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Diane Nash urges today’s activists to apply techniques of the Civil Rights Movement

January 27, 2017

Principles of nonviolence from the 1960s are the best strategy for today’s social movements, civil rights icon Diane Nash told a Battell Chapel audience the...

Visionary Leadership honoree Majora Carter discusses revitalization of ‘low-status’ communities

January 26, 2017

Renowned urban strategist, consultant, and new Poynter Fellow in Journalism Majora Carter spoke about her work in the South Bronx to members of the Yale...

Growing up with autism and mental illness: one family's story

January 26, 2017

Since 1911, the Yale Child Study Center has had as its core mission to improve the lives of children and families through research, service, and training....

Panel discusses new U.S. administration’s policy toward Eastern and Central Europe

January 26, 2017

The European Studies Council and the Program in European Union Studies at the MacMillan Center hosted a panel on Jan. 24 to discuss challenges in Central and...

Graduate student 'digs' into ancient history

January 26, 2017

In northern Israel, Nicholas Kraus works side by side with scholars from many disciplines and countries to survey, excavate, and attempt to understand how...

Yale Center for Earth Observation turns 25 amidst ‘golden age’ of remote sensing

January 26, 2017

At a time when Earth information is "more important than ever," the Yale Center for Earth Observation is marking 25 years as the only Yale center...

A ‘makerspace’ for public policy opens at Yale

January 26, 2017

A new lab opening at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies will provide Yale students with the skills and resources needed to study and solve public...

Yale’s Songhu Wang to study exoplanets as one of four inaugural 51 Pegasi b Fellows

January 25, 2017

The Heising-Simons Foundation announced the inaugural class of 51 Pegasi b Fellows, named for the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a Sun-like star. Songhu...

Author Andrew Solomon to discuss book on parents, children, and search for identity

January 25, 2017

Author, psychologist, and activist Andrew Solomon will speak at Yale about his new book, “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children & the Search for Identity,...

A childhood surrounded by science

January 24, 2017

For Amy Vatner and her three young boys, participating in clinical trials at Yale has meant becoming part of a community at the Yale Child Study Center.