Two Yale seniors and a 2020 graduate have been named Rhodes Scholars in the first-ever virtual selection process, necessary due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The three — Brian Reyes ’21, Alondra Vázquez López ’21, and Jackson Willis ’20 — are among 32...
In his scholarly work and teaching, Daniel Martinez HoSang examines issues of race and racial injustice.
Beyond the Yale campus, he’s putting the lessons he’s learned to practice in Greater New Haven area schools, where he helps teachers create more...
After the quarantine deprived her of the opportunity to dance with her peers in the Afrobeat dance group Dzana last spring, Yale senior Joan Agoh relished the chance to connect and create with them again this fall — even if it was over Zoom.
But this wasn...
For Yale scholar Hazel Carby, one of the gratifications of winning the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding is that this year’s honor recognizes the importance of work in ethnic and racial studies, which has previously...
Yale junior Kelsey Tamakloe had never felt a strong “spark of emotion,” when she looked at the portraits lining the walls of the dining hall in her residential college, Saybrook College. That recently changed when she saw a new portrait of Yale alumnus...
Elizabeth Hinton and Phillip Atiba Goff have been crossing paths for a long time.
With a mutual interest in policing, racial injustice, and criminal reform, Hinton, a historian, and Goff, a social psychologist, have often collaborated professionally. But...
The Yale Glee Club, together with the Harvard and Princeton glee clubs, will offer a musical response to the nation’s tumult over racial injustice with a virtual benefit concert on Saturday, Oct. 17.
When a student named Justin wrote pieces for a creative writing workshop offered by the Yale Prison Education Initiative (YPEI) this summer, he felt like he was sharing his heart with the world.
The workshop, which was offered to inmates at the MacDougall...
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has named Nichole Nelson, who earned her Ph.D. in history from Yale in May, one of 22 new Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows for 2020.
Now in its 10th year, the Public Fellows program places recent Ph.D.s in...
In March, an undergraduate asked University Chaplain Sharon Kugler if the global coronavirus pandemic meant the end of the world was at hand.
“It’s the end of a world,” Kugler told the worried student, “and now we’re trying to create a new and better...