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A Guide to Yale College
This is Yale.
Were glad
you asked.
 Lives.
p. 90 | Elm City p. 102 | State of the p. 114 | The Science
Run. On a run Arts. From the digital Channel. Life outside
from Old Campus to the classical, Yales the lab.
p. 10 | Freshman to East Rock, one spectacular arts options.
Diaries. Yales newest student explains p. 116 | Political
students chronicle a why New Haven is p. 104 | The Daily Animals. Welcome
week in the rst year the perfect size. Show. A slice of Yales to the YPU, one of
and give some advice. creative life during one Yales most enduring
p. 92 | Here, There, spring weekend. institutions.
Everywhere.
Fourteen Yalies, where p. 106 | Shared p. 118 | Difference
theyre from, and Communities. Makers. Through
where theyve been. Yales Cultural Dwight Hall, students
Houses, religious nd their own paths
communities, and to service and leader-

Pursuits.
p. 14 | Anatomy of a anity organizations ship in New Haven.
Residential College. and centers.
Delving into the

Apply.
layers of Yales unique p. 98 | Bulldog!
residential college Bulldog! Bow,
system (12 gorgeous Wow, Wow!

Studies.
stand-alone colleges). p. 46 | Eavesdrop- Playing for Yale p. 122 | The Good
ping on Professors. p. 68 | Connect the The Game, the mission, News about the
Why being an amazing Dots. From start-up the teams, the fans, Cost of Yale.
p. 34 | A Liberal place to teach makes capital and internships and, of course, Our nancial aid policy
Education. Yales Yale an amazing place to top fellowships Handsome Dan. p. 110 | ELIterati. eliminates the need
educational philosophy, to learn. and a worldwide Why Elis are just for loans and makes
more than 80 majors, network of alumni, so darned determined Yale aordable for all.
the meaning of breadth, Yale positions to publish.
and some startling graduates for success p. 123 | The
numbers. in the real world. p. 112 | Sustainable Particulars.
U. Where Blue is How to apply, what
p. 38 | College Green. we look for, and

Places.
Meets University. visiting campus.
An undergraduate road
map to the intersection p. 54 | A Hands-On
of Yale College and Education. Learning
the Universitys gradu- by doing. p. 76 |
ate and professional Inspired
schools. p. 56 | Next-Gen by Icons.
Knowledge. For Why
p. 40 | Blue Booking. Yalies, one-of-a-kind architecture
p. 24 | Bright When parties and resources make matters.
College Years. shopping are academic. all the dierence.
In many ways, friend- Plus: shopping lists p. 86 | Noah
ship denes the and special programs. Webster Lived
Yale experience. One Here. Bumping
student sums it up: p. 44 | Two, Three, into history at Yale.
Its about the people, Four, Five Heads
not the prestige. Are Better Than p. 88 | Nine Squares.
One. Synergy p. 62 | Think Yale. The modern univer-
p. 28 | Breaking and study groups. Think World. Eight sity, the cosmopolitan
News. A few of Elis dene global college town.
the years top under- citizen and share piv-
graduate stories. otal moments abroad.

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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, 193673)

8 | lives 9
Freshman Diaries.
(Life in the rst year)
From the moment they
arrive, freshmen 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 first-year
students from pre-
orientation to freshman
counselors (Yale seniors)
to Freshman Seminars
(small classes taught
by some of Yales most
prominent professors)
to parties. We caught
up with three freshmen
near the end of their
second semesters.
Here they share advice
on preorientation,
independence, and
schedules; reflect on
their own freshman
expectations; and record
a day in their lives
during the first year.
12:30 am  ack to my room to get
10 | lives
A Tuesday
in the life of
9:30 am Wake up, shower, and (ideally)
get breakfast at Saybrook.
Spanish in Linsly-Chittenden
10:30 
(conveniently located between
Vanderbilt and Saybrook).
Rush to Hillhouse to make it
11:20 
to my 11:35 calculus class.
1:00 pm Grab lunch at Silliman with
a friend or two from math.
Work out at Payne Whitney
3:00 
Gym, shower, and leave by 4.
Meet up at Chipotle or another
6:00 
local eatery with fellow Black
Mens Union members to work
on a newsletter for alumni.
Weekly meeting with Cluster
7:30 
Technicians at the Student
Technology Collaborative.
9:00 Watch TV for an hour.
Do homework with a friend at
10:00 
Squiche (Saybrooks buttery).
B
some sleep.
Anticipated Major
While it may not be particularly
it! I had a fantastic time going
First Years Classes
> Comprehensive General
Chemistry II
> General Chemistry Lab II
> Reading and Writing the
Modern Essay
> Introduction to Ethnicity, Race,
and Migration
> Calculus of Functions of One
Variable I and II
> Introductory Microeconomics
> Introduction to Engineering,
Innovation, and Design
> Vikings
> Elementary Spanish II
Activities
> Yale Black Mens Union
> Yale PALS Tutoring and
Mentoring
> Yale Undergraduate Diversied
Investments
> Science, Technology, and
Research Scholars
> Saybrook College Council
Chair of the Dining Hall Committee
> Shaka at Yale Polynesian dance
group
recommend applying to them.
Mallet Njonkem Preorientation Freshman
Programs Counselors The
Hometown
Several optional Freshman Counselor
Richmond, TX
preorientation programs (a.k.a. Froco) Program
Economics, Engineering Sciences: Mechanical
give new students a
chance to meet each
was established in
1938 and has been
other prior to the formal an intrinsic and
Freshman Orientation. essential component
of Yales advising
Cultural Connections
(CC) introduces fresh-
system for freshmen
ever since. Each
easy to excel at Yale, finding
men to Yales cultural first-year student is
resources and explores assigned a counselor
the diversity of student who acts as a guide
out that there are many resources experiences on campus,
with emphasis on the
through the transition
to life at Yale. Frocos
to help achieve goals was my experiences of students
of color and on issues
are a diverse group
of seniors who
greatest surprise. related to racial identity. are friends/mentors/
problem-solvers
Freshman Outdoor but not supervisors
Orientation Trips or disciplinarians.
(FOOT) are six-day and All freshmen except
On preorientation: I did On expectations: I was never four-day backpacking those in Timothy
trips for all levels in Dwight and Silliman
Cultural Connections and loved completely sure what I would want
the mountains and live together on
to study in college, so I knew that hills of Vermont, New Old Campus during
on adventures, participating I wanted to go to a place where I Hampshire, New their first year, and
in stimulating discussions and could engage in several dierent York, Massachusetts, Frocos live among
and Connecticut, led them. (Freshmen
conversations, and being ushered pursuits. The ability to easily by upperclassmen. are grouped in Old
into some of the ner aspects of switch majors or disciplines was Trip leaders have Campus residences
student campus life with things one of the main factors that drew extensive training in by college affiliation,
keeping FOOTies safe which allows all
like a talent show and poetry me to apply to private schools like
and healthy in the freshmen no matter
performances. I really beneted Yale in addition to my states flag- backcountry and are their college affilia-
from the program in that I felt a ship school. When I visited Yale experienced counselors tion to get to know
sense of belonging and already during Bulldog Daysa three-day who offer a wealth of each other.)
had a network of friends before program for admitted students
support, advice, and
friendship.
Camp Yale even started. Ive I was blown away by the fluidity
heard similar experiences from and flexibility across several Harvest begins at the
Yale Farm, and then
friends who participated in FOOT. spheres in the school. It became
groups of freshmen
I highly encourage incoming clear to me that integrating into led by upperclassmen
students to consider one of Yales residential college communities, head off to spend
preorientation programs. extracurricular activities, and five days on family-
owned organic farms
the larger Yale community would
in the Northeast.
On roommates: Whether by be seamless. And now that Im
pure coincidence or by Yales here, one of my most pleasant Orientation for
International Students
complex room assignment system, surprises is that there are a ton
(OIS) is a four-day
I was matched with someone I of great resources such as oce
program designed to
had met and hit it o with during hours, tutoring, review sessions, ease the transition of
the college search process. After intelligent fellow classmates, international students
to the United States,
we got our suite assignments, etc., all around just waiting to and to acquaint them
we texted each other in happy be utilized. with academic and
surprise that we would be social life at Yale. It is
organized and led by
rooming together.
international upper-
classmen with support
On Freshman Seminars: from the Office of
These are very popular classes International Students
and Scholars.
with limited sizes. I denitely
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 Eliza Dach
Hometown
Washington, DC
Anticipated Major
Chemistry (although I also want to
explore Chemical Engineering)
Directed Studies provides a valuable
foundation in the humanities and
reminds me that science and the
humanities used to be intricately
linked. Only recently did people start
to consider them such separate fields.
On orientation: FOOT is
a great way to kick o your
freshman year! I did the four-day
Appalachian Trail trip and made
an instant group of friends.
On Directed Studies (DS): The
yearlong DS humanities program
is unique to Yale and a wonderful
way to make sure you are taking
small seminars, having lectures
with world-class professors,
quickly improving your writing
skills, and reading the classics,
from ancient Greece through the
twentieth century. Discussion
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8:25 am  ake up and get ready for
First Years Classes
> Directed Studies: Literature
(both semesters)
> Directed Studies: Historical
and Political Thought (both
semesters)
> Directed Studies: Philosophy
(both semesters)
> Quantitative Foundations of
General Chemistry
> Laboratory for Quantitative
Foundations of General
Chemistry
> Organic Chemistry
> Laboratory for Organic
Chemistry I
> Advanced Dance Composition
Activities
> Yaledancers
> Yale team for the Solar
Decathlon
2:25 pm Lunch in TD with a big group
1 linearity among regressors?
sections are at the heart of the
program: they let you engage
with the texts, the other students,
and the professors in a small
group setting.
On extracurriculars: There
is such strong support for the
arts on campus. Ive been able to
keep up and improve my dancing
and have had the chance to
choreograph pieces of my own.
1:00 am Bedtime. I pack up my books
Most importantly, Ive found a
community of amazingly talented
dancers and friends who have
defined my time at Yale so far.
A Wednesday
in the life of
W 9:00 am Comparative Latin American
classes.
8:45 Walk with my roommate to
Branford for hot breakfast.
Our favorite day is chocolate
chip pancake day.
9:25 Organic Chemistry class. With
the help of giant styrofoam
models, weve been learning
about synthetic mechanisms
and about how the smallest
change in a molecules orienta-
tion can change its smell,
look, reactivity, toxicity...
10:15 Head to the Blue State coee
shop for an hour. Usually I
work on my chemistry problem
set or review DS reading for
the afternoon section meeting.
11:35 DS Philosophy lecture. I love
DS lectures. Each professor
has a dierent area of expertise
and eloquently synthesizes that
weeks reading with the course
as a whole (especially useful if
were reading Kant or Hegel).
of DSers. These lunches are
a hidden gem of DS: because
you spend so much time with a
relatively small group, you end
up making a lot of friends over
the course of the years lectures,
sections, and lunches.
1:00 O to the discussion section
for DS Historical and Political
Thought.
2:15 Back to Old Campus to relax.
If its sunny, I sit out on the
benches and chat with friends
who are passing by or playing
frisbee. Eventually I head to
my room or the JE library to
finish up the weeks DS paper
or work on a lab report.
6:00 Dinner with my amazing
suitemates in JE. Afterward, we
stop in the Frocos suite for an
impromptu dance party (or just
to grab a piece of candy).
8:15 Jazz night at Yaledancers class.
Fun and tiring, YD classes are a
highlight of my week.
10:00 Back to my dorm to shower,
talk with friends, and finish up
whatever work I have left.
and notes for Thursday so
that I dont wake up my room-
mate when I leave for my 9 am
Literature class.
Oscar Pocasangre
Hometown
San Salvador, El Salvador
Anticipated Major
Economics, Political Science
:45 am. Wake up, shower, and walk
6 wae, or fruit and yogurt, and
to Payne Whitney for archery practice.
On adjusting: A dierent
culture, dierent weather, and
a dierent language, but the
transition was not hard because
of the help I got from the Oce
of International Students and
other students. I also did
an amazing preorientation for
International Students.
On Old Campus and Frocos:
Living on Old Campus with almost
all other freshmen gives you a great
way to know people from all the
colleges. Frocos are freshman
counselors. They become friends
who give great advice. The cool
thing is that although you have
your own Froco, you end up being
helped by them all.
in the life of
12:25 pm Run to lunch at one of the
First Years Classes
> Microeconomics with
Environmental Applications
> Comparative Latin American
Politics
> Intermediate and Advanced
French
> Introductory Statistics for
Political Science
> Reading and Writing the
Modern Essay
> Political Psychology
1:30 am (Sometimes its 3 or 4 am) Go
> The Modern Unconscious
> Introductory Macroeconomics
> Calculus of Functions of
One Variable
Activities
> The Yale Globalist
International aairs magazine
> International Student
Organization
> AIESEC We help nd internships
all over the world for Yalies.
> Yale Club Archery
A Thursday
Politics: Get ready to take a lot
of notes!
10:15 Breakfast. At Berkeley College,
I usually get a bagel, muns,
orange juice.
10:30 I go back to my room and
work on homework or an
assigned reading. That is,
when I dont end up talking
with people on the floor.
11:35 French class: a small class
where we practice French
through class discussions of
dierent novels, short stories,
and lms.
residential colleges, usually
Berkeley. The cool thing about
eating at the dining halls is
that you always meet up with
a friend or someone you know.
1:00 Statistics for Political Science:
Standard deviation? Multi-
linear regression? Multicol-
Yes, yes, and yes. We learn
about statistical tools that you
can apply to political studies,
such as in election polls.
2:30 Have a coee with a friend, go
to oce hours, and/or work
grading Spanish homework
6:00 
assignments.
The Yale Globalist, meeting
over dinner. We usually
discuss possible themes for the
next issue, evaluate the previ-
ous issue, or talk with journal-
ists about how to improve the
magazine.
7:30 Time to go to the library to do
problem sets or readings.
10:00 Hang out with friends, have
random conversations, go to
a party, a play, or go to get a
late-night snack.
to bed and get some sleep!
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Anatomy of a Residential College.
(Yale has no dormitories)
Even before freshmen
arrive they are assigned
to one of Yales twelve
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 Yales students hail from
the west coast or abroad,
you can expect to see
roughly that percentage
in each college.
Yales 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 Yales
growing international reputation
and stature but worried that
as the University grew, the
close bonds between students
14 | lives
The Courtyard The image of Vincent Scully, Rogers transformed
the secret garden was architect Yale into a loose association of
James Gamble Rogerss inspiration little paradises.
for the courtyards around which
each residential college is designed.
According to legendary art historian
and Yale professor emeritus
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
freshman welcome issue
of the Yale Daily News
and youll understand
why they all think
theyre the best!
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 throughout
their lives. In the fall of 1933
the rst seven of the twelve
colleges opened.
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Home Suite Home
Most freshmen live in Yale in
suites in which four
students occupy two
Miniature.
bedrooms and share
(A tour of
a common living
room. The suites are Morse College)
all female or all male,
and the residence
halls are coed. After
freshman year, there
are multiple possible
room arrangements.
From top: A common
room in Branford
College; a bedroom
in Farnam Hall on
Old Campus; a
bedroom in Berkeley
College; a bedroom
with built-in desk and
bookshelves in Ezra
Stiles College; and
a common room
in Pierson College.
FLOOR 2
Deans Office
FLOOR 1
Deans
BASEMENT
If a student is having
diculty with a particular
Apartment
Dean Joel Silverman FLOOR 2
Game Room
Conveniently
course, the college dean can lives in Morse with his Head of
located next to the
often help by talking with wife, Alba Estenoz, Colleges Office
Morsel, the Game
the students instructor who is a professional The head of college is the
or with the relevant pastry chef; their son, chief administrative ocer
Room is a social
departments director of Noah; and their dogs, and the presiding faculty
hub where students
undergraduate studies, or Oreo and Lulu. presence in each residential
get together to
by referring the student college. During the year,
watch TV or play
BASEMENT to one of the programs that the head of college hosts
pool, table tennis,
Buttery air hockey, and
oer tutoring assistance. lectures, study breaks
Run by Getting to know each (especially during nals),
foosball.
students, The student as an individual and College Teasintimate
Morsel is open helps the dean to address gatherings during which
Sunday through concerns as personally students have the oppor-
Thursday from and eectively as possible. tunity to engage with
10:30 pm to 1 am. renowned guests from
Hang out with the academy, government,
friends over the and popular culture.
popular Jim Stanley,
a quesadilla with
chicken nuggets.
FLOOR 1
Morse House
FLOOR 1 Catherine Panter-Brick is
Art Gallery joined in Morse College
Artistic Morsels by her husband, Associate
can exhibit their Head of College Mark
latest work in this Eggerman, and their sons,
sophisticated venue. Dominic and Jannik.
FLOOR 1
Common Room
With comfortable
seating and ample desk Courtyard
space, the Common An outdoor room
Room is a welcoming for barbecues, leaf
place, whether you want and snowball ghts,
to work on a problem and spontaneous
set, play the concert and formal events.
grand, or just hang out Or cool your toes
by the replace on a in Morses water
chilly night. feature, known as
the Beach.

BASE MENT
Shared
Spaces FLOOR S 1 & 2
Morse and neighbor With adjustable The Dance and The Exercise and Library
Ezra Stiles College tiered seating, a Aerobics Studio Weight Room Open 24 hours a day,
share several under- full-featured sound was designed for oers a full range BASEMENT the library has big
ground performance system, a sprung all types of dance, of state-of-the-art Student tables, comfort-
and activity spaces. oor, and theatrical from ballroom equipment including Kitchen able couches, and
But dont let their lighting, the Cres- to classical Indian treadmills, ellipticals, All the tools you individual kiosks
location in the cent Underground bharatanatyam. free weights, punch- need, whether for studying, as well
basement fool you: Theater showcases ing bags, and weight youre preparing as a large collec-
skylights ood these student-directed The Fabric Arts machines. a full-course tion of books and
rooms with light. and student- Studio has six dinner for friends magazines, from The
performed shows. looms, several There are also a fully FLOOR 1 or just heating Economist to People.
sewing machines, a equipped Digital Dining Hall some ramen.
The Music Suite knitting machine, Media Room and a One of the social
has three individual and more. Recording Studio. centers in every col-
practice rooms and lege. At night, light
one group rehearsal glowing from the
room, each with Dining Halls 40-
an upright or baby foot oor-to-ceiling
grand. windows illuminates
the courtyard and
outdoor dining patio.

