Over 150 Yalies have been Olympic athletes. In a rare occurrence this fall, three Olympians in a sport that turns athletes into human “bullets” were on campus at once.
Kyle Tress ’22, a junior in the Eli Whitney Students Program, School of Management (SOM...
In 1964, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Florida for ordering food in a “whites-only” motel. Just two days after he was released on bail from the St. Augustine jail, he was celebrated at Yale, where he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws degree...
Since becoming editor of The Yale Review in July, Meghan O’Rourke ’97 has been reimagining the quarterly journal of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and criticism for the digital age. A former editor at The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and Slate, she is also...
Yale seniors Jasmine Stone and Catherine Lee are among the 16 students nationwide who have been awarded Churchill Scholarships.
Churchill Scholars, selected by the Winston Churchill Foundation of the United States, support one year of master’s degree...
Playful antics, collegiate costumes, and an energizing spirit of possibility marked the Fair Haven School’s winter assembly Jan. 31, where pre-school through 8th-grade students received a serious motivational pitch: It’s never too early to begin thinking...
Yale seniors Anin Luo and Benjamin Waldman will pursue graduate work at the University of Cambridge as recipients of prestigious scholarships.
Luo is one of 28 U.S. citizens to be named Gates Cambridge Scholars. Waldman has been awarded a Keasbey Memorial...
Yale sophomore Selma Abouneameh grew up in Connecticut speaking English at home, not her Palestinian father’s native language of Arabic. But this semester at Yale, she is progressing toward her goal of becoming a more fluent Arabic speaker, with this...
For a few hours every week, Yale sophomore Maile Harris puts on her suede-bottomed dancing shoes and waltzes, cha-chas, foxtrots, or swings. Sometimes she does the jive, rumba, quickstep, or samba. Invariably she’s got a partner: That’s ballroom.
The...
During her 50 years as a teacher, almost 30 of them at Yale, Sterling Professor of English Ruth Yeazell ’71 Ph.D. has sometimes wondered if, fired up by her literary passions, she talks too much in her classes.
So, in two of her three classes this...
Dirt and dirtiness are ubiquitous — but the ways we conceive of it vary in ways both cultural and personal. In her new book, “Histories of Dirt: Media and Urban Life in Colonial and Postcolonial Lagos” (Duke University Press), Yale English Professor...