In 1923, as the Yale Peabody Museum was under construction on the corner of Sachem Street and Whitney Avenue, a time capsule was embedded beneath the southeast corner. This spring — 99 years later — amid the museum’s latest transformation, construction...
Judith Ann Schiff, a longtime archivist at the Yale University Library who loved helping others gain a deeper understanding of Yale’s and New Haven’s histories, died on July 11. She was 84.
Over the course of a Yale career spanning more than 60 years,...
Under a clear blue sky, the members of the Yale College Class of 2022 began gathering on Cross Campus at 9:30 a.m. today to line up for their procession to Old Campus and the university’s 321st Commencement.
They stood with friends from their residential...
Alden Tan took CS50 (“Introduction to Computing and Programming”), a popular computer science course, during his first year at Yale College. By the time he was a sophomore he served as an undergraduate teaching assistant in the same course, helping his...
Andrew Nguyen wasn’t a typical first-year Yale College student when he arrived on campus in 2018. While most of his classmates were fresh from their high school graduations, Nguyen had recently completed more than four years of service in the U.S. Army’s...
As Russian tanks rumbled into Ukraine in late February, Ali Platon called her sister Claudia, who lives in Romania about 30 miles from the Ukrainian border. Claudia described the plight of Ukrainians suddenly seeking refuge in Romania. Platon, a first-...
Early in the pandemic, when much of Yale’s campus was shut down, Meredith Miller ’03 M.F.A. found inspiration in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s digital collections.
Miller, a senior photographer at the Beinecke, turned to her artistic...
Chaplain Omer Bajwa’s office door is always open. He never knows who will visit him or what concern he’ll need to address. And that’s how he likes it.
“I love not knowing what each day will bring,” said Bajwa, director of Muslim life for the Yale Chaplain...
“A Raisin in the Sun,” the celebrated play by Lorraine Hansberry, was in tryouts at New Haven’s Shubert Theatre on Jan. 11, 1959, when the 29-year-old playwright shared her thoughts with the producing team about the previous night’s performance. In a two-...
President Peter Salovey recently named James Levinsohn the inaugural dean of the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, which will open in the fall of 2022.
For more than a decade, Levinsohn, a distinguished economist and educator, has served as the...