Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, will give the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture in International Studies at Yale on April 9.His talk, titled “A Historically Relevant Foreign Policy,” will be held at 4 p.m...
Two-year-olds with autism lack an important building block of social interaction that prompts newborn babies to pay attention to other people. Instead, these children pay attention to physical relationships between movement and sound and miss critical...
Thierry Emonet was trained as an astrophysicist, but this winter he found himself teaching a Yale class full of biology, computer science, engineering and math students who want to learn how to predict the behavior of living organisms.The life sciences...
Noted China Central Television (CCTV) news anchor and commentator Bai Yansong will visit the campus as a Poynter Fellow on Tuesday, March 31.Bai will discuss “American Dream — Chinese Dream: The Future of U.S./China Relations Under the Obama...
Playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Yale Drama Series Award for her play about a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who was tortured.The prize includes a $10,000 award from the David C. Horn Foundation, along with a...
John Middleton, professor emeritus of anthropology and an internationally renowned Africanist scholar, died on Feb. 27 after a brief hospitalization. He was 87 years old.Middleton’s field work and major ethnographic writings on African cultures forged new...
Stephen A. Kezerian, former director of the Yale University News Bureau, died on March 9, in Berkeley, California, of natural causes at age 87.Kezerian was the press and public information officer for Yale for 37 years. He retired in 1985, and was science...
With his decision to serve as legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State, Yale Law School dean Harold Hongju Koh continues a tradition of commitment to government or public service that has distinguished the University for three centuries. (See related...
There will be a memorial service on Sunday, April 5, for Dr. Jay Katz, the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor Emeritus of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry, who died on Nov. 17 at age 86.The service will take place at 1 p.m. in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium...
Yale students, faculty and staff will have the opportunity to meet new friends as they team up to make a difference in the New Haven community as part of Yale Day of Service on Saturday, March 28.Yale teams will work for city organizations and agencies...