Music has been a part of Daphne Brooks’ life since she can remember. Her childhood home was filled with the sounds of all kinds of records, including Duke Ellington and Aretha Franklin. She even played a little bit of piano herself. But she says she never...
Three Yale students are among the inaugural group of Quad Fellows, a scholarship designed to build ties among the next generation of scientists and technologists.
The Quad Fellowship sponsors 100 exceptional American, Japanese, Australian, and Indian...
Two years ago, Connor Williams, an advanced doctoral student in history and African American Studies at Yale, was invited to help reshape how Americans memorialize the U.S. Civil War.
Williams was selected to be lead historian of the Naming Commission (...
Erik Harms always likes to get to his “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” class 20 minutes early. Like many other Yale instructors, he’ll often lay out materials for his students before each lecture and prepare a set of PowerPoint slides.
Then Harms,...
Two Yale Law School students — one born to Somalian immigrants and the other to parents from India — and a Ph.D. student at the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (GSAS) who was born in Egypt are among those receiving 2023 Paul & Daisy Soros...
Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the depths of hell.
A copy of the beautifully illuminated...