“Medicine and health sciences don’t exist in isolation from their broader social, cultural, and political contexts,” said Chelsea Clinton, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, and adjunct assistant professor at the Columbia University Mailman School of...
Following a screening of their documentary “Survivors,” filmmakers Arthur Pratt and Lansana “Barmmy Boy” Mansaray will be joining the Yale community as Poynter Fellows for a conversation about their work. The event will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 23 at 7...
One hundred years ago, on November 11 — “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” — the Allies and Germany signed an armistice, ending their four-year war, a devastating conflict that had claimed 16 million lives and left more than 20...
When she was growing up in Baltimore, Maryland, journalist and author April Ryan often gathered with her family to hear popular CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite broadcast the news. When he did, he presented the facts — relaying the “five W’s” of who, what,...
In a brightly lit classroom on the lower level of Dow Hall, a lone undergraduate sits at a table —textbook spread open in front of him — and speaks in halting Ukrainian. His voice echoes slightly off the walls of the small space; save for the student and...
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library has acquired the papers of David Sedaris, noted American humorist, author, and essayist.
Sedaris, who grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina and graduated from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago in 1987,...
Ta-Nehisi Coates — bestselling author and distinguished writer in residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute — confessed to a packed Yale Art Gallery auditorium that he first became aware of Yale historian David Blight around...
A spring 2018 academic initiative led by Tatiana Bilbao, the former Norman R. Foster Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture, called “Two Sides of the Border: Redefining the Region,” is the impetus for a new exhibition at the school.
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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...
