Jing Tsu, professor of East Asian languages and literatures and of comparative literature, was recently honored as a 2016 Guggenheim Fellow.Professor Jing Tsu shown here teaching her course on “China and the World.”A literary scholar and an expert on the...
Norman Y. Mineta, former secretary of transportation and secretary of commerce, will visit Yale on Wednesday, Feb. 17 under the auspices of the Chubb Fellowship.Mineta will give a talk titled “U.S. Security Concerns from Japanese American Internment to 9/...
A Roman shield — painted with scenes from the Trojan War and possibly used in parades during ancient times — is being brought to light in a whole new way by a Yale team over 2,000 years after it was created and 80 years after it was excavated.Shield...
Analyzing ancient texts on cuneiform, or clay tablets, may seem like an esoteric endeavor.Not so, say the scholars working on the Yale Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCP). They argue that these are just some of the first traces of a tradition that is...
Eugene Kim ’16, a clarinetist and president of the Yale Concert Band, recently traveled to Ghana with the Yale Percussion Group for 12 days of cultural exchange, musical research, and community service. He recently spoke to YaleNews about his experiences...
