Mo Li, a Chinese postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, wrote to a Yale University philosophy professor last year with a strange request. Mr. Li had never met the professor, ...

All golf courses are intended to present some kind of challenge for players, but U.S. Open courses are routinely among the toughest courses the world's best player will face in their careers. While ...

Seven new Yale College courses — in subjects ranging from the great 20th-century American novelists and the philosophy of human nature to financial markets and organic chemistry — have been added to ...