Yale economist tapped to help Iceland’s economySigridur Benediktsdottir, lecturer in economics, was appointed by the Icelandic government to a special Investigation Commission last month.The commission’s mandate is to investigate the events leading to,...
How many arms does a spiral galaxy have? Can you spot a galaxy with a central “peanut” bulge? Or how about a galactic merger? Answers to these and other strange questions will be provided by ordinary web users in an online citizen science project called...
President Richard C. Levin and faculty colleagues will participate in a panel discussion Tuesday, Feb. 17, on the global financial crisis.Organized by the Yale College Council and the Yale Student Investment Group, the free public panel, “Understanding...
Yale University Library has received a $5 million dollar gift from Arcadia, a United Kingdom-based grant-making fund established in 2001, to make the library’s important collections of international materials more available through cataloguing and...
Talks, performances, a dinner featuring Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts and other special events celebrating and exploring African-American identity, culture and heritage will be among the Yale events marking February as Black History Month.This...
Members of the Yale community will be among the scholars, authors, scientists, community activists, musical performers and chefs who will share their expertise this month at festive dinners to benefit Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership (...
A memorial concert on Sunday, Feb. 22, will honor the late Yale teacher, conductor and violist Jesse Levine.The event, which will feature spoken tributes and performances by colleagues and students, will take place at 4 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of...
Sandwich-making in a Yale dining hall may not qualify to most people as an art, but staff member Pamela Dear brings a painterly eye to the task.A desk attendant and pantry worker in the Branford/Saybrook College dining hall, Dear is also a painter and...
Robert J. Shiller, the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University, has been awarded the Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics 2009.The biennial prize honors an internationally renowned economic researcher whose work has significantly...
Curating contemporary art in an age of globalization will be the focus of a panel being presented in conjunction with the exhibition “Shifting Shapes—Unstable Signs,” the inaugural exhibition in the new Yale School of Art Gallery. Robert Storr, dean of...