The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale has announced the winners of the Windham Campbell Literature Prizes. This year’s recipients illustrate the global scale of the prizes, with the eight winning writers hailing from seven countries. The...
For more than four decades, Robert O. Mendelsohn, an environmental economist, has researched the benefit of protecting the Earth’s environment. As the Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, a professor in the...
Since Yale art historian Diana E. E. Kleiner first fell in love with ancient Roman architecture as an undergraduate, she has leaned on many of the world’s oldest buildings, monuments, and ruins.Leaning on a building was a habit she developed after taking...
In 1716, a 13-year-old Connecticut native named Jonathan Edwards entered Yale College, where he passionately studied contemporary issues in theology and philosophy, wrote about the natural world and metaphysics, and engaged with Enlightenment thinking....
José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission of the European Union, will visit the campus to give a lecture on Monday, Sept. 22.Barroso’s talk, titled “Europe in the New World Order,” will be held at 3 p.m. in the Beinecke Terrace Room,...