New Haven is a city with New England charm and a cosmopolitan energy. As Yale President Richard C. Levin, a thirty-year resident of New Haven, notes, this city is “large enough to be interesting, yet small enough to be friendly.” New Haven’s close partnership with Yale has proved beneficial to both institutions as well as to residents and visitors.
 
 
 
Here are some of the great people who are affiliated from Yale University:
 
Francis S. Collins (Ph.D.), director, Human Genome Project.

Harry B. Combs (B.S. 1935, Sheffield Scientific School), aviation pioneer.

Henry Bourne Joy, president of Packard

Richard Lee Armstrong American/Canadian geochemist

Alva B. Adams (1896), U.S. senator (D-Colorado, 1923-24, 1932-1941)

Lewis Nixon, U.S. Army officer featured in Band of Brothers

Clarence King (Ph.D. 1862), founder of the U.S. Geological Survey