Yale’s Jackson Institute should become a school of global affairs featuring a robust, faculty-driven research program dedicated to solving real-world problems and shaping a better future for humanity, according to a vision described in an advisory...
Discussions about U.S.-China relations often focus on the latest headlines — a new round of tariffs or fluctuations in financial markets — while overlooking the need to develop a broader strategy for guiding the United States’ approach to China’s rise as...
William Nordhaus ’63 B.A., ’72 M.A., Sterling Professor of Economics, entered his classroom at Dunham Laboratory Monday morning to a burst of uproarious applause.
Hours earlier, Nordhaus learned that he had been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic...
Scholars have a new space at Yale to explore the humanities in detail using digital tools and STEM-related methods.
The Franke Family Digital Humanities Laboratory will open in Sterling Memorial Library on Tuesday, Oct. 9, as part of the university’s...
In December 1831, French caricaturist Honoré Daumier was persecuted for producing “Gargantua,” a satirical lithograph he made mocking corruption and profligacy in the government of King Louis-Philippe I.
The lithograph depicts the king as Gargantua,...
A small late 15th-century oil painting portrays two kneeling men facing each other. The figures are framed together, but their quality is worlds apart.
The man on the left appears slightly off-kilter. The positioning of his legs is difficult to discern...
Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree, is not a household name. Neither is Roger Arliner Young, the first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in zoology, nor Vera Rubin, a physicist who discovered evidence...
At Monte Albán, a pre-Columbian archaeological site in Oaxaca, Mexico, the artist Anni Albers encountered ancient jewelry composed of stones and shells.
The artifacts inspired Albers to make jewelry out of ordinary materials. She believed the process of...
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History is having a gold rush — one in which prospectors can gaze at glittering specimens of radiating golden leaves.
An exhibit opening at the museum on Saturday, April 14, will showcase 23 pieces of California gold,...