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Travis Zadeh
Yale’s Travis Zadeh discusses his new book, “Wonders and Rarities,” which examines a seminal 13th-century work of natural history and cosmology.
A view of the five speakers in a panel discussion in Luce Hall auditorium
According to the U.S. Census, nearly one-third of New Haven’s population is Hispanic or Latino, yet many local Spanish-speaking community members have not heard of Yale’s Council on Latin American...
A group of approximately 40 men and women gather outdoors for a meeting in Bangladesh.
The Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale has received a grant of approximately $1.35 million for core...
Marcia C. Inhorn
Anthropologist Marcia Inhorn discusses her new book examining why women freeze their eggs.
Jing Tsu (Photo by Allie Barton)
A highlight of an eventful period for Yale faculty member Jing Tsu is being named a Pulitzer Prize finalist.
For nearly a half-century, J. Edgar Hoover was director of the FBI or its precursor. A rabid anti-Communist now known for his own law-breaking — specifically, for his secret surveillance of American...
The six recipients of this year’s Yale College prizes for exceptional undergraduate teaching, announced on May 3 by Yale College Dean Pericles Lewis, stand out for a wide variety of reasons to the...
A March 2023 conference in Tokyo explored factors that enable and constrain women’s economic activity in Asia, and how research can inform pandemic recovery policies and gender-sensitive responses to...
Doctors pose for a group photo at Yale School of Public Health
On April 24, six Ukrainian doctors who were invited to visit Yale for a month of intensive training sat on a panel to share their experiences of practicing medicine in their cities since Russia...
Erik Harms records his introductory anthropology course for students in Myanmar. Image via Yale News
Yale instructors are opening their classes virtually to students in Myanmar, where the education sector has collapsed after a recent military coup.
Tatekawa Shinoharu ’99 performs while kneeling at centerstage
Comic Tatekawa Shinoharu ’99 returned to campus on March 30, but it wasn’t a typical stand-up set. As a master of rakugo, a traditional genre of Japanese comedy, Tatekawa sat down on a cushion at...
Y-RISE researchers and partners gathered in a circle in rural Sierra Leone
The Yale Research Initiative on Innovation and Scale (Y-RISE) and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Behavioural Insights Unit (BI-Unit) Announce Partnership to Promote, Design, and Scale Up...