The Windham-Campbell Prizes’ annual literary festival returns to campus Sept. 19 to Sept. 22 with a special lineup of events to mark its 10th anniversary, including a keynote address by former United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey.
The eight...
Twelve new decorative windows installed today in Grace Hopper College, the Yale residential college previously known as Calhoun College, celebrate the richness of the college’s community and contemplate the complex history behind its name.
The windows,...
In January, James O’Donnell, a renowned concert organist, choral conductor, and liturgical musician, will join the faculties of the Yale School of Music and the Institute of Sacred Music. In the meantime, O’Donnell has important work to do: On Monday, he...
Tiny glass beads discovered in mountain caves about 25 miles from the shores of Lake Malawi in eastern-central Africa provide evidence that European trade in the continent’s hinterland was built on Indigenous trade routes from the coast to the interior...
On a sweltering morning in early August, Yale students Emma Sherefkin and Noah Silvestry installed cabinetry in the kitchen of a new home in New Haven’s Hill neighborhood. Silvestry held a door steady as Sherefkin fastened its hinges with a power...
Robert Gersony, who spent more than 40 years working in crisis zones across the globe, has this advice for Yale students who want to influence policy at the highest levels of the U.S. State Department:
Don’t rely on written reports. Value in-person...
As doctoral students at Yale in the late 1970s, Douglas W. Diamond ’80 Ph.D. and Philip H. Dybvig ’79 Ph.D. developed a friendship forged in part while waiting to meet with their mutual thesis advisor, the late Stephen A. Ross.
That relationship grew into...
Ron Borzekowski, who spent several years leading the Office of Research at the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), has been named the inaugural executive director of Yale’s Data-Intensive Social Science Center (DISSC), a planned campus...
On March 25, 2020, India abruptly enacted a weeks-long nationwide lockdown to stop the spread of the coronavirus. The measure, implemented with less than four hours’ notice, forced millions of migrant workers to leave the cities where they made their...
An analysis of obsidian artifacts excavated during the 1960s at two prominent archaeological sites in southwestern Iran suggests that the networks Neolithic people formed in the region as they developed agriculture are larger and more complex than...