A Yale-led project examining the link between explosive volcanic eruptions and the annual Nile river summer flooding in antiquity has received an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
The project, titled “Volcanism, Hydrology and Social...
Yale Sterling Professor David Quint is, in his own words, a product of Yale’s Department of Comparative Literature.
Quint, who received his B.A. in English (1971) and his Ph.D. (1976) in Comparative Literature from Yale, is a specialist in the literature...
Appreciation of a beautifully written text is but one of the skills that students taking courses in English at Yale will learn. Among the others, says Yale English professor Stephanie Newell, is the skill of rhetoric.
Sometimes, when she sees students...
Award-winning graphic novelist, cartoonist, and educator Gene Luen Yang will visit the campus on Wednesday, Nov. 7 under the auspices of the Chubb Fellowship at Timothy Dwight College.
Yang will deliver the Chubb Fellowship Lecture titled “Power of Comics...
Three Yale faculty members — Anne Eller and William Rankin in the Department of History and Anna Zayaruznaya in the Department of Music — were awarded the 2018 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research by untenured...
In celebration of the introduction of American Sign Language (ASL) to Yale’s curriculum, the Department of Linguistics is hosting a panel discussion on Friday, Nov. 9.
Titled “Sign Languages and the Mind: Their History, Science, and Power,” the event will...
Yale was recently recognized with a 2018 Governor’s Patron of the Arts Award from the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development’s (CDEC) Office of the Arts.
Established in 2014, the Governor’s Patron of the Arts Awards honor individuals...
Two Yale graduate students — Jessica Cerdeña and Demar Lewis — were recently inducted into the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health Policy Research Scholars program.
Health Policy Research Scholars (HPRS) is a national leadership development program...