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Yale alumni, students, and faculty at the forefront of environmental law

February 9, 2024

Members of the Yale Law School community are fighting to hold government officials and private companies accountable for their contributions to climate change.

Preserving democracy, one record at a time: U.S. Archivist Colleen Shogan

February 7, 2024

Shogan ’02 Ph.D., the first woman to be appointed U.S. Archivist, last week visited campus for a public conversation about her career and her time at Yale.

Freedom to be ‘beautiful and Black’: Yale Black Seminarians at 55

February 6, 2024

Current YBS president The Rev. Andre Cortez Gilford Jr. ’24 M.Div. reflects on the organization’s past and future, lessons from Black churches, and more.

A collaborative chorus: The Yale Camerata, 1985–2024

February 6, 2024

For nearly forty years, the Yale Camerata has forged musical connections between the New Haven and Yale communities.

‘One of the greatest lawyers who ever lived’: Remembering Warner T. McGuinn

January 31, 2024

McGuinn, a member of Yale Law School’s Class of 1887, was the one degree of separation between Mark Twain and Thurgood Marshall.

What does it take to build a zero-emission hotel?

January 25, 2024

SOM alumnus Bruce Becker shares how financial and environmental sustainability met in transforming New Haven’s historic Pirelli Building into a boutique hotel.

In new volume, Robert Post tells story of Taft court in its own time

January 23, 2024

After 35 years and 1,608 pages, Yale’s Robert C. Post has written the definitive history of the U.S. Supreme Court under Chief Justice William Howard Taft.

Leander E. Keck, 1928–2024

January 19, 2024

Internationally recognized New Testament scholar and former Yale Divinity School dean Leander E. Keck ’57 Ph.D. died earlier this week at age 95.

MBA student Caroline Smith adds an additional role: Serving as city alder

January 18, 2024

On Jan. 1, Smith, a first-year M.B.A. student and longtime local activist, was sworn in to the New Haven Board of Alders, representing the city’s Ninth Ward.

PODCAST | Challenging assumptions about women in the Bible

January 10, 2024

Scholar and author Julie Faith Parker ’02 S.T.M., ’09 Ph.D. interprets the Bible through a feminist lens, reclaiming the biblical figure of Eve as a hero.