The Yale community this week is celebrating the work and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. in a range of all-virtual events, including a conversation about the role of race, place, and spirituality in achieving environmental justice; a poetry slam;...
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...
“A Raisin in the Sun,” the celebrated play by Lorraine Hansberry, was in tryouts at New Haven’s Shubert Theatre on Jan. 11, 1959, when the 29-year-old playwright shared her thoughts with the producing team about the previous night’s performance. In a two-...
More than a century ago, Igor Stravinsky’s ballet “Rite of Spring” created a sensation perhaps unlike any other in the history of theater. Featuring Vaslav Nijinsky’s staccato choreography and Stravinsky’s dissonant score, and depicting scenes of pagan...
Sarah Onyinyechukwu Okeke has a passion for photography and a keen understanding of how a photograph can connect people.
“The thing about photography that I particularly love is being able to capture a moment and then other people being able to feel...
Yale alumna Mary-Alice Daniel ’08 decided she wanted be a poet at the age of 17 while listening to a reading of poems by a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, America’s longest-running poetry award.
Nearly two decades later, she has won that...
In the inaugural Humanitas, a new monthly column focused on the arts and humanities at Yale, we celebrate the return of audiences to the Yale Repertory Theatre, preview a public art installation that will soon arrive in New Haven, and catch up with two...
Early in the pandemic, when much of Yale’s campus was shut down, Meredith Miller ’03 M.F.A. found inspiration in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s digital collections.
Miller, a senior photographer at the Beinecke, turned to her artistic...