When Jack Beecher first arrived at Yale in the 1980s, some people were surprised to hear he was a military veteran. The implication, he figured, was that military experience was viewed as unusual and perhaps somehow incompatible with certain notions of...
On Monday night, during an online vigil to honor and remember Kevin Jiang, a Yale School of the Environment (YSE) student killed on Feb. 6, Jiang’s faculty advisor described him as the most efficient researcher he’d ever worked with at Yale — a voracious...
People often ask Mia Jackson what exactly applied mathematics is.
But in some ways, she says, it’s pretty straightforward. It’s the field of study that has allowed her, as a Yale College student, to take “math-ish” courses offered by schools and...
When she was learning to dive competitively as a young girl in Ohio, Nikki Watters had a Ukrainian coach who drove home the elements of a good dive: executing the perfect jump off the platform, keeping the toes pointed, making even the most complex dive...
In 2021, Yale established a center based at Yale Law School to focus on racial injustice, perhaps the most pernicious and deep-rooted problem facing the United States.
The Law and Racial Justice Center, now taking shape, will be a hub for related teaching...
Two Yale faculty members are among a group of 180 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists awarded 2022 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Daphne A. Brooks, a scholar of African-American literature and culture, performance...
In the early days of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, colleagues from cultural institutions elsewhere in Europe began reaching out to contemporary art curator Vasyl Cherepanyn, asking whether he was organizing or conceiving new...