When the COVID-19 pandemic hit last March, Sister Margaret Mary Kennedy knew that some of the people she works with through Fair Haven’s Springs Learning Center suddenly faced a painful question: Do I buy food for my family or pay this month’s rent?
The...
The administration of high-dose buprenorphine therapy in hospital emergency departments (ED) may safely and rapidly diminish withdrawal symptoms and sustain craving suppression in people with opioid use disorder, improving their likelihood of accessing...
Four junior faculty members in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have been honored for pioneering scientific or humanities research in their scholarly fields.
Jennifer Allen, an associate professor of history, received the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman...
As a woman of color in a male-dominated field, biomedical engineer Anjelica Gonzalez strives always to remind — and sometimes convince — students that anyone can make a career in science and technology.
For her efforts to promote inclusion and belonging...
As a participant this summer in the Ulysses S. Grant Program, an enrichment program led by Yale students, middle schooler Klara Oppenheimer has “gone” on a murder mystery cruise, played the games Kahoot! and charades, and participated in a T-shirt design...
Did you know that Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake” and that “War is hell” did not originate with William Tecumseh Sherman?
These are some of the fun facts one discovers in “The New Yale Book of Quotations,” edited by Fred R. Shapiro,...
President Peter Salovey and Yale College Dean Marvin Chun will formally welcome the members of the Yale Class of 2025 — as well as transfer students, matriculants in the Eli Whitney Students Program, and visiting international students — at Opening...
In his first year at the Yale School of the Environment, Carlos Velazquez had hoped to explore his new home city of New Haven and meet some of its residents. Concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, however, kept the now second-year master’s student from...
When Newman T. Baker first tried to play the washboard years ago, he had what he describes as an almost out-of-body experience. Though he had never played before, his hands seemed to glide over the ribbed surface of the board as if, he said, “my ancestors...