Scientific, the nation’s oldest college science publication. Be one of more than 1,200 coders participating in YHack, the national hackathon established by three Yale undergraduates. Earn certification as an EMT through the student-run Yale Emergency Medical Services. Travel to Cameroon with the Yale chapter of Engineers Without Borders to work on a water distribution project. Tutor New Haven elementary- and middle-school students in math. Join the Undergraduate Aerospace Association, featured here, and work in teams to build and fly rockets, planes, quadcopters, and UAVs. Or create a new organization and make your own mark on life outside the lab at Yale.

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“Being a part of YUAA has been an incredibly formative and fun experience. I went from being a first-year who didn’t know the first thing about engineering to part of the team that won second place in the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition’s pay - load competition for our rocket, Chronos, and our experiment to test for e≠ects of special and general relativity. Now, as one of the organization’s co-presidents, I’m learning about the manage-ment of engineering projects and working to create a larger community of people excited about engineering and science at Yale.” Genevieve Fowler

Student Groups

American Indian Science & Engineering Society

American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Amoriem Labs

Arnold Air Society

Bee Space

Biomedical Engineering Society

Boat-Building Club

Bulldogs Racing

Code for Good

Code Haven

Community Health Educators

Data4Humanity

Developer Student Club

Dimensions

Engineers Without Borders

Environmental Education Collaborative

FIRST at Yale

Float

Genetics Club

Girls in Science

Global Medical Missions Alliance

GREEN

HackMentalHealth

HackYale Student Group

HAPPY

Health & Education Advocates for Refugees

MathCounts Outreach

Medical Professions Outreach

MedSci

Minority Association of Premedical Students

National Society of Black Engineers

Neuroscience Educa- tion Undergraduate Research Organization

oSTEM

Project Bright

Public Health Coalition

SciPhi

SheCode

Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

Society of Physics Students

Society of Women Engineers

Student Partnerships for Global Health

Symposia

Synapse

Tau Beta Pi

TEDx Yale

Undergraduate Cognitive Science Collective

Undergraduate Mathematics Society

Undergraduate Pre-Veterinary Society

United Against Inequities in Disease

Volunteers around the World

Women in Chemistry

Women in Physics

Y-BioIncubator

Y-IEEE

Yale Computer Society

Yale EMS

Yale Funbotics

Yale Helix Group

Yale iGEM Team

Yale Math Competition

Yale Puzzle League

Yale Scientific Magazine

Yale SIM

Yale STEAM

Yale Student Environmental Coalition

Yale Summer Science Research Institute

Yale Undergraduate Aerospace Association

Yale Undergraduate Intelligent Vehicles

Yale Undergraduate Science Olympiad

Yale Undergraduate Sports Analytics Group

Yale Women in STEM

YEEBUG: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Undergraduate Group

YHack

and more

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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 in our communities played a tremendous part in my identity development and paved the way for the work that I will continue to do for a lifetime.”

Where House Means Home.(Cultural centers at Yale)

Yale’s four Cultural Houses include 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.

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Afro-American Cultural CenterAfro-America House—known as “the House”—opened in 1969 as a locus for political, cultural, and social activities, continu-ing earlier Yale gatherings that brought black students together to discuss issues pertinent to the black community. With these gatherings, the isolation students had experienced in the late fifties and early sixties gave way to the vigorous exchange of ideas now seen at the House. The com-mon thread is the commitment, confidence, and consciousness that students, faculty, the New Haven community, and the University administration have shown in making the Afro-American Cultural Center vitally essential to Yale, New Haven, and beyond.

La Casa CulturalHost to countless cultural, schol-arly, and social events, La Casa Cultural is an important focus of Latino student social life at Yale and a tremendous source of student-community interaction. Founded in 1974 as Casa Boricua, Inc., it acquired its present name three years later. Within the three-story, 19th-century red brick house, students socialize, plan activities, cook together in a fully equipped kitchen, and create a warm and robust com-munity. The center also includes a Latino and Latin American topic library, computer room, organizational o∞ces, student lounges, and meeting spaces. It is open to New Haven Latinos and community-based ESL programs for non-English speakers.

Asian American Cultural CenterWhat can you do at the AACC? Just about anything: study in the library, cook for friends, enjoy the widescreen television, play Ping-Pong. Established in 1981, the center promotes Asian American culture and explores the social and political experience of Asians in the United States. More than forty undergraduate organizations are a∞liated with the AACC. Students of Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, Korean, South Asian (Bangladeshi, Indian, Nepalese, Pakistani, Sri Lankan), Taiwanese, Thai, Vietnamese, and other Asian backgrounds work together to address pan-Asian American issues as well as provide programs that focus on individual ethnic group issues.

