More than century ago, a teenager named Helen Hagan arrived on the Yale campus as a student at the Yale School of Music (which then offered undergraduate degrees). But she already had plenty of experience performing before audiences in New Haven.
Hagan...
In the days leading up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, few people expected an act of such aggression, Yale historian Timothy Snyder told a classroom of students earlier this semester. Looking back now, he said, the fact that the invasion did...
Like most of her Yale peers, Margaret Hankins ’24 lives a very busy life. With a major in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, she spends plenty of time hitting the books. When she’s not studying, you might find her researching the genetic sequencing of...
Five Yale College seniors who excel academically and demonstrate a commitment to their community are among the 32 Americans who have won prestigious Rhodes Scholarships for study next year at the University of Oxford in England.
Sophie M. Huttner and...
Jing Tsu, a cultural historian and literary scholar at Yale, will explore reasons behind the increasing friction between China and the United States in a semester-long lecture series in which members of the public will learn alongside Yale students.
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Two Yale seniors and two alumni are among the 151 individuals from around the world who have been selected as 2023 Schwarzman Scholars for graduate study in China.
Seniors Mathis Bitton and Putt Punyagupta and alumni Jonas Kavaliauskas ’21 and Namra...
Three Yale seniors — Michael Chen, Bayan Galal, and Alex Hu — are among the 40 winners of prestigious Marshall Scholarships, which fund up to three years of graduate study in the United Kingdom for Americans poised to become leaders in their fields.
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Music has been a part of Daphne Brooks’ life since she can remember. Her childhood home was filled with the sounds of all kinds of records, including Duke Ellington and Aretha Franklin. She even played a little bit of piano herself. But she says she never...
For nearly a half-century, J. Edgar Hoover was director of the FBI or its precursor. A rabid anti-Communist now known for his own law-breaking — specifically, for his secret surveillance of American citizens — he is often caricatured as a bulldog.
But in...