Four turntables are arranged on a table at a zoo by the bear enclosure. Play a record and the bears stand up and boogie. Turn around and Pegasus hovers over another enclosure. Toss an apple into the pen, and you will be astride the winged steed, poised...
Americans prefer government programs that distribute benefits indirectly, such as through tax credits, over those that provide recipients direct payments, according to a recent study coauthored by Yale political scientist Gregory Huber.
The study,...
Journalist Janet Malcolm wrote an email in March 2004 to scholars Ulla Dydo, Edward Burns, and William Rice recounting a recent trip to Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, where she was exploring the archives of Gertrude Stein and Alice B....
As the Yale College Class of 2019 assembled on Cross Campus the morning of May 20, lining up for the procession to Old Campus and the university’s 318th Commencement, the graduates savored their few final moments together before embarking on the next...
Esther F. arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau in August 1944 — a period when the camp’s crematoriums were operating at full capacity. Esther, a physician, was held for five days before being transported to Guben, a labor camp in Germany where she was assigned...
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History will host a Community Day on Saturday, June 1 to give visitors a chance to learn more about its upcoming renovation and expansion, participate in hands-on learning activities, and take a snapshot with a fearsome...
The work of an art conservator requires patience, concentration, and the willingness to spend extended periods of time absorbed in a delicate task, said Mark Aronson, chief conservator at the Yale Center for British Art (YCBA).
“More often than not,...
The New Haven Preservation Trust (NHPT) has awarded the Yale Divinity School (YDS) a landmark plaque in recognition of its more than 20-year effort to preserve and restore Sterling Quadrangle — the Georgian-style complex at the crest of Prospect Hill that...
Speaking at a press event last spring in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, President Donald Trump vowed to tackle a problem that plagues emergency-room patients across the United States: surprise medical bills.
“In emergency care situations, patients...