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 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the papers of David Sedaris, noted American humorist, author, and essayist.
Sedaris, who grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and graduated from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago in 1987,...
Ta-Nehisi Coates — bestselling author and distinguished writer in residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute — confessed to a packed Yale Art Gallery auditorium that he first became aware of Yale historian David Blight around...
A spring 2018 academic initiative led by Tatiana Bilbao, the former Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture, called “Two Sides of the Border: Redefining the Region,” is the impetus for a new exhibition at the school.
Mexico...
Over the course of 2018, YaleNews published more than 1,200 stories — from news of awards and honors to groundbreaking discoveries, campus events, Q&As, student and faculty profiles, book publications, videos, and more. Many of these stories marked a...
Appreciation of a beautifully written text is but one of the skills that students taking courses in English at Yale will learn. Among the others, says Yale English professor Stephanie Newell, is the skill of rhetoric.
Sometimes, when she sees students...
Three Yale faculty members — Anne Eller and William Rankin in the Department of History and Anna Zayaruznaya in the Department of Music — were awarded the 2018 Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research by untenured...
The need to design large-scale frameworks for organizing the data explosion of the digital age is perhaps the central problem facing interdisciplinary research in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences today. A team at Yale proposes to confront...