Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (CCAM) has launched Maquette, a new journal that covers the people and happenings at the interdisciplinary research center where traditional arts blend with computer science and technology.
Overseen by CCAM...
In June 1849, the Yale College librarian received a three-month-old letter from Canton, China, informing him that the sender, an American missionary printer named Samuel Wells Williams, had purchased six Chinese classical texts for the Yale library. The...
Scientists routinely capture images of the brain in action by focusing on single molecules, cells, or circuits. But visualizing how these tiny units interact to create complex behavior has been a daunting task. Now, in a collaborative, multi-lab effort,...
Unless you work at, say, Yale, you’ve probably never seen anything like KGL 27. The sub-basement in the Kline Geology Laboratory (KGL) is packed floor-to-ceiling with masks, sculptures, and other objects from the South Pacific — materials belonging to the...
Stories matter, shaping our beliefs, decisions, and actions. Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert J. Shiller sees this play out in the economy constantly.
Shiller, Sterling Professor of Economics at Yale, in recent years has urged his colleagues to...