FACULTY & ACADEMICS
MADISON HAHAMY & PHILIP MOUSAVIZADEH
Faculty, students weigh in on weekly seminars

Students and faculty expressed mixed feelings about classes that are taught as weekly 110-minute seminars.

April 27, 2021

Looking down a Hillhouse Ave. sidewalk with sunlight filtering through the trees.
ISABELLE QIAN
Yale Translation Initiative announces new certificates

The Yale Translation Initiative recently announced the establishment of both a graduate and undergraduate certificate in Translation Studies that is expected to become available to students next academic year.

April 26, 2021

PHILIP MOUSAVIZADEH
New Jackson senior fellow remains under investigation for ethics violations

One of the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs’ newest fellows remains under investigation in Canada for ethics violations.  Bill Morneau, the former finance minister of […]

April 22, 2021

Morneau gives a talk in front of a blue and white background.
MADISON HAHAMY
New course on anti-racist education allows for collaboration with Connecticut teachers

While remote learning has, for some, led to Zoom-induced migraines and overloaded schedules, Yalies in associate professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Race and Migration […]

April 22, 2021

JULIA BROWN & ALEX ORI
17 Yale affiliates named to Biden SCOTUS commission

On April 9, President Joe Biden issued an executive order creating the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States, a 36-person group […]

April 22, 2021

A view of the Supreme Court in the evening.
ROSE HOROWITCH
The future of faculty searches? MB&B Department implements new reforms that aim to increase diversity

Yale’s Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry Department has no Black faculty members. It has never had any in the 52 years since its inception, according to […]

April 22, 2021

MADISON HAHAMY & ZAPORAH PRICE
Three assistant professors join African American studies department, hiring searches continue

On the coattails of two senior faculty hires in African American studies, three additional scholars have received appointments in the department and will begin teaching […]

April 16, 2021

TALAT AMAN & ZAPORAH PRICE
Activists demand Yale professor Valerie Horsley resign from Hamden Legislative Council

Hamden and New Haven activists are demanding the resignation of Hamden Legislative Councilwoman and associate professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology Valerie Horsley from […]

April 16, 2021

ZACH MORRIS
Yale deans outline concrete measures faculty can take to alleviate student stress

Yale administrators have recently encouraged faculty to take measures to reduce student stress. While some professors have canceled assignments and extended deadlines, others have continued […]

April 15, 2021

Cross Campus on a sunny day
ROSE HOROWITCH
Yale raises tuition by almost 4 percent after year upended by online classes

The University has increased tuition by about 4 percent for the 2021-22 academic year, as it comes off of a year of largely online instruction. […]

April 12, 2021

Old Campus as seen through Phelps Gate.
MADISON HAHAMY
Four Yale faculty awarded Guggenheim fellowships

Four Yale faculty members recently received Guggenheim Fellowships, prestigious grants awarded to those who have “demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability […]

April 12, 2021