New research conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School concludes that people’s cultural values influence how risky they perceive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to be and thus, their views on whether or not the vaccine should...
Three leading activists for urban food reform in New York and New Haven will meet at Yale on January 28 in a public panel discussion on educating youngsters about the importance of good food and making affordable healthy food available to urban residents....
Multimedia journalist Farai Chideya will visit Yale as a guest of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism on Monday, February 1.Chideya’s talk, “Be the Media You Want to See: How Social Media and Citizen Journalism Are Changing the World,” will take place at...
Sir Nigel Sheinwald KCMG, British Ambassador to the U.S., will deliver a lecture at Yale titled “Afghanistan and Pakistan: The New Political Strategy.” The talk will take place at 3:15 p.m. on February 23 in the Sterling Library Lecture Hall, 128 Wall...
The Honorable Stephen G. Breyer, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was at Yale Law School on February 15 and 16 to discuss the topic, “Making the Constitution Work: A Supreme Court Justice’s View.”The full story is available on the...
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...
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...
Long-time Yale faculty member Jonathan Spence, one of the world’s leading experts on Chinese history and culture, has been selected by the National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) to deliver the 2010 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities.The NEH-sponsored...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin today announced the appointment of Rakesh Mohan as Professor in the Practice of International Economics and Finance in the Yale School of Management, and as Senior Fellow in the Jackson Institute for Global...