President Peter Salovey and Yale College Dean Marvin Chun will formally welcome the members of the Yale Class of 2025 — as well as transfer students, matriculants in the Eli Whitney Students Program, and visiting international students — at Opening...
Did you know that Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake” and that “War is hell” did not originate with William Tecumseh Sherman?
These are some of the fun facts one discovers in “The New Yale Book of Quotations,” edited by Fred R. Shapiro,...
As a participant this summer in the Ulysses S. Grant Program, an enrichment program led by Yale students, middle schooler Klara Oppenheimer has “gone” on a murder mystery cruise, played the games Kahoot! and charades, and participated in a T-shirt design...
As a woman of color in a male-dominated field, biomedical engineer Anjelica Gonzalez strives always to remind — and sometimes convince — students that anyone can make a career in science and technology.
For her efforts to promote inclusion and belonging...
Four junior faculty members in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been honored for pioneering scientific or humanities research in their scholarly fields.
Jennifer Allen, an associate professor of history, received the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman...
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last March, Sister Margaret Mary Kennedy knew that some of the people she works with through Fair Haven’s Springs Learning Center suddenly faced a painful question: Do I buy food for my family or pay this month’s rent?
The...
Four Yale professors whose teaching and mentorship have inspired generations of students were recently honored with William C. Clyde DeVane Medals from the university’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa.
The DeVane Medals, Yale’s oldest teaching award, are...
For more than two centuries, The Yale Review has published works by some of the most notable writers and poets of their times, from Virginia Woolf and Thomas Mann to Louise Glück and Cathy Park Hong. But until recently the journal has not done what many...
Jubilant exclamations of “We did it!” echoed across Old Campus, along pathways, and through courtyards around Yale as members of the Class of 2021 fist-bumped and high-fived after being pronounced Yale graduates.
It’s a familiar triumphant refrain, and...