Yale Daily News

Before a crowd of whimsical hats and black graduation robes, Yale Class Day speaker and 47th Vice President of the United States Joseph Biden challenged the Class of 2015 to “break out of the bubble of your own making.”

May 17, 2015

Follow along as the News covers the Class Day Exercises — including an address by United States Vice President Joe Biden — live, beginning at 2 p.m.

May 17, 2015

With a $150 million donation from Blackstone founder Stephen Schwarzman ’69, Yale has committed to a comprehensive renovation of Commons that will transform it into a hub for student life.

May 11, 2015

A widespread power outage briefly threw the University into disarray Saturday morning.

May 2, 2015

With elections slated to occur in early May, the inaugural Faculty of Arts and Sciences Senate is moving one step closer to reality.

April 24, 2015

Yale will become one of the first institutions in higher education to implement a price on its carbon emissions.

April 21, 2015

Yale has consolidated its entire retirement plan — which holds approximately $4.4 billion in assets across 22,000 plan members — into one unified program.

April 20, 2015

With cranes already towering above and workers bustling around the site, the University officially broke ground on the two new residential colleges yesterday.

April 17, 2015

Over the years, the Yale endowment has grown from a humble sum intended largely to fund operations and scholarship to a massive pool of capital numbering in the tens of billions.

April 15, 2015

Beginning next fiscal year, should a Yale donor gives $1,000 to one of the 18 alumni sports associations, just $880 of that sum will directly fund the team that the association supports.

April 13, 2015

After a day-long sit-in at Woodbridge Hall, 19 members of Fossil Free Yale have been arrested and fined.

April 10, 2015