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...
In her book “Song in a Weary Throat: Memoir of an American Pilgrimage,” Pauli Murray ’65 J.S.D. writes about defending her right to enter Harvard Law School as a woman against an unmoving bureaucracy. At the time, she jokingly told law professor Caroline...
Juan Carlos (“JC”) Salinas ’03 M.F.A. knew little about life outside of Texas when his advisor, Melba Martinez, at the University of Texas-Austin where he studied theater, suggested he apply to the Yale School of Drama. He’d grown up in the small, low-...
Although she just celebrated her 45th Yale reunion, Laurie Treuhaft ’73 B.A. remembers her Yale College classes so distinctly that she can still recall her professors’ words and conjure the emotions of those heady days. Treuhaft was part of the inaugural...
A new online certificate program just launched by the Yale Center for Business and the Environment (CBEY) — Financing and Deploying Clean Energy — will combine Yale’s educational expertise with the experience and insights of Yale alumni leaders and...
When Patricia Melton ’83 B.A. first came to Yale in 1977, she was just trying to survive. She’d grown up in Cleveland as one of seven kids, and her mother passed away following a serious car accident when Melton was just 12. Through a program called A...
Susan Lennon ’85 M.P.P.M., chair of YaleWomen, remembers the moment when the group was effectively born. It was in 2010 at a conference called “Celebrating Yale Women: 40 Years in Yale College, 140 Years at Yale” and Linda Lorimer ’77 J.D., former...
When Nick Tibbetts ’22 B.A. was gaining recognition as a long snapper on the Montville High School football team, he wasn’t thinking about attending Yale. But he knew he was interested in politics and law, so when Tibbetts learned of an opportunity to...