When Patricia Melton ’83 B.A. first came to Yale in 1977, she was just trying to survive. She’d grown up in Cleveland as one of seven kids, and her mother passed away following a serious car accident when Melton was just 12. Through a program called A...
Susan Lennon ’85 M.P.P.M., chair of YaleWomen, remembers the moment when the group was effectively born. It was in 2010 at a conference called “Celebrating Yale Women: 40 Years in Yale College, 140 Years at Yale” and Linda Lorimer ’77 J.D., former...
When Nick Tibbetts ’22 B.A. was gaining recognition as a long snapper on the Montville High School football team, he wasn’t thinking about attending Yale. But he knew he was interested in politics and law, so when Tibbetts learned of an opportunity to...
Since he was two years old, Miye Oni ’20 dreamed about becoming an NBA player, idolizing Kobe Bryant and the L.A. Lakers while playing ball with his sister on a mini hoop his father bought them. But though he was a natural athlete, Oni was a late bloomer...
Ofer Levy ’88, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and director of the Precision Vaccines Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, can trace his lifelong interest in infectious diseases to the research he did at Yale under the mentorship of I...
In 1969, when the Asian American Students Alliance (AASA) was cofounded by Rocky Chin ’71 M.C.P., Lowell Chun-Hoon ’71 B.A., Don Nakanishi ’71 B.A., and Alice Young ’71 B.A., there were fewer than 60 Asian American students at Yale College, and no courses...
With its roots planted firmly in Eastern European folk traditions, the Yale Slavic Chorus may seem an unlikely candidate as a feminist organization on campus. But behind the full skirts and peasant blouses, and the resonant, melodic harmonies, lies a...