Four Yale faculty members have been honored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) with this year’s Graduate Mentor Awards for outstanding commitment to advising and student support.
The winners are Sreeganga Chandra, associate professor of...
Two new wall murals at La Casa Cultural de Julia de Burgos, Yale’s Latine cultural center, will be commemorated at a special program on Wednesday, April 24.
One of the murals, located in La Casa’s kitchen, celebrates the diverse Latin American Indigenous...
Darwin Armenta, a senior at the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School in New Haven, spends most Tuesday evenings rehearsing with a mariachi band. He grew up listening to the music, a distinct Mexican folk genre that combines brass and strings, at...
David W. Blight, one of the country’s foremost authorities on slavery and the Civil War, will lead a course exploring the intertwined and lasting legacies of the two as part of an annual Yale lecture series that is open to the public at no charge.
The...
As students and faculty toil away on research projects in the laboratories and classrooms of the Malone Engineering Center, the building itself is playing a key part in a university-led experiment.
Malone, located at the intersection of Prospect and Grove...
This story is the second in a series about Yale’s evolution under President Peter Salovey as he prepares to return to the faculty later this year.
A few years ago, Sunil Amrith was a rising star at Harvard. A professor of history and South Asian studies,...
Karmen Englert was in college in South Dakota when, in 2008, her mother died of a drug overdose.
“I left, took off like a nomad, started selling drugs, and got in a lot of trouble,” she said.
Now incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in...
After the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, and the devastating Hamas-Israel war that has followed, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis wanted to convene an event on campus in which students could talk openly about the conflict.
On Nov. 16, he invited two...
Dinée Dorame ’15, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, was a junior at Yale when the Native American Cultural Center (NACC) opened in its own building on High Street back in the fall of 2013.
Before that, the center had been housed in several rooms on the...
A few years ago, Sybil Alexandrov, a senior lector II in the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) Department of Spanish and Portuguese, had some questions about the university’s child-rearing relief policies.
At the time, in most schools across the...