Yale will rename Calhoun College to honor trailblazing alum Grace Murray Hopper

NEW HAVEN >> Yale University’s Calhoun College will be renamed to honor Grace Murray Hopper, a Yale alumna who was a “trailblazing computer scientist, brilliant mathematician and teacher, and dedicated public servant,” Yale President Peter Salovey announced Saturday.

The decision, made Friday by the 19-member Yale Corporation, reverses the trustees’ decision in April not to rename Calhoun, at the end of an academic year in which debates and discussions were held across campus.

Hopper was an early computer scientist who foresaw the importance the technology would have in daily life.

“At a time when people all thought that only specialists would touch a computer, she anticipated where we are today,” Salovey said Saturday in a conference call.

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