Even as students took a break from academics, Yale remained as busy as ever this summer. From new faculty appointments to repurposing a miracle arthritis drug to Connecticut’s largest U.S. naturalization ceremony, there was plenty to talk about since...
The Windham-Campbell Prizes has announced the full schedule for its third annual literary festival, taking place at Yale through Oct. 1.The festival began on Monday, Sept. 28, with a prize ceremony at Yale’s Sprague Memorial Hall, featuring a keynote...
Summer has given way to autumn, but for Yale undergraduate Alexandra Leone ’18, memories of July and August sunsets, stars, and ocean winds are vivid reminders of an experience that felt to her like “a dream come true.”Leone was one of a dozen...
A tough question was asked of the panelists who took part in the Veterans Day discussion “From Rifles to Laptops: Combat Veterans Covering Conflicts”: Why — after seeing firsthand the horrors of war — would anyone want to risk his or her life to write...
The Edith Wharton papers at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library contain about 50,000 items, including the author’s voluminous correspondence, drafts of her short stories and essays, and manuscripts of most her novels, including “The House of...
Once a champion debater in high school, Yale senior Joshua Feinzig is well acquainted with the traditional rules and procedures in debate competitions.In a history seminar last year on “Politics and Culture of the U.S. Color Line,” however, Feinzig began...
Reporters often cover bad news, but in her own work Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheryl WuDunn is also interested in writing about solutions to world problems, she told her audience at a master’s tea at Timothy Dwight College (TD) on Jan. 25.WuDunn...