Generations of Yale students have nestled into the green leather easy chairs of the Linonia and Brothers Room, in Sterling Memorial Library, to study, read, or even snooze. For nearly a century, in fact, it’s been one of the most beloved parts of the...
Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson has been awarded the 2021 Stockholm Prize in Criminology for his groundbreaking urban ethnographies documenting violence and life in inner-city African American communities.
In announcing the annual award, the most...
Pro-vaccine messages that appeal to community spirit or evoke the sense of embarrassment people would feel if they were to spread COVID-19 to friends and family are effective in persuading individuals to get vaccinated and encourage others to do the same...
Janine di Giovanni was reporting from Iraq in the months before the U.S. invasion in 2003 when she traveled to the northern city of Mosul. There, she discovered an ancient community of Christians who prayed in Aramaic, the language of Jesus.
The people...
Messages from trusted religious authorities can persuade people to reintegrate former Boko Haram fighters into the Nigerian communities terrorized by the violent extremist group for more than a decade, according to a new study co-authored by Yale...
The increased use of face coverings as a defense against COVID-19 creates social norms that encourage more people to mask up in public, according to a new study co-authored by Yale researchers.
The study, published Oct. 11 in the journal PLOS One, is...
An asteroid strike 66 million years ago wiped out the non-avian dinosaurs and devastated the Earth’s forests, but tree-dwelling ancestors of primates may have survived it, according to a new study published in the journal Ecology and Evolution.
Overall,...
The lights dim in the screening room on Sterling Memorial Library’s seventh floor, the new home of the Yale Film Archive. A projector whirs. Eight undergraduates watch five short, animated films in their original 16 mm format. Then they don plastic...
A new exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) — “On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale” — grabs visitors’ attention the moment the elevator doors open onto the museum’s fourth floor.
Immediately, “The Rest of Her Remains” by Nigerian-...
Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will welcome 35 new colleagues this academic year — a group of world-class researchers and teachers whose work is expanding the horizons of a range of fields, including African American studies, mathematics,...