FACULTY & ACADEMICS
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

HUDSON WARM
CourseTable grows in popularity, adds new features

The popular student-created and -run course website has processed over 5 million requests this past month and has incorporated features such as Google Calendar integration, adding friends and links to courses.

January 31, 2024

EMILY AIKENS & BEN RAAB
Faculty and administration raise alarm on grade inflation, ‘no plans’ to change grading policy

In response to a grading report obtained by the News in November, professors in various departments spoke about the causes of rising grades, potential solutions and how grade inflation may affect Yale academics moving forward.

January 30, 2024

ESMA OKUTAN
New course at SOM teaches Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence Models

The course, introduced this fall, gives students a chance to build their own projects using artificial intelligence.

January 26, 2024

HUDSON WARM & ANDRE FA'AOSO
Economics, political science classes see highest enrollments in spring 2024

The three classes with the highest enrollment this semester — Introductory Macroeconomics, Bioethics and Law and Intermediate Macroeconomics — have drawn hundreds of students.

January 26, 2024

BEN RAAB
Professor accused of sexual misconduct sues Yale for gender discrimination, federal court grants trial

In 2013, the University found Professor Michael Simons guilty of sexual harassment and disciplined him accordingly. Simons claimed that five years later, Yale punished him again for the same conduct in a gender-discriminatory effort to appease campus supporters of the #MeToo movement; a federal court last week allowed the case to move to trial.

January 23, 2024

HUDSON WARM & EMILY AIKENS
Marc Robinson appointed FAS Dean of Humanities

Appointed by a committee of Yale faculty, theater professor and drama critic Marc Robinson will begin his term overseeing the humanities division of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in July.

January 22, 2024

BEN RAAB
Controversial Jackson fellow Robert Malley to teach ‘Contending with Israel-Palestine’ seminar

Malley, currently on leave from his position in the State Department, is one of Yale’s eight annual Jackson fellows.

January 19, 2024

BEN RAAB
Error allows students to see grades without evaluating courses, Faculty Senate plans to discuss 

A Yale Hub error allowed students to view their grades for the fall semester without first completing their course evaluations, which has raised concerns among faculty senate members.

January 18, 2024

YURII STASIUK & NATALIIA SHULIAKOVA
Tim Snyder will lead 90 scholars in rethinking Ukrainian history

History professor Timothy Snyder will lead the “Ukrainian History Global Initiative” over the next three years in an effort to globalize Ukrainian history. The program was founded and is funded by a Ukrainian oligarch with close ties to former president Leonid Kuchma, who was implicated in the killing of journalist Georgy Gongadze.

December 8, 2023