One Yale alumnus has proved you can do it all. Joey Brink, a gifted carillon player and engineer, has managed to integrate his two passions for music and design throughout his career.
Yale’s own Professor Richard Casten goes against the limits of asthma, hiking up 17,000 feet to Mount Everest base camp.
Richard Skolnik ’72 spent 25 years at the World Bank and is now back at Yale inspiring future generations of global health developers.
Dr. Jonathan M. Rothberg, the founder and CEO of Ion Torrent division of Life Technology, spearheaded technological advances in human genome sequencing as an entrepreneur and a scientist.
Since receiving his doctorate in Electrical Engineering, Dr. Edward Cheung has worked for NASA, developing technologies for satellites from Hubble to the ISS.
Carl Zimmer, who graduated from Yale in 1987 with a B.A. in English, has become a leading science writer and speaker, featured in publications ranging from Discover Magazine to the New York Times.
Professor Richard Burger’s interest in archaeology began at the age of eight, and following this interest has taken him to many exciting excavation sites in Peru – and placed him into an important position in negotiations regarding artifacts taken from Machu Picchu.
One of the founders of chemical biology, Dervan is the recipient of countless noteworthy awards and honors, including the prestigious National Medal of Science in 2006 for his contributions to organic chemistry.
Joe Greenberg ’83 graduated with a degree in Geology and Geophysics and is now the president of the Alta Resources LLC, a company on the frontier of the oil and gas industry.
The unanticipated journey that turned a Yale English major into a highly respected science journalist.