On June 7, the Yale Postdoctoral Association and the Office of the Provost announced the winners of the inaugural Art in Research Competition.
Winners were selected in a variety of categories, including research microphotography, research macrophotography...
Nine Yale faculty members were among more than 200 individuals elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which celebrates compelling achievements in academia, business, government, and public affairs.
The new members, who include...
Pamela Lee, Mark Peterson, and Brian Scassellati were appointed to endowed professorships.
Lee, named as the Carnegie Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, is an art historian who teaches the history, theory, and criticism of late modernism and...
Yale faculty members Emily Coates, the director of dance studies and associate professor in theater studies, and Sarah Demers, the Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics at Yale, discussed their new book “Physics and Dance” amd gave a demonstration...
Priyamvada Natarajan has perfected her moonwalk.
After years of envisioning the inner workings of quasars and mapping out the likelihood of dark matter, Natarajan has cast her attention to the idea of what it would be like to walk on the moon. The result...
Boris Berman and Daphne Ann Brooks were appointed to endowed professorships.
Berman, named as the Sylvia and Leonard Marx Class of 1954 Professor in the Practice of Piano, is a renowned pianist who has performed in more than 50 countries on six continents...
Russian novelist Ivan Goncharov is best known today for his 1859 novel “Oblomov,” an inventive satire of the waning Russian nobility, embodied in its title character, who is so sedentary and slothful that “Oblomovism” is still synonymous with “laziness.”...
A mid-18th-century watercolor depicts a Christian wedding ceremony in the kingdom of Kongo. A friar blesses a happy couple from underneath the veranda of an outdoor chapel. The bride and her attendants are wrapped and draped in colorful, imported textiles...
In a Feb. 2017 lecture, “What Translation Means: The Extent and Impact of Translation in America” at the Whitney Humanities Center, Harold Augenbraum, a career translator and now acting editor of the Yale Review, outlined an argument for creating a center...