Yale junior Kelsey Tamakloe had never felt a strong “spark of emotion,” when she looked at the portraits lining the walls of the dining hall in her residential college, Saybrook College. That recently changed when she saw a new portrait of Yale alumnus...
After the quarantine deprived her of the opportunity to dance with her peers in the Afrobeat dance group Dzana last spring, Yale senior Joan Agoh relished the chance to connect and create with them again this fall — even if it was over Zoom.
But this wasn...
Two Yale seniors and a 2020 graduate have been named Rhodes Scholars in the first-ever virtual selection process, necessary due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The three — Brian Reyes ’21, Alondra Vázquez López ’21, and Jackson Willis ’20 — are among 32...
In his art, Ye Qin Zhu ’20 M.F.A. often brings together disparate parts: paint, dried plants and seeds, glass, and stones. As an educator, he has closed divides, bringing art into the lives of young children who might previously have had little exposure...
Four years ago, while grieving the deaths of two close friends in separate accidents, Yale senior Mary Yap began asking herself some deep questions about life and her own place in it.
“It was a really rough year, and a reminder that life is short,” said...
Two Yale seniors and three alumni are among 154 students from around the world who will study in China beginning in 2021 as Schwarzman Scholars.
The five Yale affiliates — Trent Kannegieter ’21, Milan Vivanco ’21, Alexander Crich ’19, Mikaela Rabb ’18,...
Since posting our original story about the Yale affiliates on Forbes magazine’s 2021 “30 Under 30” list, we’ve learned that another current Yale student, David Dellal, a third-year doctoral student at the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and...
In a year in which many routines were disrupted by COVID-19, Yale affiliates across the campus have kept up annual traditions of spreading holiday cheer by donating toys, clothing, and other essentials to those in need.
Campus affinity groups have worked...
Growing up in a predominantly white community in Illinois in the 1950s, Gerald Jaynes dreamed of racial equality in the United States long before he even knew who Martin Luther King Jr. was.
But it wasn’t until the future Yale professor was a young Army...