Events & News

Every year, there are events and news related to Jonathan Edwards College at Yale, online, and around the world. Find events to attend and stories, photos, and videos of past news and events below.

2024 Annual Newsletter

Dear Jonathan Edwards Alums, Fellows, and Friends,

It’s that time of year again: welcome to the fall 2024 Jonathan Edwards Trust newsletter! In this newest edition, you will find highlights of recent activity in the College and at the Trust, and articles that connect you with the vibrant on-campus JE community. 

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JE Trust Photo Booth and Keychains, 2024 Reunion Weekend 2 (’69, ’74, ’79, ’84, ’14, ’19)

June 1, 2024
5:15-6:15 PM

If you’re coming to New Haven May 30th-June 2nd, consider making a stop on Saturday June 1st in front of JE on Library Walk from 5:15 to 6:15.

At each reunion weekend event, the JE Trust will have a photo opportunity with a talented student photographer and free JE keychains, all to celebrate being part of the best residential college. We hope you will stop by and visit, snap a JE-inspired photo, and spend a moment reconnecting with fellow Spiders from all classes. See below for a photo from the event last year.

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JE Trust Photo Booth and Keychains, 2024 Reunion Weekend 1 (Classes of ’54, ’59, ’64, ’89, ’94, ’99, ’04, ’09)

May 25, 2024
5:15-6:15 PM

If you’re coming to New Haven May 23rd-26th, consider making a stop on Saturday May 25th in front of JE on Library Walk from 5:15 to 6:15.

At each reunion weekend event, the JE Trust will have a photo opportunity with a talented student photographer and free JE keychains, all to celebrate being part of the best residential college. We hope you will stop by and visit, snap a JE-inspired photo, and spend a moment reconnecting with fellow Spiders from all classes. See below for a photo from the event last year.

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2023 Annual Newsletter

Dear Jonathan Edwards Alums, Fellows, and Friends,

The Jonathan Edwards Trust is delighted to welcome readers to our second annual Trust Newsletter. By now, many of you are familiar with the Trust’s work in support of the JE community—funding programs and initiatives for JE students, fellows, and alumni that enhance the cultural, educational, and social life of the college.

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JE Tailgate at the 2023 Harvard-Yale Game

November 18, 2023

If you’re coming to the Harvard-Yale football game next Saturday 11/18, make sure you stop at the JE tailgate, sponsored in part by the Jonathan Edwards Trust, to connect with other alums! The tailgate will either be in upper or lower lot D and will be visible by lots of green balloons! You’ll be able to pick up a limited run JE pin only available at the game! Stay tuned on our Facebook and Instagram for more specific day of details!


Photo from the 2023 Harvard-Yale game, showcasing the JE flag. Photo credit: Tom Moore.

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The Great Awakening Bash: Celebrating Jonathan Edwards’ Birthday and 90 Years of JE

October 5, 2023

On October 5th, the Jonathan Edwards Trust co-sponsored a celebration among students and Jonathan Edwards Fellows in honor of Jonathan Edwards’s 120th birthday and the College’s 90th anniversary.

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Jonathan Edwards Press Featured in Yale News

The Jonathan Edwards Trust has helped support many programs and projects within JE. One of the most recent JE initiatives the Trust has provided funds to support is the JE Press – a true gem that allows students to experience traditional letterpress printing in the residential colleges. As the story in the October 4, 2023 Yale News notes: “there are still three presses within Yale College that practice typography as Johannes Gutenberg envisioned it 600 years ago”. We hope you will enjoy this Yale News story and the accompanying video which features the JE Press.

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JE Trust Photo Booth and Foam Fingers, 2023 Reunion Weekend 2 (Classes of ’68, ’73, ’78, ’83, ’13, and ’18)

June 3, 2023
5:15-6:15 PM

On June 3rd, the Jonathan Edwards Trust hosted its annual reunion weekend event, celebrating being part of the best residential college. Over 100 alumni gathered at the event to catch up, connect with other spiders, and get the coveted JE foam finger. You may access the photos in a shared Google drive folder (organized by reunion weekend) here.
Before accessing the photos, we encourage you to read this document  about the project itself, which highlights the folks on the JE Trust’s alumni relations committee who made this event possible: shoutout to Miko McGinty JE ’93 for organizing the event, and Geo Barrios ’24 for taking the photographs!
Please feel free to download, print, and use the photos at your discretion. If you share the photos publicly, we ask that you credit the photographer, Geo.
These two events were such a success that the Trust cannot wait for the next opportunity to gather and celebrate being part of JE!
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JE Trust Photo Booth and Foam Fingers, 2023 Reunion Weekend 1 (Classes of ‘53, ‘58, ‘63, ‘88, ‘93, ‘98, ‘03, and ’08)

May 27, 2023
5:15-6:15 PM

On May 27th, the Jonathan Edwards Trust hosted its annual reunion weekend event, celebrating being part of the best residential college. Over 100 alumni gathered at the event to catch up, connect with other spiders, and get the coveted JE foam finger. You may access the photos in a shared Google drive folder (organized by reunion weekend) here.
Before accessing the photos, we encourage you to read this document  about the project itself, which highlights the folks on the JE Trust’s alumni relations committee who made this event possible: shoutout to Miko McGinty JE ’93 for organizing the event, and Geo Barrios ’24 for taking the photographs!
Please feel free to download, print, and use the photos at your discretion. If you share the photos publicly, we ask that you credit the photographer, Geo.
These two events were such a success that the Trust cannot wait for the next opportunity to gather and celebrate being part of JE!
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2022 Annual Newsletter

JE Students in Upper Taft. Photo Credit: Lauren Salzman ’23

Dear Jonathan Edwards Alums and Friends,

As many of you know, the Jonathan Edwards Trust, founded over 50 years ago, shepherds an endowment that supports the JE community of students, fellows, and alumni by helping to fund programs and initiatives that enhance the social, cultural, and educational life of the college. From funding JE’s unique “Culture Draw,” which allows many students to experience live opera, dance, theater, and music performances, to “fireside chats” for sophomores, to enhancements for the JE Press, to furnishing lighting for the college theater, over the years, the trustees have worked with the Head of College to identify areas that would benefit from the Trust’s support.

