Speaking to a small group of local teenage girls, Yale’s Dr. Marjorie Rosenthal told them about her first feminist act. “In seventh grade, we all, boys and girls, had to take typing for the first time. Well, I said, ‘I’m not going to take typing because I...
Claudia Merson likes to compare Pathways to Science to a train: “Local students get on our STEM train, and it stops at various stations, each of which represents a different field or specialty. At any station, the students can say, ‘I love this, I’m...
On May 23, 2017, the 316th commencement of Yale University was held on Old Campus. Of the over 1,332 undergraduates graduating that day, 34 students stood out. These 34 graduates in the class of 2017 were members of the inaugural class of the Freshman...
Rahul Prasad, ’84 M.S., ’87 Ph.D., chair of the AYA Board of Governors, called the 77th Assembly of the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) and the Yale Alumni Fund Convocation to order in the early morning of Nov. 16. He introduced President Salovey to open...
“For me, personally, Students of Salaam home tutoring has been the best way to deal with homesickness ever,” said Malak Nasr ’19 of Davenport College (DC). “The family speaks Arabic and cooks Middle Eastern food — it is exactly like being in Cairo, except...
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day — so important that some Yale students are dragging themselves out of bed before seven in the morning and trekking down to Wooster Square for the first two hours of their day.
They’re rising early to...
Big data is getting bigger. By 2025, genomics will have surpassed astronomy, Twitter, and YouTube to become the largest data-generating enterprise by far. What began 65 years ago when Watson, Crick, and Franklin unlocked the double helix of DNA has become...
The good life is hard to define and even harder to attain, but three Yale professors came together in a panel discussion on April 2 to propose their own answers to the question: What is the good life, and how do we live it?
Professors Jennifer Herdt (...
The Yale University Police Department will host its 8th annual “Battle of the Badges” bench-press competition Saturday, April 14. This team-based event is open to the public and will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at Payne Whitney Gymnasium, 4th floor, 70...