Frederic M. Richards, a structural biologist at Yale and an innovative leader in the study of the relationships between protein structures and their biological functions, died of natural causes at home on Jan. 11. He was 83 years old.Richards, Sterling...
Joan Channick, an internationally renowned theater manager and teacher, has been appointed as associate dean of the Yale School of Drama, effective Feb. 1, announced Provost Peter Salovey and Yale School of Drama Dean James Bundy. Reporting to the dean...
Emily P. Bakemeier, associate provost at the University and an art historian by training, has been promoted to deputy provost, announced Provost Peter Salovey. Bakemeier’s role as deputy provost will encompass all the duties that she has been doing in all...
Frances Rosenbluth, the Damon Wells Professor of International Politics, has been named the new deputy provost for faculty development, effective July 1, announced Provost Peter Salovey.A comparative political economist with a special interest in Japan,...
Peter Cresswell, the newly designated Eugene Higgins Professor of Immunobiology, has spent most of his career unraveling some of the mysteries of the human immune system.Creswell’s research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of antigen processing, in...
Dr. David J. Leffell, newly designated as the David Paige Smith Professor of Dermatology, is a renowned specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of melanoma and other skin cancers and in surgical treatment using the Mohs micrographic technique.His...
Dr. Gerald I. Shulman, who has been named the inaugural George R. Cowgill Professor of Physiological Chemistry, is an internationally known diabetes researcher.He focuses his studies on understanding the cellular mechanisms of insulin resistance, the role...
Isidore Dyen, an emeritus professor of linguistics at Yale who is known for his seminal work on Austronesian languages and Proto-Austronesian (the ancestral language of languages from Indonesia to Madagascar and across the Pacific Ocean), died on Dec. 14....
A youth talent show and other activities designed entirely by and for youths will be part of the mix this year, when the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History hosts its 13th annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday. The two-day program —...
NO BOUNDARIES: A Series of Global Performances presented by the Yale Repertory Theatre and the World Performance Project at Yale, continues its 2008-2009 season with “the break/s: a mixtape for stage,” a multimedia performance exploring the hip-hop...