About Yale

In the words of the historian George W. Pierson, Yale University, founded in 1701, is “at once a tradition, a community of scholars, and a society of friends.”

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A view inside the central nave of the Yale Sterling Memorial Library. Completed in 1931, Sterling is the largest library at Yale, containing over 4 million volumes across its 15 levels. It was designed by James Gamble Rogers in the Gothic revival style as a cathedral to knowledge.

A view inside the central nave of the Yale Sterling Memorial Library.

Completed in 1931, Sterling is the largest library at Yale, containing over 4 million volumes across its 15 levels. It was designed by James Gamble Rogers in the Gothic revival style as a cathedral to knowledge.

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A room in the American Decorative Art Collection at Yale University Art Gallery. See that velvet, circular couch in the center of the room? That’s a good spot from which to admire the Huntington Mansion Ceiling Murals hanging overhead.  Photo: Elizabeth Felicella

A room in the American Decorative Art Collection at Yale University Art Gallery.

See that velvet, circular couch in the center of the room? That’s a good spot from which to admire the Huntington Mansion Ceiling Murals hanging overhead. 

Photo: Elizabeth Felicella

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Panorama of Battell Chapel, on the occasion of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s visit to campus last semester. Watch the Livestream recording of the public conversation with Ginsburg. Photo: Harold Shapiro

Panorama of Battell Chapel, on the occasion of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s visit to campus last semester.

Watch the Livestream recording of the public conversation with Ginsburg.

Photo: Harold Shapiro

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Woolsey Memorial Hall, Yale University. Photo: Andrew Leu’ 13.

Woolsey Memorial Hall, Yale University. Photo: Andrew Leu’ 13.

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Yale’s 27 libraries come in all shapes and sizes - as grand as the Sterling Memorial Library, or as intimate as the space pictured here, the Silliman College Library. Residential college libraries (all 12 of them) are open 24/7. Photo: Andrew Leu ‘13.
Yale’s 27 libraries come in all shapes and sizes - as grand as the Sterling Memorial Library, or as intimate as the space pictured here, the Silliman College Library. Residential college libraries (all 12 of them) are open 24/7. Photo: Andrew Leu ‘13.
Yale’s 27 libraries come in all shapes and sizes - as grand as the Sterling Memorial Library, or as intimate as the space pictured here, the Silliman College Library. Residential college libraries (all 12 of them) are open 24/7. Photo: Andrew Leu ‘13.
Yale’s 27 libraries come in all shapes and sizes - as grand as the Sterling Memorial Library, or as intimate as the space pictured here, the Silliman College Library. Residential college libraries (all 12 of them) are open 24/7. Photo: Andrew Leu ‘13.

Yale’s 27 libraries come in all shapes and sizes - as grand as the Sterling Memorial Library, or as intimate as the space pictured here, the Silliman College Library.

Residential college libraries (all 12 of them) are open 24/7.

Photo: Andrew Leu ‘13.

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