The Shades of Yale, an a cappella group devoted to songs of the African diaspora, closes every concert with a medley arrangement of the traditional spirituals “Amen” and “We Shall Overcome.” Alumni who are in the audience join in the song, particularly...
Christina Pao ’20 B.A./M.A. was committed to public service before the pandemic hit. By making “inequalities more visible,” she said, it has stoked her ambition to make the world a fairer place.
Pao, who is from Portland, Oregon, has spent her...
Hannah Steffke ’20 B.S. was still new at Yale when she took organic chemistry. Something clicked.
“I really liked that form of problem solving,” said the senior from Beal City, Michigan. “I liked that way of thinking.”
Many chemistry courses later,...
The Whiffenpoofs, the country’s oldest a cappella group, celebrated its 110th anniversary this past October at Battell Chapel, with many alumni in attendance. Now, when the singers would have been preparing for their world tour, they are instead self-...
When the coronavirus pandemic derailed the spring semester, the members of Whim ’n Rhythm — Yale’s all-senior, soprano-alto a cappella group — were in the process of recording their annual studio album, a musical capsule of their year together. Now, all...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a daily onslaught of unsettling numbers and charts related to infection numbers, hospitalizations, and death rates. But Mark Abraham ’04 B.A., executive director of DataHaven, said sometimes focusing on positive...
Yale researcher Dr. Kurt Schalper, assistant professor of pathology and medicine (medical oncology), who has made major breakthroughs in cancer immunotherapy, received an R37 Merit Award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The award — granted to...
For years, bestselling author Gretchen Rubin ’89 B.A., ’94 J.D. has offered guidance on how to live a happier, more fulfilling life.
In her books, she shows readers the four ways people respond to expectations and how to harness those tendencies to...
Five years ago, Yale’s Department of Psychiatry formally integrated anti-racism education and advocacy into its resident training program.
Through the Social Justice and Health Equity (SJHE) curriculum, a mandatory part of the four-year program,...