Alexander Nemerov, recently named the Vincent J. Scully Professor of the History of Art, teaches and writes about American visual culture from the 18th to the mid-20th century, focusing on painting, photography and film.His book ” ‘MacBeth’ and the Places...
Robert H. Crabtree, the newly designated Conkey P. Whitehead Professor of Chemistry, focuses on the design and synthesis of inorganic molecules and the study of organometallic molecules with unusual structures and properties.Also interested in green...
The Centers for Disease Control has named Yale researcher and alumna Linda C. Degutis as director of the CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.Degutis, who will take up her new post in November, has been serving as research director for...
The effectiveness of a recently passed law that increases regulation of the financial services industry will be the focus of a discussion by three widely respected financial experts on Wednesday, Sept. 15, at Yale.The experts — Wall Street economist...
A new exhibition at the Yale School of Architecture celebrates the 100th birthday of one of its most notable alumni, Richard Kelly (1910-1970), one of the most successful and influential lighting designers in the history of modern architectureTitled “The...
Nineteenth-century composer Alexander Scriabin believed that there is an intrinsic relationship between music and color. So, when he wrote his work “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire” 100 years ago, he wanted the performance to include beams of light that...
The following article appears in Yale Medicine Online:A month in IndonesiaChickens in the house, the price of clinical acumen, and the practice of medicine with few resources.Our patient had a broken back. After falling from a tree three weeks earlier, he...
The following article is from the Yale College website:College welcomes new assistant deansBeginning with the 2010-2011 academic year, two newcomers to the Yale College Dean’s Office will be playing a significant part in the academic and extracurricular...
As the threat of climate change continues to grow and its impacts are likely to dominate headlines around the globe, it’s going to be more important than ever to understand the role of global warming on regional climate, such as monsoon cycles,...
Robert Galambos, a former Yale faculty member who was a pioneer of neuro-electrophysiology and a founder of the branch of science called neurophysiology, died of natural causes on June 18. He was 96 years old.During a research career that spanned more...