The Fountain of Youth may be a myth or a metaphor, but in early November, visitors to City-wide Open Studios (CWOS) at Yale’s West Campus will have the opportunity to take a short journey in search of the fabled source of eternal youth.
Along the way,...
As a general rule, Yale puts little stock in external rankings. But every now and again, when there’s especially good news, it’s hard not to boast just a little.
And so we report that Timothy Snyder, the Richard C. Levin Professor of History, has not one...
For a poet who is little known, winning an award like the Yale Younger Poets Prize can be life changing, noted Airea D. Matthews, who earned that honor in 2016.
In a panel discussion on Oct. 11, Matthews and several other poets who have won the Yale...
The annual month-long arts festival known as City-Wide Open Studios (CWOS) will kick off with an opening reception on Oct. 4, and the work of dozens of Yale-affiliated artists will be on view.
Yale is a major sponsor of CWOS, Connecticut’s leading visual...
Six of the 26 recipients of 2019 MacArthur Fellowships — known informally as “genius” grants — have ties to Yale. The awards were announced on Sept. 25.
MacArthur Fellowships — which come with a stipend of $625,000 to each recipient paid out over five...
For Yale alumna and staff member Michelle Beaulieu-Morgan ’17 Ph.D., the stitches in her embroidered art now on view in an exhibit at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) are more than her creative medium; they also mark steps forward on her road to...
As a young high school student, poet and novelist Eileen Myles sat in on a class at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, envying the ability of the art students to draw the form of the partially unclothed model before them.
In the keynote address...
Anne Gardiner Perkins ’81 arrived at Yale eight years after women were first admitted to the university as undergraduates, and by then, nobody was talking about what life was like for those pioneering female students.
In a talk at the Wilton Public...
During the month of July, Carlos Pinela ’82 will begin his weekdays doing what he asks of all the children who file into the Payne Whitney Gym’s Lanman Center at 9 a.m. each morning: completing a certain number of pushups, sit-ups, squats, and other floor...