Antonia Woodford
Antonia Woodford
Antonia Woodford is the academics beat reporter for the News, covering issues related to courses, faculty and the academic side of student life at Yale College and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She is a sophomore in Ezra Stiles college and hails from New York City.
Recent Stories
University promotes six professors
Four professors in the sciences. Six professors were promoted at a meeting of the Board of Permanent Officers on May 17.
More on this year's honorary degree recipients
Nine leaders received honorary degrees. Read more about their accomplishments here.
University confers 3,021 degrees at 311th Commencement
Intermittent spurts of rainfall shortened but could not stop Yale’s 311th Commencement exercises.
Gates, Marshall LAW '76 to receive honorary degrees
Both spotted at annual dinner. Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and former Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Margaret Marshall LAW '76 were at the YCBA Sunday night.
Blue Book returns, for now
Despite last fall’s announcement to the contrary, Yale’s Blue Book course catalog will come out in print for at least one more year.
University announces new fellowship for freshmen
Commits nearly $500,000 for freshmen. A new summer fellowship program will allow more undergraduates to conduct research in science and engineering during the summer after freshman year.
Tenure system a boon for humanities
Professors and administrators said the perception that “nobody gets tenure at Yale” is fading.
Yale-NUS discussed at student panel
Singaporean students and alumni from Columbia and Yale offered their perspectives on Yale-NUS.
Yale to offer three new humanities postdocs
Trying to build postdoctoral community. For the first time, the University will offer three postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities and humanistic sciences for recent Ph.D. graduates during the coming academic year.
UP CLOSE | Humanities face identity crisis
The humanities have long dominated Yale’s academic identity, but their place at the University is shifting.