Yale Law School student Alaa Hajyahia will study anthropology at the University of Cambridge as the recipient of a prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Hajyahia was chosen in the international round of the competition.
She joins two American citizens...
Did you know that Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake” and that “War is hell” did not originate with William Tecumseh Sherman?
These are some of the fun facts one discovers in “The New Yale Book of Quotations,” edited by Fred R. Shapiro,...
After she testified before Congress in 1991 alleging sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Anita Hill ’80 J.D. heard from many people who told her that they didn’t even know that sexual harassment was against...
Of all the accolades she has received as the director-general of UNESCO, Irina Bokova is especially proud of being awarded honorary citizenship of Timbuktu in Mali last summer in recognition of UNESCO’s support in rebuilding mausoleums there that had been...
During an Oct. 19 visit to campus, noted investigative journalist Bob Woodward ’65 asked the members of his audience at Yale Law School to name the most worrisome issue facing America and the nation’s future.Gun violence, Syria, global warming, a...