Coppett’s Corner
Tutoring
Silliman Resident Writing Tutor: Betsy Sledge
Reserving time with the Writing Tutor
Now that the end of the term is nearing, many of you will be writing long term papers. You may want to reserve a tutoring spot directly with Betsy Sledge for later in the term by writing to her direct. Here’s how: write to Betsy, letting her know the days you would like to meet (give a multiple choice), the times of day that you are free, the type of essay you are writing and the approximate number of pages. Then Betsy will get back to you confirming. elizabeth.sledge@yale.edu
Writing Center/Tutors: http://ctl.yale.edu/writing; http://writing.yalecollege.yale.edu/
Sc/QR Tutoring: http://ctl.yale.edu/tutoring/quantitative-reasoning-science
Language Tutoring: http://cls.yale.edu/foreign-language-tutoring
Advising Resources: http://advising.yalecollege.yale.edu/.
Find out if your QR/Sc course has a peer tutor here: http://ctl.yale.edu/tutoring/quantitative-reasoning-science/look-your-qrsc-course-find-tutoring
Yale College Community Care
YC3 was created in response to Yale College students’ requests to increase access to mental health and wellness support. YC3’s services can be accessed quickly and near to Residential Colleges where students live, learn, and socialize.
Book an appointment directly with a YC3 team member through their website.
Yale Academic Strategies Program
The mission of Yale Academic Strategies Program is to help all Yale undergraduate be active, empowered learners at Yale. Though peer academic mentoring, interactive workshops, and connections to resources, we hope to provide you with the tools that can propel you towards your goals.
Workshops
Our famous workshop sessions are available in person and online! Register via this YaleConnect link. FYI: Poorvu CTL M104A is upstairs from the York Street Entrance to Sterling Memorial Library. Poorvu CTL 120 A, B, C, and 121 are the classrooms on the first floor. Questions? Contact us at academicstrategies@yale.edu.
Yale Office of Career Strategy
The Connecticut Office of the Secretary of the State is seeking interns with a passion for educating voters and encouraging participation in the democratic process. The Office of the Secretary of the State works to provide a wide range of services for the people and businesses of Connecticut and is committed to promoting the importance of civic education and civic engagement across the state.
Summer Experience Award Q & A Zoom Room – Office of Career Strategy – Yale University
Open for questions about the SEA: Eligibility, application requirements, funding timeline, etc.
Wed Apr 16 | 7 PM – 8 PM
Virtual
Big Interview (AI Resume Reviews and Mock Interviews) – Office of Career Strategy – Yale University
CreativeStudy – Office of Career Strategy – Yale University
CreativeStudy is an online education platform built to foster the financial independence of artist/designer communities.
Other
LIBRARY WORKSHOPS:
BROWSE ALL UPCOMING LIBRARY WORKSHOPS at https://schedule.yale.edu/calendar/instruction.
DEAN LEWIS - ENROLLED STUDENT SURVEY
This week, Dean Lewis invited you to complete the enrolled student survey. This is a great way to give feedback about how Yale College can improve the undergraduate experience for yourselves and your successors. If you haven’t completed the survey , here is the link:
https://yalesurvey.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9QRfh77ZF0Fp7V4
ELIZABETHAN CLUB ESSAY PRIZE 2025 FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
The Yale University Elizabethan Club awards a prize for the best undergraduate student term paper
and/or senior thesis/project on a subject of interest to the Club:
+ Outstanding work on literature, arts, or culture of the Renaissance.
+ Outstanding work on interpretations, adaptations, or criticism relating to literature, arts, and
culture of the Renaissance.
+ Outstanding work based on research done in the Elizabethan Club Collection (used at the
Beinecke Library).
Work from any department is eligible and nominations can come from faculty, advisors, or the
students themselves. The competition is open to all Yale students, regardless of department. They
do not need to be members of the Club.
The winner will receive a monetary prize.
In order to be considered for this prize, the following deadline must be met:
By 4pm on Monday, April 21, 2025: Submit an electronic copy of a completed paper or thesis,
double-spaced typed (maximum of 40 pages: not including thesis abstract, images, figures, and
bibliography), by sending an email attachment to the registrar for the Program in Early Modern
Studies, Julia DiVincenzo (julia.divincenzo@yale.edu).
Papers should be anonymized by removing all identifying information. When submitting, please use
the relevant subject line, either “Elizabethan Essay Prize, Undergraduate” or “Elizabethan Essay Prize,
Graduate”. [Papers received after 4pm that day cannot be considered because of the tight deadlines under which the selection committees operate.]
Any graduating seniors who have not completed their senior essays by the submission deadline, please notify julia.divincenzo@yale.edu for a submission extension.
Please contact julia.divincenzo@yale.edu with questions, or for more information regarding the prize.
