Yale is ramping up opportunities in entrepreneurship focused on healthcare and life sciences this year, said Chris Loose, executive director of the new Center for Biomedical and Interventional Technology (CBIT) a session held Nov. 13 as part of the...
In 2012, Boston magazine published a feature story called “Lawrence, MA: City of the Damned.” It chronicled the many woes of the state’s poorest city – a mayor under investigation, a steep rise in crime, rampant drugs, and a school system that had been...
The Kon-Tiki expedition – when Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, five crew members, and a Spanish-speaking parrot journeyed by raft across the Pacific Ocean in 1947 – was inspired by his conviction that people from South America settled in...
As a Yale freshman, Peggy Kuo (’85 B.A.) remembers being struck by the financial comfort of many of her peers — how easily they had transitioned to this collegiate world via the prep school track. “Yale was a big departure from the world I had come from...
Startup Yale, which began as a combined effort among a number of campus organizations to raise awareness of entrepreneurship has grown into something much larger. The now week-long series — happening April 16-20 at Yale School of Management and other...
Leobardo Espinoza Jr. (’17 B.A.) was one of just a handful of students selected by The New York Times in 2013 to blog about his experience applying to colleges. In the series, he wonders about whether to take a gap year to study abroad, writes of his...
A planned trip this summer to Cape Town, South Africa, will mark the first time in the Yale Alumni Service Corps’ (YASC) decade-long history that Yale faculty have accompanied the volunteers to a program in Africa. It’s an important milestone, says Joao...
Two alumni are on the ballot of this year’s Alumni Fellow Election, which will determine the next alumni fellow of the Yale board of trustees, known formally as the Yale Corporation. Voting opened on April 11 to eligible alumni around the world. The...
