The Kon-Tiki expedition – when Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, five crew members, and a Spanish-speaking parrot journeyed by raft across the Pacific Ocean in 1947 – was inspired by his conviction that people from South America settled in...
Her “a-ha moment” that she wanted to pursue art history, said Ann Temkin ’82 M.A., ’92 Ph.D., came when she was reading aloud her description of Picasso’s painting “First Steps” to her Yale roommate, who was a medical student. Her roommate responded that...