The ways in which the revolutionary theories of naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) influenced the art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries is explored in a new interdisciplinary exhibition opening on Thursday, Feb. 12, at the Yale Center for...
On Thursday, Feb. 12, Robert McCracken Peck, senior fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, will speak on campus on the bicentennial of Charles Darwin’s birth.Peck’s talk, titled “The ‘Discovery’ of the Gorilla and How It Shook the...
Magic, death, music and transformation will take center stage in the Yale School of Drama’s cabaret-style production of “Jelly’s Last Jam,” a play about the pivotal jazz figure Jelly Roll Morton (1890-1941) and the African-American experience of his era....
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....
A new Yale gallery that will be devoted to bringing examples of contemporary art from around the world to New Haven formally opened on Jan. 26 with the exhibition “Shifting Shapes - Unstable Signs,” featuring recent work in diverse media by artists from...
Robert Heimer, a professor in the Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases in the Yale School of Public Health, will work and lecture in Russia with support from a 2009 Fulbright Scholarship.Designed to promote “mutual understanding between the...
Jon Butler will continue to serve as dean of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences through June 30, 2010, a year past the end of his current appointment, announced President Richard C. Levin.The extension of Butler’s term will “provide continuity...
Paul R. Hudak, professor of computer science, will become the new master of Saybrook College on July 1, President Richard C. Levin has announced.His wife, Cathy Van Dyke SOM ‘86, currently mentor coordinator for the New Haven Public Schools Science Fair...
Robert J. Schoelkopf, newly named as the inaugural William A. Norton Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, is noted for his research on quantum transport, single-electron devices and charge dynamics in nanostructures.When he won the American Physical...
The Yale Center for Clinical Investigation, in partnership with the Fair Haven Community Health Center, has received the first Donaghue Program for Research Leadership grant from The Patrick and Catherine Weldon Donaghue Medical Foundation. The grant of...