At Monte Albán, a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Oaxaca, Mexico, the artist Anni Albers encountered ancient jewelry composed of stones and shells.
The artifacts inspired Albers to make jewelry out of ordinary materials. She believed the process of...
Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree, is not a household name. Neither is Roger Arliner Young, the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in zoology, nor Vera Rubin, a physicist who discovered evidence...
William Nordhaus ’63 B.A., ’72 M.A., Sterling Professor of Economics, entered his classroom at Dunham Laboratory Monday morning to a burst of uproarious applause.
Hours earlier, Nordhaus learned that he had been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic...
Discussions about U.S.-China relations often focus on the latest headlines — a new round of tariffs or fluctuations in financial markets — while overlooking the need to develop a broader strategy for guiding the United States’ approach to China’s rise as...
Yale’s Jackson Institute should become a school of global affairs featuring a robust, faculty-driven research program dedicated to solving real-world problems and shaping a better future for humanity, according to a vision described in an advisory...
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...