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

Joel Silverman has served as

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

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 Debate This.
(Pierson Dining Hall conversations in progress)

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

Amira Valliani, Jeff Sun, and Chris

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

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

Jonathan
Edwards
Collegiate Gothic;
opened in 1933
Our amazing letterpress;
Tyng Cup winners
Great Awakening Fall
Festival; the formal
Spiders
More than Oolong.
a.k.a. JE three years in a row Spider Ball; JE SUX! (College Teas)
Morse Modern; designed Our sculpture, All-day Apple Bakefest Morsels
by Eero Saarinen; Lipstick (Ascending) in the head of colleges College Teas are informal Q&As
built in 1961 with a on Caterpillar Tracks, by kitchen; Great Morse
hosted by the head of each
14-story tower and Claes Oldenburg Easter Egg Hunt
no right angles
residential college and often
cohosted by campus organizations
Pierson Georgian; Wrestling in the Jello Pit Tuesday Night Club, a Piersonites
such as the Film Society or the
built of Justice on Pierson Day; college-wide party to help
in 1933 our cheer: P is for the P make it through the early Yale Daily News. The teas give small
in Pierson College, I is for part of the week groups of students an intimate
the I in Pierson College opportunity to pick the brains of
Saybrook Collegiate Gothic; Were in a chase scene Party in the 12 Pack Saybrugians world leaders, thinkers, and talents.
completed in 1933 in the latest Indiana and always respond Members of the hosting college
Jones movie; our own Saybrook! when asked,
get rst dibs on front-row seats.
Chamber Orchestra Say what?
(known as SYChO)
Recent guests Internet personality; Nihad Awad, activist Timothy Dwight Deqo Mohamed,
Silliman Varied: Collegiate Biggest college; biggest Sunday music brunch, a Sillimanders and executive director of the Council on physician and CEO of DHAF in Somalia;
Trumbull Lois Lowry, author of The Giver;
Gothic; modied courtyard; winner of feast of sound and taste; American-Islamic Relations. Alice Wells, U.S. ambassador to Jordan;
Joan Acocella, dance and book reviewer
French Renaissance, cooking and spirit prizes the Ball on College and Rahul Pandita, conflict journalist; Susan
for The New Yorker; Biz Stone, co-founder Ezra Stiles Junot Daz, Pulitzer Prize-
Georgian; at Final Cut (Yales Iron Wall, a spring classic Choi, novelist.
of Twitter; Amy Brooks-Kayal, pediatric winning author and MacArthur Fellow;
completed in 1940 Chef ) neurologist. Anglique Kidjo, singer-songwriter and Morse Unni Karunakara, international
activist; Cesar Pelli, architect; Ed Norton, president of Mdecins Sans Frontires; Mark
Ezra Stiles Modern master- Our memorial Medieval (K)night Stilesians Branford Jennifer Staple-Clark, founder
actor and director; Joann Lo, co-director of Penn, author of Microtrends and adviser to
piece, designed moose mascot in the Festival; Baby Animal and CEO of Unite For Sight; Robert Pinsky,
the Food Chain Workers Alliance. the Clintons, Tony Blair, and Bill Gates;
by Eero Saarinen; Dining Hall; annual Petting Zoo in the former U.S. poet laureate; Chris Bridges,
Bobby Lopez, composer and lyricist of
opened in 1962 Student Film Festival courtyard a.k.a. Ludacris, rapper and actor; Paul Davenport Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Associate
Avenue Q; Malcolm Gladwell, author of The
Farmer, co-founder, Partners in Health. Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; Carole
Tipping Point and Blink.
Trumbull Quintessential Yale/ Potty Court, where our Rumble in Trumbull the King, singer-songwriter; Mike Gordon,
Silliman Denzel Washington, Academy
Collegiate Gothic; gargoyle Thinker is (bounce-house ghts); Bulls guitarist, Phish; Margaret Hamburg, fda Jonathan Edwards Katie Couric, journal-
Award-winning actor, producer, and
completed in 1933 enthroned and decorated Pamplona (running of commissioner; Garry Trudeau, cartoonist, ist; Jon Pareles, music critic; Michael Pollan,
director; Brandon Scott Sessoms, gay
every year the [Trum]Bulls around Doonesbury; Mukesh Kapila, humanitarian author of The Omnivores Dilemma; Gary
blogger, celebrity commentator, and
campus) and author of Against a Tide of Evil. Beach, Tony Award-winning actor.
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Bright College Years.
(Dening Yale through friendship)
Time and change
shall naught
avail / To break
the friendships
formed at Yale.
from Bright College Years,
Yales alma mater
Its 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 ones
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 (youll
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.
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Deena (left)
goes to every one
of Hannahs
performances
with TUIB, Yales
folksinging
group. Over
the years, shes
learned the
words to all
their songs.
Deena and
Danny (below)
are involved
in the Yale
Deena, Caroline, and I have Hannah
Hunger and
organized several late-night Untereiner Homelessness
Zumba-style dance parties. (above right) Action Project.
Once we choreographed a dance Hometown
routine to Countdown by Takoma Park, MD
Beyonc. After about an hour Major American
of teamwork and laughter at Studies
Going to a restaurant in New time a bunch of dierent stir-fry Lamthran how silly we looked in the dance Activities
Haven has become a favorite dishes and coordinate preparation Hanoi mirrorsafter all, Caroline is the Whim n Rhythm
(a cappella),
tradition. On birthdays its with five other people! In the Hantrakul only real dancer among uswe Tangled Up in
Prime 16, a juicy burger place, end the dinner was a delicious (above center) recorded a video of our finished Blue (American
or Pepes, a New Haven pizza success. Sometimes late at night Hometown dance on Carolines computer. folksinging
classic. Whenever its Thai food, I go into the kitchen to cook my Bangkok, Thailand Its fun to remember the moments group), Harvest
preorientation
Im given full ordering power own food as a way to de-stress. Major of spontaneous goofiness that trip leader, French
for the family-style meal. Once Ill call Richard to come and help Applied Physics, define our friendship. Hannah language tutor,
Music Richard,
I booked out the Morse kitchen me finish what Ive made as a Morse College
Buttery manager Danny, and
to have a Thai cooking session fun study break. Hes a fan of my Activities
Mark go
Yale Jazz Ensemble,
with friends. Aaron, Ethan, Mark, Thai milk tea. Hanoi WYBC Radio, Hanoi invited Richard sledding on
Caroline, and Hannah helped Asian American (right) to take an Electrical the big hill by
Engineering class with the Divinity
with the chopping. On the menu Cultural Center,
him. Richard says its a School during
were stir-fry vegetables with Salsa dancing, CEID
Hanoi, Mark (above left), course he probably never snowstorms.
Workshop designer
oyster sauce, Thai-style omelet Ethan (above right), and would have considered,
with fresh shrimp, green curry Aaron were assigned but it became one of my
to be suitemates in their favorite courses at Yale
with eggplant, and rice I had
freshman year. They and inspired his participa-
brought from Thailand. Its a realized they all played tion in Bulldog Bots,
challenge when youre trying to instruments and started a Yales undergraduate
band called Suite Spot. robotics organization.
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The most important factor in my Met at Yale
Bob Woodward

closest friendships is how much we and John Kerry

George W. Bush

prioritize each other, even in the and Garry Trudeau

Hillary Rodham Clinton

face of homework or extracurriculars and Bill Clinton

Allison Williams and

or other life. Kurt Schneider

Sigourney Weaver
Caroline and Meryl Streep
Angela Bassett
and Tony Shalhoub
Frances McDormand
and David Henry
Hwang
Jodie Foster and
Jennifer Beals
David Duchovny and
Paul Giamatti
Aaron and Edward Norton and
Carlee (below) Jennifer Connelly
met through a
Paul Sciarra
mutual friend
and Ben Silbermann
the summer
before their
freshman
year, so Carlee
remembers
Aaron as
her first Yale
friend. They
get dinner
together with Aaron At 1 a.m. before a snow day, Hanoi
a group of Effron was showing everyone some music
friends every
Sunday.
(above) hed been working on. Mark got his
Hometown trombone to play along, and after
Brookline, MA five minutes, he, Ethan, Hanoi, and
Major I were all playing our respective
Physics instruments. Then Ethans girl
Activities friend joined in on the vocals, and Caroline My friendships at Yale are amazing.
Society of Orpheus we jammed for two hours. The Andersson Together we have talked excitedly
and Bacchus
(a cappella),
best lesson Ive learned outside (above, second for hours about classes, despaired
Caroline asked Jessica
of the classroom is to cherish from right) about mountains of homework
intramural soccer (above, second from left)
co-captain every moment with friends. Its Hometown in those same classes, laughed and to go running with her
tempting to have a concrete plan Hudson, OH celebrated when we got through in their first week of
freshman year, and theyve
for every moment to maximize Major Mathematics midterms, watched each others been running together
& Philosophy
productivity and happiness, but incredible performances, had regularly ever sinceeven
its just as important to let a meal Activities our hearts broken, tried new though Caroline says
Morse College Head Jessica is much more
that was going to be an hour be Freshman Counselor,
things and met new people, made
athletic than I am!
2+ hours if youre having a truly Proof of the Pudding mistakes, and danced until our
great conversation. Aaron (jazz a cappella), legs couldnt move any more.
Kevin (above) Yale Dance Theater, We have found so much joy in
and Danny Steppin Out (step
compete team) president, learning more about each other.
Danny, Aaron, and together in Harvest preorienta- Caroline Kevin and Jessica met in a
Carlee and Ethan know Deena Final Cut, a tion trip leader music history class and also
Deena have through Yale Hillel, where university- took Roman Architecture
been suite she was co-president in her wide and Opera Libretto:
mates since junior year. They regularly Iron Chef - subjects that were o
sophomore attend Friday night style culinary our radar but turned out
year. Shabbat dinners together. competition. to be fascinating.

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Breaking News.
(A few of the years top undergraduate stories)
Slam Kudos
Senior Emi Mahmoud won the
Individual World Poetry Slam
Championship, an annual four-
day competition that attracts
some of the worlds best poets.
Mahmoud first learned about
spoken-word performance
at Yales Bulldog Days, which
introduces admitted students
and their families to Yale College.
In addition to being crowned
the iWPS champion, Mahmoud
will publish a book of her own
poems and travel on behalf of
Poetry Slam Inc. to teach poetry.
Yale in New Haven
Senior Jacob Wasserman was
honored with an Ivy Award in
April for his work connecting
Yale students to the New Haven
community. Wasserman runs
goNewHavengo, promoting
nonautomotive transportation;
volunteers at New Haven Reads,
a book bank and tutoring
program for elementary school
students; is co-chair of the Ward
1 Democratic Town Committee;
and serves as an adviser to City
Atlas: New Haven, a new publi-
cation highlighting sustainability
eorts and initiatives. He has
also been a leader of Yales focus
preorientation program, which
helps sophomores get involved
with the city and local nonprofits.
Record
Attendance
More than 750 undergraduates
from more than fifty universities
attended the student-run 21st
annual Black Solidarity Confer-
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ence at Yale; this years theme
was The Miseducation: Chang-
ing History as We Know It.
Panels, workshops, and discus-
sions at the sold-out conference
reflected on the history of the
African diaspora and considered
ways of creating a better future.
In addition, a career fair and
talks featured representatives
from such companies as Gold-
man Sachs, Google, and Jopwell.
Across the Pond
Seven seniors have been named
Rhodes, Marshall, or Gates
Cambridge Scholars, among the
most coveted academic awards
for postgraduate study. On
Rhodes scholarships at Oxford,
Global Aairs major Mason Ji
will seek an M.Phil. in interna-
tional relations; Ethics, Politics,
and Economics major Jared
Milfred will pursue an M.Phil.
in political theory; Applied
Mathematics and Economics
double-major Tim Rudner will
study for an M.Sc. in applied
statistics and an M.Sc. in math-
ematical modeling and scientific
computing; and History major
Isaac Stanley-Becker will seek an
M.Phil. in economic and social
history. On a Marshall scholar-
ship, History major Skyler Ross
will pursue an M.F.A. in creative
producing at the University of
Londons Royal Central School
of Speech and Drama. And as
Gates Scholars at Cambridge,
Ethics, Politics, and Economics
major Joshua Feinzig will pur-
sue an M.Phil. in criminology,
and Literature major William
Theiss will study for an M.Phil.
in early modern history. Earlier
in the year, Feinzig won the
international Undergraduate
Award in gender studies and
anthropology for his paper
Black Performativity, Reflexiv-
ity, and Reclaiming the Public
Sphere, written for a History
seminar at Yale.
Physics Matters
Junior Grace Pan was selected as
a Goldwater Scholar for 2016 by
the Barry Goldwater Scholarship
Program, which was created to
encourage outstanding students
to pursue research careers in the
stem disciplines. Pan, who plans
to pursue a doctorate in physics,
studies the synthesis and char-
acterization of materials with
interesting topological proper-
ties at Yales Energy Sciences
Institute on the West Campus.
Tell Me a Story
A team of three Yale College
sophomoresHenok Addis,
Philip Esterman, and Jillian
Kravatzwon the second
annual Thorne Prize for Social
Innovation in Health or Educa-
tion. Their product, StoryTime,
promotes early literacy by using
cellular technology to address
the word gap faced by many
children in lower-income fami-
lies, who by age four are likely
to have heard 30 million fewer
words than peers from higher-
income families. StoryTime
texts original short stories to
parents who can then share
them with their children. The
$25,000 prize will allow the trio
to broaden StoryTimes reach
in New Haven to 800 families
and work with writers to
develop more original material.
Boola Boola
The Yale Mens Basketball team
qualified for the NCAA tourna-
ment for the first time since 1962,
advancing to the second round
with a win over 5th-seeded
Baylor; senior Justin Sears was
named Ivy League Player of the
year. Freshman Isabella Hindley
was the high-point swimmer
of the meet at this years Ivy
conference championship, with
victories in the 50-, 100-, and
200-yard freestyle events and
four relays. After defeating
Harvard to win the Ivy League
championship, the Yale Mens
Squash team went on to win the
CSA National Tournament, the
programs sixteenth national
title and its first in twenty-six
years; junior Kah Wah Cheong
clinched the victory in the final
match of the competition. Yales
Gymnastics team shone on the
uneven bars at the ECAC champi-
onships, with the top team score
in the event; and junior Tatiana
Winkelman was named ECAC
Scholar Athlete of the Year.
Undergraduate
optical telescope. Motorized
Entrepreneurs
Yale undergraduates head many
of the business ventures that
have earned summer fellowships
from the Yale Entrepreneurial
Institute in 2016. The program,
which is geared toward scalable
ideas with high-growth poten-
tial, provides funding, mentors,
access to corporate partners,
one-on-one pitch guidance, and
the support of a network of The latest stats
like-minded peers and experts.
This years undergraduate
on who goes to Yale
projects include a bail-funding 1,364 28%
start-up aimed at low-risk in a typical entering major in the Arts and
defendants; an easy-to-install class Humanities
backyard ice rink; a portable
infant respirator; and an 50 39%
states major in the Social
interactive experience for
Sciences
discovering new music.
60+
countries 32%
Clean Sweep major in the Biological
In this years Norman Mailer
51% and Physical Sciences
or Engineering
men
Writing Awards, a national
competition administered by 96%
the National Council of Teach-
49% graduate within five
women years
ers of English, ten Yale College
students and recent graduates 41% 87%
swept the Four-Year College minority students live on campus
Creative Nonfiction category.
Since the competition was 11% 59%
established in 2009, half of all international students have jobs on campus
winners and more than 40%
of all honorees have been Yale 57% 13%
undergraduates. Winner Eric
from public schools earn double majors
Boodman graduated in 2015.
43% 47%
from private or participate in
Out of This World parochial schools community service
At the White House Astronomy
Night in October, President
50% 80%+
receive need-based participate in
Obama recognized the Yale financial aid intercollegiate, club, or
Undergraduate Aerospace intramural athletics
Association for its work on 95%
developing an automated of incoming freshmen 90%+
ranked in the top
tenth of high school
of science and
engineering majors
and computer-controlled
graduating class undertake research
with software written by the with a faculty mentor
students, the telescope will be 98%
able to track celestial objects of freshmen return 50%+
as they progress across the
sophomore year of graduates ultimately
sky and be equipped to take earn M.D.s, J.D.s,
M.B.A.s, or doctoral
long-exposure photographs
degrees
of deep-space objects. The
YUAA was represented at the
ceremony by Astrophysics
major Lauren Chambers.
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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 leadership
and civic life.
Peter Salovey, President of Yale University

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A Liberal Education.
(Freedom to think)

Academically, Yale makes

two broad demands of The mission of Yale College
is to seek exceptionally
students: a reasonable
diversity of subject
matter and approach,
particularly in the early
years; and in the later
promising students of all
years, concentration in
one of the major programs
backgrounds from across
or departments. This
style of education liberates
the nation and around the
the mind by developing
the skills, creativity, and world and to educate them,
broad familiarity with
the world that can foster through mental discipline
and social experience,
effective leadership.

to develop their intellectual,

moral, civic, and creative
capacities to the fullest.
The aim of this education
is the cultivation of citizens
with a rich awareness
of our heritage to lead
and serve in every sphere
of human activity.

