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Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library, as seen from Maya Lin's sculpture, Women's Table. The sculpture records the number of women enrolled at Yale over its history; female undergraduates were not admitted until 1969. Yale University Library, which holds over 15 million volumes, is the third-largest university collection in the United States.
Jane Bolin. Jane Matilda Bolin (April 11, 1908 – January 8, 2007) was an American attorney and judge. She was the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School, the first to join the New York City Bar Association and the first to join the New York City Law Department. Bolin became the first black woman to serve as a judge in the United ...
Maya Ying Lin (Chinese: 林瓔; born October 5, 1959) is an American architect, designer and sculptor. Born in Athens, Ohio to Chinese immigrants, she attended Yale University to study architecture. In 1981, while still an undergraduate at Yale she achieved national recognition when she won a national design competition for the planned Vietnam ...
Yale University. Movement. Abolitionism in the United States. James William Charles Pennington (c.1807 – October 22, 1870) was an American historian, abolitionist, orator, minister, writer, and social organizer. Pennington is the first known Black student to attend Yale University. [ 1 ] He was ordained as a minister in the Congregational ...
Edward Bouchet. Edward Alexander Bouchet (September 15, 1852 – October 28, 1918) was an American physicist and educator and was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from any American university, completing his dissertation in physics at Yale University in 1876. On the basis of his academic record he was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa ...
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.
Rick Levin. Richard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an American economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. [1] From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. [2][3]
Clinical Psychology. Institutions. Yale Child Study Center (Founder), [1] Yale University. Arnold Lucius Gesell (21 June 1880 – 29 May 1961) was an American psychologist, pediatrician and professor at Yale University known for his research and contributions to the fields of child hygiene and child development. [2][3]