Yale has joined 58 other colleges and universities in a legal brief supporting a lawsuit that challenges a new federal rule denying international students visas if they take all their fall courses online.
The amicus, or “friend of the court” brief, aims...
Two new members and two returning members will begin six-year terms on the Board of Trustees, also known as the Yale Corporation, beginning July 1, 2020.
Michael J. Cavanagh ’88 B.A.
President Peter Salovey has announced the appointment of Michael J....
The COVID-19 pandemic’s devastating economic impact has intensified the need for timely and reliable economic data. A team of social scientists led by Nobel Prize-winning Yale economist William Nordhaus has pioneered a new approach to appraising the state...
A new study by Yale economists details the drastic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on U.S. small businesses and the hourly workers they employ.
The report, which covers the period from late January through June 6, shows that average hours worked in small...
Members of the Yale community gathered online June 12 for an interfaith vigil to mourn and honor black lives lost to racial injustice.
Undergraduates representing campus spiritual, religious, and cultural groups organized the vigil with the support of...
Hilton Als, the Pulitzer Prize-winning staff writer and chief theater critic for The New Yorker, was sick in bed recently as protestors marched through the streets of his lower Manhattan neighborhood demanding racial justice. Sirens blended with the...
These are traumatic times. The United States is struggling to contain a pandemic that has already claimed more than 110,000 lives here and plunged the economy into recession. Meanwhile, Americans are marching in the streets of cities across the country...
Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore advocates change.
A sharp critic of electoral democracy, she proposes a new democratic model that would empower ordinary people to define laws and set the legislative agenda on issues of national importance.
The...
Cox’s Bazar, a coastal city in southeast Bangladesh, is home to about 900,000 Rohingya refugees living in overcrowded camps. Like other forcibly displaced people across the globe — more than 70 million in all — the Rohingya are extremely vulnerable to...