History of Art students Meredith Gamer and Esther Chadwick (with Cyra Levenson, associate curator of education at the Yale Center for British Art) co-curated “Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain,” a... read more
According to conservative estimates, close to 9 million Syrians have fled their homes since the outbreak of civil war in March 2011. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), more than 3 million people have escaped to... read more
Emily Bucholz (School of Public Health), an MD/PhD student studying chronic disease epidemiology, won the American Heart Association’s Samuel A. Levine Young Clinical Investigator Award for research she presented at the association’s annual meeting... read more
Andrew S. Brown (English) was in very distinguished company when he spoke at a symposium celebrating Yale’s acquisition of a major scholarly treasure: the Anthony Taussig Collection of English Legal Manuscripts and Printed Books. In fact, he was... read more
Jason Zentz (Linguistics) studies syntax (sentence structure) and morphology (word structure) in the Bantu language family, which includes some 300-500 languages spoken throughout most of sub-Saharan Africa. More specifically, Jason studies the... read more
Distant galaxies show astronomers how the universe and our own galaxy evolved. Astronomy students Erica Nelson and Joel Leja are members of a team that is teasing out the early history of the universe by looking at distant galaxies... read more
Daniel Field (Geology and Geophysics) is “passionate about the evolution of vertebrate animals” and spends much of his time photographing wildlife and collecting fossils. These activities provide “an endless source of research questions that... read more
As a member of the inaugural cohort of Diplomacy and Diversity Fellows, Wendell Adjetey (History) spent a month in Washington and Paris this past spring, studying issues and discussing solutions to some of the world’s most intransigent... read more
Erin Burke (Anthropology) wants to find out how and why human males nurture their young. In order to fully understand why studying paternal care would warrant such attention, it is important to first realize how unusual it is, she says.... read more
Fabrizio Fenghi (Slavic Languages & Literatures) was drawn to Russian literature in college because he loved the novels of Dostoevsky, Bulgakov, and Nabokov. He spent a lot of time in Russia and became increasingly interested in Soviet... read more
Angie Johnston (Psychology) has been interested in how the mind works since she was a little girl doing studies with her chocolate Labrador, Ginger. “I would try saying words she knew, like ‘treat,’ ‘sit,’ and ‘outside,’ in different... read more
Holly Lauridsen (Biomedical Engineering) studies microvasculature, the smallest blood vessels in a body, and what chronic inflammatory diseases do to those tiny vessels. Her work, in Anjelica Gonzalez’s lab, brings together interests that... read more
The physical makeup of an old book tells an important story. When stage plays were published in Shakespeare’s day, they were usually printed as small, quarto-size playbooks, in a “stab-stitched” form without traditional bindings. Scholars... read more
Michael Sierra-Arevalo (Sociology) was drawn to sociology as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin, “because of the way it didn’t take things for granted. There weren’t rules for how the world worked, like in chemistry or... read more
Raymond Ma (Engineering) came to Yale so he could join the GRAB Lab, headed by Aaron Dollar, the John J. Lee Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science. Ray learned about the project as an undergraduate and was... read more
The Yale Women Faculty Forum (WFF) was established to highlight the importance of women faculty at the University.