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 &...
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...
Four environmental leaders and co-founders of the Natural Resources Defense Council have been selected to receive Yale Law School’s highest honor — the Yale Law School Association Award of Merit — during its Alumni Weekend 2010 in October.James Gustave...
The Yale Law School’s Education Advocacy Project (EAP) won a major victory in the Connecticut Supreme Court on March 22, when the court ruled in favor of the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding (CCJEF) in the case CCJEF v. Rell.CCJEF,...
Two Yale Law School students are among 30 students who have been awarded Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, which are given to “extraordinarily creative and accomplished young immigrants or children of immigrants.”The two — Isra Bhatty...
Martin Price, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and one of the 20th century’s most distinguished scholars of the Augustan Age and the history of the novel, died on April 10. He was 90 years old.Price’s preeminence as an authority on 18th-century...
Charles Walton, assistant professor of history, has been awarded the 2010 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize by the MacMillan Center for his book “Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny & the Problem of Free Speech...
A week-long workshop and a one-day symposium on the history and culture of the Jews of North Africa will take place at Yale April 21-28.A group of 12 scholars from Israel, France, Morocco and the United States will come to campus on Wednesday, April 21,...