A mid-18th-century watercolor depicts a Christian wedding ceremony in the kingdom of Kongo. A friar blesses a happy couple from underneath the veranda of an outdoor chapel. The bride and her attendants are wrapped and draped in colorful, imported textiles...
The Yale Drama Series Prize, one of the theater world’s most prestigious playwriting prizes, will be given to Lily Padilla for her play “How to Defend Yourself.”
A few weeks ago, a group including Provost Ben Polak had the chance to visit three major building projects on campus — the Schwarzman Center, 320 York Street, and the Yale Science Building — to see the progress first hand and learn from the experts what...
120 years. It’s the length of the “reduced” sentence that Scott Lewis was handed by the Connecticut courts when he was convicted for murder in 1991. It’s also the title of a 2018 documentary about Lewis’ wrongful conviction and ultimate exoneration, made...
When Nick Tibbetts ’22 B.A. was gaining recognition as a long snapper on the Montville High School football team, he wasn’t thinking about attending Yale. But he knew he was interested in politics and law, so when Tibbetts learned of an opportunity to...
Yale University today announced the 2019 recipients of the Windham-Campbell Prizes. The eight writers, honored for their literary achievement or promise, will receive $165,000 each to support their work.
This year’s prize recipients are: in fiction, ...
As the federal charging document makes clear, the Department of Justice believes that Yale’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions has been the victim of a crime perpetrated by its women’s soccer coach, who is no longer at the university. The university has...