Judith Ann Schiff, a longtime archivist at the Yale University Library who loved helping others gain a deeper understanding of Yale’s and New Haven’s histories, died on July 11. She was 84.
Over the course of a Yale career spanning more than 60 years,...
A new study by researchers at Yale, Stanford, and Dartmouth provides the first nationwide, small-area analysis of the variation in spending by the three main funders of health care in the United States: Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers. The...
The United States and other wealthy democracies during the past century have rarely responded to rising economic inequality by enacting more progressive tax policies, according to a new study co-authored by Yale political scientist Kenneth Scheve.
The...
In 1923, as the Yale Peabody Museum was under construction on the corner of Sachem Street and Whitney Avenue, a time capsule was embedded beneath the southeast corner. This spring — 99 years later — amid the museum’s latest transformation, construction...
Picture a spacesuit. It’s functional, and the mirrored visor is fun. But you can’t dance in it.
While the first astronaut to set foot on Mars probably won’t pirouette or perform a jazz split on the planet’s rust-colored soil, folks at Yale are nonetheless...
As a Ph.D. student in economics at Yale in the early 2000s, Amit Khandelwal learned how to apply analytical techniques to real-world problems concerning international trade and economic development.
After earning his degree, he joined the faculty of the...
President Joe Biden has appointed Susan Gibbons, vice provost for collections and scholarly communication at Yale, to serve on the National Museum and Library Services Board, an advisory body that helps guide federal policies to enhance the country’s...
After mapmaker Judah Ben Zara was banished from Spain in 1492, when Ferdinand and Isabella expelled their kingdom’s Jewish population, the exiled cartographer continued plying his craft in the Middle East. His only surviving maps — two made in Egypt and...
When she was a college student, economist Lauren Falcao Bergquist participated in a volunteer program in Tanzania where she taught HIV prevention. While she enjoyed the experience, which galvanized her interest in East Africa, she questioned whether the...