The following talks at Yale University the week of Nov. 10-16 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Forest Service chief to discuss federal programs for landowners Michael P. Dombeck, chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s...
A fierce, decades-long battle for control of Maine’s forest management culminated Nov. 4 when voters by a narrow margin defeated a referendum that would have placed unprecedented restrictions on the state’s logging practices. The referendum, a topic of...
Peter N. Belhumeur, associate professor of electrical engineering at Yale University, has been awarded a $500,000 Presidential Early Career Award to support his research for the next five years in computer vision, robotics, face recognition, medical...
On the heels of the recent White House Conference on Child Care, a major report released today at Yale University offers hard-hitting solutions for improving the quality of early care and education. “Not By Chance: Creating an Early Care and Education...
Richard H. Brodhead, dean of Yale College since 1992, has agreed to continue for a second five-year term in his post, according to an announcement by Yale President Richard C. Levin President Levin said, “In response to my request for assessment of the...
Michael P. Dombeck, chief of the USDA Forest Service since January and former acting director of the Bureau of Land Management, will speak at Yale on the role of the Forest Service in helping private landowners manage non-federal lands. The talk, which...
The following talks at Yale University Oct. 27-Nov. 2 are free and open to the public. Award-winning writer to discuss her recently published novel Blanche McCrary Boyd, a professor of English and writer-in-residence at Connecticut College, will...
American child care regulations are mediocre or poor in every state because state legislators are setting standards far too low, thus posing a threat to children’s development. That is the finding of a Yale University study, which joins a spate of...
Edward Zigler, the Sterling Professor of Psychology at Yale University and a national leader in child care, has been invited by President and Mrs. Clinton to attend the White House Conference on Child Care on Thursday, Oct. 23, from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m....
Washington, D.C. – A new vision of environmental policy will be the topic of a National Press Club Breakfast on Oct. 22. Leaders of Yale University’s Next Generation Project, a two-year project based at Yale’s Center for Environmental Law and Policy,...