The School of Management (SOM) community recently joined together for a fundraising effort to aid the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.The “1000 Cranes Project” — based on a Japanese legend promising that anyone who folds a thousand cranes...
Six teachers who excel at inspiring undergraduate students in their classrooms will be awarded Yale College teaching prizes on Monday, April 25.Yale College Dean Mary Miller will host a reception in honor of the teachers that day at 5:30 p.m. in the...
While the Tea Party movement, a Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representatives, anti-union fervor and the expansion of tax cuts for corporations and the affluent might appear to spell trouble for progressive politics, the future for “the Left”...
Two Yale professors — Christine Jacobs-Wagner and Jo Handelsman — will receive prestigious awards next month at the annual meeting of the American Society of Microbiology, the largest life science organization in the world.Jacobs-Wagner, a professor in...
The following is a list of books recently or soon to be published by members of the Yale community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books can forward publishers’ book descriptions to susan.gonzalez@yale.edu....
This story also appears in the April 22 print issue of Working @ Yale, and will appear on the W@Y website next week, — along with other news and information about and for University employees. Three employees at the Yale golf course — Vincent Morrissey...
Your meeting in New Haven just got cancelled, and you are looking for something to do at Yale. You hit a special app on your phone, access a map of campus and set the time bar on the map to 4 p.m. Up pops a host of balloons each with a description of an...
Just in time for Earth Day on April 22, the Weather Channel will air a panel discussion moderated by NBC News special correspondent Tom Brokaw that took place at Yale’s Kroon Hall in January.The event, which was sponsored by Yale, NBC News, the National...
Four Yale faculty members have been awarded fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.This year’s winners are: Seyla Benhabib, the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, and adjunct professor at the Law School;...
The six 2011 Carson Scholars from New Haven and Connecticut were honored for their academic excellence and humanitarian qualities at a luncheon in their honor on April 15 at the Dixwell-Yale Community Learning Center.The new scholars had the opportunity...