When she was learning to dive competitively as a young girl in Ohio, Nikki Watters had a Ukrainian coach who drove home the elements of a good dive: executing the perfect jump off the platform, keeping the toes pointed, making even the most complex dive...
People often ask Mia Jackson what exactly applied mathematics is.
But in some ways, she says, it’s pretty straightforward. It’s the field of study that has allowed her, as a Yale College student, to take “math-ish” courses offered by schools and...
On Monday night, during an online vigil to honor and remember Kevin Jiang, a Yale School of the Environment (YSE) student killed on Feb. 6, Jiang’s faculty advisor described him as the most efficient researcher he’d ever worked with at Yale — a voracious...
As a prospective college student aspiring to learn about government and public policy — and especially as one who grew up in New Haven — Eli Sabin knew there was a lot to learn right here in his backyard.
Sure enough, during four years at Yale he’s had a...
In 2017, Yale launched a first-of-its kind program to explore the effectiveness of putting a price tag on carbon emissions — and it used the university campus as a laboratory.
To encourage energy-saving policies and behaviors on campus, the Yale Carbon...
Talk with a hundred different military veterans and you’ll get a hundred different stories, says Yale Law School (YLS) student Michael Sullivan. But in each of those stories there’s a common theme: an individual's pledge to serve a cause greater than...
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 2021, Yale established a center based at Yale Law School to focus on racial injustice, perhaps the most pernicious and deep-rooted problem facing the United States.
The Law and Racial Justice Center, now taking shape, will be a hub for related teaching...
When Jack Beecher first arrived at Yale in the 1980s, some people were surprised to hear he was a military veteran. The implication, he figured, was that military experience was viewed as unusual and perhaps somehow incompatible with certain notions of...