Irshad Manji, the best-selling author of “The Trouble with Islam Today,” will give a talk at Yale’s Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., today, April 11, at 4:30 p.m. Titled “From Jihad to Itjihad,” the talk is sponsored by the Yale International Securities...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin and New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. will present the 27th Annual Yale University Seton Elm and Ivy Awards on Wednesday, April 12, noon to 2 p.m., at a luncheon in the Presidents Room of Woolsey Hall.The...
The Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale University will mark the 30th anniversary of New Haven’s Holocaust Memorial with a program on April 26 at 4 p.m. at 80 Wall St. Organized by the New Haven Oral History Project in conjunction with the Greater New...
The music and dance of Bali may call you to the Yale campus on April 17–18, when five professional Balinese performers present lecture demonstrations, a workshop on Balinese rhythm and movement and two live performances. The event, titled “Power and...
Joel Gelernter, M.D. Based on data obtained from one of the largest family sets of its kind, Yale School of Medicine researchers have identified a genetic linkage for dependence on drugs such as heroin, morphine and oxycontin.The lead...
Girls In Engineering 2006 The Faculty of Engineering at Yale will host a “Girls in Engineering Day” on Tuesday, April 11 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Dunham Laboratory at 10 Hillhouse Ave.Eighty middle-school students and their...
Yale Law School’s Information Society Project, led by professors Jack Balkin and Yochai Benkler, is sponsoring a conference on the future of access to knowledge, “A2K,” April 21–23, at Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. American and international policy makers...
Thomas Kirk, commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, will receive the first Research Advocacy Award from the Department of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine on Saturday, April 8.The award recognizes Kirk’s...
The inaugural Gilbert H. Glaser, M.D., Lecture will be held at Yale School of Medicine May 15 in honor of Gilbert H. Glaser, M.D., professor emeritus at Yale who is widely acknowledged as one of the founders of neurology.The Gilbert H. Glaser, M.D., Fund...
Scott Strobel The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has named Scott Strobel, professor and newly appointed chair of the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale as one of its new HHMI Professors chosen for their...