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Amneris Chaparro Martinez, Visiting Professor and Rice Fellow, Council for Latin American and Iberian Studies (CLAIS)
On Wednesday, March 8, International Women’s Day (IWD) was once again celebrated by women’s rights advocates to honor the social, economic, and political achievements of women and to raise awareness...
Dr. Christine Ngaruiya, Assistant Professor in Yale’s Department of Emergency Medicine and the Director of Global Health Research, is the founder and chair of Through the Eyes of She.
On Feb. 24, the Council on African Studies (CAS) at the Yale MacMillan Center celebrated the launch of its Through the Eyes of She (TTES) initiative, which aims to help address the challenges...
Isabela Mares
Electoral corruption was rampant in the young democracies of 19th-century Europe. To obtain a competitive advantage, politicians would often buy votes and enlist mayors or policemen to mobilize or...
Vidita Vaidya
When Yale faculty and staff recently traveled to India, their first stop was in Bangalore, where Professor Rohini Pande was receiving the Infosys Prize 2022 in Social Sciences for her work. While in...
On January 19-22, Yale hosted its 49th Model UN conference (YMUN49), which welcomed more than 1,000 high school students from around the globe. Among them was a delegation of ten students from Israel...
Illustration by Eri Griffin
Yale is expanding its Scholars at Risk program, which welcomes scholars facing dangerous conditions worldwide to campus so they can continue their work. In a demonstration of its commitment to...
Top row: Liza Comita, Enrique De La Cruz, Erika Edwards, and Vanessa Ezenwa; Bottom row: Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, David Lewkowicz, and Priyamvada Natarajan
Seven Yale faculty members have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. It is Yale’s largest group of new...
A team of Yale faculty and staff attended the Yale Club of India's Bangalore alumni reception on January 7. (Front row, L-R) Steven Wilkinson, Robert Bonds, Seema Khurana, Rohit De, Kasturi Gupta; (back row, L-R) Daevan Mangalmurti, Swapna Sharma, Alan Baubonis.
With a recent series of trips across India, Nepal, and Pakistan, Yale leadership, along with South Asian Studies Council (SASC) faculty and staff, affirmed and celebrated the ties that have been...
Five Yale undergraduates, (left to right) Aaron Miller, Annika Babra, Sydney Zoehrer, Nina Grigg, and Mary Chen, traveled to Iceland for field study in October 2022. Photo courtesy of Professor Joyce Hsiang.
“What could possibly be urban about Iceland?” The question that Urban Studies major Nina Grigg ’24 encounters when she tells people about her field study trip is exactly the question that she and her...
Headshots of Professors Susan Rose-Ackerman and Lucas Rambo Bender
Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Law and Political Science, and Lucas Rambo Bender, Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Literatures, have been awarded the 2022...
Sculpture of three figures carved by Moshood Olúsomo Bámigbóyè
On September 15, an enthusiastic crowd of Yale students, faculty, and New Haven community members gathered in front of the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) to the exhilarating sound of Yorùbá...
Dear Friends, As the term comes to a close, I want to thank everyone on the MacMillan Center team for your hard work and celebrate some recent ways that you have deepened our understanding of the...