Christopher Lloyd ’82 is a television producer and screenwriter who won 12 Emmy Awards for his work on the comedies Frasier ...

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 ...

Leaving Yale University Press in 2009 after almost 40 years at one publishing house, publishing director Tina Weiner was eager to start something new. That year, Stanford University happened to shut ...

When Maurie McInnis ’96PhD was offered the job of Yale president, one thing she and her husband Dean Johnson did not have to worry about was finding a place to live in New Haven. Like her seven most ...

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 ...

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 ...

If, in this semiquincentennial year, you want to rank America’s founding fathers in terms of their influence, you have to put New Haven’s Roger Sherman (1721–1793) in the top ten. Sherman is the only ...

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 ...

This week we're looking at the five oldest Yale buildings still in existence. Today: the fifth oldest, Farnam Hall. Farnam, built in 1870, was the first of several late-nineteenth-century residence ...

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 ...