Lisa Prevost

1 week ago | news.yale.edu | Lisa Prevost

What is the dream of America? Is it specific to a time and place, or to race and social standing? What is the reality of America? An extraordinary new collection of more than 600 photos, “Magnum America: The United States” (Thames and Hudson), invites readers to ponder these questions as a way of understanding America’s past and present. The photos were taken over the past eight decades by photographers for the esteemed Magnum agency, a cooperative launched in 1947 in New York City.

1 week ago | news.yale.edu | Lisa Prevost

Before becoming a scientist, Florian Carle worked in the arts. For 12 years he was a theater actor in France before shifting to quantum science; He is now managing director at the Yale Quantum Institute. Conversely, Vince Tycer worked in the sciences before switching to the arts.

1 week ago | news.yale.edu | Lisa Prevost

Immediately after the Oct. 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, a group of 10 Yale students from a variety of backgrounds convened on campus to discuss the unthinkable. Brought together by the university’s Civic Thought Initiative (CTI), which encourages open dialogue on difficult issues in small, seminar-style settings, the group included Jewish students with diverging views on Israel, students who were active advocates for Palestinians in Gaza, and a former childhood war refugee.

3 weeks ago | news.yale.edu | Lisa Prevost

By the time she started her undergraduate studies in cognitive science, Coco Ma had already finished her master’s in piano performance at Yale School of Music (YSM), graduated from The Juilliard School and won numerous top national and international prizes.

3 weeks ago | news.yale.edu | Lisa Prevost

Keeley Brooks worried that she’d made a terrible mistake during her first few weeks at Yale. A violinist since the age of five, she’d long dreamed of attending a music conservatory, and had been accepted at two. But after visiting Yale, she was won over, she said, by “how people appeared to have so many interests that they were excited to share with each other.” Shortly after she arrived on campus, she began the requisite auditions for various musical groups and programs.