Putting together a list of top Yale stories for any year can be a daunting task — especially when you have more than 1,600 to choose from (that’s how many we published on YaleNews in 2019) and when each documents something about Yale that makes us proud....
When Demi Knight Clark decided to launch She Built This City, a social venture that aims to create pathways for women into manufacturing and construction careers, the cause was personal.
She’d been working for 20 years in executive leadership roles in...
President Peter Salovey ’86 Ph.D. opened the Nov. 21 Dean’s Panel on Leadership at the Alumni Assembly in Sprague Hall by acknowledging Yale’s role in cultivating leaders and stating that such leaders have never been more necessary. “The world needs...
While she was growing up in Los Angeles, Marina Marmolejo ’19 M.P.H. says the problem of homelessness seemed too big to address in a meaningful way. But when she came to New Haven to attend Yale School of Public Health and began working with local...
A Yale alumnus, graduate student, and undergraduate senior will be honored for their public service with Yale-Jefferson Awards.
Modeled after the national Jefferson Award (known as the “Nobel Prize for public service”), the Yale honor was established in...
An alumnus of Yale College and the Yale School of Medicine (YSM), Dr. Kristaps Keggi currently serves as a professor emeritus and senior research scientist of orthopaedics and rehabilitation at YSM. Keggi was in Vietnam from 1965 to 1966, where he worked...
John Goodenough ’44 B.A., a professor at the University of Texas-Austin, received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work developing the lithium-ion battery — an honor he shares with Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York-...