A symposium at Sterling Memorial Library on Thursday, Nov. 29, will honor the life and legacy of Dr. Dori Laub, co-founder of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and Yale’s Genocide Studies Program.
The Department of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale have launched a pre-doctoral research assistant program that will provide college graduates considering scholarly careers the opportunity to work alongside faculty on data-driven...
Speaking at the 50th anniversary celebration of Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), Yale President Peter Salovey acknowledged that producing policy-relevant, data-driven research in the social sciences — the work at the heart of ISPS’...
While enduring daily cruelty and deprivation in labor camps in central Ukraine, survivor Liubov N. and her fellow prisoners documented their struggle in song and verse.
Recounting her experiences in a two-hour interview for the Fortunoff Video Archive for...
Yale graduate and missionary Eli Smith 1821 B.A. moved to Beirut in 1834 and established an Arabic press there to help spread the Christian message in the Middle East.
While developing his latest exhibition, “Redoubt,” renowned artist Matthew Barney ’89 B.A. came to Yale several times to explore the university’s collections and consult with faculty about his ideas for the multi-faceted project that explores themes as...
A mid-18th-century watercolor depicts a Christian wedding ceremony in the kingdom of Kongo. A friar blesses a happy couple from underneath the veranda of an outdoor chapel. The bride and her attendants are wrapped and draped in colorful, imported textiles...
As works of art age, their component materials can change in ways that signal maturity, history, and authenticity, said Paul Whitmore, a research scientist at the Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH) at Yale’s West Campus.
But...
Yale University today announced the 2019 recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prizes. The eight writers, honored for their literary achievement or promise, will receive $165,000 each to support their work.
This year’s prize recipients are: in fiction, ...