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 80+ 15,000,000+
Majors in German Studies

3+3=breadth 1:1
Yale College Global Affairs
African American Greek, Ancient &
Studies Modern
African Studies History
Majors. There is no specic class you have to take at
Yale, but students are required to learn broadly
Classes range from
one-on-one tutorials
Holdings in Yales library, making American Studies History of Art
Anthropology
and deeply. Depth is covered in ones major. to a small seminar to a it the third-largest university library History of Science,

6:1
Applied Mathematics Medicine, &
Breadth is covered by taking courses in three study lecture course of several Public Health
areas (the humanities and arts, the sciences, and hundred students. system in the United States. Applied Physics
Archaeological Studies
Humanities
the social sciences) and three skill areas (writing,

76%
Italian
Architecture
quantitative reasoning, and foreign language).

200+ 60+
Judaic Studies
Art
Latin American
Student-to-faculty ratio. Astronomy

53
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Astrophysics
Of Yale College
3:1
Linguistics
Chemistry
Number of foreign courses enroll fewer
than 20 students. Classical Civilization
Literature
Mathematics

languages oered. Creative and Classics (Greek, Latin,

2,000+
31%
In STEM disciplines. performing arts or Greek & Latin)
Mathematics &
Summer fellowships for Philosophy
undergraduate science and grants awarded to Cognitive Science
Mathematics & Physics
engineering students each year. student playwrights, Computer Science
Modern Middle East
Enroll fewer than 10. dancers, writers, Computer Science & Studies
Mathematics
musicians, and

40
Molecular Biophysics

800+
Computer Science &
filmmakers each & Biochemistry
Psychology
semester. Molecular, Cellular,
Computing & the Arts & Developmental
East Asian Languages Biology
Approximate number & Literatures (Chinese Music
Courses oered each year in 80
24 / 7
of the 2,000 courses or Japanese)
Near Eastern
that enroll more East Asian Studies Languages &
academic programs and departments. than 100 students. Science, math, and engineering Ecology &
Evolutionary Biology
Civilizations

labs at Yale College and the Hours the Center for Philosophy
Economics
Engineering Innovation

1,209
graduate and professional schools. Physics

96%
Economics &
and Design is Physics & Geosciences
Mathematics
open for student use. Physics & Philosophy
Electrical Engineering

40%+
Political Science
& Computer Science
Portuguese
Engineering:

200,000+
Biomedical, Psychology
Of tenured professors of the International study, research, and internship experiences Chemical, Electrical, Religious Studies
Environmental,
Faculty of Arts and Sciences regularly undertaken by Yale College students in 20142015. Russian
or Mechanical
teach undergraduate courses. Objects in the Russian & East
Engineering Sciences:
Percentage of Yale College permanent collection Chemical, Electrical,
European Studies

$5,588,395
93%
students graduating with a STEM of the Yale University Environmental, Sociology
major who are women. Art Gallery. or Mechanical South Asian Studies*
English Spanish
Funding for international experiences in the
Environmental Studies Special Divisional
20142015 academic year.

98%
Ethics, Politics, & Major

36/8
Economics Statistics
Of undergraduate courses are Ethnicity, Race, & Theater Studies
taught by professors or lecturers. Migration
Courses with a graduate student
serving as the primary classroom
64% 87% The degree requirements
for graduation are 36 term
Film & Media Studies
French
Womens, Gender, &
Sexuality Studies

instructorchiefly in foreign Geology & Geophysics

Of seniors in the most recent
language instruction and freshman
graduating class participated in
Englishaccount for only 7%
international study, research,
of courses oered each year.
and/or internships while at Yale.
*May be taken only
Medical school admission courses in eight terms, as a second major.
Geology & Natural
rate for Yale College about a third in the major. Freshmen who return
Resources
graduates (national Students typically take four sophomore year.
German
average, 41%). or ve courses per term.

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College Meets University.
(One of the worlds greatest research universities at your ngertips)
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 80 depart-
ments and programs
offer approximately 2,000
undergraduate courses
each yearmany of them
taught by Yales 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 cant happen at
undergraduate-only
institutions or at research
universities that do not
focus on teaching.
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School of
Engineering &
Applied Science Join fellow
creators from across Yale in
the Center for Engineering
Innovation & 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 six plays a
year at one of Americas lead-
ing professional theaters.
Read original manuscripts
from Eugene ONeills Long
Days Journey into Night. Study
light plots from the original
production of Gershwins
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 624.
School of Public
Health Take a course
in epidemiology in conjunction
with an independent research
project youre working on in a
lab on Science Hill.
\\ Graduate School
of Arts & Sciences
Continue conversations from
graduate-level seminars over
coee and muns at the Blue
Dog Caf. Take graduate
courses in science and engi-
neering, almost all of which
are open to undergraduates.
On Friday afternoons, join
undergraduates and graduate
students in the Physics depart-
ment to eat pizza, and hear
and present weekly talks on
current research. Make heads
turn as you graduate wearing
your yellow hood indicat-
ing that youve earned both
a bachelors and a masters
degree in Molecular Biophysics
and Biochemistry.
School of Art
Discover the next
Chuck Close (M.F.A. 1964)
at the Schools open studios.
Participate in group shows
in the same gallery in Green
Hall where masters students
mount their thesis shows.
Attend a graduate painting
critique by visiting artists.
style campus. The courtyard
Law School Have Protestant missionaries who
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 195865).
Check out student shows and
curated exhibitions in the
Architecture Gallery. Attend an
evening lecture by one of the
Schools professors, who are
luminaries in the eld, includ-
ing the dean, Deborah Berke.
Divinity School
Take a walk to the
Sterling Divinity Quadrangle
to enjoy the quiet Georgian-
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
served in China during the first
half of the twentieth century.
a five-
minute
walk
Campus
a five-
minute
walk
Medical
Institute of Sacred
Music
Find yourself
at the interdisciplinary center
of the Divinity and Music
schools through the Institutes
concerts, art exhibitions, films,
literary readings, plays, and
lectures. Hear world premieres School of Forestry
of new choral compositions. & Environmental
Meet scholars debating divides Studies Take one of
between liturgical traditions. the Schools graduate-level
courses. Earn a five-year
bachelors and masters in
Forestry, Forest Science,
Environmental Science, or
Environmental Management.
Partner with the Schools
School of grad students and faculty
Management on environmental initiatives
Enroll for a course at SOM through Yales Oce of
and rub elbows with the Sustainability. Bookmark the
next generation of corporate Schools Web site to keep
and NGO leaders and entre- up with all of the events
Science preneurs. Become a Silver happening each week, or tune
Hill Scholarone of a select into the sites weekly podcasts.
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.
School of Music
Explore the resources
Hillhouse
of the Gilmore Music Library,
with one of the largest collec-
tions of music scores, sound School of Medicine
recordings, and music research On Yales medical
materials in the United States. campus, just three blocks from
Take lessons for credit with the College, you dont have to
School of Music faculty. Attend be pre-med to take advantage
free concerts at Sprague Hall of the extraordinary research
given by Music School students opportunities available to
and visiting performers. undergraduatesin fields
Cross
ranging from genetics to
Campus
biomedical engineering and
nanoscience, studying cancer,
neurological disorders, and
Old New cardiovascular disease. Take
Haven classes taught by medical
Green 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
School of Nursing and perhaps discover new
Nursings new home species of fungi and bacteria
on West Campus is just a living in plant tissues.
10-minute ride on the Yale
Shuttle. Sign up for Professor
Center Ruth McCorkles popular
course Living with Dying. After
some preparatory social science
a ten-minute course work, gain experience
ride to
West as a paid research assistant
Campus interviewing patients for the
Chronic Illnesses program.
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Blue Booking.
(When shopping and parties are academic)

Yale is one of the only 1:30 pm 11:35 am

universities in the I sneak out of the professors I race to Sexuality and
country that lets you amazing lecture because Religion with Kathryn
Ive agreed to meet my room- Lofton. Luckily, I get there on
test-drive your classes
mates in The American time: Professor Lofton always
before you register. Novel since 1945. Our plays music before class, and
During shopping period, former head of college, Amy the song selections theme
Hungerford, teaches the correlates to the days material.
the first ten days of each
course, and were excited
semester, students can to experience it together as
visit dozens of classes proud Morsels. 1:00 pm
that interest them to The afternoon brings more
music. I submit an application
decide which they will
Evening for Sondheim & American
actually take. Preparing We grab Indian food for a Musical Theater, even
Johanna Press
to shop is a much friends birthday at one of the though Im unlikely to nd
Hometown many tasty Indian restaurants room for this course in my
anticipated ritual in and
Upper Dublin, PA in New Haven. Then I head schedule. Last year Sondheim
of itself, called Blue
Booking (from the days Major
to Glee Club rehearsal, where
were preparing to perform
himself made a guest appear-
ance, so I gure its an
Wednesday 8:00 pm
Some friends and I score
Geology and Geophysics Maurice Durufls Requiem in opportunity worth exploring.
of hard copies only, when $10 student tickets to see
Class a few months. Im back on my bike, sticking world-renowned Romanian
the blue-covered catalog
Sophomore pretty close to Mondays pianist Radu Lupu in Yales
2:30 pm schedule. But instead of stunning Sprague Hall. Next
Before bed I shop Natural Resources Regional Perspectives Thursday hes playing at
I cram in some more Blue and Their Sustainability, on Global Geoscience, Carnegie Hall (no big deal).
Booking, just to be sure aiming to narrow down the I check out Philosophy of

Sunday 10:30 am
I head to Hebrew, which
12:30 pm
I grab lunch at Slifka, Yales
I havent overlooked any
possibilities for tomorrow!
classes Ill take in my major
this semester.
Religionanother keeper.

I hope will come in handy center for Jewish life. Everyone

Evening
Im just back from a tour
of the northeast with my
a cappella group. Though
we did some Blue Booking
listing approximately
together on tour, I still havent
2,000 courses was
nailed down my game plan for
dog-eared, highlighted,
and Post-It flagged by
tomorrow. Neither have my
roommates (who hail from
the start of shopping places as far-flung as Chicago
and Burma and pursue majors
period). Today, Elis have ranging from American
been known to message Studies to Chemistry), so we
gather around a few laptops
each other around the
to prepare for a week of
world with word that the
shopping.
new Blue Book is online.
Blue Booking takes place
this summerIm applying
for a fellowship to do
environmental science research
at the Weizmann Institute of
Science in Rehovot, Israel.
11:35 am
I jet back up to Science Hill
(thankful for my bike!)
to check out Regional
Perspectives on Global
Geosciencea spring-
semester course that
extends to summer eldwork
in Ireland.
is buzzing about courses, and Evening
I learn about a class called Time to hit the books. Ive
Sexuality and Religion that purchased some materials for
Im excited to shop tomorrow. the courses Im sure to take,
and Ill borrow the rest from
friends while I nalize my
schedule.
1:00 pm
I stop into The Psychology,
Biology, and Politics
Friday
of Food. I wrote a paper on
sustainable food systems
Thursday I run around getting my
last semester after spending schedule signed by my
part of the summer working Todays schedule is much like departmental adviser and my
on a farm, and this class Tuesdays, with the addition residential college dean. In
may be a neat way to expand of my rst lab session for the end, Ive decided to regis-
Observing Earth from ter for Renewable Energy,
on this work.
Space. The director of Yales Hebrew, Philosophy of
Center for Earth Observation Religion, Observing Earth

around multiple screens, Monday Tuesday Evening

I audition for a class called
is co-teaching the class, and he
introduces us to the satellite
from Space, and The Per-
formance of Vocal Music.
and the making of wish The Performance of imaging technology that well
lists of courses is done 9:00 am 9:00 am Vocal Music and get in! use throughout the semester.
I bike up to Science Hill Another early morning, Not only do I get to study Evening
individually, in small
for a class called Renewable but I really want to take late-nineteenth-century I head to Slifka for Shabbat
groups of friends, and Observing Earth from French and German art family-style dinner, a great
Energy. As we discuss the
en masse at parties. geopolitical implications of Space to learn more about songs with the supremely weekly gathering. It will be
sustainable energy resources, satellite imagery. talented Richard Lalli, but nice to hear about friends
I decide this course is a keeper. Ill also get weekly private shopping periods and share
coachings (for free) with our rst Shabbat meal of
10:30 am an accompanist. the semester.
Back to Hebrew!

