Achieving Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of racial equality in the United States will require a “radical transformation” in American values and organization, community activist and artist Bree Newsome told a large crowd Jan. 24 in Battell Chapel.
“A...
Two current graduate students and three Yale College alumni are among the 49 students from 20 countries named as inaugural Knight-Hennessy Scholars. They are Yale Law School student Zoe Weinberg and School of Forestry & Environmental Studies student...
Four Yale affiliates — two current undergraduates and two Yale College alumni — are among the 35 U.S. citizens named as Gates Cambridge Scholars for 2018.
They are Robert Henderson ’18, Malina Simard-Halm ’18, Jane Menton ’15, and Seth Kolker ’15....
Before President Peter Salovey embarked on his inaugural trip to Africa during spring break, YaleNews took the opportunity to chat with three students from the two countries he will visit: Kenya and Ghana. The president’s trip takes place in the fifth...
As a molecular biophysics and biochemistry major, Yale sophomore Brennan Carman has encountered websites and online course materials that relay scientific information via graphs, diagrams, and pictures. For Carman, who is visually impaired and uses screen...
Words like “amazing,” “superb,” and “fantastic” are understatements when it comes to describing Frances Rosenbluth, the Damon Wells Professor of Political Science, said Yale College senior Johannes Behringer in announcing the Yale professor as a winner of...
As a child, one of Amelia Nierenberg’s favorite games was to play “journalist,” during which she would stage interviews with her grandmother.
During her time on campus, the Yale senior became a journalist for real, writing opinion pieces for the Yale...
Three Yale juniors have been announced as winners of prestigious scholarships for study and research.
Jane Zhang has been named a 2018 Udall Scholar, Fernando Rojas has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship, and Jonathan Greenberg has won a Boren...
For over a month, students, fellows, and staff members in Timothy Dwight College (TD) have enjoyed peering up toward the dining hall ceiling to look at two brightly colored quilts. Some even feel a little bit like they are being “watched over” by someone...
As he sets his sights on graduation and his future, Yale senior Rob Henderson can’t help but to reflect on how the kindnesses of others — many of them strangers — helped lead him to this point.
In fact, says Henderson, it’s hard for him to imagine he’d...