With Thanksgiving nearly upon us, casual cooks across the country are getting ready. Gone are the days when one could simply throw a turkey into the oven and wait for the plastic timer to pop. Cooking Thanksgiving dinner has become a taxing, high-stakes...
Donald Trump’s anti-immigration views were a feature of his 2016 presidential campaign. To what extent was his unexpected victory driven by voters’ anger over immigrants moving into their neighborhoods, attending their children’s schools, or working in...
Three School of Drama departments — Stage Management, Technical Design & Production, and Theater Management — have eliminated the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) requirement for prospective applicants.
The GRE is a standardized exam typically...
In his first extended public remarks as Yale’s incoming provost, Scott Strobel struck a neighborly note.
Speaking Nov. 15 before a crush of colleagues at the Poorvu Center for Teaching & Learning, Strobel invoked a metaphor inspired by Fred Rogers,...
A high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet like the Keto regimen has its fans, but influenza apparently isn’t one of them.
Mice fed a ketogenic diet were better able to combat the flu virus than mice fed food high in carbohydrates, according to a new Yale...
When Thomas Allen Harris learned his brother was HIV positive in the early 1990s, he did the only thing he could think of to cope with the news: He picked up a video camera to chronicle his brother’s life.
At that time, the diagnosis was a “death sentence...
Marwan Safar Jalani ’20 is one of two winners of a Rhodes Scholarship for the Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine (SJLP) region.
The Yale student was chosen from among hundreds of applicants for the prestigious scholarship, which has a three-round...
The Neo-Assyrian Empire, centered in northern Iraq and extending from Iran to Egypt — the largest empire of its time — collapsed after more than two centuries of dominance at the fall of its capital, Nineveh, in 612 B.C.E.
Despite a plethora of cuneiform...
