So intense was her grief after her husband’s sudden death that noted poet Elizabeth Alexander ’84 could only produce what she calls “animal sounds” when she first put pen to paper to write of her experience.
Those “sounds” eventually became sentence...
When she was growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, journalist and author April Ryan often gathered with her family to hear popular CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite broadcast the news. When he did, he presented the facts — relaying the “five W’s” of who, what,...
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...
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...
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...