Hoping to spark a revolution in colleges across the nation, students attending a summit at Yale last weekend ratified “The Real Food Declaration,” a document calling for radical changes in campus dining hall practices — favoring foods that are “locally...
Henry A. Kissinger, former Secretary of State and winner of the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize, will participate in a symposium at Yale University on December 6 at 7:45 p.m. in the Levinson Auditorium, Yale Law School, 127 Wall St.The event is free and open to...
Richard Wilbur Richard Wilbur, a preeminent voice of post-World War II American poetry and the nation’s second Poet Laureate, will read from his work at Yale on December 3.Free and open to the public, the...
Dean Karlan Dean Karlan, assistant professor of economics at Yale, has been given a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor for beginning researchers in the...
New Haven, Conn — Eugene Mersereau Waith, a leading scholar of Shakespeare and English Renaissance drama at Yale, died on October 25 in New Haven. He was 94.Waith, who was the Douglas Tracy Smith Professor Emeritus of English, taught at Yale for more...
President Richard C. Levin announced that Yale has received a $100,000 gift from Mrs. Evelyn Y. Davis and the Evelyn Y. Davis Foundation.The gift will be used to establish the Evelyn Y. Davis Fund at the Yale School of Management (SOM) in support of the...
Yale University will hold an interdisciplinary conference titled “Symposium on Reputation Economies in Cyberspace,” December 8 at Yale Law School, 127 Wall St.The day-long program will address such questions as: How do you know you can trust a vendor when...
The plight of migrants who pour into Arizona at the rate of an estimated 4,500 daily is the subject of the documentary “Crossing Arizona,” which will be screened at Yale on November 13 at 7 p.m. in Room 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street.The...
Peruvian theologian Gustavo Gutiérrez, the founder of a Christian movement that promotes political activism in the pursuit of social and economic justice, will visit Yale Nov. 8–10. Gutiérrez, a Dominican priest, holds the John Cardinal O’Hara...
Four distinguished Yale alumni were recently awarded Wilbur Lucius Cross Medals, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences’ highest honor.This year’s honorees were Carol T. Christ, president of Smith College; Paul Friedrich, professor emeritus of...