One month after planting beets on the Yale Farm, Julia Fleming-Dresser ’19 was happy to see that the plants were thriving. On the hot July day that she helped put them in the ground, the beets were so wilted that she didn’t think they’d survive.
“It’s a...
So intense was her grief after her husband’s sudden death that noted poet Elizabeth Alexander ’84 could only produce what she calls “animal sounds” when she first put pen to paper to write of her experience.
Those “sounds” eventually became sentence...
Yale undergraduate Maya Juman spent four weeks this summer at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) cleaning up a scientific mess concerning a species of tree shrew.
Juman, a junior majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology, is...
Ben Reiter ’02 B.A. can trace the beginning of his sports-writing career to a class in advanced nonfiction writing he took with Yale professor Fred Strebeigh. For one assignment, he wrote a story focused on the demise of the Milford Jai-Alai fronton — a...
“It’s nothing less than the most democratic deed the world had ever seen, and the world would never be the same.”
Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science Akhil Amar discusses what makes the U.S. Constitution unique and why we celebrate...
President Peter Salovey and Provost Ben Polak today announced a $26 million initiative to recruit and retain preeminent faculty. Their letter to faculty about the initiative follows.
Dear Colleagues,
Yale is the research university most committed to...
Alexander Heffner, journalist and author, will speak at Yale on Wednesday, Sept. 19 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.