FACULTY & ACADEMICS
Creative writing classes see record demand

Increased competition and an earlier application timeline sparked frustrations among students and professors. Some advocated for adding course offerings and modifying the registration process.

Frances Rosenbluth, who redefined Japanese comparative politics, dies at 63

The long-serving professor of political science is remembered for her teaching contributions and for paving the way for women after her.

FAS expands Dean’s Office with new director for strategic projects

Peter Schiffer will join the Faculty of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office to support younger ladder faculty and diversity strategies.

Four Yale students win Rhodes Scholarships

Four Yale seniors will cross the Atlantic next fall for graduate studies at the University of Oxford as part of the Rhodes Scholarship.

SOM professors reflect on summits condemning Trump’s statements

Nearly a year after former President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, professors reflect on the corporate summits organized by professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld.

Faculty salary gap will take years to close, administrators say

Yale’s faculty salaries increasingly fell behind those of its peers over the last decade, a trend administrators will attempt to rectify through incremental changes.

Two Yale professors host ‘Health & Veritas’ podcast

Physician-professors Dr. Howard Forman and Dr. Harlan Krumholz establish podcast to discuss breakthroughs in healthcare

Two Yale professors win Young Investigator Research Program Award

Yale Professors Ilker Yildirim and Peijun Guo have received research awards worth hundreds of thousands of dollars which they will use to study reverse-engineering representations and computational architecture of high-level attention and the process of light emission, respectively.

Professor William Jennings highlighted for work tying together race, religion and the environment

William “Willie” Jennings, associate professor of systematic theology and Africana studies at the Yale Divinity School, discussed his work bridging theology and race in an […]

Mary Li Hsu ’80, who nurtured Asian American life at Yale, dies at 63

Hsu, who as an undergraduate advocated for Asian Americans on campus, later returned to her alma mater as the first director of the Asian American Cultural Center as well as an assistant dean.

Urban Studies draws new alumni network

Connecting graduates from across schools and fields, the network seeks to bolster professional opportunities for undergraduates in the major.