Two years ago, Connor Williams, an advanced doctoral student in history and African American Studies at Yale, was invited to help reshape how Americans memorialize the U.S. Civil War.
Williams was selected to be lead historian of the Naming Commission (...
Asked to describe the deep influence of Black sacred music on American culture, Braxton Shelley, a minister, musician, and musicologist at Yale, invoked the words of the 19th-century Czech composer Antonín Dvořák. In the early 1890s, Dvořák, then the...
While drafting his plans for the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), architect Louis Kahn made the building’s roof integral to its design.
The acclaimed architect, who called the roof of the iconic modernist building its “fifth elevation,” aimed to...
In a demonstration of its commitment to academic freedom, Yale will enhance and expand its Scholars at Risk (SAR) program, which provides temporary professional appointments and a welcoming community for scholars, writers, artists, and activists worldwide...
Yale’s copy of the Gutenberg Bible, on view since 1963 in a bronze case on the mezzanine of the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, is a landmark in the history of the printed word. Today, another landmark of the same history, a 1,250-year-old...
At a celebration marking the Yale Divinity School’s (YDS) bicentennial this summer, Yale President Peter Salovey spoke of the school’s enduring imprint on campus and beyond — and how it has come to embodfy the university’s motto Lux et Veritas.
“What...
Royce K. Young Wolf understands what it means to be denied the ability to access one’s heritage. Like four generations of her family, she attended a boarding school that discouraged her from studying her Hiraacá (Hidatsa), Nu’eta (Mandan), and Sosore (...
The Yale Peabody Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery have hired scholar, artist, and curator Royce K. Young Wolf to help steward their collections of art and artifacts relating to the Indigenous peoples of North America.
Beginning in June 2023,...
Ron Borzekowski, who spent several years leading the Office of Research at the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), has been named the inaugural executive director of Yale’s Data-Intensive Social Science Center (DISSC), a planned campus...
Twelve new decorative windows installed today in Grace Hopper College, the Yale residential college previously known as Calhoun College, celebrate the richness of the college’s community and contemplate the complex history behind its name.
The windows,...