In 2012, Boston magazine published a feature story called “Lawrence, MA: City of the Damned.” It chronicled the many woes of the state’s poorest city – a mayor under investigation, a steep rise in crime, rampant drugs, and a school system that had been...
Peter Schiffer ’88 B.S., vice provost for research and professor in applied physics, told alumni at the 2018 Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) Assembly & Yale Alumni Fund Convocation that Yale is committed to making science and engineering a priority...
Over the course of 2018, YaleNews published more than 1,200 stories — from news of awards and honors to groundbreaking discoveries, campus events, Q&As, student and faculty profiles, book publications, videos, and more. Many of these stories marked a...
Composer and current Yale Quantum Institute (YQI) artist-in-residence Spencer Topel will discuss how site-specificity, notably in architecture, is inherently linked to experiential art installations — and how this informs his practice as a sound artist —...
Since he started sharing his inventions, Gabriel Mesa ’22 has been focused on using technology to help the people around him live better lives. His first submission to the Connecticut Invention Convention (CIC) — an annual competition for K-12 students...
John Goodenough ’44 B.A., a professor at the University of Texas-Austin, received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work developing the lithium-ion battery — an honor he shares with Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York-...
Putting together a list of top Yale stories for any year can be a daunting task — especially when you have more than 1,600 to choose from (that’s how many we published on YaleNews in 2019) and when each documents something about Yale that makes us proud....