Putting together a list of top Yale stories for any year can be a daunting task — especially when you have more than 1,600 to choose from (that’s how many we published on YaleNews in 2019) and when each documents something about Yale that makes us proud....
Alice Young ’71 B.A., founder and principal at Alice Young Advisory LLC, describes being one of the first women students at Yale, and one of only nine Asian Americans in her class at the height of the Vietnam War. “I think people were thinking, ‘What is...
Jane Sachs ’73 B.A., ’74 M.A., a clinical and forensic psychologist, found her home at Yale in Russian courses and the newly formed Yale Slavic Chorus. “The involvement of all things Slavic and Russian took hold of me,” said Sachs, whose mother was from...
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...