Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will welcome 30 new colleagues this academic year who bring world-class scholarship and teaching in a range of fields, including Egyptology, quantum physics, 17th-century English poetry, machine learning, and...
The Ethnicity, Race & Migration Program (ERM) this year graduated its largest class yet: 34 seniors, many of them first-generation college students.
In the interdisciplinary program, founded in 1997, students engage the fields of ethnic, Native, and...
Yale historian Rohit De and social psychologist Jennifer Richeson are among the 27 individuals named as 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellows. They will each receive $200,000 in philanthropic support for “high-caliber scholarly research in the humanities and...
Every year, senior English majors with a concentration in creative writing celebrate the end of the academic term by giving readings of their works before a campus audience. This year, that culminating event — known as the “Creative Writing Concentrators...
Three Yale faculty members are among the 175 writers, scholars, artists, and scientists awarded 2020 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
Edyta M. Bojanowska, Danna Singer, and A.L. Steiner were chosen from among 3,000 applicants...
Alice Kaplan, a leading scholar of 20th- and 21st-century French and Francophone literature and history, has been named the next director of the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC). Her three-year term will begin July 1.
Kaplan, the John M. Musser Professor...
As a general rule, Yale puts little stock in external rankings. But every now and again, when there’s especially good news, it’s hard not to boast just a little.
And so we report that Timothy Snyder, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History, has not one...
While on campus to receive the Wilbur Cross Medal, four alumni of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences also delivered lectures about their research to the departments in which they received their academic training.
The Wilbur Cross Medal, the...