Yale’s new Brain Imaging Center had an appropriate ribbon cutting to celebrate its opening Dec. 17: President Peter Salovey used virtual scissors to cut a virtual ribbon using his mind.
As university speakers lauded the launch of the imaging center on...
David Evans, the head of Berkeley College, professor of geology and geophysics, and director of the Yale Paleomagnetism Laboratory, has spent decades tracing the movements of ancient continents.
The work has taken him across Africa, as well as Asia,...
This story originally appeared in Yale Engineering magazine.
Whether you’re figuring out the best place to catch an Uber ride or mapping the human brain, there’s a better, faster way to do it. Amin Karbasi, assistant professor of electrical engineering...
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...
For students in the “Intro to Public Humanities” class, the city of New Haven is their classroom. Instead of cramming for a final before Christmas break, they are “putting something out into the world,” says Ryan André Brasseaux ’11 Ph.D., dean of...
Yale Sterling Professor David Quint is, in his own words, a product of Yale’s Department of Comparative Literature.
Quint, who received his B.A. in English (1971) and his Ph.D. (1976) in Comparative Literature from Yale, is a specialist in the literature...
Yale College Dean Marvin Chun will host a dinner on Dec. 11 to honor the recipients of the annual Poorvu Family Fund for Academic Innovation, created to recognize excellence in teaching. This year's recipients are Laura Barraclough, Dylan Gee, and Madhu...
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...