For centuries, “The Wonders of Things Created and Rarities of Matters Existent,” a seminal work of natural history and cosmology by 13th-century Persian scholar and judge Zakariyya Qazwini, has taken its readers on a journey into the mysteries and...
Reflecting on his undergraduate experience at Yale, Ryan Huynh says he most appreciates the communities on campus and in New Haven that he poured himself into over the past four years and that, in turn, have supported and cared for him.
He has volunteered...
Oocyte vitrification, a method to flash-freeze human eggs so they can be stored for later use, emerged in the early 2000s. Initially, the technology was limited to women undergoing chemotherapy or experiencing medical conditions known to cause infertility...
Languages, like animal species, can go extinct. More than half of the world’s approximately 7,000 signed and spoken languages are currently endangered. And without intervention they are likely to become extinct, meaning nobody will speak or sign them any...
Last December, Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore traveled to her native France to help guide an assembly of French citizens charged with reconsidering the country’s laws on euthanasia and assisted dying.
Over the next few months, the assembly of...
In a celebration of African-American history, culture, and resiliency, the Yale Camerata’s spring concert, “To Sit and Dream,” will feature works that combine the words of W.E.B. Du Bois and Langston Hughes — two giants of American letters — with music by...
A tiny mahogany slipcase of microscope slides on display at the Yale University Art Gallery raises issues of conquest, colonialism, and empire.
The slipcase, created in the workshop of a Dutch diamond merchant and gem setter in the early 19th century,...
Bias Stanley, a prominent New Haven resident and first deacon and treasurer of the Temple Street Congregational Church, died on Aug. 26, 1854. His exact age was unknown.
Although there are five draft inscriptions for his tomb preserved in a small...
Yale University announced on April 4 the eight recipients of the 2023 Windham-Campbell Prizes. Through their work, the prize recipients explore the personal as well as complex issues of history, sexuality, politics, and culture.
The recipients are, in...
When U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ’71 Ph.D. arrived at Yale as a graduate student in 1967, she was excited to work with the economist James Tobin. A distinguished teacher and renowned economist who would go on to win the Nobel Prize, Tobin...