For her senior project, Yale undergraduate Celine Tien ’17 wanted to create a film that pushed the boundaries in storytelling.
Her new film, “Pippa’s Pan 盼” — believed to be the first hybrid live-action, virtual reality (VR) short film — is still a work...
Three Yale faculty members — mathematician Hee Oh, poet Claudia Rankine, and historian Timothy Snyder — have won 2017 Guggenheim Fellowships.The fellowship winners are appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise. The Yale faculty...
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...
The Whitney Humanities Center has announced the speakers for its Fall 2017 Shulman Lectures in Science and the Humanities series, which this year is titled “Reports from Nonhuman Worlds.” The speakers are Jacques Lezra, Manuel DeLanda, and Claire...
For its next event in its series of nontechnical talks, the Yale Quantum Institute invites attendees to bring along some yarn for crocheting.
In the talk, titled “Crocheting Adventures with the Hyperbolic Planes,” Cornell University mathematician Daina...
Four Yale faculty members — Jason Crawford, Roderick McIntosh, Zhong Shao, and Elisabeth Wood — were appointed to endowed professorships.
Crawford, named as the Maxine F. Singer ’57 Ph.D. Associate Professor of Chemistry and Microbial Pathogenesis,...
Historian Abbas Amanat and economist Andrew Metrick were appointed to endowed professorships.
Amanat, named as the William Graham Sumner Professor of History, is a historian of the modern Middle East, early modern and modern Iran, and Shi’ism and the...
Three Yale faculty members — Laura Barraclough, Hui Cao, and Seth Herzon — were appointed to endowed professorships.
Barraclough, designated as the Sarai K. Ribicoff Associate Professor of American Studies, teaches and conducts research on American cities...