Yale Daily News

The May 2015 announcement that business magnate Stephen Schwarzman ’69 had donated $150 million toward the renovation of Commons and Memorial Hall prompted largely negative […]

September 9, 2016

A Yale-led team of researchers has taken the next step in understanding blood vessel development. The researchers helped to illuminate the “crosstalk,” or the communication […]

April 26, 2016

Five of America’s most prominent constitutional and reconstruction historians gathered yesterday evening in Linsly-Chittenden Hall to discuss “Equal Protection: Origins and Legacies of the 14th Amendment,” during which each speaker meditated on the history surrounding the passage of the 14th Amendment and its importance for modern issues surrounding judicial policies and practice at the federal and state level.

April 1, 2016

Dinaw Mengestu — acclaimed journalist, essayist and novelist — delivered a lecture titled “The Politics of Aesthetics: The Danger of Writing from the ‘Margins’” Tuesday evening. At the talk, Mengestu meditated on the tendency of the contemporary literary community to believe that incorporating social and political realities into literature invalidates a work’s claim to aesthetic greatness.

March 2, 2016

I arrived at Yale the same day I buried my grandmother. In three hours, I replaced a barren cemetery with a Baroque Woolsey Hall. My grandmother’s […]

February 29, 2016

Norman Mineta, a former California congressman and secretary of transportation under President George W. Bush ’68, spoke to a full house Thursday at the Asian […]

February 19, 2016

On Saturday, hundreds of aspiring leaders gathered at the Omni Hotel for the eighth annual Women’s Leadership Initiative conference.

February 8, 2016

Robert P. George — noted legal philosopher, conservative thinker and Princeton professor of jurisprudence — came to campus Wednesday to speak to Yale students on the topics of academic freedom and liberal arts ideals. During his two-hour talk, George described the dangers modern universities face from intellectual homogeneity, and he called on students to rigorously assess their own positions.

February 4, 2016