So intense was her grief after her husband’s sudden death that noted poet Elizabeth Alexander ’84 could only produce what she calls “animal sounds” when she first put pen to paper to write of her experience.
Those “sounds” eventually became sentence...
The inaugural Yale-NUS Summer Institute in Global Strategy and Leadership brought 39 Yale-NUS students to Yale in June for a five-week program designed to provide students with an in-depth and rigorous introduction to history, politics, social change, and...
The 21st annual faculty staged reading will be a concert performance of John Gay’s “ballad opera,” “The Beggar’s Opera” of 1728, generally considered the first musical. It will be held in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art on Tuesday,...
The Environmental Humanities Initiative — a one-year-old university-wide collaboration that spans myriad disciplines and connects two historic strengths of the university, humanities and environmental studies — has had a “ripple effect” across campus.
The...
Over the summer, Yale hosted the first “Granville Academy” for undergraduate summer research students.
The program is named in honor of Evelyn Boyd Granville, who obtained her Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale in 1949 and was the second African-American...
President Peter Salovey and Dean Lynn Cooley of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences (GSAS) welcomed the new class of graduate students to Yale at the school’s matriculation ceremony on Aug. 23.
Selected from a pool of 11,216 applicants, the...
Lisa Lowe and Karin Reinisch were appointed to endowed professorships.
Lowe, who will begin her appointment in January 2019 as the Samuel Knight Professor of American studies, focuses her research and teaching on literatures and cultures that emerge from...
Four faculty members — Ardis Butterfield, Grace Kao, Robert Stepto, and Harrison Zhou — have been appointed to endowed professorships.
Ardis Butterfield, named the Marie Borroff Professor of English, is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research is on...