For 50 years, Yale’s Oral History of American Music (OHAM) archive has collected and preserved in-depth interviews with composers and musicians who have shaped America’s musical landscape.
The archive’s more than 3,000 audio and video recordings —...
The Stegosaurus that inhabited the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History’s Great Hall since 1925 has migrated to Canada. And it won’t be long before several of the spikey-tailed herbivore’s New Haven neighbors, including Brontosaurus, join it north of...
James Prosek ’97 B.A., an artist, writer, and naturalist, opens his new exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) with a mural in the museum’s lobby depicting a flock of passenger pigeons in silhouette flying through a forest of American...
As the new chair of Yale’s Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage (IPCH), Paul Messier oversees research at the intersection of science and the humanities.
Established at Yale’s West Campus in 2013, the IPCH aims to preserve and interpret...
After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, Jack Stewart ’51 B.F.A. attended Yale University on the G.I. Bill, which provided federal education benefits to millions of veterans.
Stewart studied at the Yale School of Art under Josef Albers and...
It was the evening of Sept. 11, 2001. The horror of the morning was fresh. In a residential courtyard at Yale, there was music.
“I remember being in the Branford courtyard that night, and spontaneously a group of students — bagpipers — came through...
As college students nationwide transition to online classes, Yale University Press (YUP) is providing them free access to its ebooks, including digital textbooks, through the end of the semester.
YUP has arranged with digital content providers EBSCO,...
Whether they’re holed up at home or working on the frontlines, people crave diversions from the unfolding crisis. Many turn to streaming services to catch a superhero blockbuster or follow the travails of the shameless miscreants of “Tiger King,” the...
It was still February when John Barden, Yale’s chief information officer, began preparing for the disruption to normal campus life that the coronavirus crisis would soon cause. South Korea and Japan had just closed schools in response to COVID-19...
Yale President Peter Salovey and Provost Scott Strobel are drawing on the insights and ingenuity of Yale experts as they chart the university’s course for the next academic year amid the ongoing public health crisis and its negative financial consequences...