EVENTS
ASHLEY CHOI
Director Crystal Kwok reflects on family history in the American South at talk on campus

While researching her ancestry, Director Crystal Kwok unpacked the Chinese American experiences in America’s racial past through her documentary, “Blurring the Color Line: Chinese in the Segregated South.”

March 9, 2023

SARAH COOK
Senior Biden advisor Neera Tanden YLS ’96 shares perspective on life in politics

At an event hosted by the Yale College Democrats, The Politic and Yale’s South Asian Society, senior advisor to President Biden Neera Tanden spoke about her life in politics and the power of representation.

March 8, 2023

WILLIAM PORAYOUW
Deputy Secretary of Department of Homeland Security visits campus for closed-door talks on climate change

DHS deputy secretary John Tien primarily spoke about climate change mitigation in meetings on campus last week with administrators, faculty and students.

March 7, 2023

INES CHOMNALEZ
Diplomat Paula J. Dobriansky talks geopolitics at Alexander Hamilton Society seminar

Last Friday, Dobriansky spoke about U.S. diplomacy towards Ukraine and U.S.-China tensions at a seminar held in Linsly-Chittenden Hall.

March 7, 2023

SARAH COOK & ANIKA ARORA SETH
Former NBA player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf shares perspective on faith and injustice at campus talk

Civil rights activist and former NBA player Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf spoke at a lecture on Monday about his life and his approach to protesting racism and social inequality.

March 7, 2023

ANIKA ARORA SETH & NATASHA KHAZZAM
Yale team places fifth in prestigious Putnam mathematics competition

A Yale team ranked in the top five of the William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition for the first time in 30 years, earning $5,000 for the department.

March 6, 2023

ERITA CHEN
Coco Ma ’25 talks representation in YA literature and upcoming book at AACC

Coco Ma ’25 MUS ’21, author of the Shadow Frost trilogy, sat down with the Asian American Cultural Center to discuss her publishing journey, navigating identity through writing and handling representation in her next book, Nightbreaker.

March 5, 2023

BRIAN ZHANG
“Professor Robin Fierce”: RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant visits Yale Law School

Drag queen Robin Fierce came to the Yale Law School on Tuesday evening for a children’s book reading and discussion with students about the current political animosity against drag culture.

March 2, 2023

HANWEN ZHANG
Material Energy Nexus symposium looks to green energy revolution

The Yale School of the Environment’s “Material Energy Nexus” symposium brought together researchers, policymakers and industry leaders to discuss the future of sustainable energy.

March 1, 2023

BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ & YURII STASIUK
‘Vladimir Putin will keep going’: Blumenthal and Sonnenfeld talk anniversary of Russian invasion of Ukraine

At a Thursday town hall, Senator Richard Blumenthal LAW ’73 and SOM assistant dean Jeffrey Sonnenfeld discussed the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion in Ukraine.

February 28, 2023

EVAN GORELICK & YASH ROY
Paul McCartney recounts a life of songwriting at talk on campus

Paul McCartney said “Hey Bulldog” at a talk in Woolsey Hall on Thursday night.

February 20, 2023