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...
Yale Law School student Alaa Hajyahia will study anthropology at the University of Cambridge as the recipient of a prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Hajyahia, an Israeli citizen, was chosen in the international round of the competition.
She joins...
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...
