He’s a scholar of literature who deepened Yale’s international engagement in his roles as vice president for global strategy and vice provost for academic initiatives, and he influenced education in Asia as the founding president of Yale-NUS College. He...
Yale historian Beverly Gage has been awarded the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in biography for “G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century” (Viking), her revelatory book about the controversial FBI director.
In announcing the prize, the Pulitzer...
It’s been a memorable year and a half for Yale cultural historian and literary scholar Jing Tsu.
In the winter of 2022, she was invited to serve as an NBC cultural commentator for the Winter Olympics in Beijing. Last fall, she was selected to deliver the...
A bus breakdown on the Connecticut shoreline during Alaman Diadhiou’s high school tour of East Coast colleges limited his Yale visit to less than 30 minutes. But even in that short time he knew he had found his college.
During that visit a student tour...
In the 10 years since the Native American Cultural Center (NACC) opened its doors on High Street in 2013, the number of courses in Indigenous studies has grown considerably. Next fall, for the first time ever, undergraduates will receive credit toward the...
Since 1982, the Eli Whitney Students Program (EWSP) has offered students with “non-traditional” backgrounds — but who possess exceptional potential, determination, and maturity — an opportunity to receive a Yale College education. Since then, hundreds of...
In his new book “Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire” (Basic Books), Yale professor Eckart Frahm offers a comprehensive history of the ancient civilization (circa 2025 BCE to 609 BCE) that would become a model for the world’s later...
Two Yale College alumni — Winston Huynh ’19 and Gretchen Knaut ’20 — are among 85 scholars from 29 countries to be named Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University. The scholars were selected for their independent thought, leadership, and civic-...
She’s known on the Yale campus for her eloquence and compassion, a community stalwart able to deliver words of solace and hope, delivered with elegance and grace, in times of crisis and uncertainty, and as a spiritual leader for students, faculty, and...
Nine Yale seniors and two recent graduates have been awarded fellowships for graduate study at the universities of Oxford or Cambridge in the United Kingdom.
These fellowship recipients are in addition to the students previously announced in Yale News who...