Six of the 26 recipients of 2019 MacArthur Fellowships — known informally as “genius” grants — have ties to Yale. The awards were announced on Sept. 25.
MacArthur Fellowships — which come with a stipend of $625,000 to each recipient paid out over five...
Lynn Novick ’83 B.A. has big ambitions for her latest documentary “College Behind Bars.” The four-part series directed and produced by Novick, (co-produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns), airs in November on PBS and is being shown...
Women may be underrepresented in clean energy careers in general, but there is no shortage of Yale women alumni working in renewable energy. Credit the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FES), where more than half of the graduate 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-...
An alumnus of Yale College and the Yale School of Medicine (YSM), Dr. Kristaps Keggi currently serves as a professor emeritus and senior research scientist of orthopaedics and rehabilitation at YSM. Keggi was in Vietnam from 1965 to 1966, where he worked...
A Yale alumnus, graduate student, and undergraduate senior will be honored for their public service with Yale-Jefferson Awards.
Modeled after the national Jefferson Award (known as the “Nobel Prize for public service”), the Yale honor was established in...
While she was growing up in Los Angeles, Marina Marmolejo ’19 M.P.H. says the problem of homelessness seemed too big to address in a meaningful way. But when she came to New Haven to attend Yale School of Public Health and began working with local...
President Peter Salovey ’86 Ph.D. opened the Nov. 21 Dean’s Panel on Leadership at the Alumni Assembly in Sprague Hall by acknowledging Yale’s role in cultivating leaders and stating that such leaders have never been more necessary. “The world needs...