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...
During an Oct. 19 visit to campus, noted investigative journalist Bob Woodward ’65 asked the members of his audience at Yale Law School to name the most worrisome issue facing America and the nation’s future.Gun violence, Syria, global warming, a...
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...
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...
In her just-released book, “The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups” (Viking), noted early childhood educator and Silliman College associate master Erika Christakis argues that most of today’s youngest schoolchildren...