Author Archives: Amy Wang

Simply by checking a box on their application supplements, students applying to Yale this year can simultaneously submit applications to Yale-NUS College in Singapore. The Yale Supplement — an add-on to the Common Application that the University requires all applicants to complete — includes a new selection box this year allowing students to share their »

As college students across the nation graduate with record-high levels of loans, a recent report found that Connecticut ranks among the five states housing universities with the highest loads of student debt. Roughly 66 percent of college students from the class of 2011 nationwide graduated with student loan debt, and the average loan debt per »

Four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences were welcomed back to campus last week to accept the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medals and hold public talks on their respective career fields. The Graduate School Alumni Association gave the awards to recognize distinguished achievements in the areas of scholarship, teaching, academic administration and public »

High school seniors applying to college next fall will face a redesigned Common Application — but some of the proposed changes have already been criticized by college admissions experts. The updates, which were announced Oct. 5, aim to improve user experience and include a simplified online interface, a streamlined fee-waiver application system and the removal »

The first-ever meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences drew roughly 100 professors Wednesday afternoon to discuss the forum’s activities. The new FAS meetings, to be held at least twice a semester, were launched largely to address questions over what roles professors should have in the governance of the University — an issue that »

Casey Kuczik ’03 spoke to students Monday about his experiences in the video game industry and discussed how modern video games are rapidly shifting to involve social aspects and appeal to a universal audience. Kuczik, who majored in film and American studies at Yale and initially hoped to enter the film industry, told around a »

Former governor of New York George Pataki ’67 spoke Tuesday night about the political polarization currently facing the nation and the importance of youth participation in politics. Pataki, who served three consecutive four-year terms as governor from January 1995 to December 2006, addressed an audience of about 50 at the Pierson College Master’s House. He »

A group of 64 Davenport College students pounded the pavement at the annual New Haven Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Walk Sunday morning and raised over $500 in donations for research. Two buses took the students from Davenport to Lighthouse Point Park, where around 700 people took part in the three-mile walk. The students joined the walk »

Though the female portion of the Yale faculty has increased steadily over the past decade, women remain significantly underrepresented across the University, according to a report released Monday. The 49-page report, titled “The View,” collects gender data from across the University and is released every five years by the Women Faculty Forum, an organization that »

Police brutality took center stage at City Hall Thursday night. At a meeting of the legislation committee, during which committee members heard from the Civilian Review Board, the City of New Haven Peace Commission, the New Haven Police Department and the public, residents said they found the current system for filing police-abuse complaints ineffective and »

Only a year ago, George Pataki ’67, the governor of New York and this year’s Class Day speaker, would have seemed an unlikely candidate to be thrust onto the world stage. But there he was, forced into the spotlight on Sept. 11, required to lead his state and its largest city through one of the »

As a teacher in New Haven’s unique sex education program, Mickey Kavanagh has established herself as the best in her field. Kavanagh, who has been a sex educator in New Haven’s Social Development Program for over a decade, was recently selected as sex educator of the year by the Sexuality Information and Education Council of »