Yale President Peter Salovey and Provost Scott Strobel are drawing on the insights and ingenuity of Yale experts as they chart the university’s course for the next academic year amid the ongoing public health crisis and its negative financial consequences...
Yale has joined 58 other colleges and universities in a legal brief supporting a lawsuit that challenges a new federal rule denying international students visas if they take all their fall courses online.
The amicus, or “friend of the court” brief, aims...
Artist Barbara Earl Thomas has accepted a commission to design a new set of windows for the dining hall of Yale’s Grace Hopper College that will confront and contextualize the history of the residential college’s name, which originally honored 19th-...
Yale University will soon welcome more than 1,900 undergraduates to live and study on campus, a step that follows months of intensive preparations for a fall semester in which fastidious attention to health and safety will serve communal teaching,...
Yale University strongly opposes a federal proposal to end the longstanding “duration of status” visa policy that allows international students to stay in the United States until they complete their degrees.
In late September, the U.S. Department of...
Yale undergraduate Henry Jacob had planned to spend last summer sifting through archives in the United States and Canada researching a proposed senior thesis on the Knights of the Golden Circle, a secretive militant group that sought to form a slave...
On Oct. 29, 2012, a storm surge from Hurricane Sandy swamped the South End of Bridgeport, Connecticut, inundating the city’s low-lying neighborhoods. Just one year earlier, Tropical Storm Irene flooded the same area, damaging homes, businesses, and public...
When a door, cabinet, or just about any other wooden fixture on campus needs replacement or repair, the craftsmen in Yale’s millwork shop stand ready to help. But as the university prepared to welcome back students this fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic,...
On a foggy October morning, a crew of students from the Yale School of Architecture assembled the wooden frame of a one-story building on Horse Island, a 17-acre property off the coast of Branford, Connecticut.
The whir of power drills accompanied the...
The fossilized bones of Poposaurus, an early crocodilian species that once roamed modern day Utah, spent more than 200 million years embedded in rock before Yale paleontologists began excavating them in 2003. For the past 15 years, researchers from across...