As Russian tanks rumbled into Ukraine in late February, Ali Platon called her sister Claudia, who lives in Romania about 30 miles from the Ukrainian border. Claudia described the plight of Ukrainians suddenly seeking refuge in Romania. Platon, a first-...
Early in the pandemic, when much of Yale’s campus was shut down, Meredith Miller ’03 M.F.A. found inspiration in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s digital collections.
Miller, a senior photographer at the Beinecke, turned to her artistic...
Chaplain Omer Bajwa’s office door is always open. He never knows who will visit him or what concern he’ll need to address. And that’s how he likes it.
“I love not knowing what each day will bring,” said Bajwa, director of Muslim life for the Yale Chaplain...
“A Raisin in the Sun,” the celebrated play by Lorraine Hansberry, was in tryouts at New Haven’s Shubert Theatre on Jan. 11, 1959, when the 29-year-old playwright shared her thoughts with the producing team about the previous night’s performance. In a two-...
President Peter Salovey recently named James Levinsohn the inaugural dean of the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs, which will open in the fall of 2022.
For more than a decade, Levinsohn, a distinguished economist and educator, has served as the...
President Peter Salovey announced Jan. 18 that the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs will open in the fall of 2022, and he named James A. Levinsohn, distinguished economist and educator, as inaugural dean. Levinsohn’s term begins July 1.
The school is...
The Yale University Library houses the papers, books, and ephemera of hundreds of people who have left an indelible mark on our culture and society. These include beloved writers and artists, visionary scholars, and history-shaping politicians and...
Natasha Ghazali had a high school gig as a museum interpreter at Yale’s Peabody Museum, helping visitors of all ages and walks of life learn more about the objects and specimens on display. Over many hours in the galleries, she observed people’s reactions...
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...
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...