“Many of us here have potential that was never realized,” said Luis (last name withheld), an incarcerated student, when reflecting on his experience in two Yale English classes. “Educational opportunities like this, which actually challenge us, help us...
“Internships are a gateway to employment for a lot of students nowadays,” says Patricia Melton ’83 B.A., president of New Haven Promise, a scholarship and support program for students who have attended the public schools in New Haven, Conn. “A lot of...
For the third summer in a row, Yale GIS (geographic information systems) librarian Miriam Olivares shared her expertise with the participants in New Haven’s annual DigiCamp — a free, three-day coding and computer technology camp for 8th to 12th graders...
Eileen Hogan describes herself as an “urban-based landscape painter.” Enclosed green spaces, the patches of natural world that coexist with human society, are her principal fascination. From sketchbook studies and photographs, she recreates London’s most...
When American moviegoers hear the phrase “Italian film,” Millicent Marcus, founder of Yale’s annual New Italian Film Festival, encourages them to think outside the black-and-white, neorealist box of 1960s classics by major directors like Fellini,...
For her pioneering work in computer science, Grace Murray Hopper ’30 M.A., ’34 Ph.D. has been dubbed the “queen of code” by her biographers. Yet, beneath that crown was the brain of a mathematician, according to an article in Notices of the American...
In 1726, a young Englishwoman named Mary Toft gave birth to 14 rabbits. Or so she claimed. A physical examination by an influential physician, who would go on to become the mentor of William Hunter — a founding father of obstetrics as well as the first...
120 years. It’s the length of the “reduced” sentence that Scott Lewis was handed by the Connecticut courts when he was convicted for murder in 1991. It’s also the title of a 2018 documentary about Lewis’ wrongful conviction and ultimate exoneration, made...
President Peter Salovey and Yale’s new director of athletics, Vicky Chun, were among the special guests celebrating the New Haven Promise Scholarship program and demonstrating their dance skills at the 10th annual Snowball event, held Feb. 1 at Fair Haven...
Every day, across 14 residential college dining halls, six cafés, five restaurants, one convenience store, and a $7 million catering operation, Yale Hospitality serves more than 14,000 meals — infusing the principles of wellness and sustainability into...