For the first time in modern memory, a forecast of thunderstorms forced Class Day exercises to be held inside on May 20, but members of the Class of 2018 seemed to take the change of plans in stride.
They were in high spirits as they gathered in Woolsey...
Mark Baldwin, a member of the Brothertown Indian Nation, had what he describes as a “transcendent experience” during a recent visit to Yale.
For the first time in his life, he heard hymnal music composed by one of his tribal ancestors and sung in the...
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...
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...
As part of its 100th-year celebration, the Yale Concert Band will open its season with a concert featuring a duo of pieces from 1918 and will play a piece in honor of Leonard Bernstein, who shared a birthday with the band (also 1918).