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When Bayan Galal ’23 and Zoe Hsu ’24 took office as president and vice president of the Yale College Council on May 1, they inherited […]

Spring Fling, a concert traditionally held on Old Campus each spring before final exams begin, was called off for the second year in a row […]

Following several years of construction, the Schwarzman Center — a hub for student life and the arts — is set to open this fall. Funded […]

Beloved student spot Good Nature Market, better known as GHeav, has experienced its high and lows over the past four years, including the departure of […]

The class of 2021 will be graduating with students in a diversity of majors who, over the course of their time at Yale, have shopped […]

New Haven might look a little different than it did when students in the class of 2021 stepped foot on campus as shiny-eyed first years. […]

2,272 students were accepted to Yale’s class of 2021 out of a record-breaking applicant pool of 32,900, becoming Yale’s then-largest first-year class to date.  The […]

The class of 2021 gathered together Aug. 26, 2017 for the first time for the annual Yale College Opening Assembly in Woolsey Hall. With the […]

With the opening of Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray Colleges in fall 2017, Yale expanded the residential college system for the first time since Morse […]

After 109 years of its all-male precedent, the Whiffenpoofs — the world’s oldest collegiate a cappella group — broke from tradition by admitting its first non-male […]

Renewed discussion of sexual harassment and assault connected to Yale’s Greek life has prompted University representatives, student advocacy groups and some of Yale’s fraternities to […]

Early in the morning of May 8, 2018, Lolade Siyonbola GRD ’19 was taking a nap in a twelfth floor Hall of Graduate Studies common […]

On Sept. 18, 2018, the Good Life Center opened its doors to the Yale community as a place designed to teach practices of “the good […]

It was Oct. 6, 2018, and the Women’s Table bloomed. In a 50–48 vote, the Senate had just confirmed Justice Brett Kavanaugh ’87 LAW ’90 […]

Boasting an expansive array of artifacts ranging from California gold to Triceratops skulls, the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History has hosted dozens of exhibitions […]

On March 29, 2019, thirteen senior faculty members withdrew from the Ethnicity, Race and Migration program, generating campus-wide debate about the University’s support for the […]

In March 2019, federal prosecutors charged 53 individuals — including celebrities and university athletic coaches — with paying or receiving bribes to help admit students […]

In the early hours of the morning April 16, 2019, Hamden police officer Devon Eaton and Yale Police officer Terrance Pollock fired 16 shots at […]

2019 marked the 50th year of coeducation at Yale College and the 150th anniversary of coeducation at Yale University, celebrated through a yearlong series of […]

Justin Elicker resoundingly defeated a three-term incumbent to become New Haven’s mayor in 2019. Now, he is facing his own challenger who already has significant […]

On Nov. 23, 2019, during the last Harvard-Yale football game before the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of student activists stormed the Yale Bowl field with shouts […]

In Nov. 2019, Yale women’s soccer coach Brendan Faherty left his position following impropriety allegations by two former University of New Haven athletes. Both played […]

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has changed nearly every aspect of daily life, one of the largest changes for students was the rapid transition to remote […]

Last spring, when the pandemic caused Yale to close its campus and send its students home to complete the semester remotely, heated debate regarding grading […]

When the COVID-19 pandemic took the world by storm, Yale scientists were at the forefront of national efforts to understand the science of the SARS-CoV-2 […]

When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Connecticut in March last year, New Haven found itself facing a new set of challenges to maintain its health. Now, […]

After a summer of reckoning for police departments around the country following the police murder of George Floyd, Black Students for Disarmament at Yale and […]

In October 2020, the United States Department of Justice sued Yale over alleged discrimination against white and Asian American applicants in its college admissions process. […]

Fall 2021 was a unique semester for politically active Yalies — as heightened political tensions soared across the country and COVID-19 caused classes to move […]

Connecticut became the first state to vaccinate half of its adults against COVID-19 earlier this month, with New Haven being the second most vaccinated city […]

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many scholarship programs switched to a completely virtual format during the 2020-2021 cycle for the first time in history. Despite […]

This year’s Class Day — an annual graduation tradition organized by students — took place virtually on YouTube, amid a hybrid Commencement week that included both in-person […]