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In his large lecture of sometimes upwards of 500 students, Assistant Professor of Economics, Cormac O’Dea, does just that. Through low stakes polls, announcements and providing “pre-notes” ahead of lectures, Professor O’Dea’s students have found great value and purpose in participation and community. Listen along to our brief interview on how he upholds communication and organization strategies in...

Under the instruction of Nilay Hazari, Professor of Chemistry and PI of the Hazari group, students not only grow in their confidence to meaningfully engage in the course material and topics, but also preparation for the diverse and interconnected world they will encounter in their future careers and personal lives. By actively communicating during lunch-time office hours and Microsoft Teams, stude...

This episode of our podcast features a conversation with historian R.J.M. Blackett about the 19th century newspaper editor, Congregational minister, and temperance advocate Samuel Ringgold Ward. Despite Ward’s prominent role in the abolitionist movement, his story has been lost because of the decades he spent in exile. In Samuel Ringgold Ward: A Life of Struggle, R. J. M. Blackett rediscovers a pi...

The Craft & Career series connects with professional creatives from the arts, entertainment, and media industries, to discuss the nuances of their craft, the reality of their careers, and how, in often surprising ways, these two concerns can work together. We're excited to open our spring Season with Rob Ronan '99, 20 year veteran in digital writing and user experience design, working with compani...

Higher education involves engaging in conversation, both specific discussions about course material and broader conversations about the search for knowledge and shared understanding. The importance of conversation in achieving knowledge is explored through Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty. Dean Pericles Lewis is joined by Yale students Claire Michalik ’25 and Zadie Wi...

Conversation and debate on campus can lead to controversy. This episode analyzes political scientist Keith Whittington’s writings on free expression and academic freedom as they apply to college experiences today. Dean Pericles Lewis is joined by Yale students Claire Michalik ’25 and Zadie Winthrop ’26.

College is a crucial institution through which our society sets expectations for young people. This podcast explores some of the purposes of a college education today, including conversation with others on intellectual matters, development of personal character, participation in a community, and preparation for citizenship. We look at practical and personal dimensions of college, including career...

Pastor, author and activist Rev. Dr. Otis Moss III joins for a wonderful and wide-ranging conversation on justice, activism, and community. We begin with practical reminders of the necessity of grounding in community, even as we consider the many layers of community. This ranges from personal friendships, to local gatherings in places like the barbershop, to engagement our larger societal communit...

Join us in some Time for the Soul as Yale University Chaplain Sharon Kugler and Ivy Onyeador, Yale college alum and Assistant Professor in the Management and Organizations Department at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University discuss ways that teaching about organizational bias within a management structure and the core values of DEI/Belonging work can foster hope in a world lo...

Join us in some Time for the Soul as Yale University Chaplain Sharon Kugler and Darin Lattimore, Deputy Dean and Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Yale Medical School, discuss bringing both passion and compassion into spaces that call for it, and what it means to use a voice that many do not hear.

Join us in some Time for the Soul as Yale University Chaplain Sharon Kugler and Joliana Yee, Asian American Cultural Center Director and Assistant Dean of Yale College, discuss dreaming a better world into existence.

A live audience of recently admitted students joins Hannah and Mark for a special episode recorded at Bulldog Days, a three-day campus preview program. Special guests Chandler and Marty share insights on how admissions officers plan and execute Bulldog Days with the help of current students and campus partners. Three admitted students reflect on their experience navigating the college search and a...

The archaeologist shares compelling stories of ruins and lost civilizations, from the Garamantes of ancient northern Africa to Port Royal, Jamaica to Rapa Nui.

In this episode, director of Yale University Press, John Donatich, talks with Ned Blackhawk about his new book, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History. Blackhawk offers a sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history, which recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.

Join us in some Time for the Soul as Yale University Chaplain Sharon Kugler and Risë Nelson, Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion of Yale Library, discuss the importance of focus through hard moments.

Join us in some Time for the Soul as Yale University Chaplain Sharon Kugler and Heather Reynolds, Lecturer in Nurse-Midwifery and Minority Student Coordinator at Yale School of Nursing, discuss what it means to continue to hold grace despite it all.

Join us in some Time for the Soul as Yale University Chaplain Sharon Kugler and Liz Hidalgo Reese, Yale College alum and Assistant Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, discuss fiercely facing down power structures.

A conversation about the 17th-century Spanish painter, famously depicted by Diego Velázquez, on his own terms.

For Earth Day, Professor Menachem Elimelech and President Peter Salovey discuss the development of technologies that make sea and municipal wastewater potable.

Professor Doug NeJaime discusses the landscape of parentage laws across the country, his work with YLS students to pass the Connecticut Parentage Act, and what it takes to pass laws that better reflect what makes a family.

In this episode of the Yale University Press Podcast, we talk with Mike Jay about his new book, Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind.

Join us in some Time for the Soul as Yale University Chaplain Sharon Kugler and Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Yale Professor of American Studies, Ethnicity, Race and Migration and the Head of Ezra Stiles College, discuss a calling for teaching and a passion for helping young people in the classroom.

Join us in some Time for the Soul as Yale University Chaplain Sharon Kugler and Peter Crumlish, Executive Director and General Secretary of Dwight Hall, Yale’s student-led center for public service and social justice, discuss different callings throughout a life and what keeps one grounded through it all.

Join us in some Time for the Soul as Yale University Chaplain Sharon Kugler and Debra Rohr, Chaplaincy Manager, also known as the “Babcia Book Fairy” discuss a love of books, gifting, and the books that unwrap us.

Presiding Bishop and Primate of the Episcopal Church Bishop Michael Curry ’78 M.Div. reflects on his fiery sermon on love at the royal wedding, becoming the first person of color to lead the Episcopal Church, and why the world is in need of 'crazy Christians.'