The Yale community gathered to honor veterans in a ceremony in Battell Chapel on Nov. 12. Part of a week-long series of events, the university’s annual Veterans Day celebration also commemorated the 100th anniversary of the signing of the armistice...
The Yale Alumni Fund Chairman’s Awards recognize volunteers to the Alumni Fund who have demonstrated exceptional leadership, innovation, and dedication. On Nov. 9, the Yale Alumni Fund honored four such individuals during the combined Association of Yale...
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...
Award-winning graphic novelist, cartoonist, and educator Gene Luen Yang will visit the campus on Wednesday, Nov. 7 under the auspices of the Chubb Fellowship at Timothy Dwight College.
Yang will deliver the Chubb Fellowship Lecture titled “Power of Comics...
At a certain time in his life, Yale School of Music graduate Daniel Juarez M.M. ’02 aspired to a successful career as an opera star. These days, however, he measures success a bit differently.
Today, he says, he has the “best of both worlds”: a job at...
The annual Yale Jefferson Awards honor an undergraduate, a graduate student, and an alumnus who have given back in extraordinary ways. This year, the awards are going to three Yalies whose own life challenges inspired them to make a difference:...
Marion Belanger ’90 M.F.A. and Martha Lewis ’93 M.F.A. had traveled in the same New Haven art circles for years, but it wasn’t until both applied to create an installation for the New Haven Agricultural Experiment Station that the two decided to join...
Three years ago, the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) began a pilot mentoring program to help Yale students tap into the wisdom of Yale alumni around the globe. The AYA enlisted more than 500 alumni volunteers and plans to soon expand the initiative to...