Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will welcome 30 new colleagues this academic year who bring world-class scholarship and teaching in a range of fields, including Egyptology, quantum physics, 17th-century English poetry, machine learning, and...
It was the evening of Thursday, Aug. 6, two days after Tropical Storm Isaias ripped through Connecticut, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without electric power. United Illuminating (UI), one of the principal utility companies in the state, had...
Two new members and two returning members will begin six-year terms on the Board of Trustees, also known as the Yale Corporation, beginning July 1, 2020.
Michael J. Cavanagh ’88 B.A.
President Peter Salovey has announced the appointment of Michael J....
Members of the Yale community gathered online June 12 for an interfaith vigil to mourn and honor black lives lost to racial injustice.
Undergraduates representing campus spiritual, religious, and cultural groups organized the vigil with the support of...
Hilton Als, the Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer and chief theater critic for The New Yorker, was sick in bed recently as protestors marched through the streets of his lower Manhattan neighborhood demanding racial justice. Sirens blended with the...
Claire Gorman ’20 arrived on campus intent on studying computer science. As her Yale experience unfolded, she developed a love for architecture.
Embracing both interests, Gorman majored in computing and the arts. Her senior project merges machine learning...
Yale is full of marvels. Onyx Brunner ’20 made it his job to share them with a rotating cast of thousands.
A campus tour guide since his first year, Brunner took special delight in showing off Yale’s residential colleges. For him, the colleges exemplify...
Years from now, scholars studying Yale’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic will seek firsthand accounts, official records, and other primary sources as they interpret this turbulent period in world and university history.
The University Archives — Yale’s...
Fifty years ago, Yale’s first Earth Day unfolded against a backdrop of unrest.
The previous evening, about 4,500 students and faculty had gathered at Ingalls Rink to discuss a proposed campus-wide strike in solidarity with members of the Black Panther...
It was still February when John Barden, Yale’s chief information officer, began preparing for the disruption to normal campus life that the coronavirus crisis would soon cause. South Korea and Japan had just closed schools in response to COVID-19...