Three Yale faculty members are among the 175 writers, scholars, artists, and scientists awarded 2020 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Edyta M. Bojanowska, Danna Singer, and A.L. Steiner were chosen from among 3,000 applicants...
Fueled by endless cups of coffee, French author Honoré de Balzac produced more than 90 novels and short stories peopled by 2,400-plus characters during his lifetime (1799-1850).
“Balzac’s Lives,” a new book by Yale professor Peter Brooks, presents...
Last spring, when college students found themselves isolated in quarantine, Ileana Valdez made a light-hearted offer to create a digital tool matching singles for blind dates or conversation. It quickly blew up into a full-fledged dating app, OKZoomer,...
Karena Zhao was 5 years old when she decided she wanted to be a doctor, although she had no idea what the profession involved. Now that she is graduating from Yale with a B.S. in neuroscience and hands-on experience in the medical field, she said, “I...
Once it was impossible for Nareen Barwari to imagine studying at Yale. Now, the graduating senior encourages others to see past the seemingly impossible in their own quest for higher education.
The daughter of Kurdistan refugees, Barwari was born and...
As a youngster, Ulystean J. (Jonathan) Oates ’23 hoped that he might someday become a neuroscientist.
“But then,” he said, “things happening in the world, like the police killing of Michael Brown when I was in 7th grade, spurred me to start thinking...