The Kon-Tiki expedition – when Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, five crew members, and a Spanish-speaking parrot journeyed by raft across the Pacific Ocean in 1947 – was inspired by his conviction that people from South America settled in...
Over the course of 2018, YaleNews published more than 1,200 stories — from news of awards and honors to groundbreaking discoveries, campus events, Q&As, student and faculty profiles, book publications, videos, and more. Many of these stories marked a...
Among Yale students and alumni, professor Fred Strebeigh ’74 B.A., who has taught at Yale since 1984, is something of a legend.
Nonfiction writing courses by Strebeigh, the senior lecturer emeritus in English and in the School of Forestry and...
Sean Massa, who earned a Master of Arts in Religion at the Yale Divinity School in 2018, has been awarded a 2022 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship in a competitive nationwide process.
The fellowship, funded by the U.S. Department of State...
“A Raisin in the Sun,” the celebrated play by Lorraine Hansberry, was in tryouts at New Haven’s Shubert Theatre on Jan. 11, 1959, when the 29-year-old playwright shared her thoughts with the producing team about the previous night’s performance. In a two-...
Yale alumna Mary-Alice Daniel ’08 decided she wanted be a poet at the age of 17 while listening to a reading of poems by a winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize, America’s longest-running poetry award.
Nearly two decades later, she has won that...
