The Yale University Library houses the papers, books, and ephemera of hundreds of people who have left an indelible mark on our culture and society. These include beloved writers and artists, visionary scholars, and history-shaping politicians and...
A study by researchers at Yale and Stanford universities reveals a significant increase in lawsuits over unpaid hospital bills in Wisconsin, providing further evidence of the financial hardship that the U.S. health care system is causing patients.
The...
Natasha Ghazali had a high school gig as a museum interpreter at Yale’s Peabody Museum, helping visitors of all ages and walks of life learn more about the objects and specimens on display. Over many hours in the galleries, she observed people’s reactions...
Architect Constance Adams ’90 M.Arch. designed housing in Berlin and created urban plans in Tokyo. But she achieved her greatest acclaim conceiving habitats for space explorers.
Known as a “space architect,” Adams designed NASA’s TransHab, an inflatable,...
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, when governors across the United States were closing businesses and schools to slow the virus’ spread, people in the South stayed home at lower rates than residents of other regions of the country, according to a Yale-led...
White evangelical Christians have resisted getting vaccinated against COVID-19 at higher rates than other religious groups in the United States. A new study by Yale researchers provides evidence that persuading these vaccine holdouts to get their shots...
The artist Kehinde Wiley’s work often reinvents portrait paintings by old masters, inserting Black subjects in place of white nobles, saints, and dignitaries. His “Portrait of Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Jacob Morland of Capplethwaite,” recently co-acquired by...
Rory Stewart brings a unique and nuanced perspective to any discussion of Afghanistan. Few westerners know the country like he does.
Stewart walked across Afghanistan in 2002, a trek he recounted in his widely acclaimed 2006 book “The Places in Between.”...
Generations of Yale students have nestled into the green leather easy chairs of the Linonia and Brothers Room, in Sterling Memorial Library, to study, read, or even snooze. For nearly a century, in fact, it’s been one of the most beloved parts of the...
Yale sociologist Elijah Anderson has been awarded the 2021 Stockholm Prize in Criminology for his groundbreaking urban ethnographies documenting violence and life in inner-city African American communities.
In announcing the annual award, the most...