The Graduate School of Arts & Sciences Convocation ceremony took place on May 19 at the Yale University Art Gallery. Commencement followed on May 20 in Woolsey Hall.
The 2019 Class Day ceremony was held on May 19 on Old Campus — a welcome return to form following last year’s indoor ceremony. The celebrated novelist and essayist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, who received her master of arts in African studies from Yale in...
These 11 individuals received honorary degrees at the Yale Commencement ceremony on May 20.
Read the award citations of the 2019 honorands.
Chimamanda Adichie
Chimamanda Adichie is an acclaimed author whose novels, non-fiction, and lectures have vaulted...
Graduating Seniors revel in Yale’s tradition of wearing outrageous hats on Class Day.
This Class Reflection was read by Larry Fulton ’19 of Jonathan Edwards College during the Class Day program on May 19.
My friend Mo claims that he can spot a Yalie anywhere. He said, “I saw the Whiffenpoofs in Beijing.” Made me wonder — how did he know it...
Since Yale’s first century, Yale College seniors and faculty have gathered before Commencement for the Baccalaureate ceremony, a ceremony with a Baccalaureate sermon at its heart. The sermon of days past has given way to an address by Yale’s president and...
Yale College Dean Marvin Chun offered the following readings during the Baccalaureate ceremonies on May 18 and 19.
Mr. President, Mr. Provost, Madame Secretary, deans, college heads, college deans, colleagues, friends, families, and, most of all, members...