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Aerospace club wants new SEAS major

Yale University currently has no aerospace engineering major as part of the Yale School of Engineering and Applied Science. However, there is one undergraduate organization at Yale working to change that.

RITM center sets ambitious agenda

A dozen undergraduate and graduate students will present their summer research on boundary-pushing topics ranging from housing design in Kakuma refugee camps to transnational activism in opera, as part of a symposium today organized by the Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity and Transnational Migration.

Report on new colleges released

With the two new residential colleges nearing completion, the University is responding to faculty concerns about how it will maintain the quality of undergraduate education as the Yale College population grows.

Law library holds special place in Clintons’ story

Hillary Clinton LAW ’73 and Bill Clinton LAW ’73 disagree on where they first met.

At Yale, an emphasis on pluralism

In the religious spaces at Yale and beyond, murmurs about society’s increasing secularization find their way into the public dialogue. At Yale, though, the trend is toward religious pluralism and dynamic conversations about belief.

New SOM deputy dean sets new goals

Over the summer, Edieal Pinker, professor of operations research at the School of Management, hastened to publish his academic papers. He knew that come July, becoming deputy dean of the SOM would leave him with less time for research.

Shapiro provokes controversy, discussion

Conservative political commentator Benjamin Shapiro arrived to a full house in the Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona auditorium Wednesday evening to much anticipation, but also much anxiety.

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Schwarzman construction approved by city board

The New Haven Board of Zoning Appeals green-lighted Yale’s request for zoning variances to execute its proposal to renovate the Schwarzman Center during a public hearing last week, leaving the University one step closer to transforming the Schwarzman Center into a hub for student life.

Students mixed on Schwarzman Center expansion

The University recently announced that the Schwarzman Center, set to open in 2020, will be physically expanded to accommodate more students and groups on campus. But following the news of the expansion this past week, students have expressed mixed reactions to the usefulness of the physical augmentations, whose cost University officials and Schwarzman’s representatives declined to disclose.

Yale, Local 33 hearings continue

At labor hearings in Hartford over the past week and a half, the University mounted further arguments against graduate students’ plan to hold separate union elections in 10 departments, with top administrators testifying that individual departments are not distinct units.

Rwandan president sparks controversy

Roughly 300 people gathered in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall Tuesday afternoon to see Rwandan President Paul Kagame, many to challenge Kagame’s record on human rights in a country still dealing with the legacy of its 1994 genocide.