Martha Fulford
MCDB offers two spring seminars

Biology students used to anonymity in big lecture classes can find themselves face to face with professors in two biology seminars offered next semester. Professor […]

Grad student missing after kayaking trip

State and federal authorities are still searching for a Yale teaching assistant who failed to return home Friday after a Long Island Sound kayaking trip, […]

Faculty vote for online feedback

Professors unanimously approved a proposal at a faculty meeting Thursday to create an online course evaluation system. Under the plan, students in Yale College courses […]

Grad student wins seat in Japanese parliament

Last spring, Jun Saito GRD ’05 was writing his doctoral thesis in political science on electoral politics in Japan. Now, with his thesis on hold, […]

Economics TAs now have their own section to attend

This semester, economics teaching assitant Philipp Schmidt-Dengler GRD ’06 had to watch himself teach a section on videotape — something he said he did not […]

YCIAS welcomes Appadurai

In his first public speech at Yale, Arjun Appadurai delivered the keynote address “War, Terror and Identity: The Future of Disciplinary Sovereignty” at the Crossing […]

Part-time Yale faculty numbers buck trend

This article has been corrected. You may view this article’s correction here. Nationally, the number of part-time faculty at American colleges and universities has increased […]

Graduate students ask for tax exemption

A coalition of U.S. graduate students is lobbying Congress for relief from a 1986 law that taxes part of students’ stipends. For the last 16 […]

Yale Political Science breaking new ground

Yale’s Political Science Department is growing by all accounts — buildings, students and faculty. Political science is now the second largest major in Yale College […]

Physics prof earns top honors

During his August trip to Budapest, physics professor Francesco Iachello attended two meetings of the European Physical Society. He also took home its prestigious physics […]

Engineering celebrates 150 years

As the Yale Faculty of Engineering celebrated its 150th anniversary this past weekend, administrators discussed the department’s checkered past and promising future. About 200 alumni […]