President Richard C. Levin announced that Steven Berry, the James Burrows Moffatt Professor of Economics, will serve as chair of the Department of Economics for the spring semester. Berry will replace Benjamin Polak who was recently appointed University...
Dr. Robert Udelsman, chair of the department of surgery at Yale School of Medicine, has been elected to membership in the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars. Udelsman completed his medical residency and also received an M.B.A. at Johns Hopkins....
The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. spoke before more than 2,000 members of the Yale and New Haven community in Woolsey Hall on January 14, 1959, the eve of his 30th birthday. Here are some of his words, read by Yale students.
In awarding Yale’s George Daniel Mostow its 2013 Wolf Foundation Prize in mathematics — one of the field’s premier global awards — the foundation offered this crisp assessment: “Few mathematicians,” it said, “can compete with the breadth, depth, and...
The adulthood of a midge fly is decidedly brief — about three days. But a new study of its mating swarm may yield lasting benefits for analyses of bird flocks, fish schools, human crowds and other forms of collective animal motion.A study of the midge fly...
George Daniel Mostow, a Yale professor emeritus renowned for his contributions in geometry, has been awarded a 2013 Wolf Foundation Prize, one of the top international awards for mathematicians.George Daniel Mostow (Photo by Michael Marsland)The honors,...