As part of her expanded role leading the Belonging at Yale initiative, Kimberly Goff-Crews has been meeting with university leaders — including the deans of Yale College, the Graduate School, and the professional schools — as well as with staff members,...
As Yale Hospitality’s Rafi Taherian was making plans to feed Yale’s now reduced on-campus population, he was also thinking of other people who might be affected by the dispersal of students and staff in response to the COVID-19 crisis: New Haven residents...
Food deliveries to homebound and infirm city residents and to frontline workers, laptops for schoolchildren who need them for remote learning, and emergency financial support for residents in two economically struggling New Haven neighborhoods — these are...
Seven Yale faculty members are among the artists, intellectuals, and prominent leaders newly elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for innovative accomplishments in their fields.
“The new members of the class of 2020 have...
Two current graduate students and three Yale College alumni are among the 49 students from 20 countries named as inaugural Knight-Hennessy Scholars. They are Yale Law School student Zoe Weinberg and School of Forestry & Environmental Studies student...
Before President Peter Salovey embarked on his inaugural trip to Africa during spring break, YaleNews took the opportunity to chat with three students from the two countries he will visit: Kenya and Ghana. The president’s trip takes place in the fifth...
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...
President Peter Salovey on Oct. 14 announced nine actions to enhance diversity, promote equity on campus, and foster an environment in which all community members feel welcome, included, and respected.
The initial commitments, which represent the next...
Four years ago, while grieving the deaths of two close friends in separate accidents, Yale senior Mary Yap began asking herself some deep questions about life and her own place in it.
“It was a really rough year, and a reminder that life is short,” said...
While doing research as an undergraduate in Australia during the late-1970s, Naomi Rogers stumbled upon some dusty volumes of the British Medical Journal in her university’s medical library. They hadn’t been used in a very long time, but for Rogers — who...