In order to develop further its ties with Turkish academic institutions and the Turkish people, Yale University is hosting a series of events in that nation May 26 through June 2. “Yale Week in Turkey” will showcase many of the facets that make up the...
Weight discrimination poses serious risks to the psychological and physical health of obese individuals and should be considered a social justice issue as well as a public health priority, according to a paper from the Rudd Center for Food Policy and...
After 37 years in the Yale Police Department (YPD), Chief James A. Perrotti will retire at the end of June.Perrotti joined the YPD in 1973 and was the first of its officers to graduate from the National Academy of the FBI. He recently spoke with the Yale...
Yale’s 309th Commencement celebration May 21-24 will be held with its traditional festivities and pomp — but with one new fashion: In keeping with Yale’s commitment to sustainability, graduates will be wearing robes made of 100% post-consumer recycled...
Yale College 2010 Class Day ceremonies were held on May 23, and the University Commencement was May 24 on the Yale campus. This year, the Class Day speaker was President Bill Clinton, founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the...
President Richard C. Levin wrote to the Graduate School Community today announcing the new Dean of the Graduate School:It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of Thomas D. Pollard, M.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular &...
Yale Recycling and the Yale Office of Sustainability invite members of the Yale community and local non-profit and charitable organizations to take part in a “treasure hunt” of sorts during this year’s Spring Salvage Donation Days event.“We take great...
Steven Pincus, professor of history, has been awarded the 2010 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize by the MacMillan Center for his book “1688: The First Modern Revolution” (Yale University Press, 2009).Established in 2005, the Gustav Ranis International...
In honor of his contributions to the humanities, R. Howard Bloch, Sterling Professor of French, has been inducted as a member of the American Philosophical Society (APS), the oldest learned society in the United States.The APS, which was founded in 1743...
Koichi Hamada, the Tuntex Professor of Economics, is one of 14 researchers and 4 journalists to receive the Abe Fellowship and Abe Fellowship for Journalists.Both competitions support international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global...