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JE Trust Photo Booth and Foam Fingers, Reunion Weekend 3 (Classes of ‘56, ‘62, ‘71, ‘82, ‘96, ‘15, ‘16)

June 11, 2022
5:15-6:15

On June 11th, the JE Trust hosted a photo booth and a pickup site for free mini JE Foam Fingers. It was a fun way to celebrate being a part of “the best residential college”. We hope you had a chance to stop by, snap a JE-inspired photo, and spend a moment reconnecting with fellow Spiders from all classes.

You can access all the photos from Reunion the third weekend  here, in this shared Google Drive Folder.

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JE Trust Photo Booth and Foam Fingers, Reunion Weekend 2 (Classes of ‘60, ‘72, ‘77, ‘87, ‘95, ‘12, ‘17)

June 4, 2022
5:15-6:15

On June 4th, the JE Trust hosted a photo booth and a pickup site for free mini JE Foam Fingers. It was a fun way to celebrate being a part of “the best residential college”. We hope you had a chance to stop by, snap a JE-inspired photo, and spend a moment reconnecting with fellow Spiders from all classes.

You can access all the photos from Reunion the second weekend here, in this shared Google Drive Folder.

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JE Trust Photo Booth and Foam Fingers, Reunion Weekend 1 (Classes of ‘52, ‘57, ‘67, ‘70, ‘92, ‘97, ‘02, ‘07)

May 28, 2022
5:15-6:15

On May 28th, the JE Trust hosted a photo booth and a pickup site for free mini JE Foam Fingers. It was a fun way to celebrate being a part of “the best residential college”. We hope you had a chance to stop by, snap a JE-inspired photo, and spend a moment reconnecting with fellow Spiders from all classes.

You can access all the photos from Reunion the first weekend here, in this shared Google Drive Folder.

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Live with Carnegie Hall: Music as Medicine

December 17, 2020
7:30 PM EST

Credit: Courtesy Carnegie Hall 

They are on the frontlines in the fight against COVID-19, doing everything possible to keep the world healthy, but when they are not in hospitals or research labs, many medical professionals find creative outlet as gifted musicians. Join Carnegie Hall as we showcase their musical talents, including special performances by the National Virtual Medical Orchestra and countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, and a guest appearance by violinist Joshua Bell.

Join two JE alumni for this online musical event, artistic director Ab Sengupta JE’94 and program participant Dr. Esther Choo Kim JE’94.

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Voices: Yale Women of Faith, Featuring Rabbi Angela Buchdahl (JE ’94)

October 15, 2020
12:00 PM EST

Join 50WomenAtYale150 for a conversation led by University Chaplain Sharon Kugler with Yale women of various faith traditions. They will explore the ways that their respective faiths carry them through times of uncertainty. She will be joined by Sarah Birmingham Drummond ’93 (Christianity) Rabbi Angela Buchdahl ’94 (Judaism), Nila Bala ’12 JD (Hinduism), and Didem Kaya-Bayram ’16 (Islam).

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A Conversation with Anne Wojcicki JE ’96, CEO & Co-founder, 23andMe

October 9, 2020

In October, Anne Wojcicki (JE ’96) joined President Peter Salovey for a Yale School of Management Gordon Grand Fellowship Lecture. They discussed her views on science, her time at Yale, and her career in healthcare investment and genomics. In particular, Wojckicki shared her experience founding 23andMe, a genomics company that focuses on bringing personalized genetic and medical information directly to consumers.

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2016 Tetelman Lecture: Jennifer Doudna

December 1, 2016

For the first time in history, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to two women.  One of the prize-winning women is Jennifer Doudna, who was a Yale faculty member from 1994–2002, before moving to University of California, Berkeley.   However, she came back to Yale in 2016 to deliver JE’s Tetelman Lecture, one of the most important science/engineering lectureships at Yale.  Professor Doudna spent two days at Yale, lecturing and also meeting with JE students and fellows. Her lecture was on her work with CRISPR-based gene editing, the discovery that led to her Nobel Prize.

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Creative Cocktails + Conversation

June 10, 2020
8 p.m. ET

Join YaleWomen; the Yale Latino Alumni Network; Yale Food + Drink Facebook Group; and JE Alumni, Fellows & Friends FB Group for “Creative Cocktails + Conversation,” featuring beekeeper/mead maker Christopher Andrew, JE ’04, and moderated by Ann Boucher.

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2018 JE Tetelman Lecture

October 25, 2018
4:30 p.m. ET

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Celebrating Norfolk Festival Alumni

July 25, 2020
7 p.m ET

Join us online at 7 p.m. for a new performance beginning with an introductory conversation with Festival Director Melvin Chen, JE ’91, and the evening’s artists.

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