There’s a word that carries deep cultural meaning in Awa Cisse’s native Senegal; Téranga, which comes from the Wolof language, connotes the values of selflessness and generosity, and the importance of giving back to one’s community.
For Cisse, the word...
A Yale College senior and six Yale alumni are among 90 scholars from 30 countries to be named Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University. The scholars were selected for their independent thought, leadership, and civic-mindedness.
At Stanford, the...
Jeffrey Brock, the Zhao and Ji Professor of Mathematics, has been reappointed for a second term as dean of the Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS), President Peter Salovey announced this week. His second five-year term will begin July...
The Yale Review (TYR), a renowned cultural and literary journal that for more than two centuries has published works by some of the great writers, scholars, and poets of their time, has won a 2024 National Magazine Award for general excellence in the...
One day last spring, Yale professor Larry Gladney stepped into a lecture hall off Prospect Street, and found a seat in a part of the classroom where he seldom sits: among the students.
Even more unusual, Gladney, a physicist who studies the intersection...
John Liles, a poet and science writer whose “dense, sonically gorgeous studies” of the natural world, and of the human heart, have been described as both “scientifically grounded and emotionally engaged,” has been named winner of the 2024 Yale Younger...
In 2020 Yale University unveiled an ambitious new initiative, Yale Planetary Solutions (YPS), that unites leadership and experts across campus, and across disciplines, to advance solutions to the greatest environmental challenges facing the planet.