Three Yale juniors are among 396 individuals who have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships, which are given to sophomores or juniors in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields who demonstrate excellence and potential to have a lasting...
As Yale Hospitality’s Rafi Taherian was making plans to feed Yale’s now reduced on-campus population, he was also thinking of other people who might be affected by the dispersal of students and staff in response to the COVID-19 crisis: New Haven residents...
At a time when public health is on everyone’s mind, Yale’s first lady and alumna Marta Moret was honored for a lifetime of efforts to improve the health and wellbeing of fellow community members, especially the underserved.
Moret received the 2020 Spirit...
For a few hours every week, Yale sophomore Maile Harris puts on her suede-bottomed dancing shoes and waltzes, cha-chas, foxtrots, or swings. Sometimes she does the jive, rumba, quickstep, or samba. Invariably she’s got a partner: That’s ballroom.
The...
Yale sophomore Selma Abouneameh grew up in Connecticut speaking English at home, not her Palestinian father’s native language of Arabic. But this semester at Yale, she is progressing toward her goal of becoming a more fluent Arabic speaker, with this...
Yale seniors Anin Luo and Benjamin Waldman will pursue graduate work at the University of Cambridge as recipients of prestigious scholarships.
Luo is one of 28 U.S. citizens to be named Gates Cambridge Scholars. Waldman has been awarded a Keasbey Memorial...
Playful antics, collegiate costumes, and an energizing spirit of possibility marked the Fair Haven School’s winter assembly Jan. 31, where pre-school through 8th-grade students received a serious motivational pitch: It’s never too early to begin thinking...
Yale seniors Jasmine Stone and Catherine Lee are among the 16 students nationwide who have been awarded Churchill Scholarships.
Churchill Scholars, selected by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States, support one year of master’s degree...
Since becoming editor of The Yale Review in July, Meghan O’Rourke ’97 has been reimagining the quarterly journal of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and criticism for the digital age. A former editor at The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Slate, she is also...