On April 21, 1971, a little-known Maya manuscript — a calendar for calculating the cycles of Venus — went on view at the Grolier Club in Manhattan as part of an exhibition on Maya writing.Each page of the Grolier Codex features a fearsome deity to...
Yale senior Simone Seiver is among the 36 U.S. citizens who have been selected to be part of the 2017 class of Gates Cambridge Scholars at the University of Cambridge.
These 36 individuals from 34 universities will join 54 scholars from other parts of the...
For the past decade, Yale has been a top producer of U.S. student Fulbright awardees, with more than 100 Yale students or alumni winning the prestigious honor in the past five years.The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs...
For her senior project, Yale undergraduate Celine Tien ’17 wanted to create a film that pushed the boundaries in storytelling.
Her new film, “Pippa’s Pan 盼” — believed to be the first hybrid live-action, virtual reality (VR) short film — is still a work...
Three Yale faculty members — mathematician Hee Oh, poet Claudia Rankine, and historian Timothy Snyder — have won 2017 Guggenheim Fellowships.The fellowship winners are appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise. The Yale faculty...