A planned trip this summer to Cape Town, South Africa, will mark the first time in the Yale Alumni Service Corps’ (YASC) decade-long history that Yale faculty have accompanied the volunteers to a program in Africa. It’s an important milestone, says Joao...
Leobardo Espinoza Jr. (’17 B.A.) was one of just a handful of students selected by The New York Times in 2013 to blog about his experience applying to colleges. In the series, he wonders about whether to take a gap year to study abroad, writes of his...
Startup Yale, which began as a combined effort among a number of campus organizations to raise awareness of entrepreneurship has grown into something much larger. The now week-long series — happening April 16-20 at Yale School of Management and other...
As a Yale freshman, Peggy Kuo (’85 B.A.) remembers being struck by the financial comfort of many of her peers — how easily they had transitioned to this collegiate world via the prep school track. “Yale was a big departure from the world I had come from...
In 2012, Boston magazine published a feature story called “Lawrence, MA: City of the Damned.” It chronicled the many woes of the state’s poorest city – a mayor under investigation, a steep rise in crime, rampant drugs, and a school system that had been...