Native American Cultural CenterThe Association of Native Americans at Yale (ANNAY) was founded in 1989 with the aim of attracting Native American faculty and scholars; expand-ing course o≠erings to include Native American history and cultural studies; increasing Native American recruitment; and creating a permanent head-quarters for the group. Many of those goals have been achieved, including the establishment of the Native American Cultural Center. ANNAY and the center promote Native American cul-ture and explore issues Native Americans face today. Programs include speakers, dinners, study breaks, and movie nights.

Afro-American

Cultural Center

A Leg Even

Alpha Kappa Alpha

Alpha Phi Alpha

Arab Students Association

Black Business Alliance

Black Church at Yale

Black Men’s Union

Black Solidarity Conference

Black Student Alliance at Yale

Black Women’s Coalition

BlackOut

Caribbean Students Organization

Delta Sigma Theta

DOWN Magazine

Dzana

FOLKS

Heritage Theater Ensemble

League of Black Scientists

Minority Association of Premedical Students

National Society of Black Engineers

Nigerian Students Association

Pan, Jam, & Lime

Racial & Ethnic Openness Club

Rhythmic Blue

ROOTS

Shades a Cappella

Steppin’ Out

Students of the Diaspora

Teeth Slam Poets

Undergraduate Association for African Peace & Development

Yale African Students Association

and more

La Casa Cultural

Ballet Folklórico Mexicano

Brazil Club

Club Colombia

Club Venezuela

Contigo Perú

Cuban American Undergraduate Student Association

De Colores

Despierta Boricua

Dominican Student Association

La Unidad Latina

Latina Women at Yale

MEChA

Mexican Student Organization

Sabrosura

Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

Students of Mixed Heritage

Sube

and more

Asian American

Cultural Center

Alliance for Southeast Asian Students

Asian American Health Advocates

Asian American Students Alliance

Asian-ish

Bridges ESL

C# a Cappella

Chinese American Students Association

Chinese Undergraduate Students

Hangarak

Himalayan Students Association

Hindu Students Organization

Hong Kong Students Association

Indonesia Yale Association

Japanese American Students Union

Jashan Bhangra

Jook Songs

Kalaa

Kasama: The Filipino Club at Yale

Korean American Students at Yale

Malaysian & Singaporean Association (MASA)

Middle Eastern & North African Students Association

MonstRAASity

Muslim Students Association

Negative Space

Queer+Asian

Rangeela

South Asian Society

Student Association of Thais at Yale

Students for Yemen

Taiwanese American Society

Unity Korean Drum & Dance Troupe

Vietnamese Students Association (ViSA)

Yale Movement

and more

Native American

Cultural Center

American Indian Science & Engineering Society (Yale chapter)

Association of Native Americans at Yale

Henry Roe Cloud Conference & Powwow

Red Territory

Students of Mixed Heritage

and more

Keeping the FaithsYale students come from more than thirty religious and spiritual traditions. Founded as an institu-tion with a Protestant vocation, Yale today welcomes those of any or no faith tradition and seeks to nurture all in their spiritual jour-neys. “We consider ourselves quite blessed,” says University Chap-lain Sharon M. K. Kugler, “to be part of a community of scholars, seekers, and believers walking

together on a remarkable journey of spiritual awakening and human flourishing.” Located on Old Cam-pus, where most first-years live, the Chaplain’s O∞ce coordinates religious life at Yale, supporting worship services and rituals across faith traditions. It partners with centers for specific faiths and with a∞liated community service orga-nizations, and it o≠ers pastoral support and social and educational programs throughout the year.

Adventist Campus Fellowship

Athletes in Action

Black Church at Yale

Chabad at Yale

Chi Alpha Christian Fellowship

Christ Presbyterian Students

Christian Union Lux

Do a 180

Episcopal Church at Yale

First Love Yale

Hindu Students Organization

Ichthys

InterFaith Forum

International Church at Yale

Jewish Christian Bible Study

Latter-Day Saint Student Association

Luther House

Muslim Students Association

Orthodox Christian Fellowship

Progressive Christian Students

Saint Thomas More Undergraduate Council

Sikh Students Association

Slifka Center for Jewish Life

Thomistic Institute at Yale

Trinity Baptist Students

Undergraduate Deacons

United Church of Westville

United Church on the Green

The University Church

Yale Buddhist Sangha

Yale Hillel

Yale Students for Christ

Young Israel House at Yale

and more

Belonging at Yale Yalies come from many back-grounds and places and have many perspectives, talents, and strengths. Those di≠erences and commonalities help make Yale a great university—a place where each person belongs and is free to explore the depth of our intellectual curiosity and our humanity, and the potential of our scholarship, research, work, and practice. In addition to the centers and resources described here, Yale o≠ers many ways to engage in e≠orts to create a more inclusive, equitable, and welcoming community: from student advisory committeees on student life and on diversity, equity, and inclusion; to grants for events that address issues of belonging and community at Yale; to social justice workshops; to lectures and symposia that o≠er di≠ering perspectives on issues of broad public concern.

