FACULTY & ACADEMICS
OLIVIA LOMBARDO
Kerry Initiative announces 19 Kerry Fellows

The Jackson School of Global Affairs announces its newest class of Kerry Fellows, who will contribute to policy research on climate change, global economic development and international diplomacy.

November 15, 2022

YASH ROY & OLIVIA LOMBARDO
“The CEO-whisperer”: Inside Jeffrey Sonnenfeld’s Chief Executive Leadership Institute

The School of Management program, led by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, has strived over three decades to encourage corporate responsibility.

November 10, 2022

VALERI VANKOV
Yale opens new data science institute

The newly opened Institute for Foundations of Data Science aims to advance data science opportunities on campus.

November 8, 2022

MIRANDA WOLLEN
PROFILE: Virginia Dominguez ’73 GRD ’79, an anthropologist looking to the future

The News sat down with Dominguez, a 2022 Wilbur Cross Recipient, to discuss her Cuban grandparents, the first class of Yale College women and anthropology’s bad rap.

November 6, 2022

WILLIAM PORAYOUW
As diversity program finishes first cycle, administrators propose changes to management at Yale

Following the end of the first cycle of Emerge program, which was launched this year, administrators plan to make changes to Yale’s managerial training program to further support diversity, equity and inclusion among staff.

November 6, 2022

ALEX YE
Center of Language Study Director Nelleke Van Deusen-Scholl to retire

Van Deusen-Scholl, who assumed the CLS directorship in 2007, has developed programs that support undergraduate and graduate students. She will step down in the spring.

November 4, 2022

ALEX YE & PRANAVA DHAR
Yale College offers new computing and linguistics joint major

Led by linguistics professor Robert Frank, the new major is being established amidst burgeoning student interest in computer science and joins a growing number of joint majors.

November 1, 2022

ALEX YE
An “erosion of expectations”: faculty and students react to firing of NYU professor

The firing of chemist and Yale alum Maitland Jones Jr., has sparked nationwide discussion on student expectations and how and when a professor should be fired.

October 27, 2022

OLIVIA LOMBARDO & WILLIAM PORAYOUW
Jackson School dedicated as Yale’s first professional school in half century

Fareed Zakaria ’86 and Pinelopi Goldberg spoke at a Saturday ceremony that officially opened the Jackson School of Global Affairs, a years-long, $200 million effort that the University hopes will bring together existing faculty and programs.

October 18, 2022

SARAH COOK
Lewis outlines academic priorities as Yale College Dean

The newly-named Dean of Yale College said that his near-term strategic goals include streamlining registration and boosting advising resources.

October 17, 2022

ALEX YE & KINNIA CHEUK
Yale graduates win Nobel Prize in Economics

Douglas Diamond ’80 and Phil Dybvig GRD ’79 won the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economics for their work in modeling bank runs during financial crises.

October 17, 2022