The response that now world-renowned author Karl Ove Knausgård received to his written work when he was in his 20s — at the start of his career — was far out of alignment with his intense yearning to be a writer.
He shared a manuscript with a friend he...
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...
The contributions of late Yale Professor William Kelly Simpson ’47, ’48 M.A., Ph.D. ’54 to the field of Egyptology and Near Eastern studies will be recognized during a colloquium in his memory on Saturday, Oct. 7.
Simpson died on March 24, 2017 at the...
The Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS) Program completed its 2017 session offering academic opportunities to secondary school students this past July and August in three locations on the African continent: Accra, Ghana; Kigali, Rwanda; and Harare,...
A study of two travellers in the Near East at the dawn of the 20th century; a retrospective of a pioneering Yale sociologist murdered in Indonesia; an examination of public housing in New Haven; and a story of three generations of an African-American...
A current Yale undergraduate and a recent graduate of the university are among the 32 American citizens chosen as 2018 Rhodes Scholars.
The Yale winners of Rhodes Scholarships representing the United States are Daniel H. Judt of Manhattan, New York, a...
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...
