Potatoes get a bad rap.
Perhaps due to the humble root vegetable’s association with French fries or as a gravy-swamped side, many people think of it as unhealthy. But potatoes are actually a smart nutritional choice, said James Benson, director of...
The Yale students’ goal is simple: inspire their peers to vote and get them registered, now and for the long term.
And the students know there’s no better time to build enthusiasm than during a U.S. presidential election year.
“We want voting to become a...
When Yale’s Howard Forman started rating colleges’ online COVID dashboards on Twitter this past September, he imagined it would remain a personal, ad-hoc exercise. Forman, a professor at the School of Public Health and School of Management, often uses the...
Yale Hospitality has Thanksgiving plans: With more than 150 students remaining on campus during the holiday break, the unit that runs the university’s dining halls will provide pre-packaged traditional Thanksgiving dinners.
Yale Hospitality also will help...
When it became clear that many Yale graduate students wouldn’t be traveling home during Thanksgiving holiday to minimize the risk of spreading the coronavirus, leaders of the Yale Graduate Student Association (GSA) decided to bring the holiday to them —...
When Whitney Bowen ’24 decided to take a break from classes at Yale earlier this year due to the COVID-19 crisis, she knew she’d miss many parts of life on campus.
Back at home in Virginia, she found chances to learn new skills virtually, and even became...
Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, a co-chair of President-elect Biden’s COVID-19 advisory board, will also lead a new White House task force dedicated to health equity.
Nunez-Smith, an associate professor of internal medicine, public health, and management at...
For Nellie Conover-Crockett ’22 making gingerbread houses with her mother as a young girl was a favorite holiday tradition. At first, they made typical structures, using a beloved gingerbread recipe. But a couple years ago, the Wisconsin native decided...
After the U.S. presidential election of 2016, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, an undocumented American from Ecuador and Yale doctoral student, decided it was time to write her story. Beyond that, she wanted to write the story of other undocumented immigrants...
More than 800 young adults, ages 18 to 24, in the greater New Haven area are estimated to be homeless, according to the Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness. But there are only 12 “emergency” beds designated specifically for this group in area...