The raucous calls of tree hyraxes — small, herbivorous mammals — reverberate through the night in the forests of West and Central Africa, but their sound differs depending on the location.
Tree hyraxes living between the Volta and Niger rivers make a...
Hangama Amiri ’20 M.F.A. was a first grader in 1996 when her family escaped Taliban oppression in Afghanistan. They lived as refugees in Pakistan, and later Tajikistan, before immigrating to Canada in 2005, settling in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
A painter...
Yale University and 150 other colleges and universities nationwide have joined an amicus brief supporting a program that allows international students to gain work experience outside the classroom in their fields of study.
Filed on June 21 in the U.S....
Giving women in India’s Madhya Pradesh state greater digital control over their wages encouraged them to enter the labor force and liberalized their beliefs about working women, concluded a new study co-authored by Yale economists Rohini Pande and Charity...
As dean of the Yale School of Art, Robert Storr was a regular presence in the school’s studios and classrooms, teaching the fundamentals of painting and drawing every semester while also conducting graduate seminars and participating in critiques of...
On a recent flight, Yale student Paul Meuser turned his head to the side and saw his fellow passengers floating about the cabin.
“That image will stay with me,” he said.
Nothing was amiss. Meuser and two Yale School of Architecture classmates were aboard...
Harry “Skip” Stout’s enthusiasm for the study of religion in American life is infectious. Just ask one of his former graduate students.
Catherine Brekus ’93 Ph.D. was a first-year doctoral student at Yale in the fall of 1987 when she took Stout’s course...
Growing up in Flushing, Queens, Martha Muñoz had a fascination with the natural world but few places to indulge it.
“Imagine being a nerdy little kid obsessed with nature and having so little access to green spaces,” said Muñoz, an assistant professor of...
When communicating in mostly white settings, politically conservative Black and Latinx Americans use words associated with competence more often than their liberal counterparts, distancing themselves from negative racial stereotypes, according to a new...
Upward mobility — the capacity to improve one’s socioeconomic status — is key to realizing the American dream of a long, prosperous, and happy life, Yale researchers say. In a new study, they found a strong relationship between the lack of upward mobility...