At the head of every Yale Commencement procession is a marshal holding a mace depicting the mythical “Yael” — a creature with the head of a goat, boar-like tusks, golden horns alternately curling front and back, and a protruding red tongue.
Among the...
Over the course of 2018, YaleNews published more than 1,200 stories — from news of awards and honors to groundbreaking discoveries, campus events, Q&As, student and faculty profiles, book publications, videos, and more. Many of these stories marked a...
Commons dining hall at the Schwarzman Center is closed as of Aug. 14, marking the beginning of the building’s approximately three-year metamorphosis into a center for Yale undergraduate and graduate/professional students.
Each day, Commons serves lunch to...
A cat, a dog, and a mysterious ancient monster made YaleNews headlines in 2016, as did research on topics ranging from Zika to climate change to opioid addiction. All told, YaleNews published upwards of 1,900 articles in 2016. Here — in no particular...
Increasing diversity is not just an ideological goal, it is a practical one as well, said Professor Marvin Chun, speaking at a town hall on diversity in the workplace held Feb. 22.Studies have shown that homogenous groups of scholars perform more poorly...