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Shopping Lists.
Yales shopping period at the
start of every semester allows
students to visit classes they
might want to take before
registering. Here, a few wish
lists from recent semesters.
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Freshman STARS (Science, Preparing for
Seminars are
small classes just for
Technology, and
Research Scholars)
Medical, Law, or
Business School
freshmen, with some provides undergradu- Yale students have an
of Yales most dis- ates an opportunity to outstanding record of
tinguished faculty combine course-based admission to top medi-
members. Some study, research, men- cal, business, and law
seminars provide an torship, networking, schools, but we offer
introduction to a par- and career planning no pre-professional
ticular field of study; in the fields of science degree programs.
others take an inter and technology. The Students here prepare
disciplinary approach program is designed for entrance to profes-
to a variety of topics. to support women, sional schools (e.g.,
All seminars provide minority, economicallly medicine, business,
an intimate context underprivileged, and law) by choosing any
for developing rela- other historically one of Yales under-
tionships with faculty underrepresented stu- graduate majors and
members and peers. dents in the sciences, working with a Yale
engineering, and adviser who knows
Directed Studies mathematics. More what is needed to
is a selective fresh- than 100 students advance to the next
man interdisciplinary each year participate level of education. So,
program in Western in the academic year its not unusual to find
civilization that and summer STARS an English or Political
includes three yearlong programs. Science major going
courses literature, on to medical school
philosophy, and International or an Environmental
historical and political Study Understanding Studies or Chinese
thought in which the dynamics of a glo- major going on to law
students read the balizing world begins or business school.
central works of the in the classroom, with
Western tradition. studies ranging from Academic Advis-
international develop- ing is a collective
Science and ment to statecraft and effort by the residential
Engineering power, from ethnicity colleges, academic
Undergraduate and culture to public departments, and
Research Yale is one health. But Yale recog- various offices con-
of the worlds foremost nizes that experience nected to the Yale
research universities. abroad is essential College Deans Office.
Independent scientific to preparing students Students primary
research and engineer- for global citizenship academic advisers are
ing research and design and leadership. Such their residential college
projects are an integral experience may include deans, to whom they
part of undergraduate course work in foreign may always turn for
science education at universities, intensive academic and personal
Yale. Science students language training, advice. College deans
can begin conducting directed research, live in residential col-
original research as independent projects, leges and supervise the
early as the freshman internships, laboratory advising networks in
year through access to work, and volunteer the college. Students
Yales more than 800 service. (See pages also have a freshman
faculty laboratories 6267) adviser who is a Yale
in 50+ degree-granting faculty member or
programs in the administrator affili-
Faculty of Arts and ated with his or her
Sciences, Yale School advisees residential
of Medicine, and Yale colleges. Each aca-
School of Forestry & demic department also
Environmental Studies. has a director of under-
And Freshman Summer graduate studies (DUS)
Research Fellowships who can discuss with
provide support for students the depart-
more than 100 science ments course offerings
and engineering fresh- and requirements for
men each year. majors.
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 Two, Three, Four, Five Heads
Are Better Than One.
(Why Yalies like to learn together)
Brigid Blakeslee with her senior
design project teammates (Joshua
Ruck and Adam Goone) in the
new Center for Engineering Innova-
tion and Design. We developed a
robotic arm for retrieving objects
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dropped off a boat or dock. Our
project benefited from our combined
experiencesmine as an electrical
engineer and my teammates as
mechanical engineers.
Working in a group, I learned
a lot about the importance of
communicating clearly to bridge
dierences between disciplines and
make the most of our potential.
Sharing skills and knowledge, not
just through this project or a class,
but also in casual conversation in
the dining hall, says a lot about
the multifaceted community here.
You can be chatting with the same
people about papers one moment
and problem sets the next. I dont
know a single one-dimensional
studenteveryone has interests
and passions outside of their major
and values sharing in friends
interests and passions. Brigid
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Eavesdropping on Professors.
(Great minds talk about teaching)
One fall afternoon some
of Yales (and the worlds)
leading thinkers in history,
biomedical engineering,
evolutionary biology, reli-
gious studies, literature,
psychology, biochemistry,
astrophysics, political
science, 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
arent true here.
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Q
People here always
say Yale is devoted
to undergraduate
teaching. How can
that be true?
Stephen Pitti Ive always loved
the fact that at Yale I can present the
newest research in my eld to our
undergraduates. And when I do, their
feedback inevitably prompts me to
think dierently about what Ive 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 oce
hours or long lunch sessions with
students in a residential college
dining hall.
Michael Della Rocca I nd that
myself. When Im teaching, Im not
just teaching philosophy. Im 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
There are 16 faculty members
Mark Saltzman
in Biomedical Engineering and we have Stephen Pitti
Professor of History and
American Studies; Director
25 to 35 majors each year, so nobody is of the Center for the Study
of Race, Indigeneity, and
anonymous. Every student does research. Transnational Migration;
Head of Ezra Stiles College
They all do a signicant senior project. Professor Pitti teaches courses
They all take classes with most of the in Latino studies, U.S. history,
and related subjects. He is the
author of The Devil in Silicon
faculty during their time here. When Valley: Northern California,
Race, and Mexican Americans
I meet their parents at graduation, I (2003) and American Latinos
and the Making of the United
know something signicant about each States (2013), and he is cur-
rently writing The World of
student. Thats pretty rare. Csar Chvez (forthcoming,
Yale University Press). He
served on the American Latino
Scholars panel for the U.S.
Secretary of the Interior and
has provided expert testimony
on comprehensive immigration
Karuna Mantena our biggest strengths in recruiting
reform for the U.S. Congress.
Associate Professor of professors here is the undergraduates.
Political Science
People love teaching them. Its the Recent Courses
drawing card we stress whenever the Comparative Ethnic Studies;
Professor Mantena has taught
Radical California; Mexicans
courses on Indian politics, Philosophy department is trying to and Mexican Americans since
empire and political thought,
recruit a faculty member from another 1848; Latina/o Histories
postcolonial political thought,
and history and politics in the good institution.
Directed Studies program.
Her research interests include Meg Urry Its not just how smart
modern political thought,
modern social theory, the
they are or how hard they workyou
theory and history of empire, can nd that at other placesbut its
and South Asian politics and their cleverness, their thoughtfulness.
history. Her rst book, Alibis
I teach an intro to physics class. Many
of Empire: Henry Maine and
the Ends of Liberal Imperialism of the kids in my class are headed
(2010), analyzed the transfor- for medical school, so physics isnt
mation of nineteenth-century their passion. But I can guarantee that
British imperial ideology.
Her current work focuses on
at least once a week I get a question
political realism and the politi- that is just incredibly creative, intro-
cal thought of M.K. Gandhi. ducing an idea or thought that I have
never had before, and this is from
Recent Courses
Gandhi, King, and the Politics people who arent even going to be
of Nonviolence; Directed physicists.
Studies: Historical and Politi-
cal Thought; Means and Ends
in Politics; Modern Political
Christine Hayes When I think
Philosophy; Indian Political about what Im going to teach I often
Thought think, What do I want to study with
a whole bunch of smart people?
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W. Mark Saltzman
Goizueta Foundation
Professor of Biomedical
Engineering and Chemical &
Environmental Engineering;
Professor of Cellular and
Molecular Physiology
Professor Saltzman is the
founding chair of Yales Bio-
medical Engineering depart-
ment. His research interests
include drug delivery to the
brain, materials for vaccine
delivery, and tissue engineer-
ing; he has published three
books and more than 250
research papers, and he has
fifteen patents in his elds.
He has also received two
Teaching Materials Awards
from the Whitaker Founda-
tion for his work on text-
books in tissue engineering
and biomedical engineering
principles for freshmen.
Recent Courses
Physiological Systems;
Frontiers of Biomedical
Engineering; Engineering
of Drug Delivery; Biological
and Physiological Determi-
nants of Health
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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? NASA, which was exciting. But when
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.
David Bromwich The students
here have a high average of intellectual
alertness. With luck, they bring out
that quality in one another, and sustain
it in their teachers.
Michael Della Rocca I teach in
Directed Studies [a yearlong advanced
freshman course in Western civiliza-
tion]. Its just a lot of fun because
you get students with dierent back-
grounds taking subjects theyve 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
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 Freshman Summer Research
Fellowships that allow students to
begin research early at Yale. My rst
summer I thought, Well, Im going to
get this freshman who doesnt know
anything. Its going to take a lot of
my time, but thats why I came to
university. So I laid out this project
for the student. It was about an area I
wanted to look into but I hadnt done
any work on myself yet. I told the
student, Why dont you go and do
a little research online and well talk
about it when I come back in a week.
What makes students here
Karuna Mantena
appealing to teach is their genuine
enthusiasm. Ive also noticed how rarely
I receive late papers, which I take to
be a sign of responsibility and maturity.
These qualities allow one to focus on
the substance of teachinghow to
think through important ideas, events,
problems, etc.rather than on how
to motivate interest in a topic.
I came back and she had nished the
entire summers project! Shed gured
everything out. Shed gotten it all to
work. Shed 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. to be available to grad students, but
Christine Hayes Which connects
to what was formulating in my own
mindthey 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 Ive 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 boththe solitary
research and the ability to bring it back
and put it together and make something
bigger and better with other people.
Scott Strobel The beauty of it is
watching them take ownership of a
project and recognize that its theirs to
work on creatively and independently.
We have undergrads going toe to toe
with grad students in the lab. You
might say, Well thats only supposed
what Ive 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 dierent 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
Scott A. Strobel
Henry Ford II Professor of
Molecular Biophysics and
Biochemistry; Professor
of Chemistry
Professor Strobels research
focuses on biologically critical
reactions catalyzed by RNA.
His lab explores the recently
discovered class of RNA ribo-
switches 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; Principles of
Biochemistry II
John Merriman
Charles Seymour Professor
of History
Professor Merriman teaches
and writes about modern
France, modern European
history, and urbanization.
He has recently published
Massacre: The Life and Death of
the Paris Commune (2014) and
The Dynamite Club: How a
Bombing in Fin-de-Sicle Paris
Ignited the Age of Modern
Terror (2009), as well as the
third edition of A History of
Modern Europe (2009).
Recent Courses
European Civilization, 1648
1945; Revolutionary France,
17891871; The Emergence
of Modern Paris
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David Bromwich
Sterling Professor of English
Professor Bromwich is an
authority on Romantic and
modern poetry and on the
history of literary criticism. His
books include The Intellectual
Life of Edmund Burke: From the
Sublime and Beautiful to Ameri-
can Independence; Disowned by
Memory: Wordsworths Poetry of
the 1790s; Moral Imagination:
Essays; Politics by Other Means:
Higher Education and Group
Thinking, which examines the
ideological debate over liberal
arts education; and Skeptical
Music: Essays on Modern Poetry.
He is also a frequent contribu-
tor to academic journals, and
his reviews and articles have
appeared in The New York
Times, The New Republic, and
The New York Review of Books.
Recent Courses
Major English Poets (English
125); Style, Purpose, and
Persuasion in Literature;
English Literature and the
French Revolution; Lincoln
in Thought and Action;
Shakespeares Political Plays;
The Age of Johnson; Wallace
Stevens; Interpreting Film
Masterpieces (with Dudley
Andrew); Empire and Modern
Political Thought (with
Karuna Mantena)
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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.
Karuna Mantena The students
have a kind of self-direction, the moti-
vation and capacity to really pursue
ideas and concerns. Yale provides them
with abundant resources to support
research, and wehopefullyprovide
them the encouragement to keep these
projects going. Students use these
opportunities to do extraordinary
research in Europe, South Asia, and
the Middle East.
Marvin Chun I really think the
residential college system is what
brings everything togetherthe small-
college feel with world-class university
resources. Being the head of Berkeley
College has shown me that. Its impos-
sible to describe in words, but it works
in a phenomenal way to ensure that each
student receives individual attention.
Plenty of students come here
John Merriman
without a clue what they want to do, and
then all these doors open up for them
because there are so many opportunities.
Q
Just like students
looking at colleges,
as a professor you
had a lot of choices
too. What brought
you here?
Mark Saltzman Theres something
dierent about rigorous training in
engineering embedded in a liberal arts
tradition. One of the features of a liberal
arts education is that youre required
to take courses in all sorts of dierent
things. For instance, we think its impor-
tant that our students study a foreign
language as well as the social sciences.
Taking dierent kinds of classes creates
a dierent sort of curiosity. Our stu-
dents bring that curiosity to the kinds of
questions theyre asking and trying to
answer in science classes and engineer-
ing research labs. Its certainly a dierent
experience than at other places Ive been
where, if youre an engineering or science
major, youre studying the same kinds
of things in the same kind of way that
other students around you are studying.
Youre 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 dont. We not
only have a very rich graduate program
in my eldone in which there is a
great deal of mixing among graduate
and undergraduate students in classes,
outside of class, in activitiesbut were
also situated within a larger univer-
sity that has very active professional
schools. The institution I was at didnt
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 theyre all close by. Thats
something very special about Yale,
and it gives the Yale undergraduate a
completely dierent kind of experience.
Christine Hayes
Robert F. and Patricia Ross
Weis Professor of Religious
Studies in Classical Judaica
Professor Hayes, a specialist
in talmudic-midrashic stud-
ies, was awarded a Yale Col-
lege prize for distinguished
undergraduate teaching in
2005. She is the author of
Between the Babylonian and
Palestinian Talmuds; The
Emergence of Judaism: Classical
Traditions in Contemporary
Perspective; and Gentile
Impurities and Jewish Identities:
Intermarriage and Conversion
from the Bible to the Talmud.
Her most recent book, Whats
Divine about Divine Law?
Early Perspectives, won the
2015 National Jewish Book
Award in Scholarship. Profes-
sor Hayess Introduction to the
Bible was published in 2012
by Yale University Press as
part of the Open Yale Courses
publication series.
Recent Courses
The Bible; Divine Law
in Historical Perspective;
Exodus 32 and Its Midrashic
Development; Judaism:
Continuity and Change
Michael Della Rocca
Andrew Downey Orrick
Professor of Philosophy
Professor Della Roccas areas
of interest are the history of
early modern philosophy and
contemporary metaphysics.
He has published dozens
of papers in those elds,
including Causation Without
Intelligibility and Causation
Without God in Descartes
in A Companion to Descartes,
ed. Janet Broughton and John
Carriero, and Two Spheres,
Twenty Spheres, and the
Identity of Indiscernibles,
Pacic Philosophical Quarterly
(2005). He is also the author
of Spinoza in the Routledge
Philosophers series.
Recent Courses
Modern Philosophy from
Descartes to Kant; The
Philosophy of Spinoza; Action
and Metaphysics; Directed
Studies: Philosophy
Professors Hayes and Della
Rocca are married.
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Marvin Chun
Richard M. Colgate Professor
of Psychology; Professor of
Neuroscience; former Head
of Berkeley College
Professor 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 Associations
Distinguished Scientic 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 Professor
Chun 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 published papers and
several books. He has helped
to shape Yales Department
of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, providing links
among E&EB, the Peabody
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Scott Strobel The opportunity to
interact with and teach undergrads is a
big reason Im 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 also 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 Im 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 (via the School of
Medicine ) to the science that you do
as an undergraduate is quite unique.
David Bromwich I admired the
intellectual strength of the English
department. I thought Yale had the
virtues of a liberal arts college, along
with the attractions, and not too
many of the drawbacks, of a large
research university.
Christine Hayes Its really the
best of both worlds because you
have this distinctive undergraduate
experience embedded in this larger
intellectual universe of people at
all levels of academic inquiry and all
stages of academic careers.
A lot of it is about scale.
Michael Donoghue
Yale is just that much smaller and
more intimate than some of the other
universities where Ive taught. So I nd
a lot better connection to students and
integration across disciplines. I have
friends and colleagues spanning very
dierent parts of the University, and
thats something that comes with the
territory of being smaller. Yale doesnt
just talk about making connections and
integrating students into researchit
actually happens here very eectively.
Michael Donoghue The other
thing that I think is so distinctive
is Yales resources in terms of the
museums and collections that are
here. We have actual physical objects
that were 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. Theyre 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,
thats my reward.
John Merriman Ive 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 couldnt possibly leave.
Each morning, I wake up and think,
God, Im lucky because I get to go
and teach whatever the subject is that
day. For me theres just nothing like it.
Museum, Geology and
Geophysics, and Forestry &
Environmental Studies. 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 Diver-
sity 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 scientic sta at
the Space Telescope Science
Institute (STScI), which runs
the Hubble Space Telescope
for NASA. Using deep imaging
with NASAs 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
University Physics;
Advanced General Physics;
Gravity, Astrophysics, and
Cosmology; Modern Physical
Measurement (co-taught);
Perspectives on Science and
Engineering (co-taught)
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A Hands-On Education.
(From theory to practice)

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 & Design,
you will find that teaching
and learning here are
evidence-based, hands-on,
and focused on inspiring
a deeper engagement
with the subject.

The Scientific
Enterprise.
In science and engineering class-
rooms, Yale College students work
at the cutting edge of collaborative
research on projects that have the
potential to advance the human
condition. Trained to innovate
with a sense of purpose, they not
only gain fundamental knowledge
of science and expertise in design-
ing technological systems, but also
cultivate a strong understanding
of the complex social, political,
economic, and environmental
implications of developing com-
plete solutions to global problems.

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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
The Secret
or 20, you havent even
of a Birds-Eye View
been in the world that
long yourself. But as
Senior Mary Cassie Stoddard
a former student said,
learned early in her ornithology
This is not a mediocre
training that birds can see colors
place. Everywhere you
invisible to humans. A birds eye
turn theres something
has four types of color-sensitive
incredible to attract
cones, while humans only have
your eye. In a more ordi-
three, she says. This fourth cone
nary place, youre not
is sensitive to color in the ultra-
going to be so startled
violet range. As a result, birds
into thought. From
see an intense world of hues we
paintings by Picasso to
humans can only imagine, says
pterodactyl remains to
Stoddard. Stoddards design of
3D printers and tools for
the TetraColorSpace computer
photoelectron spectros-
program, which analyzes bird
copy, Yale provides a
colors in a framework that
treasure trove through
accounts for the four classes of
which undergraduates
photoreceptors in bird eyes, is one
chase down new knowl-
of the rst tools to help under-
edge for themselves and
stand this evolutionary mystery.
sometimes for the world.
She traces her work back to her
freshman year and the Peabody
Museum. In my very rst
semester at Yale, I was introduced
to the Peabodys extraordinary
research collections through
Professor Leo Busss freshman
seminar course Natural History
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Collections of the Peabody
Museum. That year, Stoddard
began two independent research
projects that gave her full access to
museum specimens and rsthand
research experience in evolutionary
biology. One of her projects was
on bird color in the ornithology
lab of Professor Richard Prum.
I have been hooked ever since,
she says.
She and Professor Prum used
Stoddards TetraColorSpace
program in their study of New
World buntings, one of the rst
projects to compare modes of
color evolution in animals. She
presented their ndings on avian
color at the North American
Ornithological Conference in
Veracruz, Mexico, and is also
the rst author of a paper docu-
menting the research, published
by American Naturalist.
Awarded a Marshall Scholarship
for graduate study in the United
Kingdom, Stoddard will continue
her research on avian color evolu-
tion at Cambridge.
Yales Peabody Museum
of Natural History In the 1870s,
O.C. Marsh led Yale College
students on expeditions into the
Wild West, and his discoveries
of dinosaur and mammal fossils
captured the publics imagina-
tion. As the Peabodys rst leader,
he and his colleagues were excep-
tional naturalists who shared a
keen ability to draw unexpected
insights from material objects.
Their collections and observa-
tions underpin todays science,
with insights that still drive our
understanding of Earths history,
life, and cultures. Environmental
change brings new urgency to
Marshs central questionswhat
species exist on Earth, where they
live, and how they have changed
over timeand Peabody curators
work with scientists around the
world to describe not just species,
but the entire Tree of Life.
Senior Mary Cassie
Stoddard is the founder of the
Yale Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology Undergraduate
Group (YEEBUG), an ocial
University organization that
actively promotes undergraduate
involvement in the New Haven
community, largely through
volunteer work at the Peabody
Museum. Last fall, YEEBUG
helped coordinate The Natural
History of Witches and Wizards:
A Peabody Halloween, an
educational event that drew
hundreds of costume-wearing
New Haven residents.
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Gothic Folly
Architecture in terms of its social
agenda is what intrigues Andrew
Lee about Strawberry Hill, the
architectural folly on the outskirts
of London he researched as
part of an independent study with
the Yale Center for British Art
(YCBA). Lee describes Strawberry
Hill as an undistinguished
farmhouse transformed into a
Gothic confection by its owner,
Horace Walpole. Walpole, who
also gave the world the Gothic
novel, was the son of Englands
rst Prime Minister. He is credited
in part with launching the Gothic
architectural revival of which
Strawberry Hill is an iconic
example.
Walpole was interested in the
role of style in the formation
of identity, says Lee, particularly
national identity, given the ques-
tion of whether Gothic or Classical
architecture was more appropri-
ate to Britain; and family identity,
given eighteenth-century attitudes
toward the aristocracy and
Walpoles awkward position as a
member of a politically prominent
family. Lees work became part of
a major YCBA exhibition.
Hands-on in the extreme, the
YCBA course allowed Lee to view
collections and work with people
he never would have met other-
wise. In one of two research trips,
he spent time at Strawberry Hill
with a curator of the Victoria and
Albert Museum, who curated the
YCBA exhibition. Until recently,
Lee was set to pursue a Ph.D. after
graduation, but the commercial
art world beckons as well. After
working with the YCBAs seemingly
endless collections and the contacts
hes made, he is ready either way.
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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 physicists
life might be like. That changed
quickly. Starting freshman year,
I was able to join a lab and begin
to see the daily reality of academic
physics research. It was very sat-
isfying to see concepts from the
classroom used in cutting-edge
research and to apply intuition
gained in lab to my own work.
Lawrence spent two summers
at CERNs Large Hadron Collider
in Geneva, Switzerland, study-
ing the production and decay
centers collection of paintings
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.
Im 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.
Katherine Lawrence did her
research at Yales A.W. Wright
Laboratory. Home to a broad
research program in nuclear,
particle, and astrophysics, it
oers state-of-the-art facilities
for research on neutrinos and
dark matter, including the study
of neutrino properties, searches
for dark matter particles and
the origin of matter-antimatter
asymmetry, and related topics in
the physics of weakly interacting
particles and elds.
Outside of the lab, Katherine
Lawrence took several language
classes for fun: 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 cham-
pionships in Georgia. A native
of Boulder, Colorado, she also
enjoys snow sports, traveling,
and baking.
Opposite page:
The Yale Center for British
Art (YCBA) houses the largest
and most comprehensive
collection of British art outside
of the United Kingdom. The
sculpture drawings prints rare
books and manuscripts reects
the development of British
art life and thought from the
Elizabethan period onward.
Andrew Lees YCBA research
was the latest in a series of
opportunities the museum has
aorded me. In addition to
coordinating training for the
centers student guides, he is
helping stage a performance art
piece by the Interventionists at
the YCBA, where the director
has been quite generous to us
and very enthusiastic about
the idea.
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 Mentorship Matters
Jonathan Marquez came to Yale
curious about science and eager to
do research alongside some of the
worlds most innovative biologists.
Four years later, he credits Yales
selective STARS program for
providing an opportunity to
interact with mentors inside and
outside of the lab. One of these
mentors is Martn I. Garca-Castro,
an associate professor of Molecular,
Cellular, and Developmental
Biology. Working daily in Garca-
Castros lab, Marquez participates
in important discoveries about
vertebrate development. I am
involved with several projects using
electroporation, where I introduce
several kinds of DNA constructs
into early chicken embryos to then
observe the eects of this DNA
in the development of the embryo.
For Marquez, biology research
means endless creativity in pursuit
of knowledge. He also loves the
moment of discovery: Seeing
all the data come together and tell
a story about the role of specic
genes in development is really
special, and the knowledge that you
were part of this process is exciting.
STARS creates a diverse community
of student scientists, says Marquez.
Mentoring others interested in
scientic research has also been
a very rewarding part of my
experience. Marquez is so invested
in this community and his work
that he will remain in New Haven
after graduation to complete
ongoing lab projects. After that,
he hopes to pursue an M.D./Ph.D.
with the long-term goal of having
his own lab and providing health
care to underserved communities.
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Encounter at the Beinecke
While taking Modernism and
the Avant-Garde, Lisa Sun had
a surprising experience among
the Beinecke Librarys rare
books. She tells the story like this:
One of the poems on the syl-
labus for my Modernism class
was Blaise Cendrarss La Prose
du Transsibrien. I rst read
the poem in a Xerox package of
assigned readings, but Professor
Poucel promised to show us an
original publication of it in the
Beinecke. I didnt think much of
this opportunity, presuming that
the original publication would
resemble all of the old, dusty
books Id seen innumerable times
before. But the day we visited the
Beinecke, Professor Poucel asked
me to help him unfold the decep-
tive 4 x 6-inch book into a long,
poster-sized sheet. As it turns out,
Cendrarss original publication of
La Prose was featured alongside
Sonia Delaunays abstract paint-
ing, specically painted for and
inspired by Cendrarss poem. I was
fascinated by the collaboration of
the two art mediumsthe text
of the poem and the magnicently
colored painting. The Cendrars
piece reminded me of a piece
by Marcel Duchamp, which also
worked within two mediums. I
had several enlightening conversa-
tions with my professor about the
Cendrars and Duchamp pieces.
Ultimately, I wrote my nal paper
on the relationship between
La Prose du Transsibrien and
Duchamps Bote Verte, which
I also saw rsthand in the Prints
and Drawings Department at the
YUAG (Yale University Art Gallery).
I found the paper to be rewarding
and successful, and it all began
with an unexpected encounter
with Cendrarss beautiful piece.
The Beinecke Rare Book
and Manuscript Libraryan
architectural marvel constructed
of translucent white marble that
admits light but screens out
the suns damaging raysis one
of the countrys most important
centers for research in primary
sources for the humanities.
Lisa Sun is a dancer in the
company A Dierent Drum and
is training to be a Yale Art Gallery
Guide. She is a double major
in literature and art history.
Opposite page:
Professor Martn Garca-Castros
lab is in Kline Biology Tower
(KBT), Yales tallest building,
which sits atop Science Hill.
Jonathan Marquez is from
Spring, Texas. His main
extracurriculars are MAS (Math
and Science) Familias, a group
focused on supporting minority
involvement in the sciences,
and working as a translator and
nutritional counselor at Haven
Free Clinic.
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Think Yale. Think World.
(Study, research, intern around the globe)

