Typically, the students who enroll in Karla Neugebauer’s undergraduate classes are interested in examining life at the molecular level.
But during a recent seminar discussion, Neugebauer, a professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and of cell...
In the late 1960s, as Yale prepared to admit and welcome its first class of women undergraduates, then-President Kingman Brewster tasked Elga R. Wasserman with overseeing all aspects of the transition to coeducation, from admissions to housing to academic...
In January, Tamar Gendler began a six-month leave from her duties as dean of Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). But she was hardly sitting still.
During the spring semester, Gendler, who is also the Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and...
Years ago, when Bobby Atkinson arrived at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to begin serving with his first U.S. Air Force unit, he had already endured childhood traumas. But he was also arrogant, loud, and selfish, he told a Yale assembly Friday. And, he...
Even as a kid, Nicholas Collyge was fascinated by anthropology. Growing up in northwest Arkansas he’d devour books about the mythologies of different civilizations, trying to learn as much as he could about the world’s cultures and peoples.
“It really...