Louise Glück, an adjunct professor of English at Yale and renowned poet whose evocative voice has for decades shaped the literary landscape, on Oct. 8 received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Royal Swedish National Academy announced.
Glück, who...
After the U.S. presidential election of 2016, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, an undocumented American from Ecuador and Yale doctoral student, decided it was time to write her story. Beyond that, she wanted to write the story of other undocumented immigrants...
Thomas Russell Whitaker, the Fredrick W. Hilles Professor of English & Theater Studies, Emeritus, scholar of modern poetry and drama, died at Middlesex Hospital in Connecticut on Dec. 24. He was 95 years old.
Whitaker was known for the breadth of his...
David Post, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed dean of faculty of Yale-NUS College, effective July 1, 2021, for a term of three years.
Post, who will succeed Dean of Faculty Jeannette...
Over the past decade, Yale has been among the most prolific institutions in producing recipients of the Fulbright U.S. Student award, the government’s flagship international exchange program. Nearly 100 Yale students or alumni have won the prestigious...
Eight members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have recently been named to endowed professorships by vote of Yale’s Board of Trustees.
They are:
Keith Baker, a particle physicist known for his contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson...
Eight members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have recently been named to endowed professorships by vote of Yale’s Board of Trustees.
They are:
Sarbani Basu, whose discoveries have changed our understanding of the structure of the sun and the...