The Kon-Tiki expedition – when Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, five crew members, and a Spanish-speaking parrot journeyed by raft across the Pacific Ocean in 1947 – was inspired by his conviction that people from South America settled in...
Ethan Heard ’07 B.A., ’13 M.F.A. is not afraid of risks. He and other alumni collaborators have been igniting audiences with intimate, modern-day interpretations of opera classics in New York City as part of Heartbeat Opera.
The company brought “Madame...
Creative partners Jennifer Newsom ’01 BA, ’05 M.Arch. and Tom Carruthers ’05 M.Arch. of the Minneapolis-based firm Dream the Combine won this year’s PS1 Young Architects Program Competition at MoMA PS1 in Queens. The outdoor environment they conceived and...
When Titus Kaphar ’06 M.F.A. graduated from Yale, like many art school graduates, he moved to New York City. But he says he spent a lot of time thinking about the city of New Haven — a city that was affordable, with a vibrant culture, and the possibility...
Marion Belanger ’90 M.F.A. and Martha Lewis ’93 M.F.A. had traveled in the same New Haven art circles for years, but it wasn’t until both applied to create an installation for the New Haven Agricultural Experiment Station that the two decided to join...
At a certain time in his life, Yale School of Music graduate Daniel Juarez M.M. ’02 aspired to a successful career as an opera star. These days, however, he measures success a bit differently.
Today, he says, he has the “best of both worlds”: a job at...
This story originally appeared in Yale Engineering magazine.
Does the name Joey Brink ring a bell? While an undergraduate student majoring in mechanical engineering, Brink was not only a star carillonneur on campus, his senior project focused on...
Over the course of 2018, YaleNews published more than 1,200 stories — from news of awards and honors to groundbreaking discoveries, campus events, Q&As, student and faculty profiles, book publications, videos, and more. Many of these stories marked a...