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...
Virtual reality can transport people, through headsets and joysticks, into immersive, imaginary worlds where they can explore alien planets, battle zombies, or even play minigolf.
But Yale anthropologist Lisa Messeri isn’t so much interested in the...
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...