A nontraditional The summer after my freshman year Yalies Abroad

approach to gaining I received Yale funding to go to Savaii, 2014 2015

international experience Western Samoa, and try to rediscover a Africa: 91

gives students here bird which had not been seen for more than Asia: 246

access to multiple 130 years. I found myself traveling to one Australasia: 21

opportunities to study, of the islands most remote valleys with Europe: 626

research, and intern a pig hunter, Tagiilima Ioane, who spoke Latin America: 139
abroad during their four no English. Tagiilima and I spent ve Middle East: 54
years. Over and above days together in the forest hiking up rivers. Multiple regions: 29
ordinary financial aid, At rst we communicated entirely with North America: 3
Yale awards more than hand gestures, but by the nal day I had Total: 1,209
$5.5 million for fellow- gleaned enough Samoan from my portable
ships, internships, and dictionary to allow basic communication.
relief from summer earn- Our nal hike back was mostly occupied
ings obligations in order with my attempts to describe various game
to guarantee that every animals in the U.S. Trying to convey North
student who wishes American wildlife, not to mention my daily
will be able to work or life in New Haven, made me feel as though
study abroad. Beyond I were describing life on a dierent planet.
these hefty resources As we neared the village, Tagiilima told a
is the sheer variety story of his own about how he had gone
of global experiences into town and seen something important on
students can undertake a television there. After much gesticulating
during school years and frantic flipping through the dictionary,
and summers: study I gured out what he was describing:
at a major university the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
in another country; For me this moment was an amazing
field-based or laboratory juxtaposition of the vast distances between
research; interning with John Mittermeier our life experiences and the increasing
Yale alumni around the Hometown Abidjan, Cte links in a shared global identity.
world; Yale summer dIvoire (Technically my home John
session international address, although Im never there.
I spend most breaks traveling.)
courses taught by Yale
Samoa Major History
faculty; or study, work,
or service projects Yale International Experience
Summers in Samoa and in the
of ones own design.
Amazonian rain forests of
Students are encour- southern Suriname conducting
aged to begin exploring The photos in this chapter were ornithological surveys and
Suriname collecting specimens for Yales
the globe the summer provided by the students featured,
except for Yuefei Qins portrait, Peabody Museum.
after their freshman year. which was taken by Lisa Kereszi.
Global Citizen Someone who
Here, eight Elis map
is conscious of the planets vast
a glimpse of the world array of cultural, biological, and
through pivotal moments economic communities and feels
and personal definitions a deep attachment and allegiance
to this global diversity.
of global citizen.
Post-Yale Plan A fellowship to
return to Suriname to continue
his ornithological research.

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 Samuel Byrne Center for Research
International The possibilities for
Hometown Bala Cynwyd, PA
and Professional international research
Major Economics Experience are extensive. Students
Yales Center for work with their resi-
Yale International Experience
International and dential college dean,
Brazil Won a Kingsley Trust Association
Professional Experience academic advisers,
Summer Travel Fellowship to
(CIPE) encourages and departments to
study Brazilian music and dance.
and supports safe, define projects. Many
Global Citizen Someone who extraordinary inter Yale students spend
understands the problems and national experiences the summer following
issues that confront people of every kind. their junior year
throughout the world; someone abroad doing research
who is educated about the world Study for a senior essay
and has experienced it, who feels Yale programs include or thesis.
comfortable interacting with Oman Yale in London; Yale
a diverse group of people and & Morocco Summer Session Laboratory and
can step out of the comforts of (most recently, courses Field Research in
home with condence. I went to the favela Cidade de Deus Stephanie Brockman My professor in Oman took all of us on were offered in Brazil, the Sciences and

Post-Yale Plan Undecided, (City of God) in Rio de Janeiro to visit their Hometown Thompson, ND a daytrip to explore the nearby mountains. China, Croatia, Czech Public Health
Republic, Ecuador, Students can combine
but eventually Id like to work community center. After I observed dance Majors Near Eastern Languages
It was in the middle of our rural home- France, Germany, international experi-
for the World Bank. and music classes, a volunteer and some stays, so I was dressed accordingly in a
and Civilizations with a Italy, Morocco, Peru, ence with deepening
of the local children oered to give me a concentration in Arabic and long black abaya (the traditional robes for Russia, Singapore, their understanding
Islamic Studies Spain, Swaziland, of science by spending
tour of the favela. Strolling through the women on the Gulf ) and a headscarf. I
and Tanzania); and a summer working
community, I saw terrible poverty and poor Yale International Experience remember sitting on a park bench, texting year or term abroad in a laboratory at
Spent a spring in the Sultanate
infrastructure, but a vibrant culture and of Oman through a program
my host mom in Arabic, and worrying approved programs run an institution abroad,
intelligent, charismatic children who sponsored by the School for about how scandalized my host family by other institutions or or by participating in
providers. a field-based project.
deserve more opportunities. Despite the International Training; through would be if I was out past magrib, the
dilapidated homes and clear dichotomy Yales Auerbach and Grayson/ evening call to prayer. And out of nowhere Internships Independent
Leitner international internship,
of wealth in Rio, the energy of the people interned in Morocco. everything that was happening began to The Office of Career Initiatives
Strategy offers Yale- Students who are
who guided me through the labyrinth sink in: I was thousands of miles from
Global Citizen The world sponsored internships ready to develop their
streets of Cidade de Deus inspired me becomes more than just a list home, wearing something I had only seen in 22 countries around own activities abroad
to continue pursuing my plans to work of places that you hear on the in pictures, and trying to live up to a set the world. These are encouraged to
As an international student from China, I to promote economic growth and hope- news, but rather, a series of of expectations from a culture that didnt internships provide discuss their plans
reference points that correspond more than 200 oppor- with advisers and
always wondered how my Western educa- fully improve living standards of similar with places where your friends
belong to me. I began to laugh uncontrol- tunities to explore faculty, to register
tion would t into the Oriental traditions people in the future. live and experiences that you lably. I realized how thoroughly I had career fields in an their travel and under
and help me best contribute to my society. Samuel had and new opportunities immersed myself in a culture that had international environ- stand the support
to explore. Its a certain way ment, with support and provided by Yale,
My experience at Intel China helped me once seemed so mysteriously foreign
of looking at the world that oversight from Yale and and to use the institu-
solve the puzzle. The Chinese market has makes it a very inviting place. to me. That realization lled me with an from alumni networks. tions extraordinary
very unique sociopolitical and economic Yuefei Qin
Post-Yale Plan Either a
incredible sense of accomplishment. Placements reflect resources to make
characteristics, while Intel is a well-estab- Hometown Chongqing, China summer or a year of advanced Stephanie the full range of the most of their
interests among Yale experience abroad.
lished Western company. Working with Majors Political Science and
Arabic study abroad, followed
students, from journal-
both Chinese and American colleagues at by law school. Right now, Im
Electrical Engineering ism to the arts, politics
leaning toward the idea of
its headquarters in China, I witnessed Yale International Experience going into corporate law and
to public health, and
finance to technology.
how Intel has successfully tailored itself to Intel Corporation in Beijing, working with companies with
Yale also partners with
t into the unique Chinese market, while China, summer internship strong business ties to the
other organizations
working as assistant to general Middle East. I have put so
maintaining its Western identity and manager. I worked directly much of myself into developing
to provide many
corporate conduct. I was therefore convinced with Intel Chinas marketing my knowledge of Arabic and
additional internship
opportunities.
that Western and Oriental cultures could managers in maintaining project cant imagine not using that
coexist harmoniously, and would in a way milestones and carrying out in the future.
campaigns to promote products.
rely on each other. I believe my education
Global Citizen One who looks
at Yale not only well prepared me for such a
upon every human being as
demanding job, but also will build a solid his or her compatriot, regardless
foundation for me to tackle challenges my of that persons nationality,
country and people might face in the midst complexion, religion, and so on.
China
of an increasingly internationalized world. Post-Yale Plan After my
Yuefei graduation from Yale, I wish
to go to Oxford and pursue
an M.Phil. degree in Politics or
International Relations.

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 Andrew Dowe Last year I had the opportunity to travel
Hometown Tampa, FL by myself through Europe and Asia. There
Majors African American
were several moments during my solo
Studies; Womens, Gender, & travels which made me feel very unrooted,
Sexuality Studies independent, and free: ordering food
Paris Yale International Experience in countries where I did not speak the
Spent a fall semester studying in language; carrying all of my belongings
Paris.
on my back; sleeping overnight on trains
Global Citizen Global citizens and buses. There is something about
strive to expand their perspec-
tives beyond geographical
traveling on a shoestring which makes you
limitations through active reevaluate your priorities. You feel dirty
engagement with other peoples and unkempt, but eventually that all goes
and cultures.
away, and you care more about what you
Post-Yale Plan Spend a year see and less about how others see you.
teaching either in the U.S. or
abroad before applying to
The rst time I traveled outside of France Lucas OConnor Lucas
graduate school to earn a Ph.D. while studying in Paris, the extreme discom- Hometown Rochester, NY
fort of being unable to communicate with Majors Theater Studies and
most of the people around me as well as the Literature
very perceivable cultural disconnect brought Yale International Experience
me to realize how comfortable I had become Oxford, Studied at Oxford junior year,
England
in Paris. At the same time, I was reminded of traveled by Eurail pass through-
out Europe for a month; received
the importance of self-conscious travel and a summer fellowship to study
understanding to developing more complete Chinese opera in Hong Kong;
world views. One of the most signicant toured the world with the Yale
lessons of studying abroad was the impor- Whienpoofs during the summer.
Hong
tance of exploring outside my comfort zones. Kong Global Citizen A traveler,
or a nomad, unbounded by
Andrew
country lines. A global citizen
has a responsibility to see
and experience as much of the
I was monitoring elections in Mauritania Lauren Harrison world as he can. Flora Elena Mendoza
with another Yale student and a Mauritanian Hometown Orchard Park, NY Post-Yale Plan To write and Hometown Milford, PA
national who was working for the U.S. act, hopefully for lms.
Majors African Studies and Major Latin American Studies
Embassy. We were in a small town, sur- International Studies (now with Humanities
rounded by miles and miles of sand, and Global Aairs)
Yale International Experience
Argentina
were spending the night in order to begin Yale International Experience Studied in Buenos Aires junior
election monitoring rst thing the following Conducted election oversight in year and won a fellowship that
day. That next morning, we woke up before Mauritania; spent a month during
the summer after her sophomore
While the goals of the grassroots non- allowed her to participate in
local excursions and an extended
the sun and arrived at the polls by 6:30 a.m., year in Morocco, then in Mali governmental organization where I volun- service trip with NGO LIFE
a half an hour before they were scheduled to doing independent research; teered were noble, I got to see rsthand both Argentina.
open. The polling station was a one-room studied in Paris the fall semester positive and negative aspects of not-for-prot Global Citizen Someone who
of her junior year.
schoolhouse made out of old wooden boards, work. We were working with a village of is informed, contextualizes his
located near the only paved road in the town. Global Citizen In my mind, a about 500 Guarani natives. As volunteers we or her own experience in relation
Mauritania, passion for learning about other to the rest of the world, and is
Mali & As our SUV pulled up to the polls, I was countries, other languages, other were assigned to cook, distribute clothes and committed to the overall well-
Morocco absolutely shocked by what I saw: almost cultures is what makes someone kitchenware, and take lice out of hair and beingpolitical, environmental,
a hundred men and women (but mostly a truly global citizen. clip nails of villagersI found the cooking socioeconomic, and ethical
of the earth and its inhabitants.
women), dressed in colorful robes, waiting Post-Yale Plan A career in counterproductive and didnt understand
quietly in line to vote. The turnout was international diplomacy, though I why we werent working with villagers to Post-Yale Plan I would like
dont quite know where my path to move to New York and work
unbelievable, especially given the small size will take me. Most likely, Ill work show them how to manage the lice and for some kind of foundation
Paris
of the village we were in, and made me for a year or two post-graduation clip nails for themselves. As foreigners, and or not-for-prot while pursuing
reflect upon how seriously the Mauritanian before returning to graduate especially as students who go abroad with a performance career in opera
school, perhaps for an advanced and musical theater. (Flora is a
people took their civic responsibilities. It degree in international relations
idealist intentions, we need to be very careful mezzo soprano, who has sung
was inspiring and I wished that I could take or diplomacy. to avoid neocolonialist tendencies or to in ensembles at the Metropolitan
some of the Mauritanians energy and patronize the people we mean to help. In Opera, on specials for NBC
passion back with me to the United States. essence, my experience redened the term and CBS, and as back-up for
Michael Bolton.)
Lauren sustainable development for me.
Flora
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Connect the Dots.
(Three seniors nd their careers through Yales network of resources)
Yale students are sur-
rounded by opportunities
Aaron arrives at Yale with dual interests
from the moment they
in politics and education, and the hope
arrive on campus as
freshmenintellectual,
entrepreneurial, artistic,
international, profes-
sional, and research
opportunities that Imagining the Iraq War, taught by New
launch them toward
U.S. Army ocer Robert Chamberlain.
both long-term ambi-
tions and unforeseen
achievements. Yalies
class every week, we went out for sushi
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.
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Gaining Perspective
to someday return to Los Angeles to
work toward a vision for the city.
But rst he has to get some historical
and global perspective. He takes a
freshman seminar with Cold War
historian John Gaddis and a seminar,
Yorker journalist Sarah Stillman and
They took us on a whirlwind journey
of military tactics, philosophy,
journalism, history, and politics. After
and continued the conversation.
Duty above Self
Sophomore year, Aaron enrolls in
a seminar with retired U.S. Army
General Stanley McChrystal, who
showed me what real devotion to
duty above self looks like. With a
Yale community outreach group,
he teaches health education classes
in the New Haven public schools
while continuing to promote
use of Classroom Compass in L.A.
Grand Grill Session
As a junior, Aaron puts
this practical experience
to good use in Grand
Strategy, Professor
Gaddiss international
policy course. My group
presented a radical
proposal for responding to
the Arab Spring: funding
high-tech start-ups as a
vehicle for cultural change.
Halfway through our
presentation, Senator
John McCain walked
in and started grilling us.
That was fun.
Recoding Student find alumni in those
Education Entrepreneurs fields ready to network
The Yale Entrepreneur- with you!
Aaron Feuer ial Institute (YEI)
supports student Top Fellowship
Residential College
Ezra Stiles ventures from idea to Producer
launch with education, Yale is consistently
Major Political
resources, and funding. a top producer of
Science As a complement to Fulbright Fellowships.
more traditional Since 2010, in
academic programs, addition to 148
which provide a concep- Fulbright Fellowships,
Educational tual understanding and Yale students have
Programming related case studies of been awarded 27
The summer after freshman new venture formation, Rhodes, 17 Marshall,
year, Aaron combines his YEI guides students in 15 Goldwater, 7
commitment to education planning and executing Truman, and 21
with a talent for coding and actual start-ups. YEI Gates Cambridge
programming, building draws on a network of Scholarships, as
a computer system, support that includes well as 180 National
Classroom Compass, that in-house experts, a Science Foundation
will survey L.A. public 150+ Mentor Network, Graduate Research
school students about their corporate partners, Fellowships. Just as
classes and provide feedback venture capitalists, and importantly, these
to teachers. The project is graduate students from major awards only
funded through two Yale the Yale School of scratch the surface of
fellowships and occupies Management to guide the hundreds of other
Aarons evenings while
student teams. Since highly valuable, funded
he works for an L.A. legal
2007 YEI has supported sources of support
services organization by day. the formation and that Yale students
growth of more than tap every single year.
At Yale, Ive taken seminars with
100 student-founded
ventures, which have 5 Graduate
raised over $150 Schools Most
extraordinary people who pursued million of outside
investment capital.
Attended
When they enroll in
Policy Practice
public service from totally dierent These start-ups cover
many industries from
business, law, medical,
or graduate school, Yale
Aaron spends the summer in
Washington, D.C., on a Yale-funded
angles. Thats how I realized that software and education
to food, retail, and
graduates most often
attend Yale, Harvard,
running a start-up is a valid public
internship with the House Committee green technology. Stanford, Oxford, and
on Foreign Aairs. Researching and Columbia.
writing policy memos, he synthesizes Yale Connections
service path and, for me, the most
previous intellectual exposure to Yale has more than Career Services
politics with some real-life practice. 160,000 graduates Whether you are just
eective one. and hundreds of
alumni groups all over
starting to think about
career options or have
the world, providing already started down
unequaled networking a path, Yales Office
Within months, the Double Duty
Panoramic Views opportunities, from an of Career Strategy is
Panorama team garners Aaron nds himself a college senior
Aaron recruits three students $50,000 in funding and CEO of a fast-growing start-up.
online career network, equipped to support
to mentoring programs you at every stage of
to help overhaul Classroom through the Yale By March, Panorama Education
for students, to the career process. The
Compass and founds an Entrepreneurial Institute. is collaborating with three state
regional and campus office offers workshops,
This serious sum allows governments, a number of major
education technology start-up, them to work full-time over school districts, and Teach for
events for alumni. networking events, and
Whatever you are internships. And
Panorama Education. He also the summer, expanding America. Following graduation,
interested insocial through its on-campus
gains faculty support from beyond L.A. to envision Aaron hopes to grow the team
justice, sustainability, recruiting program,
a product that might help to nine full-time employees
education expert John Bryan entertainment, law, more than 140
schools nationwide and is looking ahead to a new
Starr, who will become his identify opportunities platform that will further
journalism, media, employers conduct
entrepreneurship, over 2,700 student
senior project adviser. for improvement. transform how schools use data.
technologyyou will interviews every year.
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Global
Journalist
Sanjena Sathian
Residential College
Morse
Major English
Write and Think
Freshman year, a course called
Understanding Bollywood
connects Sanjena with her
Indian background, an
important mentor, and her
true desire to become a writer.
My professor, visiting scholar
Ashish Chadha, told me,
I think youre the kind of
person whos either going to
be a journalist or an academic.
That sounds reductive, but it
wasnt. It was so clarifying. In
high school, teachers would
say, youre smart, be a lawyer.
Or, you have really sharp
opinions on politics, go do
that. But Professor Chadha
just looked at me and said,
you like to write and think.
Off She Goes
Sanjena has landed
a coveted summer at
the Boston Globea
reporting opportunity
made possible by her
experience at the Post-
Gazette. Afterward, she
is considering a move to
India to pursue a career in
foreign correspondence.
She is also likely to
continue work with her
creative writing adviser,
author John Crowley.
Just for Fun
Sanjena wraps up two
senior essays: a creative
ction piece and a
research paper on Zadie
Smith. (One required,
the other just for fun!)
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At dinner with my writing class,
author Gay Talese told me that the
denitive New Yorker article on Nepal
has not yet been written. You should
write it. I realized then that my
proclivity for going places and caring
about communities that other people
dont necessarily flock to gives me
a lot of power and responsibility to
tell those stories.
Later that year, Sanjena
and dinner with Louise
Story, Yale alumna and
award-winning business
York Times. Having only
talking about the world.
travel, literariness, and a
Making Connections
As a junior, Sanjena takes a seminar
with author Anne Fadiman and talks
at length with New Yorker writers Ian
Frazier, Adam Gopnik, and Gay Talese.
Come spring, the Globalist sta travels
to Chile, where Sanjena reports on the
mining industry. She also wins a Yale
fellowship to intern at the Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette that summer. It cemented
Nepal on a Yale Summer
my interest in reporting.
Healing
the World Starting Out Summer in Swaziland
Arriving at Yale, Omar Omar wins a Yale Summer
Omar Njie looks toward a career as a Research Fellowship to intern
doctor. But that goal doesnt at the Swaziland Ministry
Residential College
Silliman pigeonhole him academically. of Health, where he helps
I knew early on that I did not develop a ve-year plan
Major Global Aairs want to take the traditional
pre-med route and major
to market HIV-prevention
and counseling resources
in biology or chemistry.
He leans toward psychology
to public sector employees.
but keeps his options open.
Developing Interests
Sophomore year connects Omar with Professor
Kaveh Khoshnood, whose seminar on tropical
disease campaigns helped to spark my interest
in macro health issues, especially those
that aict citizens of developing nations.
In the spring, he applies for the Global Aairs
major and the Global Health Fellows Program.
And he runs for vice president of the Yale
College Council (YCC). All three pan out.
attends a College Tea
World Health
The Global Health Fellows Program
reporter for the New sponsors Omars ten-week summer
internship with the Tropical Health and
recently joined the Yale
Daily News, Sanjena is Education Trust (THET) in London,
new to journalism, but which works to strengthen health
I remember thinking systems in the developing world.
how much I respected
the way Story was
Big Man on Campus
Junior year brings big YCC
duties. Meanwhile, Omar
Going Global gains clarity on his future
Sophomore year, He also gains admission to the Humanities and in medicine. My image of
Sanjena leaves the YDN Medicine Program at the Icahn School of Medicine pursuing a career in medicine
for the Yale Globalist, a at Mount Sinai, which guarantees medical school changed as I took more global
magazine that reports acceptance to 30 college juniors. Omar spends the health and public health
on international issues. summer in an eight-week intensive study program at courses. He is accepted into
The Globalist was Icahn, exploring science and clinical disciplines and the ve-year B.A./B.S./M.P.H.
my perfect home: it getting to know the other students in his cohort. program, which enables
melded writing and students to leave Yale with
both a bachelors degree and a
fascination with global masters degree in public health.
politics. A spring- Humility
break outreach trip to Back on campus, Omar
Tiahuanaco, Bolivia,
yields a Globalist story
completes his senior project for
the Global Aairs major. And Because Yale oers so many
on the tiny indigenous because senior year is a great
Aymara community.
After a Globalist trip to
opportunity to take those just
for fun classes, he enrolls in
interdisciplinary programs, like
Turkey in May, Sanjena
spends the summer
Humility, taught by New York
Times columnist David Brooks.
Global Health Fellows, Ive
studying gender
disparity and economic
There may be no more tting
description for the attitude he
developed the skills necessary to
development in rural
maintains and will no doubt
continue to maintain every apply diverse, creative strategies
Research Fellowship. step of the way.
to pressing global concerns.
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 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, 19501963

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Inspired by Icons.
Harkness Memorial Tower
is the height of tradition at Yale (216
feet and 284 steps to the roof). The
towers cornerstone was dedicated
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

(Why architecture matters) in 1917 exactly 200 years after the

first stone for the first Yale building
of Carillonneurs. Statues of Elihu
Yale and others plus four student-
in New Haven was placed. Designed gargoyles keep watch from on high.

Among the nations oldest

universities, Yale is the one most
rmly embedded in its city and
dened 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
worlds 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 Yales buildings,
which in their totality represent
the essential struggle of life in a
democracy.
Robert A. M. Stern
J. M. Hoppin Professor of
Architecture

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

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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
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fifteen stack levels and eight floors
of reading rooms, offices, and work
areas. A just-completed restoration
of the nave has revealed long hidden
decorative details and updated
programmatic areas to better
support the needs of todays users.
Yale University Art Gallery
One of the countrys oldest college
art museums got its start in 1832
with 100 Revolutionary War paint-
ings. Now its noted for the depth
and range of its collections. The
main building is itself a modernist
masterwork designed by Louis Kahn
(faculty 194757). It was the first
notable design of Kahns career
and sits across the street from his
final work in the United States, the
Yale Center for British Art.
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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)thats him, on
guard outside was one of its
early residents.
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Malone Engineering Center of Architecture, houses under
Built in 2005 according to state- graduate teaching labs and
of-the-art sustainable building the Universitys Department of
standards, Malone adds considerably Biomedical Engineering.
to Yales engineering facilities.
The building, designed by Cesar
Pelli (of Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects),
a former dean of the Yale School
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Noah Webster Lived Here.
(Bumping into history at Yale)
Its where presidents
past and possibly future
mingle with the inventor
of the submarine, film
stars, Nobel Prize winners,
great thinkers, and that
grouchy boss from The
Simpsons. Youll never
walk alone on Yales
campus, because more
than 300 years of alums
are right there with
you. Sometimes they
leave an obvious sign.
Sometimes you just find
the connections on your
own. Attend a party in one
of the two courtyards at
Davenport College, where
cartoonist Garry Trudeau
and President George
W. Bush served on a
Dport party committee as
students and later defined
the yin and yang of their
generations politics. Or
check out the doors of
Yale Law School. Over
them are sculptures
of snoring professors
and drunken lowlifes;
through them went future
presidents (Ford and
Clinton), Supreme Court
justices, and authors
(including Stephen L.
Carter, who now teaches
there). Or you could just
stand in the middle of
Old Campus, think of
all those past students
brushing by on their way
to changing the world,
and figure what intriguing
mark youll leave behind.
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Silliman College (left) marks the
spot where word-meister Noah
Websters house once stood.
Webster, B.A. 1778, who roomed
in Connecticut Hall as a student,
formed the rst musical band
at Yale, which lasted one week
until artistic dierences involv-
ing a long march with George
Washington to Cambridge broke
them up.
Osborn Memorial Labs (below
right) now occupy the nineteenth-
century castle where Professor
E.L. Tatum and his young
graduate student, Joshua
Lederberg, made the discoveries
about recombinant genes that
won them a share of the 1958
Nobel Prizes and opened the way
for the biotech industry.
Branford College (below
center) decorates its entries with
the names of famous Yalies,
including James Fenimore
Cooper, who was admitted at
13 and expelled a few years later
after several pranks, possibly
including a donkey and a
professors chair. (Maybe he
couldnt help itCoopers older
brother was expelled from
Princeton after someone blew
up a campus hall.)
After Webster, Eli Whitney
and Samuel Morse lived
in Connecticut Hall (right),
built in 175052; another
historic roommate was Nathan
Hale, B.A. 1773, executed as a
spy and known for having said,
I only regret that I have but one
life to lose for my country.
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Nine Squares.
(Yale and the city)
Downtown New Haven has been
transformed over the last ve years
from Yales mundane backyard into
a vibrant neighborhood of shops,
theaters, and restaurants.
The New York Times, 2005
For well over a decade,
Yale and New Haven
have been creating the
template for the 21st-
century city, investing
together in a new biotech
industry and partnering
in an urban renaissance
that has become a
national model. While
the founders of New
Haven and Yale might
not recognize the modern
university or the cosmo
A textbook case of city
planning Nine perfect squares:
a geometry of profound faith. New
Haven was planned by founders
who believed in the recurring pat-
tern of Providence. In 1639, they
laid out a grid of blocks around
a central commons, a tangible
expression of their belief. The next
step was a college to train the
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politan college town,
they would recognize
the cooperation between
the two neighbors as
Yale moves into its fourth
century. In the words of
former Yale President
Richard C. Levin, a thirty-
five-year resident of New
Haven, this city is large
enough to be interesting,
yet small enough to be
friendly. Welcome to
the new New Haven.
leaders of future generations. The
pattern held true: their college
would become paramount in
preparing leaders, amid a setting
carefully planned as a tangible
expression of the power of
the mind and soul. See Yale in
New Haven: Architecture and
Urbanism (Yale University, 2004).
Eating Out.
(When you need a
break from the dining
halls)
The great debate: Sallys vs.
Pepes New Havens Wooster
Yale Campus
Street is well known for its
delicious pizza. Lines outside its
Yale has been in New Haven since 1716, and its
most popular establishments
relocation fteen years after its founding was due in large are often 20 people long.
part to New Havens belief that a college was essential
to its own success. All of Yale University is involved East Rock
in the city and the cultural, recreational, and political Park Louis
Lunch
opportunities it oers. Thousands of New Haven
children and teens participate in intensive academic and Credited
enrichment programs at Yale. And more than 2,000 Yale by
some
Broadway College students participate as volunteers, interns, and
National brand-names tend work-study employees in New Haven schools, hospitals, with
to congregate here: Apple Store, community organizations, and businesses. inventing the hamburger in 1903.
J. Crew, Urban Outtters, Barnes & Science (Just dont ask for ketchup!)
Noble (a.k.a. the Yale Bookstore). Hill
Bring your Yale ID for some good Ninth Square For a more
discounts. Busy with students elegant night out, Ninth Square,
day and night, Broadway and a short walk from campus, oers
intersecting York Street are also the the upscale and hip spots.
place to go for a late-night snack.
Hillhouse
Ave
Coffee or Koffee?
Whitney Avenue New Haven has
You can cover a lot of its share of great
Gro
ve independent coee
St intellectual ground traveling this
avenue. It borders the Audubon shops where
y Ave
Au
dub Arts District, always worth a students can study
on
St
or catch up with
Whitne
ramble. And at 170 Whitney, the
we
friends.
Ho
Cross world-class collections of the
Peabody Museum of Natural
Campus
Chapel Street History provide a remarkable Ashleys Ice Cream For decades
In counterpoint to big record of Earths history, life, a New Haven favorite, located
Broadway, Chapel Street is jam- Old and cultures. on York Street, and voted New
packed with local bookstores, Campus Havens Best by the local press.
boutiques, cafes, and restaurants
that range from student-budget New
to upscale. In between shopping Haven Morys:
Green A Yale
and noshing, visit the newly
renovated and expanded Yale Tradition
St
nge
University Art Gallery and the Founded
Ora
Yale Center for British Art. in 1861,
t
eS
Morys is
lleg
a unique Yale dining experience
Co
Ninth City Hall / Amistad membership in this supper club
St
is open to Yale students, faculty,
rch
Square
Memorial
u
and alumni. Morys is known
Ch
City Hall is on the southeast side
of the Green. Next to it is the especially for its toasting nights
Amistad Memorial to the African and entertainment by superb
Yale captives who rebelled against a cappella groups including Yales
Medical slavery. Yale professors, students, most famous, the Whienpoofs.
Center and alumni argued their case
New Haven Green in court. The sculpture stands International Fare Walk just
The center of the citys original grid, the 17-acre on the site of the jail that held a few blocks from campus for
Green is bordered by Yale, New Haven government oces, the rebels. any food you craveAmerican,
Chapel Street shops, and a lot of history. The Yale Daily Ninth Square Chinese, Cuban, Ethiopian,
News calls it the citys epicenter and says, Whenever It may be the ninth square, French, Greek, Indian, Irish,
something major comes to New Haven, it shows up on the but its turning into a blockbuster Long Island Italian, Jamaican, Japanese,
Green, from festivals to concerts to protests. Its the stage for upscale nightlife, thanks to a Sound Korean, Malaysian, Mexican,
for the New Haven Jazz Festival and other concertsand its continuing retail and residential Middle Eastern, Moroccan,
where the bodies are buried (in the Center Church Crypt, boom. Spanish, Thai, Turkish, or
an historic cemetery with gravestones from 1687 to 1812). Vietnamese.
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 Elm City Run.
Im never more aware of how
much New Haven has to oer than
when Im on a run. Because Im
on the track team, I run a lot. Every
run, we basically circle the entire
city. So the citys size is manageable
enough that if you want to go to
East Rock, or even West Rock,
you can leave the city for your run
and then return. On a single run
you can pass the neighborhoods
that are nicest if you go down
Hillhouse. Then you can go out
to Dixwell and come back around.
You can go by the port and the
receiving terminal that smells
like asphalt, so thats really indus-
trial. You can go by hayelds and
cows, clubs and museums. You
can nd trails to run on. Some
parts are fantastic, and other ones
present you with a challenge, but
either way its really fun. Because
the city is this perfect size, you
see this whole image of so many
kinds of life and landscape. You
can leave campus and return with
renewed vigor, because you see
so many things along the way.
Dan

Senior Dan Serna runs Varsity Rock neighborhood; crossing the Mill
Track and Field. Left to right: River; entering Hamden, CT; at the
Leaving Timothy Dwight College; top of East Rock Park (also above).
Whitney Avenue shopping district;
fresh flowers on Whitney;
ascending Science Hill; East

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

Where are you from?

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

known, experienced. With

such experience Yalies
can pursue any ambition
anywhere in the world.

