Just recently settled in from locations around the globe — among them Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka, France and India — Yale’s newest group of World Fellows is eager to become acquainted with the campus as they begin their coursework and share in...
When it comes to mountaineering, Yale professor Joseph G. Manning is a self-described “newbie.” But this summer, each step he’s taken toward a mountain summit has helped prepare him for a climb in September that he hopes to remember for the rest of his...
When masked faces became the norm because of COVID-19, Yale first-year student Chisom Ofomata, who is deaf, sometimes felt lost. Unable to read people’s lips, she wished she was more proficient in American Sign Language (ASL) so that she could have a “...
Four Yale seniors — three from the United States and one from Canada — have been selected as Rhodes Scholars, one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious academic awards for graduate study. The scholarships provide all expenses for two to three years...
As he finished high school in Ghana, at an age when students all over the world dream of attending a school like Yale, such thoughts never even occurred to Obed Gyedu-Larbi.
At the time he lived with his mother, a single woman who worked as a food vendor...
Since posting our original story about the Yale affiliates on Forbes magazine’s 2021 “30 Under 30” list, we’ve learned that another current Yale student, David Dellal, a third-year doctoral student at the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, and...
Two Yale seniors and two alumni with an interest in fostering peaceful and prosperous relations with China are among the 151 individuals selected as 2023 Schwarzman Scholars for graduate study in China.
Seniors Jasper Boers and Sharmaine Koh Mingli and...
Two recent Yale graduates — Rohit Goyal ’19 and Akhil Rajan ’21 B.A./M.A. — are among the 41 winners of the 2022 Marshall Scholarships, a prestigious honor that allows future American leaders to study any subject for up to three years at top universities...
Yale sophomore Sanya Nair was awestruck as she watched the unveiling of a new mural on an exterior wall of the Asian American Cultural Center (AACC) last month to celebrate the center’s 40th year in existence.
Spanning several stories of one side of the...