FACULTY & ACADEMICS
MADISON HAHAMY & JAMES RICHARDSON
Graduate school deadlines present roadblock for senior athletes, but individual programs may consider extensions

Last Thursday, Yale’s graduating class of student-athletes learned that the Ivy League had granted a waiver permitting seniors to compete in their sport next season […]

February 17, 2021

MADISON HAHAMY
‘We will be living with the effects for decades to come’: Employees criticize Yale’s childcare policies

On Feb. 3, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Tamar Gendler wrote an email to faculty letting them know that recent efforts to […]

February 14, 2021

MADISON HAHAMY
Catfishing, virality and spats: The Yale professors of Twitter

One day, Scott Shapiro LAW ’90, professor of law and philosophy, was walking home from a convenience store when he saw a bird smash into […]

February 10, 2021

MADISON HAHAMY
The heart’ of the University is still beating, albeit a little differently

At the entrance to Sterling Memorial Library, the phrase “The Library is the heart of the University” is engraved into the facade. With reading rooms […]

February 9, 2021

JULIA BROWN
SOM students, professor track corporate greenhouse gas emissions

Information on corporate efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is now publicly available, thanks to research conducted at the Yale School of Management by professor […]

February 7, 2021

ROSE HOROWITCH & CHRISTIAN ROBLES
Yale professor, New Haven official express optimism about Cardona nomination despite local criticism

Miguel Cardona, former Connecticut commissioner of education, earned support from both sides of the aisle in his Wednesday Senate confirmation hearing to become the next […]

February 4, 2021

ISABELLE QIAN & OLIVIA FUGIKAWA
Yale professor Daniel Spielman receives Held Prize for influential mathematics proof

Daniel Spielman, Sterling professor of computer science and professor of statistics and data science and of mathematics, received the Michael and Sheila Held Prize for […]

February 3, 2021

MADISON HAHAMY
Alfred Hitchcock, quantum mechanics and cross-disciplinary collaboration at Yale: New bridge courses debut this semester

While physics professors at Yale might normally teach quantum mechanics with the aid of diagrams, equations and textbooks, students can now learn these topics with […]

February 1, 2021