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Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, Yale is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution.
Yale College. / 41.31167°N 72.92528°W / 41.31167; -72.92528. Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University. Founded in 1701, it is the original school of the university. Although other Yale schools were founded as early as 1810, all of Yale was officially known as Yale College until 1887, when its schools were ...
The Yale University coat of arms is the primary emblem of Yale University. It has a field of the color Yale Blue with an open book and the Hebrew words Urim and Thummim inscribed upon it in Hebrew letters. [1] Below the shield on a scroll appears Yale's official motto, Lux et Veritas ( Latin for "Light and Truth").
The university's current president is Maurie D. McInnis who took office on July 1, 2024. She earned her Ph.D. from Yale, is trained as a cultural historian and formerly served as the sixth president of Stony Brook University. The Office of the President is located in Woodbridge Hall, a 1901 building erected specifically for administrative ...
Roxane Gay, writer and professor. Roberto S. Goizueta (B.A., 1976), professor of theology, Boston College. Daniel Harrison (Ph.D 1986), Chairman of Department of Music, Yale University. Lena Hill (Ph.D. 2005), professor of English and Africana studies, provost of Washington and Lee University.
The campuses of Davenport College (above) and Pierson College (below), Yale's two Georgian Revival colleges. Yale University has a system of fourteen residential colleges with which all Yale undergraduate students and many faculty are affiliated. Inaugurated in 1933, the college system is considered the defining feature of undergraduate life at ...
The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) is the oldest university art museum in the Western Hemisphere. [1] It houses a major encyclopedic collection of art in several interconnected buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut .
The David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University is a graduate professional school of Yale University, located in New Haven, Connecticut.Founded in 1924 as the Department of Drama in the School of Fine Arts, the school provides training in every discipline of the theatre – acting, design (set design, costume design, lighting design, projection design, and sound design), directing ...