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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...
Yale Ph.D. candidates Alex Fialho and Alexandra “Aly” Thomas in front of the Keiskamma Art Project’s Creation Altarpiece (2007) at Constitution Hill, Johannesburg in January 2023
In January 2023, the Yale MacMillan Center’s Council on African Studies sponsored research trips to South Africa for two Ph.D. candidates in the Departments of the History of Art and African American...
Cécile Fromont (Photo by Dan Renzetti)
A new four-part Netflix docuseries, “African Queens: Njinga,” tells the story of the 17th-century warrior Queen Njinga, who ruled over the territories of Ndongo and Matamba in present-day Angola....
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...