Words like “amazing,” “superb,” and “fantastic” are understatements when it comes to describing Frances Rosenbluth, the Damon Wells Professor of Political Science, said Yale College senior Johannes Behringer in announcing the Yale professor as a winner of...
As he sets his sights on graduation and his future, Yale senior Rob Henderson can’t help but to reflect on how the kindnesses of others — many of them strangers — helped lead him to this point.
In fact, says Henderson, it’s hard for him to imagine he’d...
So intense was her grief after her husband’s sudden death that noted poet Elizabeth Alexander ’84 could only produce what she calls “animal sounds” when she first put pen to paper to write of her experience.
Those “sounds” eventually became sentence...
Current and former members of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will work this semester with an ensemble of Yale dancers on a re-staging of Jones’ seminal work “D-Man in the Waters” (1989), set to the music of Felix Mendelssohn’s “Octet in E Flat Major...
Yale doctoral student Lindsay Stern traces the idea for her new novel “The Study of Animal Languages” to an experience she had involving a lie detector machine.
As an Amherst College undergraduate, Stern had visited the office of a philosophy professor to...
Students enrolled in a seminar with Yale historian John Merriman gain much more than knowledge, according to Yale senior Kevin Bendesky. They also gain a “family.”
For his commitment to his students, among other traits, Merriman was recently named a...
Louise Glück, an adjunct professor of English at Yale and renowned poet whose evocative voice has for decades shaped the literary landscape, on Oct. 8 received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Royal Swedish National Academy announced.
Glück, who...
Four Yale professors whose teaching and mentorship have inspired generations of students were recently honored with William C. Clyde DeVane Medals from the university’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
The DeVane Medals, Yale’s oldest teaching award, are...
Four junior faculty members in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been honored for pioneering scientific or humanities research in their scholarly fields.
Jennifer Allen, an associate professor of history, received the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman...