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Pulitzer winner talks climate change

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and New Yorker staff writer Elizabeth Kolbert ’83 spoke to a room of 20 students and faculty on Wednesday about the “man-made extinction” of the Earth’s biodiversity.

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Yale looks to expand veteran enrollment

Jack Beecher MPH ’84 became Yale’s first Veteran Liaison just two weeks ago, but he is already taking steps to help expand Yale’s undergraduate veteran population.

Former UN ambassador talks leadership

Despite the light rain, around 40 students gathered in Davies Auditorium Tuesday night for a talk by former UN Ambassador Andrew Young at which Young spoke about the keys to leadership based on his experience as a diplomat and politician.

University announces center for race and ethnicity

The center will support scholarship in ethnic studies and intersectional race, gender and sexuality research, as well as Native and diasporic communities.

Yale, United Way raise record amount

Yale faculty and staff are doing more than ever to support the area of greater New Haven.

Div School curates Nanking footage

When John Gillespie Magee, class of 1906, arrived in Nanking in 1912 to serve as a missionary of the Episcopal Church, he did not imagine that he would later witness and record the Japanese atrocities in the then-capital city of China.

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Three students receive Gates Cambridge Scholarship

Three Yale students have been awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarships: prestigious fellowships that fully fund recipients to pursue postgraduate degrees at the University of Cambridge.

Title IX report shows highest-ever number of complaints

The University received 78 complaints of sexual misconduct — an all-time high since Yale began publishing records of its complaints in 2011 — between July 1 and Dec. 31 of last year, according to Yale’s latest semi-annual report.

Corporation leaves naming issues unresolved

The Yale Corporation’s February meeting has ended, but the fates of Calhoun College and the title “master,” as well as the names of the two new residential colleges, remain unclear.

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Clinton dominates Yale faculty donations

As the races for the Republican and Democratic presidential nominations heat up, data indicate that faculty and administrators at Yale — and at the country’s other top universities — have a decidedly left-wing bent.

Groups head diversity initiatives

Woodbridge Hall has established “implementation groups” to oversee its initiatives combating race and discrimination on campus.

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