Frances Rosenbluth, the Damon Wells Professor of International Politics, has been named the new deputy provost for faculty development, effective July 1, announced Provost Peter Salovey.A comparative political economist with a special interest in Japan,...
Peter Cresswell, the newly designated Eugene Higgins Professor of Immunobiology, has spent most of his career unraveling some of the mysteries of the human immune system.Creswell’s research focuses on the molecular mechanisms of antigen processing, in...
Dr. David J. Leffell, newly designated as the David Paige Smith Professor of Dermatology, is a renowned specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of melanoma and other skin cancers and in surgical treatment using the Mohs micrographic technique.His...
Dr. Gerald I. Shulman, who has been named the inaugural George R. Cowgill Professor of Physiological Chemistry, is an internationally known diabetes researcher.He focuses his studies on understanding the cellular mechanisms of insulin resistance, the role...
Isidore Dyen, an emeritus professor of linguistics at Yale who is known for his seminal work on Austronesian languages and Proto-Austronesian (the ancestral language of languages from Indonesia to Madagascar and across the Pacific Ocean), died on Dec. 14....
A youth talent show and other activities designed entirely by and for youths will be part of the mix this year, when the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History hosts its 13th annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday. The two-day program —...
NO BOUNDARIES: A Series of Global Performances presented by the Yale Repertory Theatre and the World Performance Project at Yale, continues its 2008-2009 season with “the break/s: a mixtape for stage,” a multimedia performance exploring the hip-hop...
The Yale School of Architecture will gather an international roster of scholars, critics and architects under the roof of the newly renovated Paul Rudolph Hall Friday-Saturday, Jan. 23-24, to take a fresh look at the life and legacy of its legendary...
The names of some Nobel Prize-winning physicists are well known, even outside the scientific community — such as Einstein, whose name has became synonymous with genius; Heisenberg, who had a fundamental principle of quantum mechanics named after him; or...
An exhibition highlighting a unique collection of Arabic cinema posters and another that explores the relationship between text and image in art and literature are on view in Sterling Memorial Library.“Arabic Cinema Posters,” on display in the Memorabilia...