Im from New York City.
Spring break of my freshman
year I got to tour and perform in
Milan, Lugano, and Zurich
as a member of the a cappella
singing group Yale Alley Cats.
Sho Matsuzaki, Computing
and the Arts Major
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Im from Holliston, Massachu- Im from Los Angeles, I was born in Amman, Jordan, Im from McAllen, Texas. Im from Redlands, California. Im from Buffalo, New York,
setts. During my freshman California. The summer before but now my family lives in Illinois. This summer I will be studying Ive studied Italian in Italy on but Ive also lived in the
spring break, I led workshops in my junior year I won the John The summer after my junior year, Portuguese and delving into Yales Summer Study Program, Philippines. Ive spent two
literacy and theater for children in Thouron Prize for Summer I went to the UK to study public the vibrant culture of Brazil and next fall I will be going summers in St. Petersburg
Guatemala City, Guatemala. Studyan eight-week fellowship health policy, Gothic architecture, while living in Rio de Janeiro to Pune, India, taking courses studying Russian language
This summer, Im going to Japan to Pembroke College, Cambridge and art at Cambridge University. through a Yale Summer and doing research in environ and culture.
on a grant to do a monthlong University, in the UK. My I also went to Port-au-Prince, Study course. mental studies. Joe Bolognese, Economics
intensive in traditional Japanese research focused on inter- Haiti, to work with Haitians Stephanie Carrizales, Victoria Montanez, and Math Major
dance and theater. national nance and business. displaced by the earthquake. American Studies Major Environmental Studies Major
Laurel Durning-Hammond, Brandon Levin, Ethics, Politics, Osama Zayyad, Molecular
Theater Studies Major and Economics Major Biophysics and Biochemistry Major
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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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 Yales first gym was
built in 1826. By the Yale student athletes...
mid-1800s an athletic
tradition dominated the proudly representing Yale
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 course of preparation and
Pierson in his history
of Yale. The Bulldogs of
today both men and them to lead in all of their
women compete on 35 future endeavors.
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 (thats fight song
in modern parlance)
including Cole Porters
Bulldog! as loud
as ever.
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Mission Recent Ivy League
Championships
undertake the challenge of Basketball (M)
a high-level education while Heavyweight Crew
Field Hockey
University in the pursuit of Ice Hockey (M)
championships. Through Lacrosse (M)
Coed Sailing
exceptional facilities and
coaches, Yale Athletics Squash (M)
ensures that our students Tennis (W)
learn the important values Volleyball (W)
of leadership, integrity,
discipline, and teamwork. 12 Nationally
The aspiration is that in the Ranked Teams
Heavyweight Crew
Lightweight Crew
competition, students enter
Crew (W)
a co-curricular laboratory
for learning that will fit
Fencing (M and W)
Ice Hockey (M)
Lacrosse (M)
Coed Sailing
Excerpted from the Yale
Athletics Mission Statement
Sailing (W)
Squash (M and W)
Tennis (W)
The Game
Even for those who
dont 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.
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 Varsity Teams Equestrian
800+ Baseball
Mens Basketball
Field Hockey (coed)
Figure Skating
Yalies who participate
Womens Basketball Fishing
in varsity athletics
Mens Crew (Heavy Golf
each year.
and Light) Gymnastics (coed)
Womens Crew Mens Ice Hockey
2,400+ Mens Cross Country
Womens Cross Country
Indoor Climbing
Karate (Shotokan)
Students who
Mens Fencing Kendo
participate in intramural
Womens Fencing Mens Lacrosse
games through the
Field Hockey Womens Lacrosse
residential colleges.
Football Muay Thai
Mens Golf Pistol
80% Womens Golf
Womens Gymnastics
Polo
Powerlifting
The percentage of
Mens Ice Hockey Rifle
the student body
Womens Ice Hockey Road Running
participating in some
Mens Lacrosse Mens Rugby
form of athletic
Womens Lacrosse Womens Rugby
activity each year.
Coed Sailing Skeet & Trap
Womens Sailing Skiing (Alpine)
Mens Soccer Skiing (Nordic)
Womens Soccer Mens Soccer
200+ Olympians 2012 Summer Softball Womens Soccer Facilities Johnson Field
More than 200 Yale Games in London by Mens Squash Squash (coed) A 750-seat synthetic
players and coaches one coach and seven Womens Squash Swimming Payne Whitney turf complex housing
have taken part in alumni athletes, Mens Swimming Table Tennis Gymnasium the field hockey team.
modern (post-1896) including Taylor and Diving Tae Kwon Do At 12 acres, the largest It is adjacent to the
Olympic competition, Ritzel 10, who won Womens Swimming Mens Tennis gym in the nation and William O. DeWitt
winning 114 medals, gold rowing on the and Diving Womens Tennis the second-largest in Jr. 63 Family Field,
55 of them gold. At U.S. womens eight Mens Tennis Triathlon the world (second only home of Yale softball.
the 2008 Summer team; Ashley Womens Tennis Mens Ultimate to a gym in Moscow
Games in Beijing, Brzozowicz 04, who Mens Track and Field Womens Ultimate that was modeled Championship
fencer Sada Jacobson won silver with the Womens Track and Mens Volleyball after Yales). Golf Course Yales
06, who won silver Canadian womens Field Womens Volleyball own championship
and bronze medals eight; and Charlie Womens Volleyball Mens Water Polo David S. Ingalls golf course, voted #1
for the United States, Cole 07, who won Womens Water Polo Rink seats more College Golf Course in
was one of six Elis bronze with the U.S. Club Sports Wrestling than 3,000 and is America by Golfweek
competing. At the mens four team. Archery home to Yales varsity magazine in 2015, is a
2010 Winter Games Most recently, at the Badminton Intramurals mens and womens short distance from the
in Vancouver, Natalie 2014 Winter Games Ballroom Dance See page 23 hockey teams. The other athletic facilities,
Babony 06 skated in Sochi, Phoebe Mens Baseball rink is also available in the Westville section
on the Slovakian Staenz 17 won Mens Basketball for recreational ice of New Haven.
womens ice hockey bronze as a member Womens Basketball skating and instruction,
team. Yale was of the Swiss womens Cricket and intramurals. Gilder Boathouse
represented at the ice hockey team. Cycling The Gilder Boathouse,
Yale Bowl a 22,000 square foot
Conferences Handsome Dan A spectacular football state-of-the-art facility
Yale takes pride in (1889 present) stadium seating more on the Housatonic
its broad-based inter Yale was the first than 60,000, the River, stretches south
collegiate athletic university in the United Bowl is surrounded by to the finish line of
program that includes States to adopt a first-rate facilities for Yales 2,000-meter
competition in the Ivy mascot, and to this indoor and outdoor race course.
League Conference and date, none is better tennis, lacrosse, rugby,
the Eastern College known than Handsome soccer, field hockey, The McNay Family
Athletic Conference Dan. The tradition softball, baseball, and Sailing Center
(ECAC). Most of Yales was established by a track and field. at Yale University
intercollegiate contests young gentleman from Home to Yales coed
are against traditional Victorian England, who Reese Stadium and womens varsity
east coast opponents attended Yale in the With seating for more sailing teams, the
with emphasis on 1890s. The originals than 1,700, Reese center houses a fleet of
winning the Ivy League 16 successors have is home to the mens twenty-four 420 racing
title. All sports, been the intimates of and womens soccer dinghies, as well as
with the exception deans, directors, and teams in the fall, and FJs, Lasers, and five
of football, have coaches. One was to the mens and safety launches.
the ultimate goal of tended by a head womens lacrosse
qualifying for NCAA cheerleader who went teams in the spring.
and affiliated post- on to become the
season championships. Secretary of State.

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State of the Arts.
Known as the Dramat, the Yale
Dramatic Association is the second-
oldest college theater association
in the country and the largest under-
Really Trying at the Yale School of
Dramas University Theatre, one
of many superb performance venues
open to undergraduates.

(Playing a major role whether youre an arts major or not) graduate theater organization at
Yale. Here, the group performs How
to Succeed in Business Without

Whether you want to

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

new even as they become

part of Yales legendary
arts tradition.

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The Daily Show.
(A slice of Yales creative life during one spring weekend not so long ago)
Friday
Records show that the
first appearance of
a band at Yale was in
Lose yourself in the art of
1775, when a militia
the book at the exhibitions
band of Yale students The Passover Haggadah:
Modern Art in Dialogue
accompanied George
with an Ancient Text, Art
Washington to Cambridge,
Is Where You Find It, and
Massachusetts. They
Collaboration: The Art of
found it not to their Working Together, all at
Sterling Memorial Library.
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
Face your fears at the School
Yale Precision Marching
of Architectures symposium
Band. Such is Yales epic Mobile Anxieties, featuring
arts story, peopled by keynote address Mobility,
icons (Thornton Wilder, Security and Creativity: The
Politics and Economics of
Paul Newman, Maya
Global Creative Cities. What
Lin, Jodie Foster, Lupita
are the precedents for mobility
Nyongo) and satisfying in architecture and how are
they related to a general sense
pretty much any artistic
of unease?
desire any day of the
week. We picked one
weekend in spring. Channel your inner Indiana
Jones at the Peabody
Museums special exhibition
Las Artes de Mxico, with
artifacts from more than a
dozen pre-Columbian cultures.
Soothe your soul with
Mendelssohns Elijah
performed by Yales
Philharmonia Orchestra,
Camerata, and Glee Club.
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Be hip at the
Yale Belly Dance
Society Hips
against Hunger:
3rd Annual
Gala Show.
Afterward, stop
by the Morse
Crescent
Theater
at Morse
College to check
out the band your Froco
is managing and a spoken
word performance by the
Yale Slam team.
Explore the ethical conse-
quences of murder with wry
irony and consummate skill
through two lms: Monsieur
Verdoux and Le Boucher,
directed by Charles Chaplin
and Claude Chabrol, respec-
tively, and loosely based
on real-life scandals. Every
weekend, and in special confer-
ences and festivals, Films at
the Whitney helps foster
Yales dynamic lm culture
with free screenings at the
Whitney Humanities Center
auditorium.
If thats too highbrow for your
mood, start your night with
the all-ages show at Toads
Place, then head over to the
Criterion Cinemas exclusive
Insomnia Theater lm series,
which brings the best cult
classics back to the big screen!
Or shake o Le Boucher
(literally) with the late-night
show and menu at the Yale
Cabaret, where Yale 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
morning of music at the
Woolsey Concerto Competi-
tion, where School of Music
instrumentalists 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 broadcastlive in HD
of the Metropolitan Operas Pick up subsidized tickets
performance of Stravinskys
The Rakes Progress.
Importance.
Take the Masterpiece Tour
at the Yale University Art
Gallery (YUAG), stopping
into the special exhibitions
Colorful Impressions: The
Printmaking Revolution
in 18th-Century France and
Master Drawings from the
Yale University Art Gallery.
After lunch at Atticus Caf
across the street, return for
student guide Susan Morrows
talk Angles on Art.
Or gallery-hop from the
School of Arts Senior
Thesis Show Paintings Part I
(see Part II on Sunday) to the
Architecture Gallery for
Painting the Glass House:
Artists Revisit Modern Archi-
tecture. As you move through
the gallery, you and your date
rue the fact that you missed
architect Frank Gehrys talk
two nights ago, but make
a plan to come back next
Tuesday for SOAs Film Series
The Future is Asian.
see your suitemates perform
for New Havens youngest at
provided by your residential
college and head into New
York with friends to see the
American Ballet Theatres
production of Fokines Les
Sylphides. Or enjoy a night of
theater right here on campus
at the Yale Repertory
Theatre, where lords and
ladies are gathering for Oscar
Wildes comedy of serial
seducers and moralizing
monogamists, A Woman of No
annual Stan Wheeler Memo-
steps in a Swing & Blues
Sunday
As a member of the Gospel
Choir, sing at Sunday
services.
Help your friend set up her
paintings at the Despierta
Boricuas art opening. Come
back for the reception at La
Casa later in the afternoon.
Or DIY by acting, Film Redhot & Blue
performing, singing, Bulldog Productions Shades
staging, writing,
producing, presenting, East Asian Film Society Singing Group Council
improvising, creating,
designing, and getting
Undergraduate Film
Society
Society of Orpheus and
Bacchus
laughs through more Yale Student Film Something Extra
than 100 (and count- Festival
ing) student choirs, The Spizzwinks(?)
troupes, clubs, groups, Yale Film Alliance Sur et Veritaal
ensembles, associa- Tangled Up in Blue
tions, organizations, Music
societies, and collec- Berkeley College Undergraduate Choral
tives including: Orchestra Society
Black is the Color The Whiffenpoofs
Art/Design
Blue Feather Drum Whim n Rhythm
Anime Society
Group Yale Russian Chorus
Design at Yale Concordia Flute Yale Slavic Chorus
Design for America Yale Ensemble
Digital Arts Society Coup de Brass Theater
The Control Group
Guild of Bookmakers Davenport Pops
Heritage Theatre
Undergraduate Student Krolik Saxophone
Artists Collective Ensemble Ensemble
Or sleep in and join the Yale
FX Crew for an afternoon Vita Bella! Low Strung Opera Theatre of
Yale College
of practice.
YaleMakes New Music Cooperative
REVUE
Yale Native American Pan, Jam, and Lime
Arts Council Steel Band Society for More
Revisit your childhood and
Musical Theater
Saybrook College
Dance Yale Childrens Theater
Orchestra
the Yale Childrens Theater Ballet Folklrico Yale Drama Coalition
1701 Records
performance of Robin Hood. Mexicano
Tiny Baroque Orchestra Yale Dramat
Or step on stage yourself in
Ballroom Dance Team of Pierson College
afternoon rehearsals of the
Belly Dance Society Comedy/Improv
Dramats production of Tony Yale Baroque Opera
Kushners Angels in America: Damhsa Project The 5th Humour
Millennium Approaches Just Add Water
Danceworks Yale Concert Band
(one of 200 student theatrical
A Different Drum Yale Klezmer Band Lux Improvitas
productions each year).
Groove Dance Yale Precision The Purple Crayon
Marching Band Red Hot Poker
Jashan Bhangra Team
Close the weekend with an
Yale Symphony Sphincter Troupe
eclectic mix of live music: the Konjo! African Dance
Orchestra
Monstraasity The Viola Question
rial Jazz Concert at the Law Yale Undergraduate
Phoenix Dance Troupe The Yale Exit Players
School; a student Choral Jazz Collective
Rhythmic Blue The Yale Record
Conducting Recital at Battell Yale Undergraduate
Chapel; the Great Organ Sabrosura Society of Conductors
Spoken Word
Music series at Marquand
Shaka Polynesian Yale University Guild
Chapel. Or learn some new Oye!
Dance of Carillonneurs
Jook Songs
Dance Practicum at the Afro- Steppin Out
Singing Groups Teeth Slam Poets
American Cultural Center. Swing & Blues
The Alley Cats Telltale
Tango Club
Asempa(!) WORD Performance
Enjoy a concert to benet Taps Poetry
The Bakers Dozen
childrens literacy given by the Undergraduate Ballet
Whiffenpoofs, the worlds Company The Dukes Men Unique
oldest and best-known Gospel Choir
Yale Dance Theater Aerial and Circus Arts
collegiate a cappella group.
Yale Rangeela: Fusion Living Water Collective
The Whis are one of
more than a dozen Dance Magevet Anti-Gravity Society
a cappella groups Yaledancers Mixed Company The Bad Romantics
and have of Yale
Ya-Le Chinese Dance The New Blue
become one
Out of the Blue Y Pop-Up
of Yales most
Fashion Yale Magic Society
celebrated Pitches & Tones
and hallowed Berkeley Knitting Club Yale Wushu
Proof of the Pudding
traditions. Y Fashion House
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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
Yales Cultural Houses, the
Womens Center, religious
communities, political
activism and groups, and
sexual identity organizations
that make up a microcosm
of the worlds views and
beliefs. The best part is
the friends, traveling com-
panions, and guides that
students find through these
centers and organizations
to help them on their way.
Alumna Billie Gastic 98
says, The work that I did
with other Latino students
to bring about positive
Where House
change in our communities Means Home.
played a tremendous part
(Cultural centers at Yale)
in my identity development
and paved the way for the Yales four Cultural Houses include
work that I will continue the Afro-American Cultural Cen-
to do for a lifetime. ter, the Asian American Cultural
Center, the Latino Cultural
Center (La Casa Cultural, pictured
here), and the Native American
Cultural Center. All are modeled
after the Afro-American Cultural
Center (aectionately 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 aliated organizations from
fraternities and sororities to dance
companies, publications, and
social action and political groups.

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Afro-American
Cultural Center
Afro-America Houseknown
as the Houseopened 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 fties
and early sixties gave way to the
vigorous exchange of ideas now
seen at the House. The com-
mon thread is the commitment,
condence, 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 Cultural
Host to countless cultural, schol-
arly, and social events, La Casa
Cultural is an important focus Just about anything: study in
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 oces, student
lounges, and meeting spaces. It is
open to New Haven Latinos and
community-based ESL programs
for non-English speakers.
Asian American
Cultural Center
What can you do at the AACC?
Americans at Yale (ANNAY) was
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 aliated 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 Center
The Association of Native
founded in 1989 with the aim
of attracting Native American
faculty and scholars; expand-
ing course oerings 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.
Athletes in Action Saint Thomas More
Catholic Chapel
Black Church at Yale
and Center
Chabad at Yale
Secular Student
Christ Presbyterian Alliance
Church Students
Slifka Center for
Episcopal Church Jewish Life
at Yale
Trinity Baptist Students
Hindu Students Council
Undergraduate
InterFaith Forum Buddhist Sangha
International Church Undergraduate
at Yale Humanist Society
Jews and Muslims
Unitarian-
at Yale
Universalist Student
Latter-Day Saints Fellowship
Keeping the Faiths together on a remarkable journey Student Association
The University Church
Yale students come from more of spiritual awakening and human Luther House
Yale Christian
than thirty religious and spiritual flourishing. Located on Old Cam- Meor at Yale Fellowship
traditions. Founded as an institu- pus, where most freshmen live,
Muslim Students Yale Faith and Action
tion with a Protestant vocation, the Chaplains Oce coordinates
Association Yale Hillel
Yale today welcomes those of any religious life at Yale, supporting New Haven Friends Yale Sangha
or no faith tradition and seeks to worship services and rituals across Orthodox Christian
Yale Students for Christ
nurture all in their spiritual jour- faith traditions. It partners with Fellowship
Young Israel House
neys. We consider ourselves quite centers for specic faiths and with Reformed University at Yale
blessed, says University Chap- aliated community service orga- Fellowship
Youth Evangelical
lain Sharon M. K. Kugler, to be nizations, and it oers pastoral Rivendell Institute Fellowship
part of a community of scholars, support and social and educational St. Marys Roman and more
Catholic Church
seekers, and believers walking programs throughout the year.