Women’s CenterThe center’s mission is to improve the lives of all women, especially at Yale and in New Haven. As part of a broader feminist movement, it works to ensure equal and full opportunity for all, regardless of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, back-ground, religion, ability, or age.

Black Women’s Coalition

Broad Recognition

Circle of Women

Dimensions

Reproductive Justice Action League (RALY)

Women’s Athletic Council

Women’s Empowerment at Yale

Women’s Leadership Initiative at Yale

and more

Office of LGBTQ ResourcesThe O∞ce of LGBTQ Resources works to create a visible LGBTQ community that includes students, faculty, and sta≠ with a wide variety of life experiences. It sponsors and host events, meets one-on-one with students, and supports the student-run LGBTQ Co-op.

Beyond the Binary

BlackOut

De Colores

Engender

Ichthys

oSTEM

Pride Corp

Prisme LGBT+ in New Haven

The Qloset

Queer+Asian

Sappho

Trans@Yale

Voke Spoken Word

W{holy} Queer

and more

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Difference Makers. (Yale’s incubator of impact and leadership—Dwight Hall)

Leadership and service to society are inextricably linked at Yale. Nowhere is that more apparent than at Dwight Hall, the Center for Public Service and Social Justice founded by undergradu-ates in 1886. Dwight Hall is America’s only nonprofit umbrella campus volunteer orga-nization run entirely by students. Yalies develop new initiatives in response to commu-nity needs and provide resources, training, and support to more than 80 groups that range from tutoring to political activism. With Dwight Hall’s support, Yale undergraduates have founded many organiza-tions that have become a permanent part of New Haven’s social service network. For more than twenty years, members of the Yale Children’s Theater, showcased here, have engaged kids with the dramatic arts through student-written shows, workshops, and story-reading programs at local schools. “Children’s Theater is a serious

commitment, but it’s also a great break from the rest of college life. When I’m running a workshop with students or leading a ‘read aloud’ at a local elementary school, it doesn’t feel like I’m doing service. I could spend all day doing this work. The best part is when

the kids put on their own show. They are excited and nervous and proud, and their parents love seeing their children having fun. The experience confirmed my interest in becoming an educator and helped me make important connections in New Haven.”Jackson Richmond

“When I was thirteen, I started a nonprofit organization, Love for the Elderly, that has grown beyond my wildest dreams. I knew service would be a big part of my college experience, and I wanted to join a community that truly valued acts of kindness. The dozens of options for doing service through Dwight Hall are

incredible, and I found a perfect fit for my interests. When I’m working with kids, I’m also hanging out with my best friends. It’s a social endeavor that makes everyone involved happier. When you are passionate about something and see the impact you’re having, it’s amazing.”Jacob Cramer

“I think most Yale students would agree that we learn as much by giving to others as we do pursuing our intellectual interests. For me, service is just as important as doing homework. Performing with the Yale Children’s Theater has been one of my favorite experiences. I love connecting with the children, and I hope they are inspired to pursue the arts and think about the ideas embedded in our stories, like friendship and loyalty.”Jessica Magro

Through clubs and organizations devoted to musical cures, devel-oping clean energy, sharing community service methods, social entrepreneurship, or even scientific research, Yalies pursue the greater good.

