In addition to the students previously announced in YaleNews as winners of Rhodes and Gates-Cambridge (and more here) scholarships, the following graduating students have received fellowships or scholarships to study at Oxford and Cambridge universities....
“Community” is the word graduating senior Alanna Pyke utters most often when reflecting on her time at Yale.
“What I really came to value here is a sense of community and being a part of something that is bigger than myself,” says Pyke of her Yale College...
Just a day before they became official graduates, members of the Class of 2019 were urged by acclaimed novelist and essayist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ’08 M.A. to forget “from time to time” that they went to Yale.
That call — to not let the distinction and...
NHdocs: The New Haven Documentary Film Festival will pay special tribute to the artistry of renowned documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, who will also be on hand to discuss his works.
More than 100 documentary films — including world premieres — will be...
It begins with a bike tour on the East Coast Greenway and ends with a performance by the Grammy-nominated Cuban timba group Tienpo Libre and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. In between, there will be circus acts; storytelling; discussions about art,...
During the month of July, Carlos Pinela ’82 will begin his weekdays doing what he asks of all the children who file into the Payne Whitney Gym’s Lanman Center at 9 a.m. each morning: completing a certain number of pushups, sit-ups, squats, and other floor...
Anne Gardiner Perkins ’81 arrived at Yale eight years after women were first admitted to the university as undergraduates, and by then, nobody was talking about what life was like for those pioneering female students.
In a talk at the Wilton Public...
For Yale alumna and staff member Michelle Beaulieu-Morgan ’17 Ph.D., the stitches in her embroidered art now on view in an exhibit at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) are more than her creative medium; they also mark steps forward on her road to...
Six of the 26 recipients of 2019 MacArthur Fellowships — known informally as “genius” grants — have ties to Yale. The awards were announced on Sept. 25.
MacArthur Fellowships — which come with a stipend of $625,000 to each recipient paid out over five...
The annual month-long arts festival known as City-Wide Open Studios (CWOS) will kick off with an opening reception on Oct. 4, and the work of dozens of Yale-affiliated artists will be on view.
Yale is a major sponsor of CWOS, Connecticut’s leading visual...