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While you were away: Summer stories revisited

August 26, 2014

From the appointment of new deans to the endowment of Yale’s first professorship in poetry to the surprising results of an eye exam for an ancient sea...

Following a ‘spectacular’ restoration, a treasured Yale landmark reopens to the public

August 25, 2014

The nave in Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library reopened to the public on Monday, Aug. 25, marking the completion of a major restoration project that...

In conversation: Kathryn Dudley on artisanal guitar makers and the politics of labor

August 25, 2014

YaleNews recently met with Kathryn Dudley, professor of anthropology and American studies, to talk about her recent book, “Guitar Makers: The Endurance of...

Yale collections are time capsules of the people, politics, and propaganda of WWI

August 25, 2014

As the world commemorates the centennial of the First World War, Yale offers a wealth of material in its collections that can help make sense of the broader...

Yale Institute of Sacred Music transforms campus into a work of art with video installation

August 22, 2014

“Slow Dancing,” a video installation by artist David Michalek, will transform Yale’s Cross Campus into a work of art Sept. 10–16.

Alumna designer on creating British Art Center catalogue

August 21, 2014

Alumna Miko McGinty recently worked with curators at the Yale Center for British Art to create a catalogue for one of the museum's exhibition.

Recovering lost details of a 15th-century world map

August 19, 2014

An imaging team recently did scans of the Martellus map, drawn in 1491 and considered the best contemporary cartographic representation of Columbus’...

Fulbright awards fund Canada-U.S. exchanges for faculty member, visiting student

August 18, 2014

A Yale faculty member will do research in Canada and a Canadian architect will study at Yale with support from the Fulbright Foundation.

Commentary: What caused the Ferguson riot exists in so many other cities, too

August 15, 2014

Elijah Anderson, the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale and a leading urban ethnographer, writes in The Washington Post that riots like the...

Book: Bruce Davidson/Paul Caponigro: Two American Photographers in Britain and Ireland

August 12, 2014

YaleNews features works recently or soon to be published by members of the University community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the...