Rising inequality is among the most pressing issues facing the United States. Yale sociologist Rourke O’Brien studies how this affects people and society and how policy interventions could narrow the gap between rich and poor.
We caught up with O’Brien...
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...
In LitHub’s “Fiction/Non/Fiction” podcast and The New Yorker Radio Hour, respectively, Yale historians Marci Shore and Timothy Snyder discuss Putin, Russia, and the turmoil in Ukraine.
Marci Shore on a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine
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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...
There’s a hidden universe of small molecules — and by mapping that universe, chemical biologist Jason Crawford reveals how molecules and microbes might hold the keys to protecting human health.
Crawford and his lab have advanced our understanding of how...