Novelist Deji Bryce Olukotun ’00 B.A. began writing fiction as a school kid. He would submit short stories to his teachers that they had not assigned him.
“They’d say, ‘Sure, fine, but you’re not going to get extra credit for it,’” Olukotun said. “I didn’...
This year marks an important new epoch for arts collaborations at Yale with the launch of the newly reimagined Center for Collaborative Arts and Media. The center, formerly known as the Digital Media Center for the Arts, has been renovated and rebranded...
In mid-2015, members of the Islamic State terrorist group used barrel bombs to destroy much of an ancient archaeological site in northern Iraq.
In mid-2017, a group of Yale students toured the site anyway.
The students didn’t actually travel to the...
In today’s world, cultural heritage — a term Yale University President Peter Salovey referred to as “the essential record of humanity” — is increasingly under attack by threats ranging from climate change, terrorism, theft, mass tourism, and war. Historic...
The latest Forbes Magazine “30 Under 30” edition includes several Yale affiliates in a variety of fields.
Now in its seventh year, the edition features 600 individuals in 20 different industries. According to the magazine, the listing spotlights “the...
For many of us, self-reflection marks the turn of the new year, namely in the form of resolution-making. But few of us ever stop to consider, “What exactly is the ‘self’ I am trying to improve?” A new Yale humanities course, “Selfhood, Race, Class, and...
Yale’s Digital Humanities Lab, a space where Shakespeare meets Silicon Valley, will have a new home in Sterling Memorial Library.
A renovation of the library’s Franke Family Reading Room now under way will create a cutting-edge campus hub for applying...
The ways in which virtual reality technologies help us understand poetry and technological explorations into what music reveals about the brain are just two of the topics that will be explored at the third annual Beyond Boundaries symposium, which will...
Yale graduate student Amy Giuliano knows that the experience of studying abroad can be transformative, but she is also aware that the cost of travel can make that impossible for some students. So she has designed virtual reality educational tours of some...