In the days after the 9/11 attacks, makeshift memorials began appearing around New York City, notes 2011 Divinity School graduate Judith Dupré in an essay in America.“Unlike permanent monuments that are built to outlast the people who built them,...
“[T]he largest effect of 9/11 upon America is that it became distracted,” writes Professor Paul Kennedy, director of International Security Studies, in an op-ed in Today online titled “An America adrift.”“In the first place,” he avers, “it was distracted...
The National Science Foundation has awarded a $13 million grant to Yale University and Southern Connecticut State University to establish a Center of Excellence for Materials Research and Innovation also known as a Materials Research Science and...
Hugh McBirney Stimson, a long-time professor of Chinese linguistics and modern Chinese who also was a prominent authority on Tang dynasty poetry, died earlier this year (on Jan. 24) in Hamden, Connecticut, at the age of 79.Stimson earned his B.A. in 1953...
Yale students, faculty, staff and friends will hit the road on Saturday, Sept. 10, to raise money for cancer research and treatment.The first annual Closer to Free Bike Ride will begin and end in New Haven. There are three route options of 25 miles, 65...
Beginning in the fall of 2012, the Yale University School of Nursing (YSN) will offer a new degree: the Doctor of Nursing Practice (D.N.P.).“Not only is the D.N.P. program essential to align YSN’s academic initiatives with national trends and growing...
An multimedia exhibition highlighting some of the path-breaking and most influential legal scholarship of Yale faculty members will be on view in the Law School’s Lillian Goldman Law Library throughout the fall term.“From Legal Pads to iPads: An...
A play about a violent crime that forever linked the lives of four small-town residents is the 2011 winner of the Yale Drama Series.Shannon Murdoch’s “New Light Shine” is “raw, haunting, richly poetic and deeply emotional,” says judge John Guare.Jackson...
A 60-foot mural painted by the late American Expressionist artist Gregory Etchison in honor of victims of the 9/11 tragedy is on display at Yale Divinity School (YDS) this month.According to the organizers of the display, “The mural, titled ‘The Day,’...