As a prospective college student aspiring to learn about government and public policy — and especially as one who grew up in New Haven — Eli Sabin knew there was a lot to learn right here in his backyard.
Sure enough, during four years at Yale he’s had a...
In 2017, Yale launched a first-of-its kind program to explore the effectiveness of putting a price tag on carbon emissions — and it used the university campus as a laboratory.
To encourage energy-saving policies and behaviors on campus, the Yale Carbon...
Holly Powell Kennedy, an internationally renowned midwifery investigator and educator at Yale School of Nursing, will serve as the school’s interim dean while the university conducts a search for a successor to outgoing Dean Ann Kurth, President Peter...
Talk with a hundred different military veterans and you’ll get a hundred different stories, says Yale Law School (YLS) student Michael Sullivan. But in each of those stories there’s a common theme: an individual's pledge to serve a cause greater than...
Typically, the students who enroll in Karla Neugebauer’s undergraduate classes are interested in examining life at the molecular level.
But during a recent seminar discussion, Neugebauer, a professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry and of cell...
Even as a kid, Nicholas Collyge was fascinated by anthropology. Growing up in northwest Arkansas he’d devour books about the mythologies of different civilizations, trying to learn as much as he could about the world’s cultures and peoples.
“It really...
In the late 1960s, as Yale prepared to admit and welcome its first class of women undergraduates, then-President Kingman Brewster tasked Elga R. Wasserman with overseeing all aspects of the transition to coeducation, from admissions to housing to academic...
In January, Tamar Gendler began a six-month leave from her duties as dean of Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). But she was hardly sitting still.
During the spring semester, Gendler, who is also the Vincent J. Scully Professor of Philosophy and...
Years ago, when Bobby Atkinson arrived at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to begin serving with his first U.S. Air Force unit, he had already endured childhood traumas. But he was also arrogant, loud, and selfish, he told a Yale assembly Friday. And, he...
In 2020 Yale University unveiled an ambitious new initiative, Yale Planetary Solutions (YPS), that unites leadership and experts across campus, and across disciplines, to advance solutions to the greatest environmental challenges facing the planet.