Intercultural
Afro-American NAACP (Yale chapter) La Casa Cultural MEChA Chinese Adopted Sibs Student Association Affairs Council
Cultural Center National Society Alianza Oye! Program for Youth of Thais at Yale One of our generations major
Alpha Phi Alpha of Black Engineers
Amigas Sabrosura: Latin Chinese American Taiwanese American challenges is to determine how
Arab Student New Haven African
Association of
Dance Team Students Association Society individuals, communities, or
Association Dance and Drumming
Salvadoreas Yale Students of Mixed Disorient Tibetan Cultural cultures become marginalized as
Association
Asempa(!) Omega Psi Phi
Ballet Folklrico
Heritage and Culture HAPA the Other, and to actively resist
Vietnamese Students
Black Church at Yale Pan, Jam, and Mexicano Yale Mexican Student Hindu Students this process, is how members of
Association (ViSA)
Lime Steel Band Organization Council
Black Mens Union Brazil Club the Intercultural Aairs Council
and more
Shades a Cappella Yspaniola Japanese American
Black Solidarity Cuban-American of Yale College framed a recent Womens Center LGBTQ Student Co-op
Steppin Out and more Students Union
Conference Undergraduate Native American series of events and discussions The centers mission is to improve The Co-op is an umbrella student
Student Association Jashan Bhangra
Black Student Students of Mixed
Asian American
Cultural Center focused on otherness. The IAC the lives of all women, especially organization that works to foster
Alliance at Yale Heritage and Culture De Colores Jook Songs
Cultural Center American Indian strives to support an inclusive at Yale and in New Haven. As part community among all LGBTQ-
Black Womens Students of Nigeria Despierta Boricua KASAMA: The Filipino Science and
Coalition ALIVE (A Learning Club at Yale Engineering Society
and diverse campus environ- of a broader feminist movement, identied people on campus. It
Undergraduate Black Dominican Student and Interactive (Yale chapter) ment that engages in community it works to ensure equal and full hosts weekly meetings and several
Delta Sigma Theta Pre-Law Association Association Korean American
Vietnamese
Students at Yale Association of Native dialogue; promotes cultural opportunity for all, regardless high-prole events throughout
Dominican Student Urban Improvement Hispanic Scholars Experience)
Association Corps Foundation (Yale Korean Literature Americans at Yale awareness, respect, and appre- of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, the year and provides support for
Alliance for Southeast
DOWN Magazine Yale African Students chapter) Asian Students
Club Blue Feather Drum ciation; and challenges bias on nationality, sexual orientation, other LGBTQ organizations.
Heritage Theatre
Association Lambda Upsilon Anjali
Malaysian and Group the basis of race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, back-
Athletes and Allies Queer Peers
Ensemble Yale Christian Lambda
Asha for Education
Singaporean Indian Health gender, religion, sexual orienta- ground, religion, ability, or age.
Association (MASA) Initiative De Colores Resource Alliance for
Hip Hop Alliance
Fellowship Latin American
Asian American
tion, disability, social class, or
Students Organization Muslim Students Yale Native American Campus Action Interns Undergraduate IvyQ Gender Equity
Kappa Alpha Psi
Yale Gospel Choir
Students Alliance other distinction. Women in Science
Latina Women at Yale Association Arts Council Fierce Advocates Sappho
Yale West Indian Not-So-Straight Frosh
Konjo! African Dance Bridges (English Phoenix Dance Yale Sisters of All WYSE
Students Organization Latino Business Non-Mon/K PRISM Trans@Yale
Minority Association language lessons) Troupe Nations
Coalition Reproductive Rights Yale Black Womens W{holy} Queer
and more Q Magazine
of Pre-Medical Building Bridges Rangeela and more Coalition
Math and Science Action League and more
Students Queer+Asian
(MAS) Familias South Asian Society and more

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 Publications

ELIterati.
Accent Multilingual
Magazine
Amicus Undergraduate
Law Magazine
(Why Yalies are so darned determined to publish) Broad Recognition:
A Feminist Magazine
The Bullblog
China Hands
Dimensions Art Journal
DOWN Magazine
Fiat Lux
Flourish Journal
Helicon Undergraduate
Journal of Classics
Her Campus
Journal of Political
Thought
Kalliope
Logos
La Madrugada
The New Journal
Paprika!
P.H.: The Yale Journal
of Public Health
The Politic
Q Magazine
Rumpus (humor tabloid)
These Fifty States
Vita Bella!
Yale Banner
The Yale Daily News
The Yale Daily News
Magazine
Yale Economic Review
Yale publications are like one of
Yale Entrepreneur
those giant 40-flavor containers
of jelly beans. The possibilities The Yale Epicurian

are endless, as new publications The Yale Free Press

are dispersed seemingly daily Yale Global Health

Review
throughout all the residential
The Yale Globalist
colleges. There are a few more
The Yale Herald
general, universally popular
The Yale Historical
publicationsthe cherry, lemon,
Review
or watermelon jelly beans of
Yale Journal of
the bunchas well as a handful Economics
that will really please a certain Yale Journal of
nichethe cappuccino and roasted Medicine & Law
marshmallow flavors. No matter Yale Literary Magazine
what your taste, if you look hard The Yale Philosophy
enough, youll nd something to Review

suit your mood. The Yale Record

Members of the Yale Daily
News editorial board. Tapley
Stephenson, editor-in-chief
(back row, third from right), thinks
Yales publications represent the
best of what the University has
to offer: dedication, intensive
Sam Dubo for the Yale Daily News Yale Review of
International Studies
teamwork, a vast range of Originally appeared in the YDN. Reprinted
experiences, and the desire to have by permission. Yale Scientific
ones thoughts read and discussed. The Yale Turnip
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Sustainable U.
(Where Blue is Green)
Yales path to sustain-
ability began more than
100 years ago with the
establishment of one of
the first forestry schools
in the country. Today,
the University is inter-
nationally recognized as
a sustainability leader
in both curriculum and
institutional practices.
Yale is home to faculty in
cutting-edge fields such
as green chemistry and
engineering, sustainable
landscape management,
and business and the
environment. Students
have been instrumental
in building a culture of
sustainability across the
campus. Their enthusi-
asm and energy have led
the University to estab-
lish several academic
programs, a sustainable
food project, and more.
Two Yale College
graduates, Giord
Pinchot and Henry
S. Graves, establish
the Yale Forest School Alumnus Aldo
and pioneer forest Leopolds seminal
management in the A Sand County
United States. Almanac is published.
1900 1905 1949
Alumnus George Bird
Grinnell founds one
of the rst environ-
mental organizations
in the worldthe
Audubon Society.
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Yale College launches
the Environmental
Studies major.
1972 1985
Students initiate a recycling program.
The School of Forestry expands its
research and teaching to incorporate
broader environmental issues and
changes its name to the Yale School of
Forestry & Environmental Studies.
The sustainability experience at Yale on a family-owned organic farm.
can start even before the first semes- Sustainability is evident in all areas
ter begins. Each year, 400 incoming of student life at Yale, from options
students participate in Freshman in the dining halls to work on the
Outdoor Orientation Trips (FOOT),
and Yale Harvest allows incoming
Yale Farm, from bike sharing and
20% biodiesel shuttles to Spring
freshmen to spend five days working Salvage and sustainable athletics.
Student Groups
Bulldog Sustainability
Engineers Without
Borders
Fossil Free Yale
New Haven Action
Project Bright
Social Justice
Network at Yale
Sustainability
Service Corps
Yale Freshman
Outdoor Orientation
Trips
Yale Harvest
Yale Outdoors
Yale Student
Environmental
Coalition
Yale Undergraduate
Energy Club
Yales Oce of Sustainability
is created; today it has 7 sta
members and engages more
than 50 student assistants.
The Yale Sustain Students launch a bike sharing program; and
The Yale Student Environmental Coalition able Food Project Yales president commits Yale composting is introduced into the dining halls.
hosts the Campus Earth Summit, a student is founded by stu- to a GHG reduction target of
conference with representatives from 120 dents, faculty, and 43% below 2005 levels by 2020. Yale opens Kroon Hall, the eighth leed- Yale becomes the first
American and 29 international universities. sta with support certied building on campus. With leed university to join the
Participants draft The Blueprint for a Green from President Yale completes the Class of 1954 Platinum status, Kroon generates 25% of its international Carbon
Campus, which is distributed nationally to Richard Levin and Chemistry Research Building, own electricity and uses 50% less energy Pricing Leadership
environmental groups and legislators. chef Alice Waters. its rst LEED-certied building. than a comparable building of its size. Coalition.
1994 1998 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2010 2016
Environmental issues receive Students break Sustainable food options become available Yale unveils its Sustainability Strategic Plan,
heightened attention when ground on in all residential college dining halls. a comprehensive set of goals and tactics
a group of undergraduates the Yale Farm, for enhancing sustainability in all areas
produces the Yale Green Plan transforming a Students help to launch Spring Salvage, of campus life. Major goals accomplished by
and submits its ndings and brambly acre an initiative to capture reusable 2015 include a 41.1% waste diversion rate, a
recommendations to Yale into a productive goods from students moving out of 12% reduction in campus GHG emissions, and
College administrators. market garden. the residential colleges. a 15% increase in plant-based food purchases.
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The Science Channel.
Student Groups P.H.: The Yale Journal
of Public Health
American Indian
Science and Project Insight
Engineering Society Public Health
(Life outside the lab) American Institute of Coalition
Chemical Engineers Remedy at Yale
American Society of Student Association
Mechanical Engineers (RYSA)
In the early nineteenth Arnold Air Society Simplex Sciences
century, Yale College Bee Space Society of Physics
became the first school in Bioethics Society
Students
America to offer a modern Society of Women
Biomedical
science coursechemis- Engineering Society
Engineers

try. Today, you can major Bulldog Bots

Student Partnerships
for Global Health
or take courses in twenty- Bulldogs Racing
Summer Science
eight STEM disciplines, Catalyst: A Community Research Institute
from Applied Mathemat- of Engineers
Sustainability Service
ics to Biomedical Engi- Club Geo Corps
neering to Physics. And Coalition for Mental Synapse
with 60+ student STEM Health and Well-Being
Tau Beta Pi
organizations on campus, Colleges Against
TEDx Yale
Cancer
the opportunities for
Undergraduate
Community Health
extracurricular activities Energy Club
Educators
are limited only by your Undergraduate
Design for America
interests and imagina- Pre-Veterinary Society
Diversity in STEM
tion. Join the editorial Undergraduate Society
Task Force
staff of Yale Scientific, the for the Biological
Ecology and Sciences
nations oldest college Evolutionary Biology
Undergraduate
science publication. Be Undergraduate Group
Women in Science
one of more than 1,200 Engineering World
Women Active in
coders participating in Health at Yale
Computer Science
Y-Hack, the national Engineers Without at Yale
Borders
hackathon established by Women in Physics
Environmental
three Yale undergradu- Yale Anti-Gravity
Engineering
ates. Earn certification as Association
Society

an EMT through the stu- Float Undergraduate

Yale Data Science
Being a part of YUAA has been
dent-run Yale Emergency Gamers@Yale
Yale Drop Team
an incredibly formative and fun
Medical Services. Travel Yale EMS
experience. I went from being hackHEALTH
to Cameroon with the Yale iGEM Team
a freshman who didnt know the HackYale
Yale chapter of Engineers YaleMakes
first thing about engineering to HAPPY
Without Borders to work Yale Scientific
part of the team that won second Institute of Electrical
on a water distribution and Electronics
Magazine
place in the Intercollegiate Rocket
project. Tutor New Haven Engineers (Y-IEEE) Yale Sight Savers
Engineering Competitions pay-
elementary- and middle- Math and Science Yale STEAM
load competition for our rocket, (MAS) Familias
school students in math. Yale Student
Chronos, and our experiment Math Society Environmental
Join the Undergraduate
to test for eects of special and MathCounts Outreach
Coalition
Aerospace Association,
general relativity. Now, as one of Yale Undergraduate
featured here, and work Medical Professions
the organizations co-presidents, Outreach
Aerospace Association
in teams to build and fly
Im learning about the manage- Medicine in the Arts
Yale Undergraduate
rockets, planes, quadcop- Science Olympiad
ment of engineering projects and Humanities
ters, and UAVs. Or create Collective Yale Undergraduate
and working to create a larger
a new organization and Intelligent Vehicles
community of people excited about MedX Students
make your own mark on Yale Undergraduate
engineering and science at Yale. Minority Association of
STEM Society
life outside the lab at Yale. Pre-Medical Students
Genevieve Fowler and more
National Society of
Black Engineers

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

(Yales incubator of impact and leadershipDwight Hall) energy, sharing

community service
Open Doors
PALS Tutoring and
methods, social Mentoring
entrepreneurship,
Peace by PEACE
or even scientific
Leadership and service research, Yalies pursue Public Health Coalition

to society seem inex- the greater good. Reach Out

tricably linked at Yale. Community
Ready Set Launch
Nowhere is that more Service Student Rotaract Club
apparent than at Dwight Groups RYSA
Hall, the Center for AIDS Walk New Haven SMArT (Science and
Public Service and When I came to Yale, I had no idea American Red Cross Math Achiever Teams)

Social Justice founded that I would have so many oppor- Amnesty International Splash at Yale

by undergraduates in tunities to serve others and to rise Animal Welfare Alliance Squash Haven

1886. Dwight Hall is the as a leader. Students design and AskNot Student Environmental
Coalition
only nonprofit umbrella implement strategic service and Best Buddies
campus volunteer orga- advocacy projects, come together Black Student Alliance Student Global Health
and AIDS Coalition
nization in the country as a community of friends, and Bookmarks/Summer
Students for Autism
run entirely by students. explore the intellectual possibilities Buds
Awareness
Students develop new and palpable opportunities of a life Bridges ESL
Students Organize for
initiatives in response of service. I serve on the nonprot Building Bridges
Syria
to community needs board of directors and have been Camp Kesem at Yale
Synapse
and provide resources, elected to co-lead the student cabi- Circle of Women
Teaching Peace
training, and other net. Work at Dwight Hall is much College Council for Initiative
CARE
support services for more more than volunteering. Its a job Thi[NK]
than 80 groups ranging and a commitment. Colleges Against
Uganda Hope Network
Cancer
in scope from tutoring to Amy Rothschild Ulysses S. Grant
Community-Based
political activism. With Foundation
Learning
Dwight Halls support, Undergraduate Associ-
Community Health
ation for African Peace
Yale undergraduates have Educators
and Development
founded many significant Through the Yale Hunger DEMOS
Undergraduates at CT
community agencies that and Homelessness Action Project ElmConnect Hospice
have become a perma- (YHHAP) I have learned how Elmseed Enterprise Unite for Sight
nent part of New Havens to eect change with others. Engineers Without Universities Allied for
social service network. YHHAP has broken down my Borders Essential Medicines
Its the kind of impact preconceptions about hunger and Fierce Advocates Urban Debate League
they continue to have homelessness. Ive learned that FOCUS on New Haven Urban Improvement
post-Yale as they answer poverty is nuanced in its causes The Future Project Corps

the call to serve and and its potential solutions. I am Girls Swim Volunteers around
the World
lead in ways that are continually blown away by the Global Brigades
Women and Youth
uniquely their own. energy and compassion that Global Zero
Its one thing to take classes on experience I have had here. It is Supporting Each Other
drive my fellow YHHAP members. Habitat for Humanity
world issues and philanthropy and a three-year program that allows Yale Refugee Project
Dwight Hall allows me to feel Hear Your Song
community involvement theory, me to have a sustained mentoring Yale Sight Savers
like a citizen of New Havenmore Hemispheres
but through Dwight Hall Ive relationship with a student at a Yale Undergraduate
educated about its flaws and
gotten a pragmatic idea about local elementary school. I plan to Hunger and Homeless- Prison Project
appreciative of its many opportu- ness Action Project
issues that exist in New Haven, go into nance post-Yale and then Yale Undergraduates
nities than I ever anticipated. Instrumental for UNICEF
across the country, and around the work to improve the education
Eliza Schafler Connection
and more
world. I am a co-coordinator of system either by running for oce
It Ends Today
the Dwight Hall Academic Mentor- or starting a nonprot. Peer Counseling
Jewish Social Action
ing Program. Without question Bradford Williams Collective Mind Matters
it has been the most rewarding A Leg Even Peer Health Educators

MathCounts Outreach Peer Liaisons

MEChA Walden

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Law School 1824
School of Engineering &
Applied Science 1852
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Original contributors to this
annually updated insiders guide
to Yale College included more
than two dozen students as well
as faculty, alumni, and Under-
graduate Admissions sta.
Hannah Mendlowitz, B.A.
2012, Senior Assistant Director
of Undergraduate Admissions
Jeremiah Quinlan, B.A. 2003,
Dean of Undergraduate
Admissions
Rebecca Tynan, Associate
Director of Undergraduate
Admissions
Design
Pentagram;
Yve Ludwig, b.a. 2000,
M.F.A. 2005
Text
Andrea Jarrell;
Liz Kinsley, b.a. 2005
Photography
Lisa Kereszi, M.F.A. 2000,
Critic in Photography at the
Yale School of Art
additional photography
Jim Anderson, Mark Ashton,
Chelsea Dunlap, Elizabeth
Felicella, FencingPhotos.com,
Quinn Gorbutt, John
Hassett, Robert Lisak, Joan
Marcus, Michael Marsland/
Yale Oce of Public Aairs
& Communications, James
Kenyon Meier, Michael
Nedelman, Retrospecta/
Yale School of Architecture,
Harold Shapiro, Bennett
Shaywitz, Matt Thurston,
Bryan Twarek, Yale Daily News,
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of Yale, Inc., Yale Manuscripts
& Archives/Yale University
Library, Yale Undergraduate
Aerospace Association, Yale
University Sports Publicity, Ken
Yanagisawa, and the students
in Think Yale. Think World.
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stories were adapted from
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