Community

Service Student

Groups

A Leg Even

AIDS Walk New Haven

AISEC at Yale

Alzheimer’s Buddies

American Red Cross

Animal Welfare Alliance

Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project

Black Student Alliance

Bridges ESL

Building Bridges

Camp Kesem Yale

Campus Girl Scouts

Challah for Hunger

Circle of Women Yale

CityStep Yale

Code4Good

Code Haven

Community Health Educators

Crisis Text Line

Demos

Elm City Echo

Elmseed Enterprise Fund

Engineers Without Borders

Expressive Arts Therapy

Fair Haven Tutoring

First-Years in Service

Flyte Scholastics

Funbotics

Girls on the Run

HAPPY

Harbor Scholars

Hear Your Song

Hunger & Homeless-ness Action Project

Immigrant History Project

Living History Project

MathCounts Outreach

Matriculate

MEChA

MedSci

Miracle League Dance

Moneythink

Music Makers

New Haven REACH

PALS Tutoring & Mentoring

Period @ Yale

Peristalsis Dance Group

Project Access at Yale

Public Health Coalition

QuestBridge

RALY

Restaurant Rescue Project

RISE

Rotaract Club

SheCode

SNUGS Yale

Splash at Yale

Student Environmental Coalition

Student Partnerships for Global Health

Synapse Outreach

Teaching Peace Initiative

Timmy Global Health

Undergraduate Association for African Peace & Development

Undergraduates at CT Hospice

Urban Fellows Program

Urban Improvement Corps

Urban Philanthropic Fund

Vida Volunteer

Volunteers around the World

Women Everywhere Believe

Yale Children’s Theater

Yale Effective Altruists

Yale EMS

Yale Refugee Project

Yale Undergraduate Legal Aid Association

Yale Undergraduate Prison Project

Yale Undergraduates for UNICEF

Y2Y New Haven

and more

Peer Counseling

Peer Liaisons

Walden

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The Student Voice.(Overheard at Yale—politics and publications)

Speaking up and speak-ing out are Yale traditions, as you’ll see if you pick up a copy of the Yale Daily News (America’s oldest college daily) or attend a debate hosted by the Yale Political Union (the largest undergraduate organiza-tion on campus, founded in 1934). Opportuni-ties for discussion and expression outside the classroom are limitless here. Be an investigative reporter or beat blogger for the Yale Globalist and join its annual outreach trip abroad. Write about groundbreaking STEM research at Yale for the Yale Scientific, or about bioethics and healthcare economics for the Yale Journal of Medicine & Law. Hone your talent for satire at the Yale Record, the country’s oldest college humor magazine. In politics, Yale students identify as staunch conservatives, radical liberals, diehard monarchists, and nearly everything in between. But even when they dis-agree, a strong sense of community allows them to engage each other in vigorous debate. It’s easy to see why so many Yale alums have gone on to shape conversations on the national and inter-national level.

Retired general Stanley McChrystal leading a Yale Political Union discussion. And, left to right: an editorial board meeting at DOWN Magazine, an online publication by and for students of color; at work in the Yale Daily News office;

the staff of the Yale Scientific, America’s oldest college science publication, at the foot of Science Hill; getting the shot for YTV; a brainstorming session for the next issue of the Politic, a journal of politics and culture.

Political/Advocacy

Organizations

ACLU of Yale

Choose Life at Yale

The Conservative Party

Disability Empower-ment for Yale

The Egalitarian Society

Every Vote Counts

The Federalist Party

GREEN

The Independent Party

The Liberal Party

March for Our Lives Yale

MEChA

Party of the Left

Party of the Right

The Progressive Party

Resource Generation

Stand with “Comfort Women”

Students for Carbon Dividends

Students for Justice in Palestine

Students for Sensible Drug Policy at Yale

Students for Yemen

Thi[NK] at Yale

The Tory Party

William F. Buckley, Jr. Program at Yale

Yale Animal Welfare Alliance

Yale College Democrats

Yale Debate Association

Yale Depolarization Initiative

Yale Israel Public Affairs Committee

Yale Ivy Council

Yale Model Congress

Yale Political Union

Yale Student Environmental Coalition

Yale Students for Bernie

Yale Undergraduate Legal Aid Association

and more

Publications

Accent Multilingual Magazine

The Boola

Broad Recognition

China Hands

Distilled

DOWN Magazine

Her Campus at Yale

Hippopotamus Literary Magazine

Journal of Literary Translation

Kalliope

The Logos

The Politic

Rumpus

Symposia

The Yale Daily News

The Yale Daily News Magazine

Yale Economic Review

Yale Entrepreneurship Magazine

Yale Global Health Review

The Yale Globalist

The Yale Herald

The Yale Historical Review

Yale Journal of Behavioral Economics

Yale Journal of Human Rights

Yale Journal of Medicine & Law

The Yale Layer

Yale Literary Magazine

The Yale Literary Review

The Yale Phoenix

The Yale Record

Yale Scientific Magazine

Yale State & Local Policy Review

Yale Undergraduate Women’s Health Journal

and more

Apply.The Particulars.

How to ApplyPlease visit our website at http://admissions.yale.edu for application options, a calendar of due dates, and all admissions requirements.

