In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150 year anniversary of publication of his Origin of the Species, Yale has created a webportal, Yale Celebrates Darwin. The portal provides links to information about all the...
President Richard C. Levin and faculty colleagues will participate in a panel discussion Tuesday, Feb. 17, on the global financial crisis.Organized by the Yale College Council and the Yale Student Investment Group, the free public panel, “Understanding...
The National Institute of Justice (NIJ), a research and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, has issued a report reaffirming the “Code of the Street” theory of urban violence developed by Yale professor Elijah Anderson.This validation...
Yale University and the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institute based in Garrison, NY, have announced the establishment of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy — a collaboration designed to increase the range, depth...
Yale economics professor Aleh Tsyvinski has been selected by The World Economic Forum to join the elite class of Young Global Leaders (YGL) 2009.Tsyvinski was among 230 leaders from government, business, academia, non-profit organizations and the arts who...
Yale Law School graduate Sonia Sotomayor ’79 made history today when she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 111th justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. She is the first Hispanic ever to sit on the Supreme Court and the third woman. Yale Law School...
The internationally-renowned Yale CEO Leadership Summit will hold its first global program in New Delhi, India on November 5 and 6, 2009. Leaders from business, government, academia, and civil society from across the United States, Europe, and India will...
Former Yale Law School Dean Harold Hongju Koh, currently serving as legal adviser of the U.S. Department of State, will be back on campus the weekend of Oct. 16-18 to accept the Yale Law School Association’s Award of Merit during Alumni Weekend 2009.Koh...
Lectures on the “sound of the sermon” and music by a father-daughter duo featuring one of the Indigo Girls will be among the events highlighting the annual Yale Divinity School Convocation and Reunions, to be held Monday-Thursday, Oct. 12-15.This year’s...
Six scholars whose research interests range from international trade to issues affecting global health and demography have recently joined the Department of Economics faculty.Below are brief biographies of the new faculty members.David Atkin, whose...