When he first visited the newly refurbished Humanities Quadrangle (HQ) at 320 York St. — known until recently as the Hall of Graduate Studies — faculty member Kevin van Bladel’s thoughts returned to his days as a Yale graduate student more than two...
Robert Wood Lynn, an M.F.A. candidate at New York University and native of Virginia, was awarded the 2021 Yale Younger Poets prize for a manuscript that explores the challenges of a young person growing up in rural Appalachia.
His manuscript, “Mothman...
For much of the past year, Mateen Milan, a second-year student at the Yale School of Music, was unable to meet indoors with fellow woodwind players to perform chamber music. Occasionally during the fall, they were able to gather for outdoor rehearsals as...
Madeleine Henry ’14 wrote two novels while she was an undergraduate at Yale, neither of which were ever published. But her persistence in bringing her narrative voice to the world eventually paid off.
The Yale alumna has since published two books: “...
Hallie Gaitsch and Clara Ma, both members of the Yale College Class of 2019, are among 24 U.S. citizens who have been named 2021 Gates Cambridge Scholars.
The scholarship, given every year to approximately 80 students from around the world, covers the...
The violent siege of the U.S. Capitol Building on Jan. 6 made clear that white supremacy is as alive and ingrained as ever, said Patrisse Cullors, Black Lives Matter co-founder, during a Jan. 27 Yale event commemorating the life and legacy of Martin...
As the director of theater safety and occupational health at Yale School of Drama, Anna Glover helps students who are developing and designing theater productions make smart safety decisions for the stage crew and their audiences. When designers and...
Growing up in a predominantly white community in Illinois in the 1950s, Gerald Jaynes dreamed of racial equality in the United States long before he even knew who Martin Luther King Jr. was.
But it wasn’t until the future Yale professor was a young Army...
Since its publication in November, “The Orchard,” a debut novel by first-year Yale Law School student and Yale College graduate David Hopen ’17 has been reviewed or cited in publications as varied as The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The New...
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 “...