You might imagine a science lab looking a bit sterile and impersonal — little sunlight, masked figures in white coats pouring neon-colored liquid into beakers, all business. You might not expect to hear a science lab referred to as familial, where...
On Jan. 23, a small crowd gathered at 100 Church St. South to celebrate the launch of the Alderfer Scholars Program, named in honor of Clay Alderfer ’62 B.A., ’66 Ph.D., a psychologist and former Yale faculty member who devoted his life to studying...
What does it mean to teach during a global pandemic? Even beyond the shift to Zoom classrooms and virtual lectures, it has for many Yale professors meant rethinking how a course can serve as a shared intellectual pursuit and also a chance for finding much...
Rachel Diaz, a graduating senior in Pauli Murray, came to Yale as a transfer student from a community college in Miami two and a half years ago.
“If there was ever a face for imposter syndrome,” said Diaz, a first-generation college student, “I was...