FACULTY & ACADEMICS
BEN RAAB & HUDSON WARM
Black engineering students call for increased diversity in SEAS

Just 1.3 percent of faculty members in the School of Engineering and Applied Science identify as Black or African American, compared to five percent across all Yale faculty and six percent among the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

March 8, 2024

BEN RAAB
Communist group disrupts Timothy Snyder’s lecture, forces evacuation

Demonstrators accused Snyder, a history professor, of “brainwashing” students about communism and called on him to condemn the United States’ support of Israel amid its war against Hamas in Gaza.

March 1, 2024

HANWEN ZHANG
School of the Environment certificate program sets its sights on urban sustainability

Yale School of the Environment’s new“Urban Climate Leadership” certificate program will provide students with a survey of the challenges and solutions that come with guiding cities toward the future.

March 1, 2024

HUDSON WARM
New lector Olha Tytarenko to spearhead Ukrainian language program at Yale

Next fall, the Slavic Languages and Literatures department will introduce a Ukrainian language program, led by new faculty hire Olha Tytarenko — an expert in pedagogy, Ukrainian and Russian.

February 29, 2024

MADELEINE KEENAN
PROFILE: Byron Brooks starts as Assistant Director of the House

The Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale officially welcomed new Assistant Director Byron Brooks on Monday, Feb. 5 — just in time for the Af-Am House’s […]

February 23, 2024

BEN RAAB
Yale faculty sign letter addressed to Yale’s future president, affirms commitment to social justice

The letter — signed by more than 100 faculty members at Yale College, Yale Law School and the Yale School of Medicine, among others — offers six aspirations for Yale’s future president’s tenure.

February 20, 2024

BEN RAAB & BENJAMIN HERNANDEZ
Faculty group calls on Yale to make teaching ‘distinct from activism’

The new initiative urges the University to adopt six new measures, which include more thorough protections on free speech, a commitment to institutional neutrality and new guidelines regarding donor influence.

February 19, 2024

BEN RAAB
Computer Science majors on the rise despite tech layoffs, questions over AI

The department is expected to award 138 graduate degrees this year to its “pure” majors, up from 97 the previous year, even amid massive layoffs in the tech sector and questions over the role that artificial intelligence will play in the industry’s future.

February 15, 2024

VISHNU BHARATHRAM
Jeopardy contestant Lloyd Sy joins English department

Sy competed on Jeopardy three times and won over $65,000 before coming to Yale in January as an assistant professor in the English department.

February 14, 2024

KARLA CORTES
Yale to host the Fulbright-García Robles Visiting Chair in new partnership

Yale hosts a Fulbright-García Robles Visiting Chair for the next five years to deepen transnational academic relations.

February 9, 2024

BEN RAAB
No evidence to support plagiarism allegations against computer science course

Several students on Fizz, an anonymous campus chat app, claimed that computer science professor Arman Cohan copied slides and homework for his course on Natural Language Processing from a similar course at Stanford. However, the News found no evidence to verify such a claim.

February 6, 2024