YALE COLLEGE SPEECH COMPETITION
The Yale College Speech Competition takes place Monday, April 28, 2025. Sophomores, juniors, and seniors are eligible for prizes of up to $1000 for delivering a short speech of their own composition. The deadline to sign up at this link is 11:59pm on Monday, April 21. Please contact alfred.guy@yale.edu with questions.
SPRING 2025 POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY AND RACE SPEAKER SERIES:
The Yale Philosophy Department is excited to announce its inaugural Political Philosophy and Race Speaker Series (PP&R) for the upcoming, 2025, spring semester. Comprising five talks by five leading philosophers and political theorists, the speaker series engages both with the history of African American political thought and contemporary issues in the philosophy of race.
We begin later this month – on Tuesday, January 28, 4 - 5:30 pm ET – with a lecture by Shatema Threadcraft, Associate Professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Vanderbilt University, and author of Intimate Justice: The Black Female Body and the Body Politic (Oxford University Press 2016). Professor Threadcraft’s talk will focus on storytelling in the works of Du Bois and Toni Morrison as it bears on efforts to mobilize against Black femicide in the US.
Other PP&R events this spring will feature talks by
- Ronald Sundstrom (April 22, 4 - 5:30 pm ET), University of San Francisco
WILLIAMS PRIZE IN EAST ASIAN STUDIES COMPETITION
This is the formal announcement of the Williams Prize in East Asian Studies Competition. The prize is awarded to an undergraduate senior in any department at Yale University for an outstanding paper completed during the current academic year on a Chinese, Japanese, or Korean subject.
Papers will be judged on use of primary sources, quality of writing, and depth and originality of scholarship. It is expected that essays nominated for the Williams Prize will make substantial use of materials in East Asian language(s) in any medium, including transcriptions of interviews. Essays that focus exclusively on Asian American topics normally will not be considered eligible for consideration.
Course papers may be submitted. Please note that you are REQUIRED to have a written endorsement of your submission. This endorsement need not be from the advisor for whom you originally wrote the paper or senior essay, but it must be made by a faculty member of the Council on East Asian Studies. In either case, please allow time for the faculty to submit their written endorsement to the Council on East Asian Studies before the deadline.
PLEASE SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING TO nicholas.disantis@yale.edu NO LATER THAN 5:00 PM, Wednesday, April 30th, 2025:
- ONE ELECTRONIC COPY OF YOUR PAPER
- WRITTEN ENDORSEMENT FROM A FACULTY MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL ON EAST ASIAN STUDIES (The endorsement must be sent directly from the faculty member to nicholas.disantis@yale.edu)
- A SEPARATE PAGE THAT LISTS
- your complete legal name;
- current campus mailing address and telephone/cell number;
- Yale College affiliation;
- UPI number
- Student Identification (SID) number
- other prizes or awards that your paper is being considered for at Yale
Best regards and good luck!
The Council on East Asian Studies
THE RICHARD MAXWELL PRIZE FOR TRANSLATION AND TRANSLATION STUDIES
A $500 prize, open to any undergraduate student in Yale College, shall be awarded annually to the best Literary Translation or to the best essay in Translation Studies. “Literary Translation” encompasses all genres, so long as the chosen work is substantial, while “Translation Studies” is understood to include theoretical and historical questions involving language, culture, and medium. Submissions that combine actual translation and reflections on issues raised or exemplified by the process are welcome. Submissions must include: (1) a cover letter with basic information about the student’s studies/major and about the context in which the essay/translation was written; (2) a translator’s introduction describing the intellectual and historical context of the translated text, along with some consideration of its technical features; (3) a copy of the translated text(s) in the original language, as an appendix to your translation; (4) annotation, as deemed relevant, for literary translations. Please email your submission to Please submit a PDF file for consideration to sabrina.whiteman@yale.edu (and cc’d to lisa.Tomlin@yale.edu) by May 1, 2025, 12 noon. The prize will be presented along with other Comparative Literature prizes at the department’s Spring reception in early May.
The Richard Maxwell prize for Translation and Translation Studies commemorates the scholarly and pedagogical legacy of Richard Maxwell (1948-2010), an exceptionally wide-ranging undergraduate teacher, scholar and critic. He was an historian of the novel, of visual culture, and of urban life, and a critic of poetry and film. During his final illness he dictated an experimental novel about architectural, literary, and film life in 1950s Los Angeles. Richard Maxwell believed deeply in the discipline of Comparative Literature and the ideal of world literature, and he championed his Yale students as aspiring translators, critics, and writers.
INSIGHTSON CONFERENCE AT YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
May 9-10, 2025 at Yale School of Management
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Register Here Use code Early_Student for $125 Tickets
YALE SCHWARZMAN CENTER UPCOMING EVENTS: