Author Archives: Hayley Byrnes

Students and professors are still struggling to define the YUAG’s new place in the Yale community.

Seun Adebiyi LAW ’09 answers to many titles — among them, Yale Law School graduate, future Olympian and cancer survivor. Adebiyi spoke as part of the Yale African Student Association’s annual Africa Week, which runs from Nov. 1 to Nov. 10 and was themed “Culture Shifters of the African Renaissance.” Along with speakers like Adebiyi, »

New Haven’s food culture could soon see some improvements. The New Haven Food Policy Council, an organization that develops food policy within the city, unveiled the first draft of its New Haven Food Action Plan earlier this month, which aims to create an overarching vision of New Haven’s food administration. While the food council cannot »

150 tickets in two hours. That’s how long it took Trevor Auman ’13 to sell his share of tickets for the Yale Symphony Orchestra’s annual Halloween Show. The annual concert, performed in Woolsey Hall at 11:59 PM on Halloween night, will seat 300 fewer people this year because of safety concerns associated with Woolsey. Several »

If all the rain from a summer rainstorm were gathered into a single drop, how large would that drop be? On Saturday, about 200 high school students tried to answer this question and more as they competed in the 15th annual Yale Physics Olympics, held in Sloane Physics Laboratory. Organized by the Yale Physics Department, »

Chilean artist Liliana Wilson is able to explain her life’s events through her paintings. On Tuesday, Wilson presented a sample of her artwork — about 50 paintings and explanations of the events surrounding them — at the Yale Women’s Center to a group of roughly twenty-five people. Inspired by her childhood in Chile and eventual »

Sixteen-month-old Thomas Bonacci said the word “octopus” for the first time on Saturday, as he gazed at a tentacle in the Invertebrate Hall of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. Bonacci was one of at least 200 people who attended the Peabody’s 10th annual “Fiesta Latina” this weekend. The free festival, open to all »

After receiving a sizable grant this summer, the Yale AIDS Memorial Project is preparing to launch an interactive website by the end of January in an effort to expand its reach beyond campus. The initiative, begun in 2010 by Christopher Glazek ’07, documents the lives of members of the Yale community who perished during the »