The 2018 Class Day ceremony was held on May 20 in Woolsey Hall — a first in recent memory thanks to forecasted thunderstorms. Hillary Clinton ’73 J.D., a former United States Senator from New York, Secretary of State, and the first female presidential...
These 10 individuals received honorary degress at the Yale Commencement ceremony on May 21.
Elizabeth Alexander
Doctor of Letters
Elizabeth Alexander — poet, playwright, essayist, educator — is the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the nation’...
Yale will award honorary degrees to 10 individuals who have received distinction in their respective fields at its 317th Commencement ceremony on May 21.
The 2018 honorands and the citation read at the Commencement ceremony follow:
Elizabeth Alexander...
Yale’s graduating class of 2018 celebrate their Class Day with traditional outrageous head gear!
Ben Reeves, captain of Yale’s lacrosse team, has been selected the recipient of the 2018 William Neely Mallory Award, the most prestigious athletic honor given to a senior male at Yale. The award was presented on May 20 at Class Day ceremonies by...
Eleven graduating seniors were honored on Class Day with awards for their academic and athletic accomplishments and for their character. The honorees are listed below, in the order the prizes were given during the Class Day ceremony on May 20.
Erika Eleanor Lynn-Green has balanced her passion for the humanities with her deep interest in bioethics and the disparities in health and healthcare. In her role as the advocacy chair of the Yale Hunger and Homelessness Action Project, she helped launch...
Haylee Makana Kushi is a scholar and leader who has advocated for her Hawai'ian community and for Native voices more broadly. An Ethnicity, Race, and Migration major who has studied settler colonialism in her home of Hawai’i, she has engaged and...
Ivetty Estepan is a fierce advocate for justice whose scholarship and service cut across lines of racial and ethnic identity. As a double major in African American Studies and Ethnicity, Race, & Migration, Ivetty has explored Afro-Latinx identity and...
Jun Yan Chua graduates summa cum laude with exceptional distinction in his major, History. Yan has received the Hubbard Curtis Prize for Excellence in English, a Ten Eyck prize for public speaking, and an invitation by Sterling Memorial Library to curate...