One month after planting beets on the Yale Farm, Julia Fleming-Dresser ’19 was happy to see that the plants were thriving. On the hot July day that she helped put them in the ground, the beets were so wilted that she didn’t think they’d survive.
“It’s a...
Yale’s efforts to reduce emissions and become carbon neutral by 2050 received international attention earlier this month when students, faculty, staff, and alumni participated in the Global Climate Action Summit. A gathering of world leaders, governors...
The government of Rwanda and Yale have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to foster greater cooperation and collaboration in the areas of education and research in sustainable development and environmental protection and conservation.
The signing of the...
Yale Explores made its first stop of the 2018-2019 academic year on Oct. 3 at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. The evening’s program focused on a new topic, planetary health, while also touching on the same themes as in the earlier...
Follow Aly Moore’s Instagram account for Bugible, and if you’re like most people, you’ll be both fascinated and a little queasy. The images show artfully arranged dishes with bugs as the centerpiece — a scorpion atop a round of goat cheese and baked beets...
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...
In addition to the students previously announced in YaleNews as winners of Rhodes, Marshall, Gates-Cambridge scholarships, the following students have received fellowships or scholarships to study at Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Griffin Black
A Yale-led project examining the link between explosive volcanic eruptions and the annual Nile river summer flooding in antiquity has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The project, titled “Volcanism, Hydrology and Social...
