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...
Christina S. Kraus, the newly appointed Thomas A. Thacher Professor of Latin, has research interests in ancient narrative (especially historiography and tragedy), Latin prose style and the theory and practice of commentaries.She is the co-editor of “...
November 24 is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. The seminal work continues to change how we look at the world, with scientists daily uncovering new examples of how natural selection shapes life. Many...
The Yale Baroque Opera Project (YBOP) will present its fifth biannual fully-staged production, “Le tre Stagioni” (“The Three Seasons”), a pastiche of scenes from operatic and oratorio works by George Frideric Handel (1685–1759), on December 5 and 6 at...
A protein found in the saliva of ticks helps protect mice from developing Lyme disease, Yale researchers have discovered. The findings, published in the November 19 issue of Cell Host & Microbe, may spur development of a new vaccine against infection...
To ensure efficient and continuous access to the major federally funded student loan programs used by students, Yale will convert from the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) program, funded by private lenders, to the Federal Direct Loan (DL) program...