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Notable alumni. References. External links. Pierson College. Coordinates: 41°18′36″N 72°55′57″W. Pierson College is a residential college at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Opened in 1933, it is named for Abraham Pierson, a founder and the first rector of the Collegiate School, the college later known as Yale.
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Pierson was founded and built in 1933, and was extensively renovated in 2004. Today, it is one of the largest residential college at Yale with approximately 500 students. Pierson’s spacious courtyard, lined with red bricks and white columns, can take on many different functions, including makeshift sports arena, dance floor, and tanning station.
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Home > People > Fellows. Fellows. Pierson’s Fellowship includes professors and staff at the University (Fellows), and Pierson alumni or others who have made contributions in society (Associate Fellows). In addition, Pierson has Resident Fellows, who live and in the College alongside the students.
Nov 14, 2019 · The tea was the third in a series of events Pierson College is holding this year with Pierson alumnae who were part of the first mixed gender classes at Yale.
Pierson College (PC) is a residential college founded in 1933 at Yale University. The College takes its name from Abraham Pierson (1646-1707), one of the founders of the Collegiate School, which later became Yale University – a statue of Abraham Pierson stands on Yale’s Old Campus.
The campuses of Davenport College (above) and Pierson College (below), Yale's two Georgian Revival colleges. Yale University has a system of fourteen residential colleges with which all Yale undergraduate students and many faculty are affiliated.
Sep 23, 2013 · In Pierson’s Lower Court, a tainted history. Sarah Maslin 3:58 am, Sep 23, 2013. Tucked in the southeastern corner of Pierson College, at the end of a winding stone path, sits a small, shady courtyard once called the “slave quarters.”. Students bestowed the nickname in 1933, shortly after Pierson was built, because of the courtyard’s ...
