It begins with a bike tour on the East Coast Greenway and ends with a performance by the Grammy-nominated Cuban timba group Tienpo Libre and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. In between, there will be circus acts; storytelling; discussions about art,...
NHdocs: The New Haven Documentary Film Festival will pay special tribute to the artistry of renowned documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, who will also be on hand to discuss his works.
More than 100 documentary films — including world premieres — will be...
Just a day before they became official graduates, members of the Class of 2019 were urged by acclaimed novelist and essayist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ’08 M.A. to forget “from time to time” that they went to Yale.
That call — to not let the distinction and...
“Community” is the word graduating senior Alanna Pyke utters most often when reflecting on her time at Yale.
“What I really came to value here is a sense of community and being a part of something that is bigger than myself,” says Pyke of her Yale College...
In addition to the students previously announced in YaleNews as winners of Rhodes and Gates-Cambridge (and more here) scholarships, the following graduating students have received fellowships or scholarships to study at Oxford and Cambridge universities....
The future looked bleak to Yale student Tony Grant while he was a teenaged boy growing up in southern Mississippi. That’s not so anymore. As he and other members of the Class of 2019 approach Commencement on May 20, the 28-year-old Grant says he is filled...
One Yale professor created a final exam that was itself a “masterpiece.” Another seems to have an “endless reserve of patience.” A third returned papers with extensive and thoughtful comments in blue ink, while a fourth conveyed that the Chinese language...
Students enrolled in a seminar with Yale historian John Merriman gain much more than knowledge, according to Yale senior Kevin Bendesky. They also gain a “family.”
For his commitment to his students, among other traits, Merriman was recently named a...
After nearly 40 years at Yale (beginning with his time as a graduate student), President Peter Salovey says he is still impressed with the ways in which Yale and New Haven neighbors unite to improve their city.
“We bring different skills and viewpoints to...
Yale doctoral student Lindsay Stern traces the idea for her new novel “The Study of Animal Languages” to an experience she had involving a lie detector machine.
As an Amherst College undergraduate, Stern had visited the office of a philosophy professor to...