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ng rod with a red bag as bait that reads "3 million" Two submerged whales swim toward the boat. A drawing of a seacoast is at far right and a masted ship is at far left.

Senior Exhibit Fellow AJ Laird ’24 is tracking whaling vessels into the archive

July 8, 2023
AJ Laird ’24 is the recipient of the 2024 Senior Exhibit Fellowship, which offers the selected student an opportunity to create and curate an exhibit based on the topic of the senior essay.
Smiling woman with shoulder-length brown hair and wire glasses, gold hoop earrings and blue short-sleeve shirt open at collar stands in courtyard with brick facade behind her and two grey figures in partial view of water fountain at left.

New Haven, ornithology, and Mexican costume are subjects of award-winning essays

June 26, 2023
Three Kaplan Senior Essay Prizes awarded for essays based on research in special collections.
woman with shoulder-length dark hair behind one ear, wearing small silver earring, looks at camera, wearing a silvery grey round neck top

Library Map Prizes awarded for creative visual presentations of scholarly research

June 12, 2023
Two prizewinning seniors illustrated their senior essays with maps they made themselves in support of their topic and thesis.
Young woman with long brown hair worn behind ears and down shoulders, wearing blue blouse with small white polka dots. Behind her at right is leaded glass window, stone wall, three thin tree trunks at right and top rail of a wooden bench with "Memory of Freder..." carved in front.

Applebaum Award presented for senior essay on geriatric health care and U.S. policy

May 31, 2023
Accessing the library’s extensive collection of government materials, Sopie E. Edelstein ’23 wrote her winning essay about mental health care for the elderly in early 20th-century America.
1914 sepia-tone photo showing crowds of people with suitcases, in a dusty setting, some seated some standing, with two train cars in the near distance

Students win prizes for essays on American and Western American history and culture

May 26, 2023
Faculty awards prizes to three Yale College seniors and a doctoral candidate for studies of American and Western American history and culture.
male with graduation cap at center with two women in blue dresses to his right, two younger women to left, one in green dress, one in red, and a little girl in front of him with a white dress

Photo gallery: Congratulations to the Class of 2023!

May 23, 2023
Class of 2023 celebrates graduation day posing for photos on a beautiful spring day in front of and inside Sterling Library.
Digital map showing southern US--Florida to Texas--with coastline in blue and white dots on the black landmass. Legend shows that dots are Nursing Homes with Emergency Preparedness Deficiencies. Blue indicates 2 feet or more of inundation exposure.

PhD candidate named Yale’s EIP Student of the Year for innovative geospatial mapping

May 17, 2023
Natalia Festa works with Global Information Systems (GIS) to study emergency-preparedness risks to the elderly in nursing homes.