Yale students, faculty, staff and alumni participated in the "Parliament of the World’s Religions" held in Melbourne, Australia in December 2009.
“Bark Painting with Landscape with Birds and Pond.” Unknown Australian artist, 19th-20th century. This work representative of Australian indigenous art, is part of the Katharine Ordway Collection in the Yale Art Gallery.
In the Summer of 2010, a team of Yale geologists and graduate students traveled to central Australia to study the rotational shift of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana.