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,...
Yale’s Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes have transformed their flagship fall literary festival into a virtual salon series showcasing the creativity of its 2021 recipients over the course of nine episodes streaming every Wednesday from Sept. 15 to Nov....
The use of data is more effective than personal stories in helping people understand the magnitude and structural causes of the Black-white wealth gap in the United States, according to a new study by Yale researchers.
The study, published on Sept. 13 in...
Yale historian David Blight visited Richmond, Virginia, often in the late 1990s while researching the Civil War’s effect on American memory. When not sifting through archives, he’d jog along the city’s famed Monument Avenue, named for the five grandiose...
The Vinland Map, once hailed as the earliest depiction of the New World, is awash in 20th-century ink. A team of conservators and conservation scientists at Yale has found compelling new evidence for this conclusion through the most thorough analysis yet...
Yale sociologist Daniel Karell seeks to understand how online behavior generates real-world harm. In studying the nature and culture of extremist online communities, he has explored the internet’s role in fomenting radicalism in Afghanistan and the United...
Tyrannosaurus rex, the fearsome predator that once roamed what is now western North America, appears to have had an East Coast cousin.
A new study by Yale undergraduate Chase Doran Brownstein describes two dinosaurs that inhabited Appalachia — a once...
For a brief period in 2015, the plight of refugees fleeing conflicts in the Middle East seized the world’s attention. The media covered droves of desperate people crossing the Mediterranean in dinghies and makeshift boats. A heart-breaking photograph of a...
Today’s debates about economic policy often center on national prosperity. A stimulus bill will jumpstart the nation’s economy. Infrastructure investments will boost the gross domestic product. Tax cuts will spur economic growth.
These debates echo a...