How many graduation ceremonies have you attended? As Master of Saybrook, I presided over nine of them, and as dean, three. What do you like about graduation? I love the fact that we call it ...

Corby Kummer ’78 is the founding executive director of the Food and Society policy program at the Aspen Institute, senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition, and a senior editor at The ...

Nearly 6,000 people ran around the Elm City yesterday in the 49th annual New Haven Road Race, which features 20K, half marathon, and 5K races. As always, plenty of Yale students, staff, and faculty ...

Lenore Skenazy ’81 is president of Let Grow, a nonprofit promoting childhood independence and resilience, and founder of the Free-Range Kids movement. This interview has been condensed and edited for ...

Joshua Kendall ’81 is the author of several biographies. His latest, Trudeau and Doonesbury: The Cartoonist Who Turned the News into Art, will be published in May. Soon after finishing dinner on ...

My first weeks at Yale in 1953 were filled with all sorts of interviews and tests, written and physical. I got through the written ones with no problems. The physical ones were a different story. Our ...

A beloved mentor who remains connected to former students and colleagues, a popular teacher, and an international authority on Asperger’s syndrome and autism, Volkmar served as the chief of child ...

In our September 1976 issue, we marked the beginning of what was then called the School of Organization of Management, where classes began 50 years ago this week. The accompanying photo showed the new ...

Demolition has begun on Helen Hadley Hall, built in 1958 as a residence hall for women graduate and professional students. The site will become part of a new quadrangle for the School of Engineering ...

People all over the world are mourning the loss of Dolly Parton today, and Yale is no exception. We heard a carillonneur playing "9 to 5" in tribute on our lunchtime walk today (video clip here).

Half an hour after California physician Danice Hertz got her first Covid-19 vaccine, she knew something was wrong. Her blood pressure spiked, she was dizzy, her vision blurred. Her skin felt like it ...

Summer is high season for construction projects on campus. Workers started yesterday on rebuilding a bowing stone wall on York Street outside Trumbull College. The blocks of Briar Hill sandstone are ...