Nineteen graduating seniors and recent alumni have been offered Fulbright U.S. Student Program awards for the 2019-2020 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Thirteen graduating seniors and...
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...
After nearly 40 years at Yale (beginning with his time as a graduate student), President Peter Salovey says he is still impressed with the ways in which Yale and New Haven neighbors unite to improve their city.
“We bring different skills and viewpoints 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...
One Yale professor created a final exam that was itself a “masterpiece.” Another seems to have an “endless reserve of patience.” A third returned papers with extensive and thoughtful comments in blue ink, while a fourth conveyed that the Chinese language...
The future looked bleak to Yale student Tony Grant while he was a teenaged boy growing up in southern Mississippi. That’s not so anymore. As he and other members of the Class of 2019 approach Commencement on May 20, the 28-year-old Grant says he is filled...
In addition to the students previously announced in YaleNews as winners of Rhodes and Gates-Cambridge (and more here) scholarships, the following graduating students have received fellowships or scholarships to study at Oxford and Cambridge universities....
“Community” is the word graduating senior Alanna Pyke utters most often when reflecting on her time at Yale.
“What I really came to value here is a sense of community and being a part of something that is bigger than myself,” says Pyke of her Yale College...