There will be a memorial service on Friday, Oct. 3, celebrating the life of Arthur W. Galston, the Eaton Professor Emeritus of Botany in Yale’s Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology.The service will take place 1:30-3 p.m. in Battell...
Yale has established a new Office of Digital Assets and Infrastructure (ODAI), and Meg Bellinger of the Yale University Library has been named as its first director, announced Provost Andrew Hamilton.The new office will develop strategies and systems for...
Alan S. Gerber, the newly named Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Political Science, focuses his research on the application of experimental methods to the study of campaign communications.He has designed and performed experimental...
This is the debut of “SPOTLIGHT,” which profiles Yale affiliates who have an interesting or unique avocation or job. Send an e-mail to susan.gonzalez@yale.edu to suggest a co-worker or friend to feature in a future “SPOTLIGHT.”He’s been on campus for just...
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair taught his first class at Yale on September 19, marking the start of the “Faith and Globalization Initiative,” a three-year collaboration among Yale’s Divinity School, School of Management and the Tony Blair Faith...
John Rennie, editor-in-chief of Scientific American, will be the guest at a Pierson College master’s tea on Tuesday, Sept. 23. Rennie’s talk, titled “The Greening of the Media: Challenges in Reporting on Environmental Science,” will begin at 4:30 p.m. in...
Dr. Michael J. Caplan, newly designated as the C.N.H. Long Professor of Physiology, is renowned for his research on the sorting and function of ion proteins in polarized epithelial cells.His laboratory team focuses on identifying the proteins that...
As the new academic year begins, Yale administrators, faculty, staff and students are once again being asked to help their less-fortunate neighbors in the area by contributing to the United Way of Greater New Haven’s annual fundraising appeal.This year...
Robert Wayne Harms, the newly named Henry J. Heinz Professor of History and African Studies, is an award-winning scholar of African history, including the slave trade and the continent’s environmental and agrarian history.His 2002 book “The Diligent: A...
Marina R. Picciotto, recently appointed as the Charles B.G. Murphy Professor of Psychiatry, specializes in the areas of molecular neuroscience, behavioral pharmacy, mouse genetics and translational neuroscience.The goal of her research is to understand...