If it weren’t for the fact that one weekend of this year’s City-Wide Open Studios (CWOS) is taking place on Yale’s West Campus, Yale staff member Andrea Miller might not be making new art.
Miller spent much of her adult life working full-time as a fiber...
So intense was her grief after her husband’s sudden death that noted poet Elizabeth Alexander ’84 could only produce what she calls “animal sounds” when she first put pen to paper to write of her experience.
Those “sounds” eventually became sentence...
One month after planting beets on the Yale Farm, Julia Fleming-Dresser ’19 was happy to see that the plants were thriving. On the hot July day that she helped put them in the ground, the beets were so wilted that she didn’t think they’d survive.
“It’s a...
Mark Baldwin, a member of the Brothertown Indian Nation, had what he describes as a “transcendent experience” during a recent visit to Yale.
For the first time in his life, he heard hymnal music composed by one of his tribal ancestors and sung in the...
For the first time in modern memory, a forecast of thunderstorms forced Class Day exercises to be held inside on May 20, but members of the Class of 2018 seemed to take the change of plans in stride.
They were in high spirits as they gathered in Woolsey...
As he sets his sights on graduation and his future, Yale senior Rob Henderson can’t help but to reflect on how the kindnesses of others — many of them strangers — helped lead him to this point.
In fact, says Henderson, it’s hard for him to imagine he’d...
For over a month, students, fellows, and staff members in Timothy Dwight College (TD) have enjoyed peering up toward the dining hall ceiling to look at two brightly colored quilts. Some even feel a little bit like they are being “watched over” by someone...