FACULTY & ACADEMICS
MADISON HAHAMY
14 Yale faculty recently elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

On April 22, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced the election of 252 new members, 14 of whom are Yale faculty.

May 3, 2021

A collage of all 14 professors named to the Academy.
MADISON HAHAMY & ISAAC YU
Students and faculty reflect on the status of Asian American studies at Yale

In interviews with the News, three Asian American students and three faculty members all expressed a desire for more University support for Asian American studies, particularly in hiring more faculty members whose work deal with the subject area.

May 2, 2021

MADISON HAHAMY
Steven Wilkinson to serve as acting FAS dean of social science

Pending the approval of the Yale Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — at its June meeting, Steven Wilkinson will begin a one-year term […]

April 29, 2021

MADISON HAHAMY
UP CLOSE | ‘It’s hard to sustain your love for Yale when you feel like Yale doesn’t love you back’: Yale’s ‘second-class citizens’

Interviews with instructional faculty at Yale revealed a position that fares better than the national picture — but with much that can be improved.

April 29, 2021

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