Speaking at the 50th anniversary celebration of Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), Yale President Peter Salovey acknowledged that producing policy-relevant, data-driven research in the social sciences — the work at the heart of ISPS’...
The Department of Economics and the Tobin Center for Economic Policy at Yale have launched a pre-doctoral research assistant program that will provide college graduates considering scholarly careers the opportunity to work alongside faculty on data-driven...
A symposium at Sterling Memorial Library on Thursday, Nov. 29, will honor the life and legacy of Dr. Dori Laub, co-founder of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies and Yale’s Genocide Studies Program.
Popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt toppled autocratic regimes during the 2011 Arab Spring, but the countries’ fates diverged after the revolutions ended. While Tunisia has established a stable democratic government, Egypt’s shift to democracy was...
In ancient Egypt, rituals honoring the goddess Hathor could be noisy affairs. Worshippers shook sistrums — rattle instruments — to mimic the sound of the solar deity moving through rushes and grass as she strode to her temple.
A dazzlingly blue sistrum...
Yale’s Jackson Institute should become a school of global affairs featuring a robust, faculty-driven research program dedicated to solving real-world problems and shaping a better future for humanity, according to a vision described in an advisory...
President Xi Jinping of China has marked 2049 — the centennial of the founding of the People’s Republic of China — as the date by which his country will be a fully developed and prosperous global power. A panel of Yale faculty on Nov. 2 considered China’s...
Yale and Columbia economists are building a massive dataset to better understand the role immigrants played in transforming the United States from its rural origins into a global economic power.
The researchers will merge individual level data from the...
Discussions about U.S.-China relations often focus on the latest headlines — a new round of tariffs or fluctuations in financial markets — while overlooking the need to develop a broader strategy for guiding the United States’ approach to China’s rise as...