By Pressley Peters
In 1981, at age 11, Jennifer Kiel ’06 M.A.R. fled Iran with her parents on horseback, crossing treacherous mountains to escape the Iranian Revolution. They...
By Kim Lawton
Universities routinely receive non-monetary donations such as real estate, patents, or art. Ivan Burnett Jr. ’65 M.Div. decided to give something different: a...
Yale Divinity School is launching a challenge-grant drive to support scholarships for international students. The program offers donors a matching gift from an anonymous...
By Pressley Peters
Jeffrey Haggray ’88 M.Div. serves on the YDS Dean’s Advisory Council and chairs the Andover Newton Seminary Advisory Council. He is in his tenth year as...
By Pressley Peters
The Rev. W. (Will) H. Mebane Jr. ’06 M. Div. began studies at YDS at age 50. Born in Durham, N.C., Will was raised in Baptist and AME Zion churches and...
Blake Long was a senior at Lee University in Tennessee last year—and an admitted YDS student who was trying to decide whether and where to pursue graduate studies in theology...
In the recently concluded fiscal year, Yale Divinity School donors contributed a record-breaking $700,260 to the YDS Annual Fund. Nearly 1,500 alums and friends of the school...
By Pressley Peters
Carolyn Sharp ’94 M.A.R., ’00 Ph.D. is a professor of homiletics at YDS and has been a member of the faculty since 2000. In addition to her Yale and YDS...
By Mark Alden Branch, Yale Alumni Magazine
Last summer, the divinity school broke ground for a new building just north of the iconic Sterling Divinity Quadrangle. The site:...
By Pressley Peters
Jeffrey Small ’89 B.A. is the co-founder and CEO of real estate investment company MDH Partners in Atlanta, where his investors include large university...
By Pressley Peters
The Rev. Rufus S. Lusk III ’74 M.Div. is co-chairing planning for the 50th reunion of the Class of 1974 and raising funds for the Class of 1974 Endowed...
By Pressley Peters
Ademuyiwa Bamiduro ‘13 M.Div. is an ordained Baptist minister and the Senior Pastor of Walker Memorial Baptist Church in Washington, D.C. In January, his...
By Pressley Peters
California pastor John Goldstein ’75 M.Div. is encouraging his congregation to support Yale Divinity School students by giving to an endowed fund he and...
By Joseph Becker
With the support of an anonymous $3 million gift, Yale Divinity School has established an endowed professorship in environmental ethics. A burgeoning field,...
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September 6, 2023
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Natasha Huang ’16 M.A.R. studied at YDS and the Institute of Sacred Music in the comprehensive M.A.R. program, while playing for the YDS intramural soccer team—the Paracleats...
By Pressley Peters
Anne Stanback ’85 M.A.R. has pledged a gift to the We Are Called campaign to support the Living Village—the latest in a series of commitments she has made...
By Pressley Peters
Over an exceptional life and career, David Dodson ‘77 B.A., ‘81 M.Div., ‘81 M.P.P.M. has lived into his favorite quote from Frederick Buechner: “The place...
By Timothy Cahill ‘16 M.A.R.
As a 16-year-old Yale College freshman, Paul Minus ’55 B.A., ’58 M.Div., ’62 Ph.D. was summoned to religious service.
Minus was in his dormitory...
More than 300 alums, friends, and campus community members congregated on the Quad for Convocation and Reunions Oct. 12-15—the first in-person enactment of the annual...
October 17, 2022
Yale Divinity School on Friday launched a fundraising campaign aimed at strengthening support for students, academic programs, justice work, and construction...
A new scholarship named in honor of retired professor Peter Hawkins will support YDS students interested in studying religion and literature.
The scholarship is funded by a...
New students, new faculty and staff members, and the beginning of Yale Divinity School’s new century—with a keynote address by Yale President Peter Salovey to mark the moment...
By Pressley Peters
Buoyed by a 10 percent increase in donors, YDS raised the largest amount ever for the Annual Fund in the 2021-22 fiscal year. Generous support by alums...
The YDS Dean’s Advisory Council, joined by Yale President Peter Salovey, members of the George and Carol Bauer family, and the design team for the School’s Living Village,...
May 3, 2022
YDS Dean Greg Sterling released the foillowing statement today to the Divinity School alums and the campus community.
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I write today about a major...
By Pressley Peters
As the threat of climate change grows more urgent, Yale Divinity School is showing the world one way to confront it. Through the creation of a regenerative...
A pair of new scholarships honor two towering figures in the history of women at Yale Divinity School—Rena Karefa-Smart ’45 B.D., the first Black woman to graduate from YDS,...
By Leah Silvieus ’21 M.A.R.
This winter, mother and son Jean Wood ’64 M.A.R. and Chris Wood ’90 B.A. pledged $250,000 to support 10 new annual social justice scholarships at...
January 14, 2022
Yale Divinity School Dean Greg Sterling announced today that fundraising success and endowment performance now make it possible for YDS to meet the full...
Following fundraising success and project approval by the Yale Corporation, Yale Divinity School is moving ahead with design and construction of its history-making Living...
By Lauren Yanks ‘19 M.Div.
Born in Philadelphia in 1943, Marylouise Oates ‘73 M.Div. has spent her life breaking barriers and helping those in need. These values were planted...
A nearly 31 percent jump in gifts, including substantial new support for the Living Village. A significant increase in dollars given for the Annual Fund. Twelve new endowed...
By Pressley Peters
A significant new scholarship underwritten by the MRW Education Fund and partially matched by the Divinity School Scholarship Challenge Fund honors the...
By Pressley Peters
Ademuyiwa Bamiduro ’13 M.Div. had two reasons for starting a fund to help YDS students pay for their divinity education, both learned through personal...
By Pressley Peters
The Rev. James K. Donnell ’58 B.D., a retired Presbyterian minister from Pennsylvania, had such confidence in his alma mater that he contributed over $1...
Yale Divinity School has received a grant of $1 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. to establish Reimagining Church: New Models for the 21st Century, a YDS program aimed at...
Clyde Tuggle ’88 M.Div. and his wife, Mary Streett, made a $1 million commitment to YDS to be used for the Divinity School’s area of greatest need. YDS plans to apply the...
Samuel W. Croll III ’75 M.A.R., and his wife, Ann, have made a $1 million commitment to the Living Village project. The Crolls’ gift brings the Divinity School closer to...
The Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy, a national hereditary society, has endowed a new scholarship at Yale Divinity School. With the gift of $67,000 and a $...
By Pressley Peters
Jennifer Boger ’71 M.A.R. and John “Jack” Boger ’71 M.Div. share a lifelong interest in equality, social justice, and education. Despite the depth of their...
Editor’s Note: Dean Greg Sterling sent the following announcement to the YDS community today.
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Dear Colleagues,
I have exciting news. Thanks to the...
The Divinity School’s Office of Alumni Engagement and Development has made two key appointments. Barbara Palmer-Bostick is the new Senior Associate Director for Major Gifts,...
The YDS Annual Fund surpassed its goal of $650,000 in fiscal year 2018-2019, raising a record $658,483. Every dollar raised goes to student financial aid, and approximately...
