Yale’s Robert Schoelkopf, Sterling Professor of Applied Physics and Physics and director of the Yale Quantum Institute, was awarded the 2017 Connecticut Medal of Science for his seminal contributions to the field of quantum science and to the new field of...
This video highlights contributions to the war effort by three members of the Yale medical community: pioneering neurosurgeon Dr. Harvey Cushing, an 1891 graduate of Yale College, whose experiences in a U.S. base hospital in France allowed him to advance...
Physician Joseph Marshall Flint, professor of surgery at the Yale School of Medicine, organized Mobile Hospital No. 39 in France — also known as The Yale Unit — the first of its kind in the American Expeditionary Forces. Realizing they would not have the...
This video highlights some of the exemplary careers and accomplishments of members of the First Yale Unit, including the Davison Brothers, David Ingalls, Robert Lovett, and those who lost their lives.
In 1916 as America faced a revolution in Mexico and full-blown war in Europe, a group of 12 friends at Yale decided it was time they learned how to fly. That summer the young men formed the Yale Aero Club and the volunteer Coastal Patrol Unit #1, later...
Yale undergraduates and alumni have a record of service to their country that dates back to the founding of the Republic and continues to this day. Yale College men — and, since 1969, women — have continued to make their mark upon the nation, many of them...
Helen Hagan was the first African American performer to entertain African American U.S. troops. Helen was a pianist who graduated from the Yale School of Music in 1912 with Bachelor of Music: a degree Yale no longer offers. Since the School of Music has...