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....
Six Yale graduate students were awarded Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS).The council awarded 64 fellowships to advanced graduate students pursuing “promising and ambitious Ph.D. research”...
Farren Isaacs,Farren Isaacs assistant professor in the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and the Systems Biology Institute, has been selected as a 2014 DuPont Young Professor for his work in synthetic biology and genomic and...
Daniel Colon-Ramos, assistant professor of cell biology, was named among 30 Latin American scientists under 40 by the Chilean magazine Qué Pasa.In an article titled “The Future of Latin American Science,” the magazine profiled scientists pursuing research...
Aaron T. Pratt, a doctoral candidate in the Department of English, has been awarded a fellowship in critical bibliography by the Rare Book School (RBS) at the University of Virginia.Twenty RBS-Mellon fellows will participate in a three-year program, the...
The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) awarded the George Wittenborn Memorial Book Award to Josef Albers’ “Interaction of Color,” an app for the iPad published by Yale University Press.Established in 1980 to honor the memory of New York...
Sarah Ditchek, a senior in Yale College, was awarded a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship.The NDSEG fellowship is a competitive, portable fellowship that is awarded to U.S. citizens and nationals who intend to pursue a...
Alice Kaplan, the John M. Musser Professor of French and chair of the Department of French, was selected by the University of California for its first Distinguished Alumni Award.The award is named in honor of Linda Duttenhaver, an alumna of the University...