The Yale College term bill for the 2009–10 academic year will be $47,500, an increase of 3.3 percent over the current charges for tuition, room and board.Yale also affirmed that it will sustain its recent initiatives on affordability. In 2008, Yale...
When NASA’s Kepler spacecraft blasts into space on March 6, thousands of scientists around the globe will get one step closer to finding out just how unique Earth — and possibly life — really is.The robotic probe will spend the next three-and-a-half years...
Some people love gold; others are crazy about platinum. For Ann Valentine, it’s titanium. As a young scientist, she heard about a certain type of sea squirts - soft, tubular-shaped marine creatures that attach themselves to rocks and coral - that filters...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson will present the 2009 Dwight H. Terry Lectures at Yale University, beginning March 24.The talks, free and open to the public, will be held on March 24, 26, 31 and April 2 at 4:30 p.m. in 102 Linsly-...
Rajendra K. Pachauri will lead the newly established Yale Climate and Energy Institute (YCEI), University President Richard C. Levin has announced. Pachauri has chaired the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002 and has...
The Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave., will host “Fiesta Latina,” its seventh annual celebration of Latin American cultures on Saturday, March 14, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.This year’s celebration will feature traditional and contemporary Latin...
Ira Glass, award-winning producer and host of the popular public radio program “This American Life,” will visit Yale as a guest of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, and deliver the Gary G. Fryer Memorial Lecture at Yale on Tuesday, March 24.The...
Best-selling author Gay Talese will give a public reading from his work at Yale on April 1 as a John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer.His talk, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 7 p.m. in St. Anthony Hall, 483 College Street. The...
The sixth annual Yale Bouchet Conference on Diversity in Graduate Education, “Embracing Diversity: A Pathway to a Truly Inclusive Democracy and Global Society,” will take place March 27 and 28 in the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St. The Bouchet...
New Haven residents and Yale historians will gather March 26 at 5:30 p.m. at the New Haven Museum at 114 Whitney Ave. for a unique celebration of the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama. Sharing their eyewitness accounts and photographs, New...