Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, the United States surgeon general and a prominent advocate for mental health and well-being, will be Yale’s 2024 Class Day speaker. Murthy, who earned his M.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Yale in 2003, is known in his current...
Nathan Chen always knew his Yale career would be split in two: when he arrived in the fall of 2018, the figure skater already had the 2022 Winter Olympics in his sights, and would need to take time off to prepare and compete.
While on campus, the demands...
Nyché T. Andrew, whose traditional name is Skavaq Sivulliuqti, a rising senior in Yale College who is pursuing a joint master’s and bachelor’s degree in political science and a certificate in education studies, has received a 2024 Udall Undergraduate...
As Hurricane Sandy bore down on Connecticut’s shoreline in 2012, some residents stayed home while others fled. How people made those consequential decisions fascinates Ben Everett-Lane, who made it the topic of his undergraduate thesis.
“How people...
Twenty-three years ago, soon after starting medical school, Vanessa Landegger made the difficult choice to leave. Becoming an obstetrician/gynecologist had been her longtime dream, but so had starting a family. And with her first child — eight-month-old...
Over the winter, Max Hammond gave more time than usual to the piano — about eight hours a day, up from his long-term average of about five. He was applying to conservatories and aiming to impress.
The mathematics major from Los Angeles also took care to...
Growing up in Miami, Laura Guerra-Lopez remembers peppering her parents with questions about their native Venezuela. She was inquisitive by nature and their only child, so they welcomed her curiosity about the political and economic chaos gripping the...