The 16th annual International Festival of Arts & Ideas continues through Saturday, June 25. The theme of this year’s celebration is “Across Borders, Beyond Time.”The following are some of the highlights of today’s events. For further information on...
An international research team has shown that the rate of sea-level rise along the U.S. Atlantic coast is greater now than at any time in the past 2,000 years and has shown a consistent link between changes in global mean surface temperature and sea level...
Awards & Honors archived.Faculty appointmentPresident Richard C. Levin announced the appointment of Oswald Schmitz, the Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology, and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, as director of the Yale...
Acclaimed by her peers in the United States as “possibly the greatest woman scientist of the 20th century” and known in her native New Zealand as a “world leader in modern cosmology and one of the most creative and significant theoreticians in modern...
The Association of Yale Alumni has released a new video — “Yale Day of Service: The Big Picture” —celebrating the growth of community service by Yale alumni across the United States and around the globe. The video can be viewed on YouTube.The video...
Members of the Yale community can receive a 50% discount off tuition for the Yale Publishing Course “Leadership Strategies in a Time of Transition” in July.There are a limited number of spaces for members of the Yale community; to apply, contact Jackie...
Dr. James Comer, the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine’s Child Study Center, explains what he believes is the fundamental problem underlying the American education system today in a segment on WNET’s “Eye...
Professor Richard Prum, an evolutionary biologist at Yale and a self-described “lifelong bird enthusiast,” discussed how the birds of paradise of Papua New Guinea developed their dazzling feathers and elaborate mating dances in a segment shown on June 13...
Yale Law School Professor Emeritus Charles Elias (“Eli”) Clark ’43 B.A., ’47 J.D., ’58 M.F.A., died on June 11, at his home in Hamden, Connecticut. He was 89.A specialist in the field of law pertaining to the transfer of family wealth, Clark was the...
Former members of the El Salvadoran military, including several members of the High Command, were recently indicted their roles in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests and two women during El Salvador’s civil war — thanks in good part to work by...