Yale Daily News

The temperature was below freezing this weekend, but the wind chill did not dampen the enthusiasm of participants attending the 21st annual Black Solidarity Conference, the largest conference held at Yale each year. More than 750 students from over 50 universities across the country registered, conference planners told the News, and the weekend-long series was sold out even before the start of the new year.

February 15, 2016

As the Yale Corporation prepares to meet this weekend, the Council of Masters and top University administrators have kept largely silent about the council’s long-awaited recommendation on whether to change the title of master.

February 12, 2016

Over the past few years, Yale has continuously reaffirmed its mission to recruit high-achieving, low-income students. Often, these students are African-American, Hispanic or the first in their families to attend college — all groups which have traditionally been underrepresented on campuses nationwide.

February 12, 2016

Black History Month, which celebrates the role and achievements of African-Americans in the United States, is well under way on campus. Working together with affiliated groups and departments, the Afro-American Cultural Center is bringing speakers and events to Yale in a monthlong celebration of black history. The theme this year is “Roots, Rebirth and Renaissance.”

February 12, 2016

Even as the Yale School of Management moves up the rankings of the nation’s business schools, its administrators and faculty members say it has stayed true to its founding mission of serving society, and deny that it has taken a more corporate spin.

February 12, 2016

Reginald Dwayne Betts LAW ’16 — an award-winning author and poet, former high school writing teacher and current student at Yale Law School — got his start in an unusual place: Fairfax County Jail, where he spent eight years in prison for carjacking.

February 12, 2016

In Casale Monferrato — a small city of 35,000 on the banks of the river Po in Northern Italy — sits Swiss billionaire Stephan Schmidheiny’s abandoned cement factory, a building responsible for the asbestos-related deaths of thousands over the past 20 years.

February 11, 2016

Walking through the gates of Yale’s Hall of Graduate Studies marks a milestone in many graduate students’ careers in academia. The six or more years they spend there are their first step toward a Ph.D., professorship and ultimately tenure at an academic institution.

February 11, 2016

Prior to Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation presidential primary in New Hampshire, several Yale students traveled north to campaign for their chosen candidates and encourage residents to go to the polls.

February 11, 2016

Yale in London might have to make an effort not to become Yale-NUS in London.

February 11, 2016

This summer, a dozen students from New Haven Public Schools will have the chance to discuss Locke and Lincoln in a Yale classroom.

February 11, 2016