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...
“Art gives us visions into the future, and music makes us feel where we want to go. It is often artists or musicians who help us to feel that which we have not learned how to say. It is really art that shows us the way.”
Civil Rights icon Angela Davis...
Jonathan Holloway ’95 Ph.D., who served as dean of Yale College from 2014 to 2017, was named the 21st president of Rutgers University on Jan. 21, becoming the first African American to lead New Jersey’s largest research university.
Holloway, a noted...
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...
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has honored chemist John C. Tully and psychologist Richard N. Aslin, both of Yale, with 2020 awards for scientific achievement. The academy announced honors for 15 scientists Jan. 22 in a range of fields spanning the...