“Say cheese!” was the phrase of the day at the photo booth set up during the reunion weekend hosted by the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) May 23-25.The social media team from Yale’s Office of Public Affairs and Communications (OPAC) set up the photo...
On the sunny afternoon of May 19, Wazhma Sadat ’14 of Timothy Dwight College (TD) became the first female Afghan student to graduate from Yale College, receiving a B.A. in global affairs with distinction in the major.The new alumna traveled 6,667 miles...
The winners of the Theron Rockwell Field Prize and the John Addison Porter Prize for 2014 were announced on Commencement day.Field PrizeThe Theron Rockwell Field Prize is awarded for a poetic, literary, or religious work by any Yale student. The prize was...
After the Civil War, it became an annual tradition in many communities to decorate the graves of the fallen soldiers. Decoration Day, as it was called, later became the national holiday known as Memorial Day.
In honor of the holiday’s origins, here are...
Alice Kaplan, the John M. Musser Professor of French and chair of the Department of French, was selected by the University of California for its first Distinguished Alumni Award.The award is named in honor of Linda Duttenhaver, an alumna of the University...
Valuing biological parenthood over other forms and the shame over childlessness is worldwide and can be pernicious. “Defining human relatedness through genes and blood has been a predominant and often unquestioned notion across most cultures,” explains...
The Week Ender appears every Thursday in Yale News and offers highlights of the many activities taking place at the University Friday-Sunday.F R I D A YLearn about the life of the university’s namesake. Benjamin Zucker, a 1962 graduate of Yale College,...
The first incumbent of a newly created deanship to lead the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the newly appointed deans of the Graduate School and Yale College were announced by President Peter Salovey on May 21.Tamar Gendler has been named the...