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As Harvard negotiates with union, Yale stands firm

Harvard announced on Tuesday that it would collectively bargain with the university’s newly formed graduate student. The decision came a week after graduate students voted […]

Prof named World Bank chief economist

Yale economics professor Pinelopi Goldberg will serve as chief economist of the World Bank, making her the second woman in the organization’s history to hold […]

Yale reforms language credit policies

Students soon will no longer have to enroll in two terms of introductory study in a modern foreign language in order to receive credit for the first term, and will also have the chance to pursue a certificate of advanced language study.

Three profs elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Divinity School professor John Collins, School of Medicine professor Gerald Shulman and cell biology professor Haifan Lin were named members of the American Academy of […]

Harvard TAs vote to unionize

Harvard teaching and research assistants voted to join the United Automobile Workers labor union last week, just two months after Yale’s graduate student union, Local […]

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Yale profs try out flipped classroom model

When astronomy lecturer Michael Faison taught the large lecture course “Planets and Stars” last spring, he became frustrated at the lack of student engagement in […]

Senate calls for parental policy reform

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate and Yale School of Medicine Faculty Advisory Council on Tuesday sent a letter to University Provost Ben Polak […]

Four Yalies receive Pulitzers

Four Yale affiliates won Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, earning one of the highest honors bestowed on journalists, authors, musicians and playwrights.

Sanskrit expert to leave Yale

In 1841, the Yale College Corporation appointed Edward E. Salisbury as a professor of Arabic and Sanskrit languages, establishing the first position of its kind […]

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Three profs receive Guggenheim

When geology and geophysics professor Alexey Fedorov received an email in March from the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation informing him that he […]

Yale poet McClatchy dies at 72

And why me again? Is that ‘right’? I mean, morally, morally right — the wrong question I ask because I was brought up to believe […]