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With teaching program, students put a new spin on music education

March 25, 2024

Undergraduates explored topics ranging from modern opera to heavy metal in three new courses offered through Yale’s Associates in Teaching program.

Sandbox Percussion receives Avery Fisher Career Grant

March 25, 2024

The ensemble of Yale School of Music alumni is the first percussion group to win the coveted award in its 50-year history.

NASA’s Goddard Institute director to join opening of campus art exhibition

March 22, 2024

Opening March 27, a new Yale ISM exhibition “Biophilia: In Excelsis” will showcase the work of 22 artists focused on the theme of “sacred ecosystems.”

Spring events celebrate ISM’s 50th anniversary at Yale

March 22, 2024

The Institute of Sacred Music is hosting concerts, talks, and a hymn festival this term to commemorate its half-century on campus.

Classical ‘gatecrasher’ aims to make music more inclusive

March 22, 2024

In response to a significant gender imbalance in orchestral music, acclaimed composer Missy Mazzoli ’06 M.M. co-founded Luna Composition Lab.

Would you believe? A Yale historian reconsiders the seemingly impossible

March 20, 2024

In a new book, Carlos Eire evaluates once-common accounts of seemingly impossible phenomena — and challenges readers to suspend their own disbelief.

Tenor Daniel Espinal wins Met Opera competition

March 19, 2024

Espinal, a master’s student at the Yale School of Music, was one of five winners in the Metropolitan Opera’s prestigious Eric and Dominique Laffont Competition.

Stewart draws on days in Parliament, and Afghan villages, in new Yale role

March 18, 2024

Rory Stewart, a former British diplomat who recently returned to Yale, discusses his approach to teaching grand strategy — and offering hope in a bleak time.

The dust is never settled: Biblical scholarship and contemporary religion

March 18, 2024

Laura Nasrallah discusses how a fluid sense of past and present—antiquity and modernity turbulently intertwined influences her teaching and research.

Building on Yale’s strength: adding new depth and breadth to the humanities

March 18, 2024

During Peter Salovey’s presidency, the university’s commitment to the humanities has brought faculty expansion and new spaces and resources. Second in a series.