President Richard C. Levin announced today that Yale has received a $50 million gift to establish the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. “The Jackson Institute will become a signature program, marking Yale’s global aspirations. Its teaching programs...
The Yale Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) will host two public events with acclaimed Chinese novelist, critic and short-story writer Can Xue later this month: a reading from her work at 5 p.m. on April 16, and a panel discussion with scholars about her...
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, two-term president of Brazil, will speak at Yale University as a Chubb Fellow, a Downey Fellow and a visiting fellow of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.Fernando Henrique Cardoso, two-term president of Brazil, will...
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Edward P. Jones will give a public reading from his work at Yale on April 16, at 7 p.m. The free event will take place in Rm. 101 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street. Part of the John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting...
Author Bliss Broyard will read from and discuss her memoir, “One Drop: My Father’s Hidden Life—A Story of Race and Family Secrets,” on April 16 at 8 p.m. in the Master’s Residence at Branford College, 80 High St.The event, which is free and open to the...
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia will speak at Yale as a Chubb Fellow on April 23 at 4 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets.The talk is free and open to the public. Sirleaf is the first woman to head an African country. She...
Citing research that shows drinking sugar-sweetened beverages is helping fuel the obesity epidemic, Yale University’s Kelly Brownell, Ph.D., and New York City Health Commissioner Thomas Frieden, M.D., M.P.H, argue for taxing sugared beverages in the April...
Will the materials we use in everyday products end up in our water supply? How much metal does the developed world use in computers, cars and skyscrapers? These questions were at the heart of two research papers written by Yale environmental engineers...
Yale University will open two buildings central to its music programs, Gustave Stoeckel Hall and Albert Arnold Sprague Memorial Hall, to the public on April 18 at 2 p.m. for a tour that will highlight recent architectural renovations and enhancements.Both...
We may be too late to save the world from meltdown, but we have to try anyway, so said writer and environmental activist Bill McKibben to the audience that had gathered in Marquand Chapel to hear his lecture on global warming.McKibben — whose April 3 talk...