Yale and Columbia economists are building a massive dataset to better understand the role immigrants played in transforming the United States from its rural origins into a global economic power.
The researchers will merge individual level data from the...
This commentary by Maurice Samuels, the Betty Jane Anlyan Professor of French and director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, was published online in Le Monde on Oct. 31. Read the original commentary in French.
Until last weekend, many...
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...
Yale undergraduate Maya Juman spent four weeks this summer at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) cleaning up a scientific mess concerning a species of tree shrew.
Juman, a junior majoring in ecology and evolutionary biology, is...
Four faculty members — Ardis Butterfield, Grace Kao, Robert Stepto, and Harrison Zhou — have been appointed to endowed professorships.
Ardis Butterfield, named the Marie Borroff Professor of English, is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research is on...
A team of archaeologists — led by Yale Egyptologist John Darnell — has uncovered a “lost oasis” of archaeological activity in the eastern Egyptian desert of Elkab.
The researchers from the Elkab Desert Survey Project — a joint mission of Yale and the...
Documentary filmmaker Gaspar González ’99 Ph.D. will speak at two events on Thursday and Friday, April 12 and 13 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
González’s first talk, “A Serious Game: Sports, Race, and Documentary,” will take place 7-9 p.m. on April...