Sharon Begley, Newsweek senior editor and science columnist, spoke at the Whitney Humanities Center about the difficulties of explaining science to people who reject rational thought in favor of unsubstantiated emotion and opinion.Her Nov. 12 talk, “...
“Art is anything you can get away with,” Andy Warhol, one of the leading figures of the Pop art movement, once famously contended.A musical that is based loosely (very loosely) on a real incident in Warhol’s life — an assassination attempt — will make...
Guillermo Ortiz, the governor of the Central Bank of Mexico, and Tommasso Padoa-Schioppa, Italy’s former minister of economy and finance, were among the experts who came together Nov. 12 and 13 for a conference titled “Financial Globalization: Culprit,...
An American flag was flown over the Balad Air Base in Iraq for one day last April as a tribute to the Yale Police Department (YPD), which had sent a “care package” for the troops there.On Veterans Day, that same flag was presented to the YPD by a member...
The special section aimed at Yale staff members this month features a story about University employees sharing their Thanksgiving feasts with Yale students from around the world.For more news from working@yale, visit http://www.yale.edu/working.DOWNLOAD...
Yale celebrated Veterans Day on Nov. 11 with a ceremony on Hewitt Quadrangle that included remarks by members of the campus community who served in the armed forces. The following are excerpts from the speech by Michael F. Breen, a third-year law student...
Rolena Adorno, the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, has been appointed to the National Council on the Humanities, part of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).Adorno was nominated...
By virtue of being at Yale, two Kenyan siblings who have seen each other only infrequently over the past decade can now enjoy sharing some time together.Their reunion, of sorts, happens to be a sheer coincidence. George Amulele, a lab manager in the...
Alice Kaplan, newly named as the John M. Musser Professor of French, is an award-winning author whose research interests include World War II and post-war France, literature and law, biography and autobiography, and French cultural studies.Kaplan is...
Harold Hongju Koh, recently designated as the inaugural Martin R. Flug ‘55 Professor of International Law, is a leading expert on public and private international law, national security law and human rights.Koh is currently on leave while serving as legal...