Robert Storr has been reappointed as dean of the Yale School of Art, announced President Richard C. Levin.The Dean begins his second five-year term July 1.“Dean Storr is valued for his refreshing and exciting vision for the school and for opening the...
In 1968, when Su Wei left his family behind and voluntarily joined the millions of urban youth who were being sent by Chinese leader Mao Zedong into the countryside to work the land as part of a “re-education” movement, his spirit was nearly broken.
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Robert Storr has been reappointed as dean of the Yale School of Art, announced President Richard C. Levin.The Dean begins his second five-year term July 1.“Dean Storr is valued for his refreshing and exciting vision for the school and for opening the...
In two Town Hall meetings that together drew more than 1,000 faculty and staff members, President Richard C. Levin expressed appreciation for their cooperation and support during two rounds of “painful” budget cuts and spoke of how their dedication to the...
This statue of Torosaurus standing outside the Yale Peabody Museum) “likely never experienced weather” like this week’s ice storm during the globally warm climates of the Cretaceous Era, notes David A.D. Evans, professor of geology and geophysics, who...
Elizabeth Alexander, the newly named Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of African American Studies, is a noted poet, essayist, playwright and scholar of African-American poetry, drama and 20th-century literature.She composed and delivered a poem, “Praise Song...
David Bercovici, who was recently appointed the Frederick William Beinecke Professor of Geology and Geophysics, is a specialist on geophysical and geological fluid dynamics and nonlinear scienceHe focuses his research on mantle convection, lithosphere...
Derek E.G. Briggs, the newly appointed G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Geology and Geophysics, is a noted paleontologist and taphonomist as well as director of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History.Briggs primary research interest is the preservation...
Frank C. Keil, who has been appointed the Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Psychology, focuses his research on how children and adults make sense of the world, examining such topics as how intuitive explanations and understandings emerge...
James Bundy has been appointed to a third term as dean of the Yale School of Drama, President Richard C. Levin announced on Feb. 7.The dean, who also serves as artistic director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, will begin his third five-year term on July 1...