Ten Yale College students who have made contributions to the community that range from scheduling employee shifts for Yale Hospitality to connecting incarcerated inmates with Yale library resources for the Yale Prison Education Initiative have been...
Yale Law School student Alaa Hajyahia will study anthropology at the University of Cambridge as the recipient of a prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Hajyahia was chosen in the international round of the competition.
She joins two American citizens...
Eight Yale faculty members in fields as diverse as anthropology, geography, law, and medicine are among the 261 accomplished individuals elected new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
The academy honors excellence and convenes...
One of Timeica Bethel’s most exhilarating memories of her time at Yale took place in the campus space that to her felt most like “home”: the Afro-American Cultural Center.
It was Election Day in 2008, and Bethel, Yale College Class of 2011, had joined...
“Think about the last time you got a paper cut,” Yale graduate student Olivia Justynski told her audience during a Loria Hall presentation that was also livestreamed on Zoom. “How long did it take to repair?”
As audience members reflected on their own...
A medical student who studied by candlelight while living with the violence of civil war in his home country of Syria and a law student who spent her early years living in poverty in El Salvador are among four Yale students who have been selected as 2022...
In 2020, while co-teaching a course called “Eurasian Entanglements: Russia and China in the 20th century” for the Yale Alumni Academy, Jinyi Chu listened to former students reminisce about the courses they took on campus 40 or more years earlier. The...
As the granddaughter of Armenian genocide survivors, Dr. Sharon Chekijian, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Yale, has long had an interest in her family’s native country. She visited for the first time as a college student in 1991 as part...
Three Yale juniors — Emma Levin, Eric Sun, and Hamilton Wan — are among the 417 students across the nation who have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships for the 2022-2023 academic year. The scholarships, named in honor of the late U.S. Senator Barry...
In the fall of 2020, Yale President Peter Salovey encouraged every school and administrative division on campus to evaluate what they were doing to create a community where equity and respect are standard for all who study, teach, and work here. As part...