Yale is ramping up opportunities in entrepreneurship focused on healthcare and life sciences this year, said Chris Loose, executive director of the new Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT) a session held Nov. 13 as part of the...
The Entrepreneurship Across Yale contest weekend, held at the School of Management on April 17, featured finalists for the $25,000 Sabin Prize, presented by the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale; the $25,000 Thorne Prize, presented by...
The Kon-Tiki expedition – when Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, five crew members, and a Spanish-speaking parrot journeyed by raft across the Pacific Ocean in 1947 – was inspired by his conviction that people from South America settled in...
As a Yale freshman, Peggy Kuo (’85 B.A.) remembers being struck by the financial comfort of many of her peers — how easily they had transitioned to this collegiate world via the prep school track. “Yale was a big departure from the world I had come from...
Startup Yale, which began as a combined effort among a number of campus organizations to raise awareness of entrepreneurship has grown into something much larger. The now week-long series — happening April 16-20 at Yale School of Management and other...
Leobardo Espinoza Jr. (’17 B.A.) was one of just a handful of students selected by The New York Times in 2013 to blog about his experience applying to colleges. In the series, he wonders about whether to take a gap year to study abroad, writes of his...
A planned trip this summer to Cape Town, South Africa, will mark the first time in the Yale Alumni Service Corps’ (YASC) decade-long history that Yale faculty have accompanied the volunteers to a program in Africa. It’s an important milestone, says Joao...