GRADUATE & PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS
INES CHOMNALEZ
Yale Law School withdraws from “perverse” U.S. News rankings

Yale has taken the top spot since the magazine started its ranking in the 1980s. Harvard Law School, currently ranked fourth, withdrew hours later.

November 16, 2022

INES CHOMNALEZ
Veteran students at Law School up 300 percent in five years

Yale honored veterans in the community as a record number of students have served in the military

November 16, 2022

MIRANDA WOLLEN
PROFILE: Philip Ewell ’01, the cellist shaping music theory’s racial reckoning

Dr. Philip Ewell, a 2022 Wilbur Cross recipient and music theorist, sat down with the News to discuss his boundary-breaking career since Yale, white supremacy and Phish.

November 11, 2022

INES CHOMNALEZ, MIRANDA WOLLEN & WILLIAM PORAYOUW
Boycotting judges invited to speak at Yale Law School

A letter from two federal judges currently publicly protesting alleged attacks on free speech at Yale Law School indicates they received an invitation to appear at a panel in January.

November 8, 2022

INES CHOMNALEZ
Inaugural law school scholarship covers full tuition for 51 students

In its inaugural year, the Hurst Horizon Scholarship covers the full cost of tuition for 51 students at Yale Law School.

November 3, 2022

MIRANDA WOLLEN
PROFILE: Kirk Johnson GRD ’89, the museum kid

Johnson, one of Yale’s four annual Wilbur Cross Medal recipients, is the Sant Director at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. He spoke to the News about baby bees, the extinction of the dinosaurs and the climate crisis.

November 1, 2022

MEGAN VAZ & MIRANDA WOLLEN
Yale agrees to first graduate union election in three decades

The University’s statement affirms it will honor Local 33’s petition for an official election via secret ballot while maintaining a commitment to academic supervisors’ freedom to express opinions on unionization.

November 1, 2022

OLIVIA LOMBARDO & ALEX YE
“Global fate of democracy” at stake: Zelenskyy addresses war in Ukraine at SOM talk

Senators Richard Blumenthal and Lindsey Graham joined Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in calling for bipartisan and multinational efforts to end the war in Ukraine.

October 31, 2022

MIRANDA WOLLEN
Graduate and professional students elect new senator class

A mixture of new and returning senators at the Graduate & Professional Student Senate aims to foster community and advocate student needs to University officials.

October 17, 2022

INES CHOMNALEZ
Yale Law Women+ honors Leondra Kruger

Yale Law Women+ presented the Yale Law Journals’s first ever Black female editor in chief — who now serves as a justice on the California Supreme Court — Leondra Kruger with their Alumni Achievement Award.

October 6, 2022

BRIAN ZHANG
Yale’s first Indigenous student body president introduces new programming and goals at the Divinity School

The first Indigenous Student Government President at the Yale Divinity School, Tamara Fore-Ravelo bases her platform around diversity and a fluid definition of divinity.

September 16, 2022