While leading a group of Girl Scouts on a tour of Yale’s Marsh Botanical Garden not so long ago, curator Kunso Kim spoke about flowers’ dependence upon bees, butterflies, and birds for pollination, and what the plants provide their pollinators in return...
Yale School of Drama alumna Jennifer Newman has been appointed the associate artistic director of the Schwarzman Center. She began her new role in November.
Newman is an artistic director, producer, educator, choreographer, and performance artist with...
It’s entirely coincidental, but in a year when the university is celebrating the legacies of its women students as part of 50WomenAtYale150, this year’s Yale winners of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship who are from the United States — four in all — are...
Three School of Drama departments — Stage Management, Technical Design & Production, and Theater Management — have eliminated the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) requirement for prospective applicants.
The GRE is a standardized exam typically...
When Thomas Allen Harris learned his brother was HIV positive in the early 1990s, he did the only thing he could think of to cope with the news: He picked up a video camera to chronicle his brother’s life.
At that time, the diagnosis was a “death sentence...
Marwan Safar Jalani ’20 is one of two winners of a Rhodes Scholarship for the Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine (SJLP) region.
The Yale student was chosen from among hundreds of applicants for the prestigious scholarship, which has a three-round...
The Fountain of Youth may be a myth or a metaphor, but in early November, visitors to City-wide Open Studios (CWOS) at Yale’s West Campus will have the opportunity to take a short journey in search of the fabled source of eternal youth.
Along the way,...
As a general rule, Yale puts little stock in external rankings. But every now and again, when there’s especially good news, it’s hard not to boast just a little.
And so we report that Timothy Snyder, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History, has not one...
For a poet who is little known, winning an award like the Yale Younger Poets Prize can be life changing, noted Airea D. Matthews, who earned that honor in 2016.
In a panel discussion on Oct. 11, Matthews and several other poets who have won the Yale...