Last summer, while visiting the Rainwater Observatory & Planetarium in central Mississippi for the first time with a group of high school students, astrophysicist Meg Urry observed something she’s seen countless times with her Yale students: the...
For more than three decades, members of the campus and wider communities have joined their voices with those of Yale Glee Club singers each December for the annual “Messiah Sing-along” in Battell Chapel.
It’s one of their favorite events of the year for...
In the spring semester, Yale students will reconstruct a dance created by renowned choreographer Paul Taylor that has not been performed in four decades.
They will be guided in this effort by guest artists closest to the source — members of the Paul...
On a July day this past summer, Yale junior Amanda Lloyd was about to set out for a kayaking trip with three friends on South Sandy Creek, which leads into Lake Ontario in northern New York state, when her parents warned her: “Do not swim in the lake!”...
After she testified before Congress in 1991 alleging sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Anita Hill ’80 J.D. heard from many people who told her that they didn’t even know that sexual harassment was against...
Amanda Lerner, a Ph.D. student in Slavic languages and literatures, enjoys the McDougal Graduate Student Center’s new temporary home at 135 Prospect St. because it’s a quiet place for her work, while also allowing her to grab a lunch from one of the food...
The planet Earth is in the beginning stages of a mass extinction, warned environmental activist and author Bill McKibben during his campus visit as a Chubb Fellow on Oct. 10.
McKibben is the founder of 350.org, a worldwide grassroots movement to stop...
As an assistant director of undergraduate admissions and Native outreach and recruitment coordinator, Dinée Dorame ’15 travels far and wide to inform high school students about Yale and its offerings.
For the past two summers, she has also spent her time...
For now, Yale clinical faculty member Katherine Malensek isn’t bothered by the fact that the living room in her home is more art studio than sitting space.
More often than not, the room is littered with an easel, paints, crayons, and other supplies, as...
A couple of years ago, Yale Police officer Joe Funaro decided to sell his Bianchi road bike because it was hardly being used. No one showed any interest, which today Funaro sees as good fortune.
Shortly afterward, while working out in the gym, an...