For the culminating event of the 50WomenAtYale150 initiative, which commemorates 50 years of coeducation in Yale College and 150 years of women at Yale, organizers convened a diverse group of Yale’s most inspiring women leaders to address the biggest...
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought with it a daily onslaught of unsettling numbers and charts related to infection numbers, hospitalizations, and death rates. But Mark Abraham ’04 B.A., executive director of DataHaven, said sometimes focusing on positive...
The Shades of Yale, an a cappella group devoted to songs of the African diaspora, closes every concert with a medley arrangement of the traditional spirituals “Amen” and “We Shall Overcome.” Alumni who are in the audience join in the song, particularly...
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...
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...
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...
On the occasion of his 80th reunion, 101-year-old Sherret S. Chase ’39 B.S. drove with his daughter Helen Chase from their home in the Catskills to New Haven to revisit his favorite campus haunts. As part of the trip, they arranged to meet with 103-year-...
Email missives from Josh Perez-Cruet ’20 B.S., one of the intramural (IM) secretaries of Grace Hopper College, read like calls to battle. Font size veers wildly from 12pt to 36, and the indiscriminate use of rainbow colors recalls the dizzy days of early...