Helen Gao
Helen Gao
Recent Stories
The Back Seat
Personal Essay
Sitting on the back seat of Mom’s bike felt like being in a 3D movie. Mom never rode fast. When biking downhill, she clamped her fingers around the brake levers until they made a shrill sound and the bike started to jolt. When pedaling uphill, she leaned forward, lowering her back into a bow-shape, and I could suddenly see the road ahead. Most of the time, my eyes wandered, drifting over newly-bloomed peonies, dried purple mulberries, or schoolgirls in uniforms jumping rope with their braids bouncing up and down.
Karlan to use Gates grant soon
Professor of economics Dean Karlan is ready to start using the $7.3 million grant that the Yale Economics Growth Center received to fund research on microfinance policies.
The Rules of the Game
A native Chinese student from Beijing and a senior at Yale, I find myself standing at the turning point that every Chinese undergraduate in the United States must encounter. I am between games, having conquered the admissions process, on the verge of entering the job market. Now a tired player but a fascinated observer, I have extracted the rules for you. Follow them, and you too can wear the halo of Harvard Girl.
Professors support Israeli artists’ boycott
Five School of Drama professors signed a petition in support of Israeli actors and playwrights who refused to perform at a settlement in a disputed West Bank settlement.
Zipcar expands to city
Two new cars to be parked near Union Station; aldermen have mixed opinions
The Board of Alderman on Tuesday approved a contract with the company Zipcar to add two of its vehicles near Union Station and grant them free parking. Zipcar has had a partnership with Yale since 2007.
Greenfest boasts trash art
Student groups sponsor event to raise awareness
There was a pen container made of candy wrappers, a tree with iron wire as branches and used light bulbs as fruit and a mosaic scene composed of outdated poster pieces. On Friday afternoon, trash art came to Old Campus.
Director Houston recounts past
Film director, producer and screen writer John Houston’s ’75 silver screen dreams started at the age of five or six, when he was observing the facial expressions of the people around him while they watched an old Hollywood movie shown on a bed sheet with a little three-wheel projector in a local recreation hall that his father designed.
YES awards $51K in annual business-plan competition
Judges pitch jetEye Technologies $12K in the ‘For-Profit’ division of YES contest
Though their ideas are still in their beginning stages, participants in this year’s Yale Entrepreneurial Society Y50K Business Plan Competition may be on their way to becoming promising leaders in the business and nonprofit sectors.
Chen: China should decrease state holdings
Many governments justify public ownership of corporations as a way to increase economic equality. But Yale economics professor Zhiwu Chen GRD ’90 disagrees.
At YFI event, Israeli mayor talks life in constant war zone
Eli Moyal, mayor of the Israeli city of Sderot, said the children of his city near the Gaza Strip constantly live in fear of a terrorist attack — incoming missiles, for example, are announced by sirens 10 seconds before impact.