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Abigail Swingen

Abigail Swingen named executive director of Lewis Walpole Library

From Yale Library

Steven Smith and book cover of On Statesmanship

‘An ancient and respected concept’: Examining the rise and decline of statesmanship

Gustavo Dudamel

‘The power of music’

Yale honors conductor Gustavo Dudamel with Henry E. Howland Memorial Prize

From MacMillan Center

Victoria Almansa-Villatoro

Meet the Yale FAS faculty: Victoria Almansa-Villatoro

John Crowley

Remembering John Crowley

From Yale English Department

Gundula Kreuzer

Kreuzer named the Battell Professor of Music

Two people looking at a large manuscript book in the Beinecke Library.

From the Collections

Yale Library unifies arts and music special collections under Beinecke Library leadership

From Yale Library

Nancy Yousef

Yousef named Bird White Housum Professor of English

Group of people on a rooftop in São Paolo, Brazil

Arts & Humanities

Scholars and musicians recreate a song lost for more than 400 years

From MacMillan Center

Marlene L. Daut

Daut named the Tripp Professor of Black Studies and of French

Vincent Brown

Vincent Brown named the David Brion Davis Professor of History

Courtney B. Vance and James Earl Jones in Fences

One hundred years of theater, stained glass, and new suggestions for your bookshelf

An illustration of a hand holding a pencil against a colorful background of geometric shapes.

Management in Practice

How the right business model can fuel creativity

From Yale Insights

Hopper’s “Sunlight in a Cafeteria”

A meditation on urban loneliness

Visitors admire Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks in the Yale University Art Gallery sculpture courtyard.

From the Collections

Yale’s iconic ‘Lipstick’ gets a fresh makeover — and a new home

Jeffrey Allen Murdock leading a choral performance

Musical Heritage

Jeffrey Allen Murdock launches the Yale Jubilee Chorale

From Institute of Sacred Music

Damanveer Grewal, Victoria Almansa-Villatoro and Johan Ugander

Meet three new FAS faculty members

Collage of book covers

Three to read: Summer recommendations from Yale faculty

Students playing stringed instruments.

NO STRINGS ATTACHED

Getting in tune: How a Yale partnership with local schools helps students shine

Taisha Carrington

Meet Taisha Carrington, 2026 Peabody Summer Art Fellow

From Yale Peabody Museum