Inspired by junior goalkeeper Ona McConnell, the Yale field hockey team is launching its second annual campaign to raise awareness and funds for the Myotonic Dystrophy Foundation.McConnell was diagnosed with myotonic dystrophy, the most common form of...
Despite dire predictions about the demise of print, magazines have not reached the end of the road; they just need to blaze a new trail — albeit a challenging one.That was the hopeful message stressed by many of the expert presenters at the Yale...
Last Friday, the Yale College Class of 2015 entered Phelps Gate for the first time for the annual rite of passage that is Freshman Arrival.
Old Campus will be swarming with box-carrying students and tissue-toting parents on Friday, Aug. 26, as Yale College welcomes the 1,352 members of the Class of 2015.The freshman class was selected from an applicant pool of 27,283. Of the new students, 57...
It’s no secret that the scientific community at Yale is passionate about coffee. In fact, behind the scenes on Science Hill, many of the break rooms look more like coffee laboratories: this machine for the regular brew, that one for the espresso. It’s a...
Yale University has issued a new set of policies to maximize the safety of its undergraduate and graduate students as they work with machine tools in the wide range of shops on campus.The new policies build upon Yale’s existing student shop safety program...
The week after Michele Dufault, a Saybrook College senior and physics and astronomy major, died in a tragic laboratory accident last April, a group of faculty and students who knew her best met to discuss ways to preserve her memory. Now they have ensured...
A puppet show specially created to complement the newest exhibition at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History will be one of the highlights of the end-of-season celebration “Summer’s Last Roar: It’s a Peabody Free Day” on Saturday, Aug. 27.Betty...
French Open champion Li Na has fans around the world, and the Yale campus is no exception. Members from University’s Chinese community are among those rooting for the world’s fifth-ranked woman’s tennis player this week at the New Haven Open at Yale...
The first high school students to receive New Haven Promise scholarships were honored on July 21 at a ceremony in Sprague Hall of the Yale School of Music.President Richard C. Levin joined New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr., Connecticut Lieutenant...