If there is a shared sentiment among the thousands of men who played football for Carmen Cozza, it’s that his influence continued far beyond their college years. To many players, he was both mentor and father figure; someone who cared sincerely about...
A panel of deans at the 2018 AYA Assembly & Yale Alumni Fund Convocation spoke about “crossing boundaries” — a quality that moderator Tamar Gendler ’87 B.A., dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yale, called “distinctly Yale.” She said: “Yale...
Peter Schiffer ’88 B.S., vice provost for research and professor in applied physics, told alumni at the 2018 Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) Assembly & Yale Alumni Fund Convocation that Yale is committed to making science and engineering a priority...
In her book “Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage,” Pauli Murray ’65 J.S.D. writes about defending her right to enter Harvard Law School as a woman against an unmoving bureaucracy. At the time, she jokingly told law professor Caroline...
For students in the “Intro to Public Humanities” class, the city of New Haven is their classroom. Instead of cramming for a final before Christmas break, they are “putting something out into the world,” says Ryan André Brasseaux ’11 Ph.D., dean of...
Juan Carlos (“JC”) Salinas ’03 M.F.A. knew little about life outside of Texas when his advisor, Melba Martinez, at the University of Texas-Austin where he studied theater, suggested he apply to the Yale School of Drama. He’d grown up in the small, low-...
In June, alumni scholars from far-flung states and countries, from different professional backgrounds and class years, converged on campus. What they shared was a deep interest in learning — in studying the humanities and exploring ideas with some of Yale...