Yale Daily News

In the days following the approval of a proposal to expand the role of Undergraduate Learning Assistants in the Computer Science Department, professors and students have expressed overwhelming enthusiasm for the decision, though much work still remains to be done to ensure the quality of the incoming ULAs.

April 13, 2016

Students often disappear for hours at a time to participate in labs. However, for hours worth of work, they receive only half a credit toward their Yale College degree.

April 13, 2016

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke Tuesday afternoon to a crowd of over 600 on student leadership, cultural heritage and climate change. Throughout his address, […]

April 13, 2016

Last week, students and New Haven community members participated in a series of events highlighting the questions, debates and beliefs confronted by nonreligious individuals through Yale & New Haven Humanism Week.

April 12, 2016

In April 2015, students at the University of Cape Town in South Africa cheered as the statue of British colonialist Cecil Rhodes was removed from campus. A few months later, Yale students and community members gathered on Cross Campus in the chilly November temperatures for a March of Resilience that called for a better campus racial climate.

April 12, 2016

Hundreds filed into the Yale Law School auditorium Monday evening to hear the harrowing testimony of a World War II survivor of wartime internment and sexual slavery.

April 12, 2016

With Yale’s endowment at an all-time high of $25.57 billion, the University’s investment success has been buoyed by startups like Uber, Airbnb and LinkedIn.

April 11, 2016

Undergraduate Learning Assistants — who worked for the first time in a computer science course last term — will be a presence in the department’s other courses in the coming academic year.

April 8, 2016

The Spanish and Portuguese Department has once again found itself embroiled in controversy after senior faculty members in the department recently voted to deny Associate Spanish Professor Susan Byrne tenure — prompting renewed accusations of abuse of power and unfair retaliation within a small yet divided faculty body.

April 8, 2016

The decision by Yale’s 13 graduate and professional school deans not to publish school-specific data on the prevalence of campus sexual misconduct has provoked widespread debate in the University community.

April 7, 2016

More than a year after the Computer Science Department received two anonymous gifts for a total of $20 million, the department still has yet to hire the majority of faculty members promised by the donation.

April 7, 2016