Ebonya L. Washington, the newly appointed Henry Kohn Associate Professor of Economics, is noted for her research and teaching in the areas of public finance and political economy.Her appointment runs through June 30, 2014.Washington is interested in the...
Global political-economic affairs and the challenges of leadership are the focus of the 5th India-Yale Parliamentary Leadership Program that is being held on the Yale campus June 16-25.Widely recognized for educating leaders in government, business, and...
The stage of the Summer Cabaret at Yale will transform back and forth between Prospero’s fantastical island to a lovesick forest to the battlefields of England as an ensemble of actors performs a rotating repertory of three works by Shakespeare this...
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the first reported AIDS cases in the United States. To mark the occasion, Yale’s Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) asked nearly 50 individuals — including doctors, researchers, health workers and...
The 16th annual International Festival of Arts & Ideas continues through Saturday, June 25. The theme of this year’s celebration is “Across Borders, Beyond Time.”The following are some of the highlights of today’s events. For further information on...
An international research team has shown that the rate of sea-level rise along the U.S. Atlantic coast is greater now than at any time in the past 2,000 years and has shown a consistent link between changes in global mean surface temperature and sea level...
Awards & Honors archived.Faculty appointmentPresident Richard C. Levin announced the appointment of Oswald Schmitz, the Oastler Professor of Population and Community Ecology, and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, as director of the Yale...
A retrospective exhibition celebrating the creative life, work and spirit of the eminent architect and educator Stanley Tigerman will usher in a new term at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery, 180 York Street, on August 22.Titled, “ ‘Ceci n’est pas...
Acclaimed by her peers in the United States as “possibly the greatest woman scientist of the 20th century” and known in her native New Zealand as a “world leader in modern cosmology and one of the most creative and significant theoreticians in modern...
Astronomers have probed into the distant universe and discovered that galaxies display one of two distinct behaviors: they are either awake or asleep, actively forming stars or are not forming any new stars at all.Scientists have known for several years...