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Head shot of Ian Shapiro on a black background. He is wearing a suit and tie and he is smiling.

Shapiro to step down after 15 years as director of Yale’s MacMillan Center

January 17, 2019
After 15 years of service, the theorist and Sterling Professor of Political Science Ian Shapiro will step down from his role on June 30. 
Book cover dislpaying an anthropomorfous figure mid-dance and the book title: Physics and Dance.

Physics and Dance

January 16, 2019
Emily Coates, associate professor of theater studies, and Sarah Demers, the Horace D. Taft Associate Professor of Physics (Yale University Press)
A man stands under stage lighting. Only his torso can be seem. Mid-word and closed-eyed, he lifts his muscular left arm and opens his hand, palms facing forward. The whole picture has a blue tone. In the distance, a picture of the same man yet from a different angle appears.

In semester-long project, students collaborate with professional dancers

January 15, 2019
The Yale Dance Theater and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company will be collaborating on a re-staging of Jones’ seminal work “D-Man in the Waters” (1989).
Flyer that reads the name of the talk Keywords: Embodiment, Catastrophe, Planetary and the date, guest speakers, and plave of the event.

Event to explore keywords in environmental humanities

January 14, 2019
“Keywords in the Environmental Humanities” will take place on Jan. 16, 4:15-5:15 p.m. at the Whitney Humanities Center. The talk is free and open to the public.
Cover of the book A view of the empire at sunset, by Caryl Phillips. It shows a black and white photograph of a woman and a man talking at what seems to be a bar, but the whole picture is blurry. On the bottom half, there is a postal card showing a painting of a landscape and some palm trees.

In his new novel, English professor looks at the life of writer Jean Rhys

January 10, 2019
In “A View of the Empire at Sunset,” Caryl Phillips imagines the life of the famed author from her early days living on Dominica through her time in Europe.
Portrait of Nicholas Christakisin front of Beinecke Library.

New Yale-led project looks at the microbiome-social network connection

January 10, 2019
Professor Nicholas Christakis will head an international project that examines the intersections of human genomic, microbiome, and social network data. 
Landscape picture of a telescope with a background of mountains and a blue sky. The telescope itself defeats expectations in accounts of how it looks: four semi-cylindrical surfaces lie on the ground side-by-side. They seem to cover a very wide area in comparison to the relative size of other objects on the picture.

CHIME telescope detects second repeating fast radio burst from other galaxy

January 9, 2019
As part of the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment, Yale’s Laura Newburgh has helped detect a rare, repeating radio burst from outside the Milky Way.