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...
If it weren’t for the fact that one weekend of this year’s City-Wide Open Studios (CWOS) is taking place on Yale’s West Campus, Yale staff member Andrea Miller might not be making new art.
Miller spent much of her adult life working full-time as a fiber...
Two major events have been planned on campus in celebration of Indigenous Peoples’ Day, officially marked on Monday, Oct. 8.
“Indigenous Peoples’ Day (IPD) is a celebration of Native peoples’ resistance and survival amidst centuries of settler colonialism...
A new website has been launched to help undergraduates manage their money and budgets. The site, Financial Literacy: Managing Your Money at Yale, also features the new online funding request system, SafetyNet, through which undergraduates can request...
At a certain time in his life, Yale School of Music graduate Daniel Juarez M.M. ’02 aspired to a successful career as an opera star. These days, however, he measures success a bit differently.
Today, he says, he has the “best of both worlds”: a job at...
To celebrate Yale’s hosting of City-Wide Open Studios (CWOS) on the West Campus, all members of the campus community are invited to a special Preview Day on Friday, Oct. 26, when they can view the works of over 200 artists — as well as special events and...
When she was growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, journalist and author April Ryan often gathered with her family to hear popular CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite broadcast the news. When he did, he presented the facts — relaying the “five W’s” of who, what,...
As he was nearing the end of his service as a U.S. Army Ranger and thinking about college, Andrew Nguyen ’22 couldn’t imagine he’d ever be admitted to Yale.
Now in his first semester on campus as a student in the university’s Eli Whitney Students Program...
On his official website, Yale sophomore Ziad Ahmed describes himself as “just your average teenager grappling with identity, struggling to balance it all, pursuing his passions, and spending way too much time on Twitter.”
As of this writing, he had not...