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Students playing stringed instruments.

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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

Stephanie Wiles

Wiles, director of the Yale University Art Gallery, to retire

Collage of book covers

Three to read: Summer recommendations from Yale faculty

Slideshow of various visual depictions of The Odyssey from antiquity through the present.

A summer ‘Odyssey’ through time

Patricia Kane

Patricia E. Kane, curator at Yale University Art Gallery

Jeffrey Allen Murdock

National leader in Black sacred music, Jeffrey Allen Murdock, appointed to Yale faculty

From Institute of Sacred Music

Ryan Kennedy

Yale ISM alum earns second place in national organ improvisation competition

From Institute of Sacred Music

Joan Mitchell's La Grande Vallée VII at Sotheby’s in Hong Kong in March.

Three Questions

What keeps women artists out of the art world’s top echelon?

From Yale Insights

Yale Philharmonia performing in Woolsey Hall

Yale School of Music announces 2026–2027 concert season

From School of Music

Fragment of a cuneiform tablet inscribed with a royal grant from 762 B.C.E., issued in the name of a newly discovered Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria.

Watch the Throne: Uncovering three new kings of Assyria

Samuel Moyn

The unforeseen consequences of the ‘great aging’ of America

Portraits of 12 fellowship recipients

Yale cultural heritage fellowship connects leaders across Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean

Five portraits of new music faculty and staff

Yale School of Music appoints three new faculty members and two collaborative pianists

From School of Music

Mark Peterson and book cover of The Making & Breaking of the American Constitution

Does the U.S. Constitution need a makeover?

Illustration: Groups of people connected by lines, some groups are interconnected

Weak connection: Why influencers sometimes fail to influence

Collage of different faculty with lock icon overlay

New Yale policy protects faculty authors’ copyright in open access publishing

From Yale Library

Saloon map of New Haven

From the Collections

Yale Library partners to support deep research into digitized map collections worldwide

From Yale Library

John Trumbull, “The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776,” ca. 1786

From the Collections

America’s baby picture

From Yale Alumni Magazine

Aerial photo of New Haven Green

How four Yale Law alumni contribute to communities in Connecticut

From Yale Law School