Six members of the Yale faculty were honored with awards for outstanding teaching at a campus ceremony on April 27.The teachers were nominated by their students for the awards, which were presented by Yale College Dean Jonathan Holloway. The Teaching,...
Timothy Snyder, the Bird White Housum Professor of History, was recently awarded an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.Snyder is among 32 fellows in the inaugural class of the annual fellowship program that will provide...
As most 25-year-old men marched off to war in 1861, artist Winslow Homer took a different path to the front.
Armed with drawing utensils and paper, he was one of a select group of artist-reporters embedded with Union troops, documenting battles as well as...
A reading and book signing marking the publication of “The Light of the World,” the newest work by Yale professor Elizabeth Alexander will take place 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22 at the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St.The event is free and...
The Yale Drama Series Prize, considered one of the world’s most prestigious playwriting prizes, will be awarded to Barbara Seyda for her play “Celia, A Slave: 26 Characters Testify.”The 2015 award recipient was chosen by playwright Nicholas Wright, who...
In commemoration of the death of President Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865, YaleNews spoke with Steven B. Smith, the Alfred Cowles Professor of Government and Philosophy and a scholar on the writings of Abraham Lincoln.Alexander Gardner, “Abraham...