What We Look ForEvery applicant to Yale College is assured a complete and careful review as an individual. Two questions guide the Admissions Committee in its selection of a first-year class each year: “Who is likely to make the most of Yale’s resources?” and “Who will contribute most significantly to the Yale community?” Diversity within the student body is very important as well. The committee works hard to select a class of able achievers from all over the world and a broad range of backgrounds.

Given the large number of extremely able candidates and the limited number of spaces in the class, no simple profile of grades, scores, interests, and activities can assure a student of admission to Yale. Academic strength is the first consideration in evaluating any candidate. Evidence of academic strength is indicated by grades, standardized test scores, and evaluations by a counselor and two teachers. The committee then weighs such qualities as motiva-tion, curiosity, energy, leadership

ability, and distinctive talents. The ultimate goal is the creation of a well-rounded first-year class, one that includes not only well-rounded individuals but also students whose achievements are judged exceptional.

Yale is committed to being the college of choice for the very best and brightest students in the world. In particular, Yale welcomes appli-cants from all backgrounds, and no student is disadvantaged in our admissions process because of a limited ability to pay. In fact, Yale actively seeks out accomplished students from across the socio-economic spectrum, looking to build a first-year class that is diverse in every way. Moreover, Yale has committed itself to a level of financial aid, always based entirely and only on financial need, that virtually eliminates cost of attendance as a consideration for families of low or modest income.

Campus VisitsThe O∞ce of Undergraduate Admissions o≠ers campus tours and information sessions every weekday and selected Saturdays. Current schedules and travel suggestions are available at admissions.yale.edu/tours.

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Click on Visit & Connect for information that you will need to plan a campus visit, and to join our mailing list and be notified of upcoming admissions events.

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Click on Application Process to learn how to file an applica-tion, including instructions, deadlines, and requirements.

Click on Affordability for the good news about the cost of attending Yale.

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If you are considering Yale, please do not hesitate to apply because you fear the cost will exceed your family’s means. Yale College admits students on the basis of academic and personal promise and without regard to their ability to pay. All aid is need-based. Once a student is admitted, Yale will meet 100% of that student’s demonstrated financial need. This policy, which applies to all students, regardless of citizenship or immigration status, helps to ensure that Yale will always be accessible to talented students from the widest possible range of backgrounds.

The Financial Aid O∞ce is committed to working with families in determining a fair and reasonable family contribution and will meet the full demon-strated need of every student for all four years with an award that does not require loans. Today, more than 50% of undergraduates qualify for need-based scholar-ships from Yale. The average annual grant from Yale to its students receiving financial aid for the 2019–2020 academic year was approximately $55,100, or about two-thirds the cost of attendance.

Yale also provides undergraduates on financial aid with grant support for summer study and unpaid internships in the United States and abroad based on their level of need.

“If you get into Yale, we feel sure that cost will not be a barrier in your decision to attend.”Jeremiah Quinlan, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions

> Yale Financial Aid Awards do notinclude loans. 100% of a family’sfinancial need is met with a Yalegrant and opportunities for studentemployment.

> Families with annual incomebelow $75,000 (with typical assets)are not expected to make a financialcontribution toward a student’sYale education. 100% of the student’stotal cost of attendance will befinanced with a Financial AidAward from Yale.

> Families earning between $75,000and $200,000 annually (with typicalassets) contribute a percentage of

their yearly income toward a student’s Yale education, on a sliding scale that begins at 1% and moves toward 20% and higher.

> Yale awards all aid on the basis offinancial need using a holistic reviewprocess that considers all aspects of afamily’s financial situation.

Estimated costs for 2020–2021Tuition & fees $57,700Room $9,750Board $7,450Books, fees, & personal expenses $3,825

Total $78,725

Estimate Your Yale Cost in 3 Minutesadmissions.yale.edu/estimate-your-cost

We o≠er two tools for estimating the cost of a Yale education after accounting for financial aid. The Quick Cost Estimator provides a ball-park estimate based on six simple questions. The Net Price Calculator generates a sample financial aid award based on more detailed financial information. Although neither tool can capture all the information an aid o∞cer would use to evaluate financial need, they provide a look at what a family can expect to pay based on Yale’s current financial aid policies.

admissions.yale.edu/financial-aid

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Original contributors to this annually updated insider’s guide to Yale College included more than two dozen students as well as faculty, alumni, and Under-graduate Admissions sta≠.

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Jeremiah Quinlan, B.A. 2003, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions

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Some Breaking News stories were adapted from YaleNews, published by the O∞ce of Public A≠airs & Communications.

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