Grace Hopper College, Residential college at Yale University in New Haven, US.
Grace Hopper College is a residential college at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where students live together as part of a self-contained campus community. It has a dining hall, seminar rooms, a library, and recreational spaces, with some facilities located underground beneath the main building.
The college was founded in 1933 under the name Calhoun College, honoring John C. Calhoun, a Yale alumnus who was a fierce defender of slavery. In 2017, Yale decided to rename it after Grace Murray Hopper, a Yale graduate who became a pioneering figure in computing.
The college is named after Grace Murray Hopper, a mathematician and computer scientist who helped develop one of the first compilers for programming languages. Visitors walking through the courtyard can get a sense of the Gothic Revival architecture that defines much of Yale's campus.
Grace Hopper College sits in the central part of Yale's campus and is easy to reach on foot from the surrounding streets and buildings. The courtyard and some ground-floor areas are open to visitors, while the residential floors are reserved for students.
Beneath the main building there is an underground level with a cafe, a performance space, and recreation areas that are not visible from the street. This hidden level shows how Yale created extra space for students without touching the historic facade above.
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