Before coming to Yale in 2020, RJ Hakes ’22 spent 20 years in the U.S. Navy. During much of that time, he disarmed explosive devices and conducted classified national security missions as part of a Special Operations Forces (SOF) Explosive Ordnance...
When Yale College senior Jay Fife graduates this month, some 30 family members and friends will be on campus for the celebration, most from the Muscogee Reservation in Oklahoma where he grew up. He is the first in his family to graduate from an Ivy League...
As a pre-med student, Jummie Akinwunmi knew she had a lot to accomplish in a short amount of time.
There were the required science courses she had to take, but also the research and clinical experiences that would help to solidify her choice of becoming a...
Seven new Yale College graduates and one alumna have been awarded fellowships from various organizations for graduate study in the United Kingdom.
These are in addition to students, previously announced in Yale News, who have won Rhodes, Marshall, and...
Two rising Yale College seniors — Naomi Shimberg and Gavrielle Welbel — have been named Udall Scholars for their commitment to environmental protection, and rising junior Grace Cajski has been recognized by the Udall Foundation with an honorable mention...
Yale alumnus Alexander Cohen ’21, now a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is one of 33 doctoral students with exceptional skills in applied science, mathematics, and engineering who have been named 2022 Hertz Fellows....
Yale Law School student Alaa Hajyahia will study anthropology at the University of Cambridge as the recipient of a prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Hajyahia was chosen in the international round of the competition.
She joins two American citizens...
Yale historian Sunil Amrith has been awarded the 2022 Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for History in recognition of his examination of the historical origins of inequality within and between countries and the impact of climate change on global socioeconomic...
Juneteenth has been commemorated in many African-American communities for more than a century, but most Americans have only recently begun learning about the history and significance of the historic day.
Juneteenth recognizes the anniversary of June 19,...
Not long after they became regular visitors to the Yale Outdoor Education Center (OEC), Jillian Jordan ’18 Ph.D. and Nathan Barker ’22 Ph.D., then graduate students, began thinking that the site — on the south shore of Powers Lake in East Lyme — would...