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...
Yale Law School student Alaa Hajyahia will study anthropology at the University of Cambridge as the recipient of a prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Hajyahia was chosen in the international round of the competition.
She joins two American citizens...
Eight Yale faculty members in fields as diverse as anthropology, geography, law, and medicine are among the 261 accomplished individuals elected new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
The academy honors excellence and convenes...
One of Timeica Bethel’s most exhilarating memories of her time at Yale took place in the campus space that to her felt most like “home”: the Afro-American Cultural Center.
It was Election Day in 2008, and Bethel, Yale College Class of 2011, had joined...
“Think about the last time you got a paper cut,” Yale graduate student Olivia Justynski told her audience during a Loria Hall presentation that was also livestreamed on Zoom. “How long did it take to repair?”
As audience members reflected on their own...
A medical student who studied by candlelight while living with the violence of civil war in his home country of Syria and a law student who spent her early years living in poverty in El Salvador are among four Yale students who have been selected as 2022...
