Campus & Community

Alumni share their experiences with new undergraduates as they navigate Yale’s vibrant landscape of learning, discovery, and personal development.

Speaking at YLS’s convocation on Aug. 23, dean Heather K. Gerken urged the new class to preserve the school’s best traditions — excellence, humanity, and ideas.

On Sept. 14, Yale will confer honorary degrees on two 19th-century Black clergymen who studied theology at Yale but were not allowed to graduate.

In an interview, Louise Wang discusses her work identifying those at high risk of developing pancreatic cancer and why she chose her college major.

President Peter Salovey and Megan Ranney, dean of Yale School of Public Health, discuss a public health approach to the gun violence epidemic.

Through Yale Library’s Research Request Network, incarcerated students that lack internet access can request the library materials they need for coursework.

Pamphlets distributed by the Yale Police Union included disturbing and inflammatory rhetoric about the safety of Yale’s campus and its home city of New Haven.

In addition to more than 1,640 first-year students, this year’s assembly was attended by more than 1,000 guests, including family members and friends.

Yale College this weekend welcomed 1,647 new first-year students to New Haven as members of the Class of 2027.

Four college students from New Haven spent the summer studying the natural world, exploring new career paths, and contributing to Yale research.