Benjamin Polak, who has been named the first William C. Brainard Professor of Economics, is an expert on decision theory, game theory and economic history.The professorship was established by friends and colleagues of Yale economist William C. Brainard...
Joseph H. Britton, newly designated as the inaugural J.L. Caldwell McFaddin and Rosine B. McFaddin Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Pastoral Theology, is the dean of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and a scholar on piety as the synthesis of religious...
Yale College has received a $1 million gift from an anonymous donor in honor of Sharon Oster, Dean and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Yale School of Management.The gift will establish the Sharon Oster Resource Fund...
The Reverend Ian B. Oliver will be installed as pastor of the University Church in a special service of worship on November 16.The public is invited to attend the service, at 2:30 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets. Installation is...
Akhil Reed Amar, newly designated as Sterling Professor of Law, is a scholar of constitutional law, the Bill of Rights and criminal procedure.Amar is a co-editor of a leading law casebook, “Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking,” and is the author of...
Heather Kristin Gerken, the inaugural J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, is one of the country’s leading experts on voting rights and election law, the role of groups in the democratic process and the relationship between diversity and democracy.Gerken is...
Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, will deliver the 2008 Tanner Lectures on Human Values on October 29 and 30, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.His talks — “The Epistemology of Physics and Scientific Revolutions” on October 29 and “...
Theodore C. Sorensen, former special counsel, speechwriter and adviser to President John F. Kennedy, will speak at Yale University on November 12, 4:30 p.m., in the Levinson Auditorium of Yale Law School as a Chubb Fellow. The talk is free and open to the...
The Yale Babylonian Collection is participating in an international research project that is examining human interaction with the environment in Mesopotamia, specifically salinization in Umma, an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia.Max Bichler from the...
Drew Gilpin Faust, president of Harvard University, longtime scholar of the American South, and author of “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War” (Knopf, 2008), will talk about her book at 4:30 p.m. on October 29, at Luce Hall...