Fueled by endless cups of coffee, French author Honoré de Balzac produced more than 90 novels and short stories peopled by 2,400-plus characters during his lifetime (1799-1850).
“Balzac’s Lives,” a new book by Yale professor Peter Brooks, presents...
Three Yale faculty members are among the 175 writers, scholars, artists, and scientists awarded 2020 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Edyta M. Bojanowska, Danna Singer, and A.L. Steiner were chosen from among 3,000 applicants...
Putting together a list of top Yale stories for any year can be a daunting task — especially when you have more than 1,600 to choose from (that’s how many we published on YaleNews in 2019) and when each documents something about Yale that makes us proud....
Yale College Dean Marvin Chun will host a dinner on Dec. 2 to honor the recipients of the annual Poorvu Family Fund for Academic Innovation, created to recognize excellence in teaching. This year’s recipients are Arielle Baskin-Sommers, Rohit De, Adriane...
Yale President Peter Salovey has been named to the Governor’s Workforce Council, a group charged with helping develop a statewide strategy for ensuring that Connecticut’s postsecondary education and workforce development systems meet the needs of both...
Yale will undertake a top-to-bottom renovation of Kline Tower, a major project expected to further enrich the intellectual makeup of Science Hill, university leaders said this week.
Planning for the renovation of the landmark structure is entering its...
At the head of every Yale Commencement procession is a marshal holding a mace depicting the mythical “Yael” — a creature with the head of a goat, boar-like tusks, golden horns alternately curling front and back, and a protruding red tongue.
Among the...
Over the course of 2018, YaleNews published more than 1,200 stories — from news of awards and honors to groundbreaking discoveries, campus events, Q&As, student and faculty profiles, book publications, videos, and more. Many of these stories marked a...
Commons dining hall at the Schwarzman Center is closed as of Aug. 14, marking the beginning of the building’s approximately three-year metamorphosis into a center for Yale undergraduate and graduate/professional students.
Each day, Commons serves lunch to...
A cat, a dog, and a mysterious ancient monster made YaleNews headlines in 2016, as did research on topics ranging from Zika to climate change to opioid addiction. All told, YaleNews published upwards of 1,900 articles in 2016. Here — in no particular...
