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...
A new exhibition featuring an array of gemstones, minerals and ores — including one of the finest gemstones ever discovered in North America — opens on Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.The mineral hall is the final stage...
It was 50 years ago that Judge Guido Calabresi graduated from the Yale Law School (YLS), where he later served as dean. To mark that anniversary, the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale recently acquired a significant collection of early Italian law books...
Ania Bleszynski-Jayich, a postdoctoral fellow in physics, is one of five American women who have been honored by L’Oréal U.S.A. with a 2008 Fellowship for Women in Science.Bleszynski-Jayich has developed new techniques for creating the extreme conditions...
Yale University is one of five recipients of a $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to enhance informatics research tools for neuroscientists around the world. The five-year grant administered by the University of California-San Diego...
Yale has been one of United Way of Greater New Haven’s staunchest supporters of Success by 6 (SB6), an initiative that is working to ensure that young children in the area enter kindergarten ready for school.Experts have long known that children’s...
Speth to give public lectureJames Gustave Speth will give a talk at the New Haven Museum next week.Speth is the Carl W. Knobloch Dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of...
Yale University was dismayed by a report that Peru will sue the University to recover archaeological material legally excavated at Machu Picchu by Hiram Bingham III nearly one hundred years ago. Yale officials had a positive informal meeting on September...
Following its renovation and restoration, undertaken with the support of Sid R. Bass, Paul Rudolph’s renowned 1963 Art & Architecture Building was rededicated and officially renamed Paul Rudolph Hall in a two-day celebration of the acclaimed architect...
Growing up, Matthew Eckelman couldn’t stand to see his parents toss a soda can in the garbage. “I was one of those kids who annoyed my parents to no end trying to get them to set up household recycling,” he says. “Now, they’re even more ardent about...