Yale University has enhanced its highly successful Homebuyer Program for employees and extended it for another two years, from January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2009.The program was created in 1994 by President Richard C. Levin to encourage employees...
Yale will increase its endowment payout by more than one-third in the upcoming fiscal year, President Richard C. Levin announced today.The estimated payout from the University’s endowment will total $1.15 billion in 2008-2009, an increase of 37% above the...
The Yale Law School Information Society Project and the Yale Law and Media Project will co-host “Technology Policy ’08,” the 18th annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference, May 20 through 23 at the Omni Hotel in New Haven. The conference is open to...
Nine faculty members and a Yale trustee will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. They are among 190 new fellows and...
Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science, has been named to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States. He joins other notable inductees in the Class of 2008 such as filmmaker Martin Scorsese, New...
President Richard C. Levin joined former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the announcement today of the launch of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. As part of the Foundation’s efforts, Blair said he would lead a seminar at Yale beginning in the fall.“...
More than 150 Muslim and Christian leaders, including some of the world’s most eminent scholars and clerics, will gather at Yale University July 28 –31 to promote understanding between the two faiths, whose members comprise more than half the world’s...
Yale Law School will educate the next generation of human rights leaders, with the help of a $3 million gift from the Robina Foundation. The gift, to be administered over the next three years, will create the Robina Foundation Human Rights Fellowship...
Policymakers, scholars and global leaders in business and diplomacy will gather at Yale Divinity School on September 18–19 for a conference on nuclear disarmament, titled “Are We Safe Yet? Vulnerability and Security in an Anxious Age.”Sergio Duarte,...
If the current real estate crisis is to be resolved and a recurrence prevented, there need to be major changes both in the marketplace and in the behavior of individual investors, explains Yale economist Robert J. Shiller in his new book, The Subprime...