It begins with a bike tour on the East Coast Greenway and ends with a performance by the Grammy-nominated Cuban timba group Tienpo Libre and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. In between, there will be circus acts; storytelling; discussions about art,...
Just a day before they became official graduates, members of the Class of 2019 were urged by acclaimed novelist and essayist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ’08 M.A. to forget “from time to time” that they went to Yale.
That call — to not let the distinction and...
“Community” is the word graduating senior Alanna Pyke utters most often when reflecting on her time at Yale.
“What I really came to value here is a sense of community and being a part of something that is bigger than myself,” says Pyke of her Yale College...
In addition to the students previously announced in YaleNews as winners of Rhodes and Gates-Cambridge (and more here) scholarships, the following graduating students have received fellowships or scholarships to study at Oxford and Cambridge universities....
The future looked bleak to Yale student Tony Grant while he was a teenaged boy growing up in southern Mississippi. That’s not so anymore. As he and other members of the Class of 2019 approach Commencement on May 20, the 28-year-old Grant says he is filled...
After nearly 40 years at Yale (beginning with his time as a graduate student), President Peter Salovey says he is still impressed with the ways in which Yale and New Haven neighbors unite to improve their city.
“We bring different skills and viewpoints to...
Nineteen graduating seniors and recent alumni have been offered Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards for the 2019-2020 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Thirteen graduating seniors and...
Ololade Aliyu Siyonbola, a current master’s degree candidate in African studies at Yale, and alumni Onon Bayasglan ’13 M.E.M. and Etienne Mashuli ’15 M.A., have won Gates Cambridge Scholarships for study at the University of Cambridge. The three, who were...