Three Yale College seniors will be studying in England next year, having received Rhodes Scholarships, one of the highest academic honors awarded to college students. Four members of the Class of 2013 are also Britain-bound, as the winners of prestigious...
The complete set of composer Paul Hindemith’s piano concertos — performed by the Yale Symphony Orchestra (YSO), led by Toshiyuki Shimada, and featuring acclaimed pianist Idil Biret — will be released by Naxos of America on Oct. 29. The release celebrates...
Last summer, archaeologists from the University of Michigan, Yale, and other institutions digging at a site near Rome known as Gabii unearthed a monument that dates back 300 years before the Coliseum. Among the researchers working on the Gabii Project was...
A familiar name keeps popping up in media reports about the Japanese economy: Koichi Hamada.Koichi HamadaThe name is familiar in New Haven, because Hamada taught at Yale from 1986 to 2013 and is now Tuntex Emeritus Professor of Economics; he keeps an...
A Yale-NUS College faculty committee has issued a detailed account of the new school’s approach to 21st-century liberal arts education, chronicling the evolution of a novel curriculum and offering an insider’s view of a major undertaking in global higher...
Horned helmets, furs, high-seas adventure, violence— this popular portrayal of the Vikings has endured for centuries and persists today. But how much is fact and how much fiction?Yale historian, Viking expert, and MacArthur Fellow Anders Winroth unmasks...
[video:http://www.vimeo.com/82304757]A special Yale documentary retraces the trajectory of a rapidly eroding form of congregational singing from Scotland into African-American, Native-American, and white-American religious song traditions.The Yale...