When Demi Knight Clark decided to launch She Built This City, a social venture that aims to create pathways for women into manufacturing and construction careers, the cause was personal.
She’d been working for 20 years in executive leadership roles in...
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...
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...
John Goodenough ’44 B.A., a professor at the University of Texas-Austin, received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work developing the lithium-ion battery — an honor he shares with Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York-...
Women may be underrepresented in clean energy careers in general, but there is no shortage of Yale women alumni working in renewable energy. Credit the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FES), where more than half of the graduate students...
Lynn Novick ’83 B.A. has big ambitions for her latest documentary “College Behind Bars.” The four-part series directed and produced by Novick, (co-produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns), airs in November on PBS and is being shown...
This past weekend, women from the first coed classes at Yale gathered on campus to celebrate 50 years of coeducation at Yale College, participating in tours and talks, film events, dedications, and dinners, and sharing memories of their undergraduate...
It is perhaps the perfect historical moment for a celebration honoring the past 50 years of coeducation of Yale College. In a series of events across campus Sept. 19-22, Yale alumni and a roster of speakers will reflect on what coeducation has meant for...
Yale brought Caroline Tanbee Smith ’14 B.S. and Margaret Lee ’14 B.A. to New Haven from their respective Kentucky homes, but it was the city and the community that enticed them to stay long after graduation. “One of the reasons we go to school is to...