In 2020, while co-teaching a course called “Eurasian Entanglements: Russia and China in the 20th century” for the Yale Alumni Academy, Jinyi Chu listened to former students reminisce about the courses they took on campus 40 or more years earlier. The...
After the American Indian Sovereignty Project was established last summer, its leaders knew that they would be busy with scholarly engagements in contemporary issues in federal Indian law. But the group, a collaboration between Yale and New York...
As the granddaughter of Armenian genocide survivors, Dr. Sharon Chekijian, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Yale, has long had an interest in her family’s native country. She visited for the first time as a college student in 1991 as part...
In the latest edition of Humanitas, a column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, we delve into the 18th-century correspondence of Alethea Stiles, the young cousin of a future Yale president whose letters offer a window into women’s education in...
Three Yale juniors — Emma Levin, Eric Sun, and Hamilton Wan — are among the 417 students across the nation who have been awarded Goldwater Scholarships for the 2022-2023 academic year. The scholarships, named in honor of the late U.S. Senator Barry...
In the fall of 2020, Yale President Peter Salovey encouraged every school and administrative division on campus to evaluate what they were doing to create a community where equity and respect are standard for all who study, teach, and work here. As part...
Sean Massa, who earned a Master of Arts in Religion at the Yale Divinity School in 2018, has been awarded a 2022 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship in a competitive nationwide process.
The fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State...
Yale alumna Maya Juman ’20 and senior Jennifer Miao ’22 are among 23 U.S. citizens who have been selected to be part of the 2022 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge.
They, along with about 60 scholars from other parts of the...
As a Yale undergraduate, Hussein Fancy ’97 majored in English, with aspirations to be a writer. Today, as he teaches and conducts research on medieval Iberia, Fancy thinks of himself as a “writer of history” rather than as a historian. This month he...
Yale University has extended its commitment to New Haven Promise, a college scholarship and career development program that has supported more than 2,200 New Haven Public School students, through June 2026. The university will also increase its financial...
