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On July 9, 2018, Brett Kavanaugh ’87 LAW ’90 was nominated by former U.S. President Donald Trump to serve as a Supreme Court Justice. His […]

No music venue is as integral to the Yale experience as Toad’s Place. The nightclub, which hosts a Yale-only, Wednesday-night dance party known as “Woads,” […]

When the graduating class of 2022 joined Yale in the fall of 2018, the Yale College Council was facing financial difficulties. The YCC had just […]

Many students in the Class of 2022 witnessed their Heads of College step down and be replaced during their time at Yale — with the […]

Content warning: This article contains references to suicide. *** The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is a hotline for individuals in crisis or for those looking […]

As the class of 2022 joined the New Haven community in 2018, the University had just held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new L.L. Bean […]

For the Class of 2022, Yale’s 321st commencement ceremony offers a return to normalcy and tradition.  The ceremony is only the second in four years […]

In recent years, Yale’s Office of Financial Aid has made several amendments to their aid policies and increased socio-economic diversity at the University. In 2018, […]

Spring Fling, the beloved day-long music festival, typically takes place every year on Old Campus in the time between the end of classes and the […]

Mirroring nationwide movements to defund law enforcement agencies, students called on the University to defund, dissolve and disarm the Yale Police Department. Their demands were […]

From Hot Pockets heiress Michelle Janavs to former University of Southern California soccer coach Laura Janke, over 50 celebrities and coaches of Division I sports […]

In March 2019, 13 faculty members withdrew from Yale’s program in Ethnicity, Race and Migration, citing the University’s lack of support. After national protest and […]

In response to national and institutional reckonings, Yale students have rallied at the steps of Sterling Memorial Library, marched on Cross Campus and the New […]

In a year-long commemoration titled 50WomenAtYale150, Yale celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first female students to attend Yale College through conferences, film screenings, publications […]

In Mid-January, Dean of Yale College Marvin Chun announced that he would step down after serving as dean for five years.  Chun — a professor […]

In an email sent on March 10, 2020, University President Peter Salovey told all Yale students to remain home after spring recess through at least […]

For Yale researchers, the pandemic meant a daunting checklist of breakthroughs to achieve: dissecting COVID-19’s toll on the body, devising accurate and accessible COVID-19 testing […]

Amid a year marked by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and a nationwide movement for racial justice, many Yalies engaged in the 2020 U.S. […]

Beverly Gage, a 20th-century history professor who served as director of Yale’s Brady-Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, stepped down from the position citing the University’s […]

Yale College students won several prestigious scholarships over the 2021-22 academic year.  Four Yalies won Rhodes Scholarships for graduate study at the University of Oxford […]

The University was put on high alert when a bomb threat was reported on Nov. 5th that caused Old Campus and many other buildings on […]

Decisions are still awaited in the recent lawsuit alleging that Yale and other elite universities considered applicants’ financial standing during the admission process. Nine members […]

In September of 2014, three student governing bodies at Yale — the Yale College Council, the Graduate and Professional Student Senate and the Graduate Student […]

The class of 2022 broke the record for the largest applicant pool in history, as applications from 35,305 high schoolers flooded in during the 2017-2018 […]

With just 22 seconds left, The Game was suddenly Harvard’s. Graduating Yale seniors lost their final Yale-Harvard game in November but basked in the school […]

When classes moved online in spring 2020, students rallied for a “universal pass” system to address concerns of educational inequity. Although the University opted for […]

Despite the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, Yale researchers have continued to push the frontiers of science, publishing hundreds of scientific articles and developing new […]

The Greek life atmosphere at Yale has faced pressure to become more inclusive over the past four years, a shift that has come amid allegations […]

Just weeks after taking the mayoral office in 2019, Justin Elicker quickly found his office consumed by the harsh realities of the COVID-19 pandemic.  But […]