features

Lifelong learning 

How does a comedy writer cope with a series of tragedies? In this case, by taking 23 Yale courses online.

By Christopher Lloyd ’82

features

Let's dance

More than fifty years after first arriving at Yale, these pioneering women have found each other and their rhythms on Zoom.

By Shelley Fisher Fishkin ’71, ’77PhD Ico comments 5 comments

features

Still life

Neurophysiologist Elena Gracheva uncovers the secrets of how animals emerge, healthy, from the deathlike torpor of hibernation. 

By Randi Hutter Epstein ’90MD

features

The fifteenth college

Covid dealt a blow to Yale's residential college system. Can it recover? 

By Zachary Groz ’24

From the Editor

Being useful

Help us serve you better by taking our survey here.

By Pippa Jack

Letters to the Editor

Letters: September/October 2026

Readers write to us about the DOJ investigation, David Brooks, and more.

Where They Are Now

TikTok's "Gen Z Historian"

Kahlil Greene '21 was headed for a job in consulting. Then he became a social media star.

By Eric Olson ’11

Scene on Campus

Just keep swimming

A bird's-eye view of Yalies in the water.

Q&A: Maurie McInnis

For Humanity

By Pippa Jack

Old Yale

Forgotten founder

No one was more important to Yale's beginnings than James Pierpont.

By Michael J. Morand ’87, ’93MDiv Ico comments 2 comments

Last Look

Playtime

In the Div School's back yard, a place for dogs to run free.