It’s been several weeks since Kim Hershman ’88 B.A., ’92 J.D. first learned the story of Shawn Pleasants ’89 B.A., a Yale alumnus living homeless on the streets of Los Angeles, and took action.
At first, Hershman was moved to tears by the story on CNN...
Yale Athletics Director Vicky Chun said leading a panel with Lisa Brummel ’81 B.A. and Virginia “Ginny” Gilder ’80 B.A. — co-owners of the WNBA team the Seattle Storm — was like “being a chocolate lover and getting to meet Willy Wonka,” she told the...
President Peter Salovey ’86 Ph.D. opened the Nov. 21 Dean’s Panel on Leadership at the Alumni Assembly in Sprague Hall by acknowledging Yale’s role in cultivating leaders and stating that such leaders have never been more necessary. “The world needs...
When Lawrie Mifflin ’73 B.A. first arrived on campus in 1969, she was already breaking barriers. Mifflin was a member of the first coed first-year class, one of the first women to experience all four of her “bright college years” at Yale. And when she...
While she was growing up in Los Angeles, Marina Marmolejo ’19 M.P.H. says the problem of homelessness seemed too big to address in a meaningful way. But when she came to New Haven to attend Yale School of Public Health and began working with local...
A Yale alumnus, graduate student, and undergraduate senior will be honored for their public service with Yale-Jefferson Awards.
Modeled after the national Jefferson Award (known as the “Nobel Prize for public service”), the Yale honor was established in...