When Jodie Foster ’84 B.A. first arrived on the Yale campus as an undergraduate student in 1980 —“on a warm August day in dolphin shorts” — she hoped that no one would notice she didn’t belong.
“I wasn’t smart enough, deep enough, or preppy enough to...
Hillary Clinton ’73 J.D. had been accepted to both Harvard and Yale Law Schools and was deciding where to go when she was introduced to a Harvard professor at a cocktail party. “He said, ‘we don’t have a nearest competitor, and we don’t need any more...
When five distinguished Yale alumnae were asked to join a discussion on racial injustice as part of the culminating event for the 50WomenAtYale150 initiative, they were eager to participate, said Sheryl Carter Negash ’82 B.A. Each works on the front lines...
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...
There were certain things Yale seniors graduating last spring expected to miss when their final semester was cut short due to the pandemic: Spring Fling, Senior Week, a commencement full of pomp and circumstance.
But the kale meatballs?
Once students had...
When Janni Lehrer-Stein ’78 B.A. came to Yale in 1975 from Saskatchewan, Canada, she dreamed of becoming a lawyer. And over the next few years her life seemed to unfold just as she had planned.
While at Yale, she interned for a criminal defense attorney...
For years, bestselling author Gretchen Rubin ’89 B.A., ’94 J.D. has offered guidance on how to live a happier, more fulfilling life.
In her books, she shows readers the four ways people respond to expectations and how to harness those tendencies to...
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...