In late October 1994, Susan Smith rolled her car into a lake in Union County, South Carolina, with her two sons, a toddler and a baby, strapped in the backseat, drowning both children. Smith, a white woman, told police that a Black man had carjacked her...
Since the publication of his 2018 bestseller, “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them,” Yale’s Jason Stanley has become a familiar presence on radio and television news broadcasts. The Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy in Yale’s Faculty of...
Researchers have developed a new way to visualize how ancient animals moved as they roamed the Earth — starting with a Yale-discovered dinosaur’s sickle-clawed foot.
The new approach, which uses computer animation software to combine 3D models of fossil...
Yale faculty, students, staff, and alumni discuss the importance of studying Yale’s historical ties to slavery. Learn more at the Yale and Slavery Research Project website.
Formed in 2020, the Yale and Slavery Research Group was tasked by President Salovey with investigating Yale’s historic involvement and associations with slavery and its aftermaths. Here are the key actions the university has taken in response to the group...