The eight recipients of the 2023 Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes will come to the Yale campus next week for a four-day literary festival to celebrate reading and the written word with the local community.
The annual festival, which begins Sept. 19,...
Members of the Yale and New Haven communities gathered this week to confer degrees on the Rev. James W.C. Pennington and the Rev. Alexander Crummell, two Black men who studied theology at the university during the mid-19th century but were barred from...
At a quick glance, the thin lines stretching across the glass façade of the new building at 87 Trumbull St. resemble opened blinds, but they serve a different purpose. The rows of lines are a film that enhances the windows’ visibility to chickadees,...
Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will welcome 61 new colleagues this academic year, a group of world-class researchers and teachers who offer a diversity of perspectives and experiences to the campus community.
The FAS cohort — which includes 48...
Rose Prentice, formerly enslaved, was in her mid-sixties when Sarah Goodridge, a noted miniaturist, painted her portrait.
Born in 1771, Prentice retained the surname of her second enslaver, John Prentice, who likely manumitted her, before or upon his...
A pair of prehistoric predators stand together in the preparators’ lab in the basement of the Yale Peabody Museum.
Poposaurus, a 200-million-year-old bipedal carnivore, bares its pointy teeth. To its right, Deinonychus, a nimble raptor that roamed present...
As part of its commitment to build pipelines to channel talented young people into top universities, Yale College has partnered with the nonprofit organization Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) to host summer programs for high achieving,...
A family of Pteranodon sternbergi, winged reptiles from the Late Cretaceous, has taken up permanent residence in the entrance lobby of the newly renovated Yale Peabody Museum.
First graders, walking double file, rounded a corner into the Yale Peabody Museum’s Burke Hall of Dinosaurs and were awestruck.
Michael Morand, director of community engagement for Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, has been appointed New Haven’s official city historian by Mayor Justin Elicker.
A New Haven resident since 1983, Morand brings a demonstrated passion...