3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (280+ words) YaleNews In the dark days following the Sept. 11 attacks, a Yale alumnus helped the nation see a bit of light again. Richard Nash Gould ’68 ’72 M. Arch. co-created “Tribute in Light,” the now-iconic public art installation of two beams of light…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (526+ words) Yale College recently welcomed 1,652 new first-year students, 28 new transfer students, and 35 new adult students participating in the Eli Whitney program. Learn more about the Class of 2030. Yale College recently welcomed 1,652 new first-year students to New Haven as members of the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (44+ words) news.yale.edu Capital, cities, carbon: YSE experts preview Climate Week NYC Yale honors conductor Gustavo Dudamel with Henry E. Howland Memorial Prize Meet Sara Schaefer, director of the Adult Neurology residency program Saying ‘YES’ to entrepreneurship at Yale...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (175+ words) Nancy Yousef, who joined the Yale faculty in 2025, explores the interplay between Romantic literature, the philosophers who shaped them, and the thinkers who came next. Nancy Yousef, a scholar of Romanticism whose research explores the vital intersections between philosophy and…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (411+ words) YaleNews Marlene L. Daut, a literary and intellectual historian of the Caribbean, has been named the Chester D. Tripp Professor of Black Studies and of French, effective July 1. She joined Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 2022. Her most recent book, “The…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (140+ words) Vincent Brown, an expert on the political dimensions of cultural practice in the African Diaspora, joined the Yale faculty on July 1. Vincent Brown, a world-renowned expert on the political dimensions of cultural practice in the African Diaspora, has been named…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (405+ words) YaleNews Leah Boustan, a renowned scholar whose research lies at the intersection of economic history and labor economics, has been named the Malcolm K. Brachman Professor of Economics, effective July 1. Boustan, who joined Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) in…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (891+ words) In this edition of Humanitas, a podcast celebrates 100 years at David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, a Yale student reflects on ‘America at 250,’ and new faculty books (and summer recommendations) offer a bounty of reading. The latest edition of…...

3+ week, 17+ hour ago   (103+ words) Not even a rainy morning could dampen the energy of move-in day Sunday, when members of the Yale College Class of 2030 arrived on campus and moved into their residential colleges. President Maurie McInnis and Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis were…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (307+ words) Focal Point A meditation on urban loneliness YaleNews What to know: American realist painter Edward Hopper’s works frequently explore themes of urban isolation in the postwar era, when psychology first recognized loneliness as a modern-day problem. Unlike Hopper’s other masterpiece…...