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Students in the classroom
January 14, 2020
The Yale Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration receives the grant alongside centers at Brown, Stanford, and UChicago.
FAS Dean Tamar Gendler stands at the front of a conference room gesturing at a screen that displays a list of the departments of Yale's Faculty of Arts and Science. A group of faculty members are seated around her at conference tables.
January 14, 2020
Nine scholars are joining the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as ladder faculty members in January 2020. They are part of a group of 44 new faculty members who have joined the...
Stars in a dark sky
January 13, 2020
Thanks to some astrophysical sleuthing, researchers have pinpointed the 11.5 billion-year-old galactic merger that helped shape our Milky Way.
Rohini Pande
January 9, 2020
Whether Yale economist Rohini Pande is designing public policies aimed at reducing air pollution or expanding women’s employment opportunities, her general goal is the same:...
Isabel Mares
January 2, 2020
Mares conducted an intensive multi-year investigation of political clientelism — illegal exchanges of goods and services for political support — in several Eastern European...
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December 19, 2019
Alice Kaplan, the John M. Musser Professor of French, will take on the role of Director of the Whitney Humanities Center for three years, beginning July 1, 2020. A leading...
Dîvân-ı Halîm, Turkish MSS Suppl 48, is collection of poetry by Halim Giray Sultan, who lived from 1772 to 1824 and was a member of the Crimean Khanate, a Turkic state that existed from 1441 to 1783. The illuminated and gilded manuscript is one of 568 Ottoman Turkish manuscripts housed at the Beinecke Library. (Photo credit: Michael S. Helfenbein)
December 18, 2019
Taught over the fall semester, Ozgen Felek’s course “Reading and Research in Ottoman History and Literature” explored 568 “fascinating” manuscripts.