By Susan Gonzalez
May 11, 2021
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Top row: Emma Brodey, Serena Cho, Maria Gargiulo, Meghanlata Gupta; Middle row: Henry Jacob, Selena Lee, Michaellah Mapotaringa, Keshav Raghavan; Bottom row: Antoinette Roberts, Karen Tai, Helen Zhao
Ten Yale seniors and a Yale College alumna have been awarded fellowships from a variety of organizations for graduate study at Oxford and Cambridge universities. These are in addition to students, previously announced in YaleNews, who have won Rhodes, Marshall, and Gates-Cambridge Scholarships.
The fellowship winners and their awards are:
Emma Brodey ’21 has been awarded the King’s-Yale Fellowship to pursue an M.Phil. in English at Cambridge University, where she will study 18th-century and Romantic literature and the history of the book. At Yale, she is an English major focusing her studies on 19th-century English literature and creative n
By Brita Belli
April 28, 2021
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Artist rendering of new Y2Y New Haven space.
More than 800 young adults, ages 18 to 24, in the greater New Haven area are estimated to be homeless, according to the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness. But there are only 12 “emergency” beds designated specifically for this group in area shelters, and no shelters in the state dedicated to homeless youth.
That will change this fall in New Haven, thanks to the efforts of Yale students in partnership with community organizations. A new overnight program for homeless youth called Y2Y New Haven (short for “Youth to Youth”), which is modeled on the nation’s first youth-run homeless shelter in Cambridge, Massachusetts, reinvents the idea of a homeless shelter as a safe space for youth, by youth, with gathering spaces, workshops, and a modern design aesthetic.
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By Brita Belli
December 22, 2020
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Nellie Conover-Crockett ’22 and her gingerbread Sterling Memorial Library.
For Nellie Conover-Crockett ’22 making gingerbread houses with her mother as a young girl was a favorite holiday tradition. At first, they made typical structures, using a beloved gingerbread recipe. But a couple years ago, the Wisconsin native decided she wanted to try something bigger a gingerbread replica of Shakespeare’s Globe theater in London as a gift for her high school English teacher. “We decorated it with Shakespeare puns,” she said with a laugh.