Esma Okutan
Staff Reporter
esma.okutan@yale.edu
Esma Okutan is the graduate schools reporter for the News. Originally from Istanbul, Turkey, she is a sophomore in Jonathan Edwards studying economics.
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ESMA OKUTAN
Baltic Studies program expanding to match region’s growing geopolitical influence

The expansion, funded by three alumni donors, includes new initiatives and events planned for the upcoming year.

October 5, 2023

ESMA OKUTAN
Rosenfeld Hall namesake talks Yale history

Entrepreneur, independent scholar and political activist Richard Rosenfeld ’63 discussed Yale’s historical progress in a speech Monday.

October 4, 2023

ESMA OKUTAN, MAGGIE GRETHER & NATASHA KHAZZAM
Affordable housing crisis leaves grad students and city residents scrambling

With rent prices rising across the city, graduate students and New Haven residents have found it increasingly difficult to find affordable and adequate housing.

September 28, 2023

ESMA OKUTAN & BEN RAAB
School of Management to establish new Swensen Asset Management Institute

The institute is supported by a $20 million gift honoring late endowment investment chief David Swensen.

September 27, 2023

ESMA OKUTAN
Kosovo president’s campus visit canceled after terrorist attack near Serbian border

President Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu was supposed to give a lecture on Monday about Kosovo’s future and stability in Eastern Europe, but she canceled her trip because of a deadly terrorist attack near Kosovo’s border.

September 25, 2023

ESMA OKUTAN & RYAN KIM
Greek Prime Minister visits Yale for conversation on the country’s economic recovery, democracy and foreign policy

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sat down with Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis to talk about the economic crisis that rocked his country, how to protect democracy and why “Grexit” would be a mistake.

September 22, 2023

ESMA OKUTAN
School of Management launches technology management master’s program

The new program is a collaboration between the School of Management and the School of Engineering & Applied Science.

September 20, 2023

ESMA OKUTAN
Former Colombian president faces student outcry at Jackson event

Undergraduate and graduate students questioned the University’s decision to invite Iván Duque, who served as the president of Colombia from 2018 to 2022, as a speaker at the Jackson School.

September 19, 2023

KAITLYN POHLY, ESMA OKUTAN & TRISTAN HERNANDEZ
Students demand representation in University’s presidential search committee

Students across different schools at Yale are collaborating to make their voices heard in the search for University President Peter Salovey’s successor.

September 15, 2023

ESMA OKUTAN & JAMES STEELE
Yale creates new doctoral training program in quantum materials

A National Science Foundation award has enabled the School of Engineering & Applied Science to work toward the new interdisciplinary program.

September 1, 2023

ESMA OKUTAN
Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine and former governor of Ukrainian Central Bank discuss post-war reconstruction on campus

The conversation, held at the Jackson School of Global Affairs, centered around reconstruction in Ukraine amid the country’s war with Russia.

April 19, 2023