A new study casts doubt on a promising application of the timeworn theory — posited by thinkers such as Rousseau, Alexander de Tocqueville, and John Stuart Mill — that political engagement, such as voting, fosters good citizens and makes people more...
The opening of the new residential colleges this fall, and the corresponding influx of 761 undergraduates to a new area of campus, created a need for additional study space on nearby Science Hill.
A recent renovation at Yale’s Center for Science and...
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a team of young economic reformers led by Yegor Gaidar worked to create a new economic future for Russia. Against the overwhelming threat of looming hunger and civil war they created a market economy that remains in...
A study of two travellers in the Near East at the dawn of the 20th century; a retrospective of a pioneering Yale sociologist murdered in Indonesia; an examination of public housing in New Haven; and a story of three generations of an African-American...
Shortly after Christmas last year, Gina Hurley and Eric Ensley visited the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s facility on Winchester Avenue where one of the world’s great collections of medieval English manuscripts awaited them.
Hurley and...
Every Monday at 4 p.m., Ayala Mack visits Yale to study Arabic.
Languages fascinate Mack, a ninth-grade student at New Haven’s Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School, and Yale is helping her to feed that passion. She is one of 280 students from area...
A program that protects families in rural Bangladesh from seasonal income insecurity — established in collaboration with Yale economist Mushfiq Mobarak — is among the world’s most cost-effective anti-poverty interventions, according to charity evaluator...
Major Charles Seligman, a U.S. Air Force chaplain stationed at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, has traveled to Yale monthly since August to study the concept of healing.
Seligman is one of 15 clergy participating in Yale Divinity School’s (YDS) recently...
Faculty and students of Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) recently presented their work and shared their ideas during the opening week of the B3 Biennial of the Moving Image — an international conference in Frankfurt, Germany, that...
Writer Ashleigh Young, a 2017 winner of the Windham Campbell Literature Prize, will gather with her fellow prize recipients at Yale on Wednesday, Sept. 13, for a three-day festival celebrating the craft of writing.
Young said she is excited about the...