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...
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...
Last spring, Emme Magliato was studying remotely from her home in Poughkeepsie, New York when she received a group text from a high school friend. Krishna Koka, who studies at the University of Michigan, was worried that his mother, a healthcare worker,...
Four Yale alumni are among 76 graduate students who have been named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University.
They are Mez Belo-Osagie ’16, a Ph.D. candidate in political science in Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences; Charlotte...
Ten Yale seniors and a Yale College alumna have been awarded fellowships from a variety of organizations for graduate study at Oxford and Cambridge universities. These are in addition to students, previously announced in YaleNews, who have won Rhodes, ...