Yale University news from the Office of Public Affairs & Communications.

Dec 20, 2024 · At Yale, 2024 was a year of transformation and renewal. The university welcomed a new president, Maurie McInnis, an accomplished scholar, university leader, and alumna who first arrived on campus as a graduate student in 1989, and celebrated her predecessor, Peter Salovey, who returned to the faculty full-time after 11 years as Yale’s leader.

May 29, 2024 · Yale University has appointed Maurie McInnis ’96 Ph.D. to serve as its 24th president. McInnis, now president of Stony Brook University, was the unanimous choice of the Yale Board of Trustees, Josh Bekenstein ’80, senior trustee and chair of the presidential search committee, said Wednesday in a message to the Yale community.

Jan 10, 2024 · This growth, along with a robust financial aid budget, expanded outreach and targeted communications that highlight affordability, and a ‘whole-person’ admissions process that considers potential broadly, has brought measurable changes in the makeup of the student body: with the increase in the number of matriculated students, the number of first-year students eligible for Federal Pell ...

Dec 17, 2024 · Yale College has offered admission to 728 applicants for the Class of 2029 through its early action program, the Office of Undergraduate Admissions announced on Dec. 17.

Dec 17, 2024 · On Yale’s West Campus, conservators from the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA) have been busy treating two large paintings that will be on view when YCBA reopens in March.

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Sep 25, 2024 · Yale’s top leaders on Tuesday kicked off a four-day summit in New York that underscores the university’s commitment to addressing the climate crisis and its ability to engage people across realms of expertise to do research and provide tools that advance solutions to environmental threats.

Aug 15, 2024 · Research at Yale doesn’t take the summer off to hike in the Alps or sit by the pool reading a good book. Rather, it is a perpetual engine of innovation and discovery.

Nov 3, 2024 · In early 2024, Alexandra Daum arrived on the Yale campus as the new associate vice president for New Haven Affairs and University Properties. She was already familiar with the office’s work across New Haven from the perspective of a city resident — and once on campus she soon found many willing tutors in the ways of Yale.