Six individuals with ties to Yale, including two members of the Department of English faculty, have been honored with 2016 MacArthur Fellowships for their creative contributions and talent. They are among 23 individuals to win the prestigious award,...
Yale University will host a panel on “Free Speech” on Friday, March 2 looking at the issues of balance between free speech and inclusivity on college and university campuses.
Topics will include the difference between free speech and hate speech and the...
Betsy West, a renowned video journalist and filmmaker, will talk about the making of her documentary “RBG,” a film about about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, on Tuesday, Nov. 13 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
“Every generation in American history has had its own set of moral dilemmas, controversies, and questions about the laws of war,” said John Fabian Witt, the Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law, speaking on Nov. 15 at the Yale Law School....
Over the course of 2018, YaleNews published more than 1,200 stories — from news of awards and honors to groundbreaking discoveries, campus events, Q&As, student and faculty profiles, book publications, videos, and more. Many of these stories marked a...
Muneer Ahmad, James Forman Jr., and Samuel Moyn were appointed to endowed professorships.
Ahmad, named as the Sol Goldman Clinical Professor of Law, focuses his teaching, scholarship, and practice on the intersections of immigration, race, and citizenship...
Did you know that Marie Antoinette never said “Let them eat cake” and that “War is hell” did not originate with William Tecumseh Sherman?
These are some of the fun facts one discovers in “The New Yale Book of Quotations,” edited by Fred R. Shapiro,...