For women reporting on politics in the era of #MeToo, there is relief that a decades-long problem of entrenched discrimination and sexual harassment in Washington is getting the public scrutiny it deserves, said speakers at a Yale-sponsored event. But,...
Of the 20 finalists named for this year’s Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award, three — all women — are from Yale.
The startups and social ventures they lead address major environmental problems head-on. The women have developed a sustainable...
Creative partners Jennifer Newsom ’01 BA, ’05 M.Arch. and Tom Carruthers ’05 M.Arch. of the Minneapolis-based firm Dream the Combine won this year’s PS1 Young Architects Program Competition at MoMA PS1 in Queens. The outdoor environment they conceived and...
Caroline Tanbee Smith ’14 B.S. says she fell in love with New Haven while she was a sophomore at Yale. “I love building stuff,” she says, sitting in a meeting room at the Grove, an eclectic coworking space on Chapel Street that has the look of a converted...
Susan Byseiwicz ’83 B.A. first met former Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso at an American Legion event at her high school. That chance encounter with the first woman elected governor in the United States proved to be a definitive moment. Between her...
Ben Reiter ’02 B.A. can trace the beginning of his sports-writing career to a class in advanced nonfiction writing he took with Yale professor Fred Strebeigh. For one assignment, he wrote a story focused on the demise of the Milford Jai-Alai fronton — a...
Patricia Nez Henderson ’94 M.P.H., ’00 M.D. discussed her work promoting the wellness of the Navajo community in a conversation with President Peter Salovey on Sept. 17 before a packed audience at the Yale Center for British Art.
Henderson attended Yale...
Three years ago, the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) began a pilot mentoring program to help Yale students tap into the wisdom of Yale alumni around the globe. The AYA enlisted more than 500 alumni volunteers and plans to soon expand the initiative to...