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Multidisciplinary student teams collaborate to address water scarcity in South Africa
11/27/18

Yale students journey to Cape Town, South Africa to tackle water scarcity crisis

Early in 2018 Jessica Helfand joined 30 students from the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Architecture for a trip from the Yale campus to an unlikely destination: the New Haven wastewater treatment plant. The students, who are taking Helfand’s ...
Yale couple start business to improve global healthcare
11/06/18

Yale alumni couple & startup founders use tech to improve global healthcare access

  In today’s world, health, medicine, and wellness transcend the medical facility. Healthcare providers need a holistic view of people — their environments, behaviors, and psychographic characteristics — to improve health outcomes and wellness.  T...
Celebrating New African Cuisine
11/01/18

Famous chef celebrates "New African Cuisine"

Purveyor of ‘Nomadic Dining,’ Chef Selassie Atadika presents to members of the Yale community at an event presented by Yale Hospitality at Yale on York this past Thursday. During the event, Atadika, renowned for her ability to inspire a more communal dining experie...
10/09/18

Conference Explores Benefits of the Preservation of Cultural Heritage in Africa

  Wildlife and heritage conservation in Africa is the theme of an international conference hosted by the Global Consortium for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (GCPCH), a coalition of universities and museums. This year’s event, taking place Oct. 17-21, is ho...
10/02/18

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo Discusses Democracy and Development in Africa

A new age is dawning on the African continent, one that will utilize democratic processes and economic development to create a prosperous, independent future for the African people, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, president of the Republic of Ghana, told an audience at the Yale S...
10/02/18

Rwanda and Yale partner to advance sustainable development, environmental conservation

The government of Rwanda and Yale have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to foster greater cooperation and collaboration in the areas of education and research in sustainable development and environmental protection and conservation. The signing of the agreement took place...
09/24/18

Forum Amplifies effectiveness and influence of women in African governments

Over the last 20 years, women have increased their presence in governments across Africa, but — like their peers elsewhere — they still lag far behind men. Through its Leadership Forum for Strategic Impact, Yale is working to enhance the knowledge and skills of sen...
08/29/18

Yale, South African researchers partner to prevent and treat HIV and TB

Former South African president Nelson Mandela once emphasized that the war against AIDS could not be won without confronting the country’s tuberculosis epidemic. For the last 16 years, a group of Yale researchers in the Yale AIDS Program has been doing just that through ...
08/27/18

Alumni volunteers’ efforts made ‘real difference’ in South African township

Yale Alumni Service Corps (YASC) is in its landmark 10th year, having organized trips across the globe that have helped thousands of people in underserved communities ranging from Brazil to India to West Virginia — all while leaving a lasting impression on...
08/20/18

Yale Young African Scholars helps African students navigate path to higher education abroad

Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS), a flagship program of the Yale Africa Initiative, held sessions with in Kigali, Rwanda July 29-Aug. 7, and in Accra, Ghana Aug. 11-20. This year, the program, which aims to make higher education more accessible to Africa’s most t...

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