What does it mean to teach during a global pandemic? Even beyond the shift to Zoom classrooms and virtual lectures, it has for many Yale professors meant rethinking how a course can serve as a shared intellectual pursuit and also a chance for finding much...
Before COVID-19 became a massive global health threat, Yale epidemiology professor Nathan Grubaugh mainly relied on Twitter as a direct line of communication with fellow scientists, especially if he wanted a fast response to a scientific inquiry.
“It was...
Since September, women across Yale have been examining their history at one of America’s oldest universities. They’ve been celebrating unsung trailblazers, adding materials to Sterling Library’s History of Coeducation, and recording their remembrances. As...
The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and the United Nations Women for Peace Association will co-host “Emotional Intelligence and Peacebuilding” Jan. 14 at the United Nations in New York City.
Leaders from the fields of social and emotional learning...
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...
In 2010, there were no veterans attending Yale College. Now, 16 veterans and one active duty Marine Corps member attend Yale as undergraduates, and there are dozens more in the graduate and professional schools. There’s also a thriving Yale Veterans...
Phyllis Mugadza ’21 B.S. says she wasn’t entirely familiar with the U.S. college experience when attending high school in Zimbabwe, but when she learned about the Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS) program, she applied and was accepted. “It was the first...
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-...
The Yale Whiffenpoofs — the country’s oldest college a cappella group — turn 110 this year. To celebrate, they are hosting a major concert on Oct. 11 at Battell Chapel, featuring not only members of the Whiffenpoofs past and present, but also current...
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...