The story of women at Yale is one that is still being told, but the year 2019 marks two important milestones — 50 years since Yale College went coed, and 150 years since the first women students were admitted to Yale School of Fine Arts (now the Yale...
It’s been described as a “leaky pipeline.” Whether the issue is women faculty achieving tenure or women physicians becoming hospital CEOs, the closer women in academia and science move to the top, the fewer women there are.
The leaky pipeline is one of...
This past weekend, women from the first coed classes at Yale gathered on campus to celebrate 50 years of coeducation at Yale College, participating in tours and talks, film events, dedications, and dinners, and sharing memories of their undergraduate...
Lynn Novick ’83 B.A. has big ambitions for her latest documentary “College Behind Bars.” The four-part series directed and produced by Novick, (co-produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns), airs in November on PBS and is being shown...
Women may be underrepresented in clean energy careers in general, but there is no shortage of Yale women alumni working in renewable energy. Credit the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FES), where more than half of the graduate students...
The Yale Whiffenpoofs — the country’s oldest college a cappella group — turn 110 this year. To celebrate, they are hosting a major concert on Oct. 11 at Battell Chapel, featuring not only members of the Whiffenpoofs past and present, but also current...
John Goodenough ’44 B.A., a professor at the University of Texas-Austin, received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work developing the lithium-ion battery — an honor he shares with Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York-...
Phyllis Mugadza ’21 B.S. says she wasn’t entirely familiar with the U.S. college experience when attending high school in Zimbabwe, but when she learned about the Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS) program, she applied and was accepted. “It was the first...
In 2010, there were no veterans attending Yale College. Now, 16 veterans and one active duty Marine Corps member attend Yale as undergraduates, and there are dozens more in the graduate and professional schools. There’s also a thriving Yale Veterans...