This year Yale University is sending five of its alumni to the 82nd Academy Awards presentation on March 7. ‘The nominees are: Meryl Streep for Best Actress in her role as Julia Child in “Julie and Julia”; Maury Yeston for Best Song, “Take It All,” from...
Yale University scientists have developed a magnetic solder that can be manipulated in three dimensions and selectively heated, and offers a more environmentally friendly alternative to today’s lead-based solders. Their findings appear in the March 1...
The 13th Annual Liman Colloquium, “Imprisoned,” will be held at Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, March 4–5. This Colloquium will explore the issues raised by the incarceration of more than two million people in the United States.The event begins on...
For Indra Nooyi ’80, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, running a global corporation is more than just increasing quarterly profits and maximizing market share. As she explained Feb. 23 at a Leaders Forum lecture, you can’t measure the performance of the...
What do cook stoves in Bangladesh have to do with F-15 jet fuel? Or a plant fungus discovered in the Amazonian rain forest with sustainable architecture? As the faculty who attended the West Campus Energy Symposium on Feb. 27 learned, these are just some...
With great pleasure, the Yale College Class of 2010 announces that the Commencement Class Day speaker will be President Bill Clinton, Law ‘73, founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States. President Clinton will...
Robert I. White, Jr., M.D. of Yale University will travel to Buenos Aires to pave the way for the first center in Latin America to treat a rare but potentially fatal vascular disorder known as Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT). White is...
A new legislative database launched today by the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University gives policy makers, journalists, advocates, researchers and concerned citizens a single online destination for current information on government...
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have discovered that exposure during pregnancy to Bisphenol A (BPA), a common component of plastics, causes permanent abnormalities in the uterus of offspring, including alteration in their DNA. The findings were...
The distinguished economist Raghuram G. Rajan will deliver the 2010 Arthur M. Okun Public Policy Lecture on March 25, at Yale’s Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall (SSS), 1 Prospect Street, Room 114, from 4 to 5:30 p.m.Free and open to the public, the talk...