2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1020+ words) During ceremonies on Cross Campus Monday, President Maurie McInnis and fellow Yale leaders welcomed the university’s newest undergraduate and graduate students. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Lynn Cooley A capella group the Yale Citations performing. Head of Branford…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (307+ words) Focal Point A meditation on urban loneliness YaleNews What to know: American realist painter Edward Hopper’s works frequently explore themes of urban isolation in the postwar era, when psychology first recognized loneliness as a modern-day problem. Unlike Hopper’s other masterpiece…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (211+ words) For a middle-school teacher, engaging in a collegial exchange of ideas for the classroom. “The professor was amazing,” she said. “We learned so many things about Russia, and my project was a comparison between Panama — because I’m Panamanian — Russia, and…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (496+ words) By becoming a student again, this New Haven-area public school teacher found new inspiration for his classroom. Courtesy of Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute For Matthew Schaffer, an eighth-grade history teacher at the Engineering & Science University Magnet School in West Haven,…...