Yale paleoanthropologist Jessica Thompson regularly organizes and conducts scientific fieldwork in Malawi, a country in southeastern Africa where she and her colleagues discover and analyze evidence of early human activity.
She considers the opportunity...
Michael Morand, director of community engagement for Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, has been appointed New Haven’s official city historian by Mayor Justin Elicker.
A New Haven resident since 1983, Morand brings a demonstrated passion...
As part of its commitment to build pipelines to channel talented young people into top universities, Yale College has partnered with the nonprofit organization Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) to host summer programs for high achieving,...
Two years ago, Yale archaeologist Veronica Waweru was in central Kenya, where she conducts her fieldwork, when she received a tip from a local contact. Tourists, she was told, were removing stone hand axes from a prehistoric site located within a private...
During a panel event at last month’s UN climate conference in Dubai, Brurce M. Mecca, a climate policy advisor from Indonesia, and Naomi Wagura, an energy expert based in Kenya, swapped ideas for financing clean-energy transitions in countries within the...
Rose Prentice, formerly enslaved, was in her mid-sixties when Sarah Goodridge, a noted miniaturist, painted her portrait.
Born in 1771, Prentice retained the surname of her second enslaver, John Prentice, who likely manumitted her, before or upon his...
In 2011, Yale sociologist Alka Menon came across an article in The New York Times on the racial and ethnic differences in cosmetic surgery.
A plastic surgeon quoted in the piece explained that when he and his colleagues encountered patients of a certain...
Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will welcome 61 new colleagues this academic year, a group of world-class researchers and teachers who offer a diversity of perspectives and experiences to the campus community.
The FAS cohort — which includes 48...
Members of the Yale and New Haven communities gathered this week to confer degrees on the Rev. James W.C. Pennington and the Rev. Alexander Crummell, two Black men who studied theology at the university during the mid-19th century but were barred from...
The eight recipients of the 2023 Windham-Campbell Literature Prizes will come to the Yale campus next week for a four-day literary festival to celebrate reading and the written word with the local community.
The annual festival, which begins Sept. 19,...