Fifty years ago, Yale’s first Earth Day unfolded against a backdrop of unrest.
The previous evening, about 4,500 students and faculty had gathered at Ingalls Rink to discuss a proposed campus-wide strike in solidarity with members of the Black Panther...
The Whiffenpoofs, the country’s oldest a cappella group, celebrated its 110th anniversary this past October at Battell Chapel, with many alumni in attendance. Now, when the singers would have been preparing for their world tour, they are instead self-...
When the coronavirus pandemic derailed the spring semester, the members of Whim ’n Rhythm — Yale’s all-senior, soprano-alto a cappella group — were in the process of recording their annual studio album, a musical capsule of their year together. Now, all...
Recent Yale College graduate Jordan Lampo ’20 experienced a life-defining moment on a Yale stage before she was ever a student on campus.
As a rising senior at New Haven’s Wilbur Cross High School, she was called up to the stage of Yale’s Sprague Memorial...
Hilton Als, the Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer and chief theater critic for The New Yorker, was sick in bed recently as protestors marched through the streets of his lower Manhattan neighborhood demanding racial justice. Sirens blended with the...
The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has named Nichole Nelson, who earned her Ph.D. in history from Yale in May, one of 22 new Mellon/ACLS Public Fellows for 2020.
Now in its 10th year, the Public Fellows program places recent Ph.D.s in...
Three faculty members at Yale School of Drama have been named to endowed professorships by vote of the Yale Board of Trustees. They are:
Alan Hendrickson as the Henry McCormick Professor in the Practice of Technical Design and Production. Read story....