Two rising Yale College seniors — Naomi Shimberg and Gavrielle Welbel — have been named Udall Scholars for their commitment to environmental protection, and rising junior Grace Cajski has been recognized by the Udall Foundation with an honorable mention...
Yale alumnus Alexander Cohen ’21, now a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), is one of 33 doctoral students with exceptional skills in applied science, mathematics, and engineering who have been named 2022 Hertz Fellows....
Seven new Yale College graduates and one alumna have been awarded fellowships from various organizations for graduate study in the United Kingdom.
These are in addition to students, previously announced in Yale News, who have won Rhodes, Marshall, and...
As a pre-med student, Jummie Akinwunmi knew she had a lot to accomplish in a short amount of time.
There were the required science courses she had to take, but also the research and clinical experiences that would help to solidify her choice of becoming a...
When Yale College senior Jay Fife graduates this month, some 30 family members and friends will be on campus for the celebration, most from the Muscogee Reservation in Oklahoma where he grew up. He is the first in his family to graduate from an Ivy League...
Before coming to Yale in 2020, RJ Hakes ’22 spent 20 years in the U.S. Navy. During much of that time, he disarmed explosive devices and conducted classified national security missions as part of a Special Operations Forces (SOF) Explosive Ordnance...
Thirteen-year-old Zak “Zippy” Huot aspires to perform on Broadway one day. So last summer he was thrilled when, over a Zoom meeting, he learned that some Broadway actors would perform songs for a musical for which he wrote the lyrics. Zak could barely...
One graduating senior and four Yale alumni are among 70 students from around the world who have been named Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University. They have been selected based on demonstration of their independent thought, purposeful leadership...
Students who nominated the six Yale faculty members awarded this year’s Yale College teaching prizes on May 5 used many different adjectives to praise their instructors. But there was one overarching theme in their comments: All of the prizewinners were...
Ten Yale College students who have made contributions to the community that range from scheduling employee shifts for Yale Hospitality to connecting incarcerated inmates with Yale library resources for the Yale Prison Education Initiative have been...
