Yale alumna Mary-Alice Daniel ’08 decided she wanted be a poet at the age of 17 while listening to a reading of poems by a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, America’s longest-running poetry award.
Nearly two decades later, she has won that...
“A Raisin in the Sun,” the celebrated play by Lorraine Hansberry, was in tryouts at New Haven’s Shubert Theatre on Jan. 11, 1959, when the 29-year-old playwright shared her thoughts with the producing team about the previous night’s performance. In a two-...
Sean Massa, who earned a Master of Arts in Religion at the Yale Divinity School in 2018, has been awarded a 2022 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship in a competitive nationwide process.
The fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State...
Five Yale alumni took home Tony Awards on Sept. 26 in the categories of acting, directing, scenic design, and costume design.
The Tony Awards celebrate the best of Broadway theater. Yale-trained actors and theater professionals were also well represented...
Lynn Novick ’83 B.A. has big ambitions for her latest documentary “College Behind Bars.” The four-part series directed and produced by Novick, (co-produced by Sarah Botstein, and executive produced by Ken Burns), airs in November on PBS and is being shown...
Students enrolled in a seminar with Yale historian John Merriman gain much more than knowledge, according to Yale senior Kevin Bendesky. They also gain a “family.”
For his commitment to his students, among other traits, Merriman was recently named a...
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...
For students in the “Intro to Public Humanities” class, the city of New Haven is their classroom. Instead of cramming for a final before Christmas break, they are “putting something out into the world,” says Ryan André Brasseaux ’11 Ph.D., dean of...
