Rolena Adorno, the Reuben Post Halleck Professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University, has won the Modern Language Association of America’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, awarded annually for an outstanding...
There is a “Yale gang” at the top levels of America’s political circles. Yalies occupy some of the most powerful positions in Washington, including the past three Presidents of the United States of America — George W. Bush, William J. Clinton, and George...
Rather than infer that nanotechnology is safe, members of the public who learn about this novel science tend to become sharply polarized along cultural lines, according to a study conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School in...
Sobering childhood obesity rates in New Haven hit home for Yale baseball star Joshua Cox, who helped organize the first annual Yale Athletic Health Fair and Community Dinner, which takes place on Saturday, December 6. The free event, which aims to educate...
Yale University Professor of History Stuart B. Schwartz has won the first annual Cundill International Prize in History, awarded by McGill University, for his book “All Can Be Saved: Religious Tolerance and Salvation in the Iberian Atlantic World” (Yale...
Stress is an uninvited guest that often mars the holiday season and is a regular companion of national recessions. But stress is more than a simple nuisance. At Yale, researchers are discovering how stress is linked to depression, addiction and even...
“Teaching is about joining students in learning to deal not only with the material but also with their lives” — so says Ansgar Mohnkern, one of nine Yale doctoral students who were awarded this year’s Prize Teaching Fellowships (PTFs).Considering what...
Jack Siedlecki, the Joel E. Smilow ‘54 Head Coach of Football, has announced his retirement as football coach and has accepted a position as assistant director within Yale’s Department of Athletics. Over the past 12 years, Siedlecki has led the Bulldogs...
Members of the Class of 2010 in the Yale School of Management’s (SOM) “M.B.A. Executives for Leadership in Healthcare” program recently donated more than 430 pounds of food to the Connecticut Food Bank.The donation is especially impressive because of the...
A conference on the social and ecological sustainability of biofuels and the impact of their production on the forests of Central and South America — sponsored in part by the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) — will take place...