For the past year, Yale scholars, librarians, New Haven community members, and student researchers have been digging through Yale’s own past for a deeper understanding of the university’s historical relationship with slavery and its legacy.
During a three...
It was near dusk on a recent evening when 20 Yale student singers and five instrumentalists performed “Glimpse Elation,” a piece by composer Derrick Skye, for the final time in the inner courtyard of Pauli Murray College.
The group had been practicing the...
In the fall of 1968, as a third-year student at Yale Law School, James Gustave Speth, who would later become dean of Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (now the School of the Environment), proposed that he and fellow law students...
Yale Law School faculty member Reginald Dwayne Betts ’16 J.D., a poet and lawyer whose own imprisonment as a teenager led him to become an advocate for incarcerated people, is one of three Yale affiliates to be awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship,...
Five Yale alumni took home Tony Awards on Sept. 26 in the categories of acting, directing, scenic design, and costume design.
The Tony Awards celebrate the best of Broadway theater. Yale-trained actors and theater professionals were also well represented...
When Newman T. Baker first tried to play the washboard years ago, he had what he describes as an almost out-of-body experience. Though he had never played before, his hands seemed to glide over the ribbed surface of the board as if, he said, “my ancestors...
In his first year at the Yale School of the Environment, Carlos Velazquez had hoped to explore his new home city of New Haven and meet some of its residents. Concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, however, kept the now second-year master’s student from...
President Peter Salovey and Yale College Dean Marvin Chun will formally welcome the members of the Yale Class of 2025 — as well as transfer students, matriculants in the Eli Whitney Students Program, and visiting international students — at Opening...
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,...
As a participant this summer in the Ulysses S. Grant Program, an enrichment program led by Yale students, middle schooler Klara Oppenheimer has “gone” on a murder mystery cruise, played the games Kahoot! and charades, and participated in a T-shirt design...
