Twenty-three years ago, soon after starting medical school, Vanessa Landegger made the difficult choice to leave. Becoming an obstetrician/gynecologist had been her longtime dream, but so had starting a family. And with her first child — eight-month-old...
There’s a word that carries deep cultural meaning in Awa Cisse’s native Senegal; Téranga, which comes from the Wolof language, connotes the values of selflessness and generosity, and the importance of giving back to one’s community.
For Cisse, the word...
Growing up in Miami, Laura Guerra-Lopez remembers peppering her parents with questions about their native Venezuela. She was inquisitive by nature and their only child, so they welcomed her curiosity about the political and economic chaos gripping the...
Nyché T. Andrew, whose traditional name is Skavaq Sivulliuqti, a rising senior in Yale College who is pursuing a joint master’s and bachelor’s degree in political science and a certificate in education studies, has received a 2024 Udall Undergraduate...
As Hurricane Sandy bore down on Connecticut’s shoreline in 2012, some residents stayed home while others fled. How people made those consequential decisions fascinates Ben Everett-Lane, who made it the topic of his undergraduate thesis.
“How people...
Before arriving at Yale four years ago, Alyssa Michel saw her future college life as an extension of her high school years. An engaged student in high school, involved in 20 or so clubs, she expected her time at Yale would involve similar pursuits.
“I...
John Nguyen entered Yale with plans to become a neurosurgeon. Instead, he found his calling as a writer.
As a student at Harding Senior High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, Nguyen had been laser-focused on STEM subjects. But after taking some English...
If you had asked Olivia Sally a year ago where she’d be after graduating from Yale, she would have answered that she would be in law school. But a conversation with Mira Debs last spring changed everything.
Sally had just dipped into the icy waters of the...