Emiko Paul came to Yale determined to go to medical school, but graduated wanting to be an artist. She has managed to bring together biology and art, and is now an accomplished medical illustrator running her own company, Echo Medical Media.
Education has never been an easy issue to tackle, but physics major and Splash co-founder Ben Horowitz has brought non-traditional learning to Yale to distill the hidden passions of thousands of students.
Despite the effects of climate change and urban development, National Parks have maintained their role as epicenters of environmental experience and education. Yenyen Chan, a graduate of Yale College and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, shares her story as a Yosemite park ranger.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way. Yale senior Jan Kolmas, winner of the 2013 Caltech Space Challenge, pursues his interest in aerospace engineering with creativity and passion.
An accomplished microbiologist, advocator of science education reform and proponent of increasing diversity in STEM fields, Yale’s Jo Handelsman was nominated to serve as the Associate Director of Science at the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy this summer.
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.
From working at Walt Disney to appearing on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?, Sam Spaulding (JE ’13) has done it all. While at Yale, he has combined his interests in computer science and cognitive science to explore the growing field of social robotics.
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.
Dakota McCoy fills many shoes: those of an athlete, a professional researcher, a leader, and a great naturalist. She was recently awarded the Rhodes Scholarship and plans to study zoology or environmental policy at Oxford University.
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.
Aaron Feuer, ES ’13, is the CEO and lead developer of his startup, Panorama, an education analytics company that seeks to uncover and solve the most pressing problems in our nation’s schools.