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....
“I had this sense of justice,” said acclaimed artist, writer, and poet Barbara Chase-Riboud ’60 M.F.A. in a recent talk on campus. “I had this sense of what was right, and what was just, and what was proper: to expect other people to hear me, to expect...
On Oct. 25 the Yale School of Music welcomed alumni and members of the Yale community for a candid discussion of gender inequality in the world of music composition.
The panel, held in Morse Recital Hall, was moderated by faculty composers Martin Bresnick...
Fifteen years ago, G. Kimball Hart ’70 B.A., ’80 M.P.P.M., walked into the Austin Grove Church in Bluemont, Virginia, for the first time. He was there to attend the funeral of a stone mason who had worked for him for many years.
Something about the simple...
2019 marks the 125th anniversary of the founding of the Yale School of Music (YSM) in 1894. As part of a year-long celebration, YSM will host its first all-class reunion in more than a decade. Alumni from the 1960s through 2010s will converge on the Adams...
During his sophomore year at Yale, while talking with a group of friends, Jordan Plotner ’17 B.A. felt overcome by a brain fog. A membrane surrounding his spine and brain had ruptured, causing cerebrospinal fluid to leak and his brainstem to compress...