Eight new courses in history, economics, literature and biomedical engineering taught by leading faculty have been added to “Open Yale Courses,” the University’s free online education initiative. The courses, which were recorded in their entirety as they...
It is impossible to ignore the dramatic headlines and news reports surrounding the worldwide financial crisis. During times like these, it is only natural to be concerned about the effect the current economic state might have on the University and, in...
It wasn’t the kind of strategizing you’d expect to overhear during an Olympic event. “You have to make sure the spring is even,” said Richard Kwan, a senior from Weston High School, as he fiddled delicately with one of the three cylinders hanging from the...
Growing up, Matthew Eckelman couldn’t stand to see his parents toss a soda can in the garbage. “I was one of those kids who annoyed my parents to no end trying to get them to set up household recycling,” he says. “Now, they’re even more ardent about...
Projects created by celebrated architect Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) for New Haven and Yale University — designs that changed the face of the city and the campus — are the subject of an exhibition opening on Monday, Nov. 10, in the gallery of the newly...
Andrew Revkin, Environment Reporter for the New York Times, will speak at Yale University on November 12, 6:00 p.m., in the Bowers Auditorium of Sage Hall, 205 Prospect Street.Revkin’s lecture, “The Hot Seat: Making Sense of Global Warming, from the North...
Yale University was dismayed by a report that Peru will sue the University to recover archaeological material legally excavated at Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham III nearly one hundred years ago. Yale officials had a positive informal meeting on September...
After an ambitious renovation and restoration, Paul Rudolph’s renowned Art + Architecture Building was formally rededicated and renamed in honor of its designer exactly 45 years to the day after the building’s original dedication ceremony.In addition to...
The following discussion between Robert A.M. Stern, the dean of the Yale School of Architecture, and Charles Gwathmey ‘62 M.Arch., renovation architect for the recently rededicated Paul Rudolph Hall (see related story) and designer of the adjacent Haas...
There were young women and elderly men, locals and those who traveled across the globe to be in attendance, researchers, business leaders, a Nobel Laureate and even a former astronaut, but they all had one thing in common: At some point in the past 60...