There are some lessons that musical artist Paul Simon has learned through his songwriting career that can also be applied to any other endeavor in life, he told a packed audience on April 5 in Battell Chapel, where he took part in a conversation with his...
Pictured are some of the members of the Yale Hospitality team. Back row, from left — Ron DeSantis, Michael van Emmenes, James Filtz, Dan Flynn, Cathy Van Dyke, and Robert Sullivan. Front row, from left — Pedro Tello, Dana Courtney, Rafi Taherian, Adam...
One of the most moving experiences journalist April Ryan has had during her 28 years of covering the White House happened while attending an art exhibition with former First Lady Laura Bush.Bush had invited Ryan to walk from the White House across the...
In a conversation on “Character, Flourishing, and the Good Life” on Feb. 22, New York Times columnist David Brooks and Yale theologian Miroslav Volf agreed on at least one major point: In today’s world, people are “thirsty” to find deep meaning in their...
Before taking part in a conversation on “Character, Flourishing, and the Good Life” with New York Times columnist David Brooks (see related story), Yale Divinity School professor and long-time associate faculty member in the humanities Miroslav Volf...
The story of American abolitionism is often told in a way that discounts the significance of slave resistance in the antislavery movement and is unnecessarily divided along racial lines, historian Manisha Sinha said in a Feb. 18 panel discussion on campus...
If Brandon Stanton had waited for his own skills and ideas to be perfect before starting Humans of New York (HONY), the now-wildly successful blog would never have happened, he told a packed audience in Battell Chapel during his campus visit as a Poynter...
In her just-released book, “The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups” (Viking), noted early childhood educator and Silliman College associate master Erika Christakis argues that most of today’s youngest schoolchildren...