Two years ago, Yale archaeologist Veronica Waweru was in central Kenya, where she conducts her fieldwork, when she received a tip from a local contact. Tourists, she was told, were removing stone hand axes from a prehistoric site located within a private...
An ethnic minority faces state violence after advocating for self-determination. Immigrants endure discrimination from the native population. A local government faces the challenges of integrating newly arrived refugees. A country erupts into civil war. ...
Yale political scientist Ian Shapiro admires Tom Paine, the English-born American revolutionary whose 1776 pamphlet “Common Sense” galvanized support for independence from Great Britain, whose “American Crisis” letters sustained the American forces...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is widely heralded for its potential to enhance productivity in scientific research. But with that promise come risks that could narrow scientists’ ability to better understand the world, according to a new paper co-authored...
In his career, Rory Stewart has held key diplomatic posts in conflict zones and participated in policymaking at the highest levels of the U.K. government, as a diplomat, cabinet secretary, and member of Parliament.
But a hike across Asia, completed during...
In a new study of Syrian refugee families with small children, fathers viewed themselves as highly involved parents; their wives often begged to differ.
The study, co-authored by Yale anthropologist Catherine Panter-Brick, found that this disagreement...
Reading aloud to children through a community-based volunteer program significantly boosted levels of life satisfaction in Syrian refugee women living in Jordan, providing them a tangible sense of fulfillment, agency, and human dignity, according to a new...
Seven Yale faculty members are among the 188 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists awarded 2024 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Ned Blackhawk, Marta Figlerowicz, Ben Hagari, Elizabeth Hinton, Tavia Nyong’o, Douglas...
This story is the latest in a series about Yale’s evolution under President Peter Salovey as he prepares to return to the faculty later this year.
To understand how people moved around during the COVID-19 pandemic, Yale sociologist Emma Zang needs data —...
Mental illness costs the U.S. economy $282 billion annually, which is equivalent to the average economic recession, according to a new study co-authored by Yale economist Aleh Tsyvinski.
The first-of-its-kind study integrates psychiatric scholarship with...