A few years ago, Sybil Alexandrov, a senior lector II in the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) Department of Spanish and Portuguese, had some questions about the university’s child-rearing relief policies.
At the time, in most schools across the...
How is academia dealing with the influence of AI on student writing? Just ask ChatGPT, and it’ll deliver a list of 10 ways in which the rapidly expanding technology is creating both opportunities and challenges for faculty everywhere.
On the one hand, for...
Dinée Dorame ’15, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, was a junior at Yale when the Native American Cultural Center (NACC) opened in its own building on High Street back in the fall of 2013.
Before that, the center had been housed in several rooms on the...
From 2001 to 2010, Yale historian Alan Mikhail lived in Cairo where he conducted research within the massive, state-run Egyptian National Archives. From his perch in the archive’s reading room, Mikhail took careful note of the myriad, maddening...
As a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cambridge, Nicole Sheriko had access to vast archives relevant to her specialty: early English puppetry. But not all the puppet treasure was on campus.
Harrison David Rivers was teaching playwriting at Kenyon College in 2018 when he got the call.
The Binger Center for New Theatre, a program of Yale Repertory Theatre and the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale, was offering him a sizable commission to...
After the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, and the devastating Hamas-Israel war that has followed, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis wanted to convene an event on campus in which students could talk openly about the conflict.
On Nov. 16, he invited two...
Ukrainian history and world history have been linked for thousands of years, from the spread of what would become Indo-European languages by the Yamna culture to the global consequences of today’s Russo-Ukrainian War.
An international team of scholars led...
In August 1938, James Joseph “Jimmy” Hines, the Tammany Hall leader of the Eleventh Assembly District of Manhattan, became the subject of a media feeding frenzy. Hines was charged with being a paid protector of the illegal lottery ring operated by mobster...
As an undergraduate at Oberlin College and Conservatory, Daniel Walden spent a lot of time playing music written before 1900, sometimes on instruments dating back to the same period. One day he sat down at a harpsichord that was tuned in what’s called...