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New vice provost settles into role

Experimental physicist Peter Schiffer ’88 joined Yale last month as the inaugural vice provost for research — the latest addition in Yale’s ongoing efforts to […]

Econ fights gender imbalance

The Economics Department, in which male majors outnumber female majors by a 2-1 ratio, is participating in a national push to draw more women to […]

Global Affairs major set to change

The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs this week announced a two-phase remodeling of the undergraduate Global Affairs major that will eliminate the separation between the […]

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Students, faculty rally behind lecturer

When Ben Weiss ’20 selected his sophomore adviser last spring, he broke with convention. Although most undergraduate mechanical engineering majors chose the department’s director of […]

Administration, departments respond to non-ladder faculty report

For many of the just-under 40 percent of the Faculty of Arts and Science off the tenure track, the identifier “nonladder faculty” and related workplace […]

Town halls address education challenges

The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate on Monday will kick off its year-long series of town hall meetings for the University community.

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Grad group fosters community

This summer, the Graduate School of Arts and Science’s new three-year Writing-in-residence Dissertation Working Group pilot program gave graduate students the opportunity to build a writing community among students and mentors.

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Yale plans for HGS renovation

With less than a year until the start of renovations, Yale’s plan to transform the Hall of Graduate Studies into a new humanities center is […]

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Lecturer apologizes for Tablet article

In the wake of significant backlash, lecturer in the English department and coordinator of the Yale Journalism Initiative Mark Oppenheimer ’96 GRD ’03 issued a […]

FAS to appoint divisional deans

With searches for several divisional deans still underway, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler is looking to solidify her office’s administrative […]

BSAY holds 50th anniversary celebrations

The Black Student Alliance at Yale celebrated its 50th anniversary with festivities, which included a speech from MSNBC host Joy-Ann Reid.

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