Two Yale researchers were among 81 recipients of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grants to explore bold and largely unproven ways to improve health in developing countries. The Yale recipients are David Spiegel, assistant professor of chemistry,...
An aquarium tank filled with items that biodegrade and some that do not, simple submarines connected to 12-foot cables and looping video interviews of Yale maritime researchers highlight an exhibit by and for high school students on view through June 15...
The global economic crisis may have many of Yale’s newest alumni feeling apprehension about their futures, but they were nothing but high-spirited as they gathered for campus graduation celebrations.During the Commencement ceremony on the Old Campus on...
“Global Identities/Local Heroes” is the theme of this year’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas, running June 13-27.“Human beings need each other,’” says Mary Lou Aleskie, executive director of the festival. “Our annual gathering of hearts and...
While discussions are now underway about how best to use West Campus in the long term (see related story), some of the complex’s facilities are now available for use by the Yale community.Conference centerThis past year over 60 events were held in the...
Music from around the globe will be featured in a benefit concert being held at Yale as part of “The Art of Survival,” a program marking the annual World Refugee Day commemoration, established by the United Nations to raise public consciousness about the...
Yale’s Peabody Museum is taking advantage of the expansive woods, wetlands and nature trails on the 136-acre West Campus by offering two week-long summer day camps based there.“Critters Camp” will run Aug. 17-21. Designed for up to 24 students entering...
Jacob S. Hacker, who will return to teaching at Yale as the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science, is an expert on the politics and character of U.S. social policy and on American political institutions.Hacker, who taught from 2002 to 2007 at...
The Yale World Fellows Program, Yale University’s signature global leadership development initiative, and Egypt’s International Economic Forum will sponsor a high-profile conference entitled “The Middle East in Transition: Leadership in Challenging Times...
Faculty appointmentPresident Richard C. Levin announced the appointment of William L. Jorgensen, Sterling Professor of Chemistry, as the divisional director for the physical sciences and engineering. Jorgensen’s term will be for three years, effective...