Reporters often cover bad news, but in her own work Pulitzer Prize-winning author Sheryl WuDunn is also interested in writing about solutions to world problems, she told her audience at a master’s tea at Timothy Dwight College (TD) on Jan. 25.WuDunn...
For 40 years, Carla Horwitz listened to the laughter and conversation of young children as they gathered for play, classroom activities, meals, and more in the converted firehouse that is home to the Calvin Hill Day Care Center.Today, parents vie for...
Members of the Yale community shared their opinions and ideas about the renaming of Calhoun College and the naming of the two new residential colleges during four listening sessions held on campus Jan. 28 and Jan. 29.The listening sessions were hosted by...
In her just-released book, “The Importance of Being Little: What Preschoolers Really Need from Grownups” (Viking), noted early childhood educator and Silliman College associate master Erika Christakis argues that most of today’s youngest schoolchildren...
Yale School of Nursing student Shinichi Daimyo has worked and lived in some of the poorest and most rural places in the world, far from his immigrant roots in California.But the farther he has gone, the more he has realized how much his passion reflects...
If Brandon Stanton had waited for his own skills and ideas to be perfect before starting Humans of New York (HONY), the now-wildly successful blog would never have happened, he told a packed audience in Battell Chapel during his campus visit as a Poynter...
Before taking part in a conversation on “Character, Flourishing, and the Good Life” with New York Times columnist David Brooks (see related story), Yale Divinity School professor and long-time associate faculty member in the humanities Miroslav Volf...
In a conversation on “Character, Flourishing, and the Good Life” on Feb. 22, New York Times columnist David Brooks and Yale theologian Miroslav Volf agreed on at least one major point: In today’s world, people are “thirsty” to find deep meaning in their...
The story of American abolitionism is often told in a way that discounts the significance of slave resistance in the antislavery movement and is unnecessarily divided along racial lines, historian Manisha Sinha said in a Feb. 18 panel discussion on campus...