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Photo gallery: Congratulations to the Class of 2023!

May 23, 2023
Class of 2023 celebrates graduation day posing for photos on a beautiful spring day in front of and inside Sterling Library.
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Photo gallery: Celebrating library staff and 1,245 combined years of dedicated service

May 19, 2023
The annual Staff Appreciate Picnic gave everyone a chance to socialize and to celebrate the long service records of 82 library employees.
Digital map showing southern US--Florida to Texas--with coastline in blue and white dots on the black landmass. Legend shows that dots are Nursing Homes with Emergency Preparedness Deficiencies. Blue indicates 2 feet or more of inundation exposure.

PhD candidate named Yale’s EIP Student of the Year for innovative geospatial mapping

May 17, 2023
Natalia Festa works with Global Information Systems (GIS) to study emergency-preparedness risks to the elderly in nursing homes.
Stage set with arabic script projected in white on black background. Man in Arabic dress stands with arms outstretched in front of animated image of a blue and yellow tree. Eleven people in long garments sit at his feet, six to his right and five to his left.

Portrait from library collection featured in lavish Pulitzer Prize–winning opera “Omar”

May 15, 2023
Omar Ibn Said, author of the only known surviving Arabic-language slave narrative written in the United States—whose portrait and correspondence are now on view at the Beinecke—is the subject of a new American opera.
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Free films: Yale Film Archive announces its spring/summer lineup of hits

May 8, 2023
Treasures from the Yale Film Archive continues its series into the summer months for free screenings of three more favorites.
Four students at a round table pose smiling for the camera; in the background are ten people at other round tables and a video display on wall that reads "Class of 2023"

Graduating student workers honored at Sterling Library, with thanks for all they do

May 1, 2023
Barbara Rockenbach, Stephen F. Gates ’68 University Librarian, and staff librarians celebrated graduating student workers with an afternoon event and bookplates.
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Student brings to light the life and times of Black gospel songwriter Roxie Moore

April 27, 2023
On Wed., May 3, Ambre Dromgoole (MAR ’17) will tell the story of Roxie Moore, one of the influential Black female musicians featured in Dromgoole’s PhD dissertation.