When a door, cabinet, or just about any other wooden fixture on campus needs replacement or repair, the craftsmen in Yale’s millwork shop stand ready to help. But as the university prepared to welcome back students this fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic,...
A federal district judge has invalidated sweeping restrictions the Trump administration sought to impose on the H-1B “specialty worker” visa program that Yale and other research universities rely on to hire foreign faculty members, postdoctoral fellows,...
Yale undergraduate Henry Jacob had planned to spend last summer sifting through archives in the United States and Canada researching a proposed senior thesis on the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secretive militant group that sought to form a slave...
The fossilized bones of Poposaurus, an early crocodilian species that once roamed modern day Utah, spent more than 200 million years embedded in rock before Yale paleontologists began excavating them in 2003. For the past 15 years, researchers from across...
Yale University strongly opposes a federal proposal to end the longstanding “duration of status” visa policy that allows international students to stay in the United States until they complete their degrees.
In late September, the U.S. Department of...
Like many parents in the Yale community, Tammy Raccio found herself scrambling to balance job and childcare responsibilities last spring.
Her son, Anthony, then a sixth grader and with special needs, required her help with remote learning. Her husband,...
Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will welcome 30 new colleagues this academic year who bring world-class scholarship and teaching in a range of fields, including Egyptology, quantum physics, 17th-century English poetry, machine learning, and...
Yale University will soon welcome more than 1,900 undergraduates to live and study on campus, a step that follows months of intensive preparations for a fall semester in which fastidious attention to health and safety will serve communal teaching,...
It was the evening of Thursday, Aug. 6, two days after Tropical Storm Isaias ripped through Connecticut, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without electric power. United Illuminating (UI), one of the principal utility companies in the state, had...
Artist Barbara Earl Thomas has accepted a commission to design a new set of windows for the dining hall of Yale’s Grace Hopper College that will confront and contextualize the history of the residential college’s name, which originally honored 19th-...