As the Yale College Class of 2019 assembled on Cross Campus the morning of May 20, lining up for the procession to Old Campus and the university’s 318th Commencement, the graduates savored their few final moments together before embarking on the next...
Journalist Janet Malcolm wrote an email in March 2004 to scholars Ulla Dydo, Edward Burns, and William Rice recounting a recent trip to Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where she was exploring the archives of Gertrude Stein and Alice B....
Americans prefer government programs that distribute benefits indirectly, such as through tax credits, over those that provide recipients direct payments, according to a recent study coauthored by Yale political scientist Gregory Huber.
The study,...
Four turntables are arranged on a table at a zoo by the bear enclosure. Play a record and the bears stand up and boogie. Turn around and Pegasus hovers over another enclosure. Toss an apple into the pen, and you will be astride the winged steed, poised...
Yale economist Costas Meghir has a children’s picture book in his office. The cover text is in Oriya — the official language of the Indian state of Odisha. The pages depict typical household scenes in the region, where the World Bank estimates that more...
Yale health economist Zack Cooper has received a 2019 Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to support data-driven research on pharmaceutical pricing.
Cooper, associate professor of public health at the Yale School of Public Health and in the Department of Economics...
Politicians and powerbrokers in Hungary use a variety of illicit election strategies to secure people’s votes, including making access to public benefits contingent on supporting preferred candidates, according to a new study co-authored by Yale political...
Four former U.S. secretaries of state shared a stage at Woolsey Hall on April 18 and offered their insights on the state of democracy both at home and abroad.
Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice, Hillary Clinton ’73 J.D., and John Kerry ’66 B.A. — four...
Thornton Wilder 1920 B.A. won three Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award over the course of his distinguished career as a playwright and novelist. With success came royalties. With royalties came taxes.
Wilder’s papers, which are part of the Yale...
When John Stuart Gordon was writing his new catalog of Yale’s American glass collections, he was asked whether he planned to mount a related exhibition.
Gordon, the Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Yale...