Novelist Deji Bryce Olukotun ’00 B.A. began writing fiction as a school kid. He would submit short stories to his teachers that they had not assigned him.
“They’d say, ‘Sure, fine, but you’re not going to get extra credit for it,’” Olukotun said. “I didn’...
This year marks an important new epoch for arts collaborations at Yale with the launch of the newly reimagined Center for Collaborative Arts and Media. The center, formerly known as the Digital Media Center for the Arts, has been renovated and rebranded...
In mid-2015, members of the Islamic State terrorist group used barrel bombs to destroy much of an ancient archaeological site in northern Iraq.
In mid-2017, a group of Yale students toured the site anyway.
The students didn’t actually travel to the...
Yale’s Digital Humanities Lab, a space where Shakespeare meets Silicon Valley, will have a new home in Sterling Memorial Library.
A renovation of the library’s Franke Family Reading Room now under way will create a cutting-edge campus hub for applying...
The ways in which virtual reality technologies help us understand poetry and technological explorations into what music reveals about the brain are just two of the topics that will be explored at the third annual Beyond Boundaries symposium, which will...
Yale graduate student Amy Giuliano knows that the experience of studying abroad can be transformative, but she is also aware that the cost of travel can make that impossible for some students. So she has designed virtual reality educational tours of some...
Seven Yale faculty members are among the artists, intellectuals, and prominent leaders newly elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences for innovative accomplishments in their fields.
“The new members of the class of 2020 have...
Eight members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) have recently been named to endowed professorships by vote of Yale’s Board of Trustees.
They are:
Keith Baker, a particle physicist known for his contributions to the discovery of the Higgs boson...
Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) will welcome 35 new colleagues this academic year — a group of world-class researchers and teachers whose work is expanding the horizons of a range of fields, including African American studies, mathematics,...
Yale University today announced bold new investments in the School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) and in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) that will accelerate the university’s educational and research missions.
The plan calls for 45 new...