Helen Gao
The Back Seat

[ydn-legacy-photo-inline id=”195″ ] I stood with my arms slightly lifted like a duckling. Mom tucked her hands under my armpits and raised me to the […]

Karlan to use Gates grant soon

Professor of economics Dean Karlan is ready to start using the $7.3 million grant that the Yale Economics Growth Center received to fund research on […]

The Rules of the Game

Every native Chinese student in an American university knows her. Every one of their parents dreams to have her. In the fall of 2000, while […]

Professors support Israeli artists’ boycott

Five professors from the Yale School of Drama joined 150 American theater and film professionals last week in signing a statement in support of the […]

Zipcar expands to city

Three years after Yale rolled out its Zipcar car-sharing program, New Haven residents may see an expansion of the service into its neighborhoods. On Tuesday […]

Greenfest boasts trash art

This article has been corrected. You may view this article’s correction here. There was a pen container made of candy wrappers, a tree with iron […]

Director Houston recounts past

Film director, producer and screen writer John Houston’s ’75 silver screen dreams started at the age of five or six, when he was observing the […]

YES awards $51K in annual business-plan competition

Though their ideas are still in their beginning stages, participants in this year’s Yale Entrepreneurial Society Y50K Business Plan Competition may be on their way […]

Chen: China should decrease state holdings

Many governments justify public ownership of corporations as a way to increase economic equality. But Yale economics professor Zhiwu Chen GRD ’90 disagrees. Chen, who […]

At YFI event, Israeli mayor talks life in constant war zone

Eli Moyal, mayor of the Israeli city of Sderot, said the children of his city near the Gaza Strip constantly live in fear of a […]