Dr. Ann Garrett Robinson, a long-time resident of Dixwell and professor emerita at Gateway Community College, has amassed a broad and varied personal archive related to New Haven and her own advocacy and research. The first Black woman to join the faculty...
As President Peter Salovey prepares to return to the faculty, a Yale News series explores the university’s evolution since his tenure began in 2013, its momentum and continued progress, and Salovey’s enduring commitment to the university and to New Haven.
This story is the first in a series about Yale’s evolution under President Peter Salovey as he prepares to return to the faculty later this year.
Growing up in the Fair Haven neighborhood of New Haven, Kiana Flores never really considered Yale a part of...
This story is the second in a series about Yale’s evolution under President Peter Salovey as he prepares to return to the faculty later this year.
A few years ago, Sunil Amrith was a rising star at Harvard. A professor of history and South Asian studies,...
On June 19, 1865, Union Army soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, to enforce the freedom of enslaved people there. President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation more than two years earlier, but enslavers in some parts of the country...
When he’s not searching for links between black holes and galaxy formation, astrophysicist Antonio Porras Valverde likes to build bridges between young scientists from marginalized communities and the wider world of academia.
Porras Valverde, a Heising-...