As a Yale undergraduate, Hussein Fancy ’97 majored in English, with aspirations to be a writer. Today, as he teaches and conducts research on medieval Iberia, Fancy thinks of himself as a “writer of history” rather than as a historian. This month he...
Yale University today announced bold new investments in the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) and in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) that will accelerate the university’s educational and research missions.
The plan calls for 45 new...
As the granddaughter of Armenian genocide survivors, Dr. Sharon Chekijian, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Yale, has long had an interest in her family’s native country. She visited for the first time as a college student in 1991 as part...
In 2020, while co-teaching a course called “Eurasian Entanglements: Russia and China in the 20th century” for the Yale Alumni Academy, Jinyi Chu listened to former students reminisce about the courses they took on campus 40 or more years earlier. The...
Two Yale faculty members are among a group of 180 artists, writers, scholars, and scientists awarded 2022 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Daphne A. Brooks, a scholar of African-American literature and culture, performance...
Eight Yale faculty members in fields as diverse as anthropology, geography, law, and medicine are among the 261 accomplished individuals elected new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
The academy honors excellence and convenes...
Priyamvada Natarajan, a Yale astrophysicist who explores cosmology, gravitational lensing, and black hole physics, is being honored with a Liberty Science Center (LSC) Genius Award for her extensive body of work mapping the unseen universe.
The awards,...
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Tamar Gendler has announced that Kenneth Scheve will serve as the FAS Dean of Social Science for a 5-year term, effective July 1, 2022, pending formal approval by the Yale Corporation.
A member of the Faculty of...
Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) Dean Tamar Gendler on Friday appointed Larry Gladney as FAS Dean of Science and Kenneth Scheve as FAS Dean of Social Science, pending formal approval by the Yale Corporation.
Gladney, a renowned physicist who works at...