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Shortly being accepted to Yale, Jay Wong ’16 joined the Yale College Class of 2016 Facebook group, a page that provides a platform for online discussion among all admitted freshmen. Wong commented on several posts regarding Yale-related topics, totaling 37 posts in the week after he joined the group. He also commented on posts that »

This fall semester, Josh Rubin ’14 will study political science at its finest. He will not, however, be enrolled in Approaches to International Security, a core class for all Global Affairs majors like himself. In fact, he will not be enrolled at Yale at all. He will be an intern at the Chicago headquarters of »

After he took a break from Yale in the fall of 2011 to work on a writing project in his hometown of Sitka, Alaska, Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins had to defer graduation by a semester. Now, only one course credit stands between Kreiss-Tomkins and the completion of his Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, but his candidacy for »

This May, Brett Smith ’12 will walk through Phelps Gate with the graduating class of 2012. But nine years ago, a doctor told his family that Smith would not graduate at all. Early in the morning on Jan. 17, 2003, Smith — then a freshman on the football team — and eight other Yale students »

Three years ago, administrators at the School of Architecture turned back to the drawing board. Students and professors had raised concerns about the undergraduate architecture major’s sequence of courses, said Bimal Mendis ’98 ARC ’02, the major’s current director of undergraduate studies and an assistant dean at the Architecture School. This May marks the graduation »

Last Sunday, approximately 120 students and faculty members lounged on the grass in the Ezra Stiles courtyard, eating from plates piled high with homemade spanakopita, baklava and souvlaki as they celebrated Greek Easter. A student wearing a blue Yale Hellenic Society T-shirt watched over a blackened lamb slowly turning over a simmering fire, a traditional »

With the arrival of Kimberly Goff-Crews ’83 LAW ’86 as University secretary this summer, Linda Lorimer’s title is set to change. Currently, Yale has seven vice presidents whose titles specify their roles in various facets of the University, ranging from development to finance and business operations. But when students return in the fall, Lorimer will »

Works by William Shakespeare have been on Yale’s campus since at least 1743 — when the College library’s catalog, now on display in the “Remembering Shakespeare” exhibit at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, first documented a set of Shakespeare’s plays. Shakespeare’s texts, according to the catalog, were found among “plays and other books »

Every May for the past three decades, about half of Yale College graduates leave the University with a degree in history, economics, English, political science or biology — each of which has been a part of the Yale curriculum since at least the early 1900s. But over the past 15 years, Yale’s undergraduate curriculum has »

In 2005, billionaire couple Stephen Adams ’59 and Denise Adams donated $100 million to the Yale School of Music, enabling the school to provide a full tuition award and fellowship to all students. “This generous gift will enhance the ability of the school to attract the world’s finest musicians and will support a number of »

The past few weeks have marked the start of the college visit tour season that will last through the summer. Still, apart from the typical summer surge soon to follow, tourism in New Haven and Yale has been growing over the past several years, said Ginny Kozlowski, executive director of REX Development, a group that »

Newly admitted applicants to the Yale College class of 2016 now have until May 1 to decide whether they will spend the next four years of their lives in New Haven. But even after the Elm City registered a 20-year high homicide count with 34 murders in 2011, 13 applicants interviewed said the city’s crime »