Darwin Armenta, a senior at the Cooperative Arts and Humanities High School in New Haven, spends most Tuesday evenings rehearsing with a mariachi band. He grew up listening to the music, a distinct Mexican folk genre that combines brass and strings, at...
When the United States claimed sovereignty over a handful of overseas territories around the turn of the 20th century, object lessons in American patriotism followed straight away.
The American flag was immediately raised above schoolhouses and government...
Santiago Acosta left his native Venezuela in 2011 to continue his graduate studies in the United States. He started out at San Francisco State University, then headed to the opposite side of the country to do his Ph.D. at Columbia University, and then...
Two new wall murals at La Casa Cultural de Julia de Burgos, Yale’s Latine cultural center, will be commemorated at a special program on Wednesday, April 24.
One of the murals, located in La Casa’s kitchen, celebrates the diverse Latin American Indigenous...
The universe is awash in sound.
So declared teams of scientists from around the world last summer. As reported in Smithsonian Magazine, the scientists said they’d discovered a new kind of gravitational wave that creates a constant, ambient hum. The...
José García-León once gave a master class in piano to students in Buenos Aires — from his studio in New York. His piano was digitally synchronized with the one the students were playing, so that he could hear what they were playing on his piano and see...
Every year, Yale’s Three-Minute Thesis Competition provides Ph.D. students with an opportunity to step away from the fog of their dissertation research and tell the world exactly what it is they are trying to achieve.
In three minutes.
The competition,...
Four Yale faculty members have been honored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) with this year’s Graduate Mentor Awards for outstanding commitment to advising and student support.
The winners are Sreeganga Chandra, associate professor of...
John Nguyen entered Yale with plans to become a neurosurgeon. Instead, he found his calling as a writer.
As a student at Harding Senior High School in St. Paul, Minnesota, Nguyen had been laser-focused on STEM subjects. But after taking some English...
In April of 1980, three men traveling in a car on a street in Chattanooga, Tennessee fired shotgun blasts at four Black women waiting for a cab. A fifth women was hit by flying glass.
The driver and his two passengers were all members of the Ku Klux Klan...