OPINION
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HUSSEIN: What students deserve in a professor

Some professors change what you know. Robert Malley changes how you think. Missing that is missing Yale at its best.

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HIGONNET: Yale must save climate science

What will our grandchildren say to us about this pivotal moment in history, when Yale had the chance to help save global climate science in the middle of a climate crisis that threatened humanity?

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DANZIGER: Toward national service

Private equity, investment banking and consulting can wait; enlist in the military, apply for a teaching fellowship or join the Peace Corps. 

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AMAR & LIPKA: Seize the day

The very idea of a university is on the line. Can Yale defend it — not just with words but also with deeds? 

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HATCH: Special operator advice for Yale undergrads


As someone who has walked the paths of Yale both as an undergraduate and now as a lecturer, I’m often asked, “What lessons from your time in the special operations world would be helpful for us to know here?”


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ATTANASIO: A refresher course on conducting research responsibly

A little over two weeks ago, Akiko Iwasaki and colleagues published “Immunological and Antigenic Signatures Associated with Chronic Illnesses after Covid-19 Vaccination” on medRxiv. You […]

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PAN: Deafening silence

Yale ought to deploy its resources to speak up and speak loudly. It should coordinate with other schools in the legal fight against the Trump administration on science, vaccines, funding and civil rights. Yale should vocally call out the Trump administration’s worst excesses. If universities band together, they cannot be picked off one by one. 

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RIFFI: NIH funding cut is impacting students

This year, I was selected as one of the seven American Cancer Society scholars here at Yale, as part of the Yale BioMed Amgen Scholars […]

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MOHAN: On the politicization of astrophysics

If the goal is to depoliticize universities, why are we making federal support for apolitical, educational goals contingent on agreement with inherently political positions? 

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WARRIOR: Yale must protect its students. Here’s how

Liberal values like free speech and open discourse are anathema to authoritarians like Trump; free universities cannot exist in unfree societies. For Yale to pursue its mission of “improving the world through scholarship,” it must stand up to Donald Trump. President McInnis and the Board of Trustees must act.

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AKHTAR: In defense of MAPHR

While there are many valid critiques of human rights, having a consistent, interdisciplinary space to discuss the possibilities and limits of this framework has been invaluable to shaping my worldview and better understanding the kind of impact I might want to have in my career.