About Yale
This Tumblr is a photo album, sketchbook and moodboard of sights and sounds from around the University and our home, New Haven, Connecticut. Some truly incredible people live, learn, teach and play here - we would like to introduce you to a few of them.
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Every undergraduate at Yale belongs to one of twelve residential colleges, each a microcosm of of the University.
Residential colleges are headed by a Master and a Dean, and each has an independent library, dining hall, common room, and gym, as well as facilities such as a movie cinema and printing press.
Here are the shields that represent Yale’s twelve residential colleges.
This photo shows an old Yale commencement tradition. The Presentation Day custom was to bring pipes outside and smoke, and then set them upright and do a “stag dance” where they ran around and broke their pipes to seal their friendships.
Presentation Day evolved into Class Day, and while pipes are still distributed as per tradition, students now use them to blow bubbles and keep as souvenirs.
The Yale African Students Association (YASA) bid a fond farewell to the graduating seniors with an end of the year celebration dinner.
This will be the final commencement overseen by outgoing Yale University President Richard C. Levin.
Yale has awarded 261,657 degrees since the first commencement of 1702 and President Levin has conferred 57,366 of those in his two decades of service. This contact sheet shows scenes from his first commencement as president in 1994.
Dr. Rebecca Puhl, Director of Research and Weight Stigma Initiatives at the Yale Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity, discusses how to talk to kids about weight, food, and body image on the Katie Couric show.
