In his first year at the Yale School of the Environment, Carlos Velazquez had hoped to explore his new home city of New Haven and meet some of its residents. Concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic, however, kept the now second-year master’s student from...
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...
Yale Law School faculty member Reginald Dwayne Betts ’16 J.D., a poet and lawyer whose own imprisonment as a teenager led him to become an advocate for incarcerated people, is one of three Yale affiliates to be awarded a 2021 MacArthur Fellowship,...
In the fall of 1968, as a third-year student at Yale Law School, James Gustave Speth, who would later become dean of Yale’s School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (now the School of the Environment), proposed that he and fellow law students...
It was near dusk on a recent evening when 20 Yale student singers and five instrumentalists performed “Glimpse Elation,” a piece by composer Derrick Skye, for the final time in the inner courtyard of Pauli Murray College.
The group had been practicing the...
When Newman T. Baker first tried to play the washboard years ago, he had what he describes as an almost out-of-body experience. Though he had never played before, his hands seemed to glide over the ribbed surface of the board as if, he said, “my ancestors...
For the past year, Yale scholars, librarians, New Haven community members, and student researchers have been digging through Yale’s own past for a deeper understanding of the university’s historical relationship with slavery and its legacy.
During a three...
Yale alumnus Markus Reneau ’19 is among 10 individuals who have been named inaugural Marshall-Motley Scholars by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. (LDF). The scholarship covers the cost of law school to train the next generation of civil...
In their nominations for this year’s Yale College Teaching Prizes, undergraduate students praised the honored faculty members for not only shining in the classroom but also for having a meaningful impact in their lives beyond it.
The winners of this year’...
There were times when she was homeless, foraging for food in dumpsters. There were periods when she felt directionless in life, angry at a system she felt was broken and irreparable. There were times when she simply defected from society.
But now, as...