“Governments should be separate from ideologies, and elected representatives of the people should determine the laws that govern them,” said Nobel laureate and Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi during a recent talk at Yale.Shirin EbadiMore than...
Samantha Power, the U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations and a member of President Barack Obama’s cabinet, will visit the campus as a Chubb Fellow on Monday, Dec. 1.As part of her visit, Power will give a talk at 4:30 p.m. in Levinson...
Linda Koch Lorimer, Yale’s vice president for global and strategic initiatives, is retiring from that position in April 2015, President Peter Salovey has announced.Lorimer, who has given “29 years of extraordinary service to Yale,” first from 1978 to 1987...
Masha Gessen, a Russian-American author, journalist, and activist, will speak at Yale on Tuesday, Oct. 28 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.Masha GessenGessen will participate in a round-table discussion on “Marginality, Sexual Identity and the Law in...
From the appointment of new deans to the endowment of Yale’s first professorship in poetry to the surprising results of an eye exam for an ancient sea scorpion, there was was certainly no shortage of news this summer. In fact, the following headlines...