While on deployment to eastern Afghanistan in the early years of the Obama administration, Nerea M. Cal, an Army officer, found herself on an unusual non-combat mission: extracting local Afghans from raging rivers.
Heavy rains had caused flash flooding in...
The publishers of the first printed collection of Shakespeare’s plays had to come up with a sales marketing strategy — or what passed for one in 1623.
Patrick Del Percio first showed an interest in learning the Cherokee language at the age of seven, when their family visited a living history museum portraying a 1760s Cherokee village. Del Percio asked the tour guide for the Cherokee word for “hello.”...
Four alumni of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) were recently awarded Wilbur Lucius Cross Medals in recognition of their outstanding work and service.
Awarded annually by the GSAS Alumni Association, the Wilbur Cross Medal honors...
The Yale Repertory Theatre kicked off its 2023-24 season this month with “Wish You Were Here,” a play that follows the changing friendships of five Iranian women as they navigate the tumultuous decade encompassing the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq...
Julian Posada spent the COVID lockdown researching the working conditions of Latin Americans who do much of the data work needed for the growing artificial intelligence industry. And he became increasingly frustrated that discussions about the ethics of...
A few years ago, Sybil Alexandrov, a senior lector II in the Yale Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ (FAS) Department of Spanish and Portuguese, had some questions about the university’s child-rearing relief policies.
At the time, in most schools across the...
Dinée Dorame ’15, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, was a junior at Yale when the Native American Cultural Center (NACC) opened in its own building on High Street back in the fall of 2013.
Before that, the center had been housed in several rooms on the...
After the Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel, and the devastating Hamas-Israel war that has followed, Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis wanted to convene an event on campus in which students could talk openly about the conflict.
On Nov. 16, he invited two...
Karmen Englert was in college in South Dakota when, in 2008, her mother died of a drug overdose.
“I left, took off like a nomad, started selling drugs, and got in a lot of trouble,” she said.
Now incarcerated at the Federal Correctional Institution in...