The Yale community this week is celebrating the work and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in a range of all-virtual events, including a conversation about the role of race, place, and spirituality in achieving environmental justice; a poetry slam;...
As a Yale undergraduate, Hussein Fancy ’97 majored in English, with aspirations to be a writer. Today, as he teaches and conducts research on medieval Iberia, Fancy thinks of himself as a “writer of history” rather than as a historian. This month he...
Sean Massa, who earned a Master of Arts in Religion at the Yale Divinity School in 2018, has been awarded a 2022 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship in a competitive nationwide process.
The fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State...
Yale University today announced bold new investments in the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) and in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) that will accelerate the university’s educational and research missions.
The plan calls for 45 new...
“A Raisin in the Sun,” the celebrated play by Lorraine Hansberry, was in tryouts at New Haven’s Shubert Theatre on Jan. 11, 1959, when the 29-year-old playwright shared her thoughts with the producing team about the previous night’s performance. In a two-...
Even as a young person growing up in Birmingham, Alabama at the height of the civil rights era, Freeman Hrabowski III understood the importance of education in creating a more equitable society.
Inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil...
Yale alumna Mary-Alice Daniel ’08 decided she wanted be a poet at the age of 17 while listening to a reading of poems by a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, America’s longest-running poetry award.
Nearly two decades later, she has won that...