An estimated 1,000 high school students from seven Connecticut cities gathered in Woolsey Hall on May 6 for a rap concert with the message of non-violence and respect. The event, titled “Rap for Justice,” included performances by the Yale Concert Band,...
Over 250 middle school students from New Haven and West Haven gathered in Davies Auditorium on May 1 to show just how calculating they can be.It was not their deviousness, but their mathematical skills, that the students demonstrated at the third annual...
The Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) has presented its first Gibbs Distinguished Staff Awards to four individuals whose “contributions and actions consistently elevate the operations, performance and morale of the school,...
The comics — that 20th-century art form found in newspapers, books, journals and graphic novels — are celebrated in a new exhibition at the Sterling Memorial Library.Titled “Franco-Belgian Comics,” the exhibit looks at one of the longest and strongest of...
Depictions of the British reactions to the French Revolution are on view in a new exhibition at Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut.The show — titled “‘French Liberty. British Slavery.’ British Responses to the French Revolution” —...
Edwin McClellan, Sterling Professor Emeritus of East Asian Language and Literature, whose translation of Natsume Soseki’s “Kokoro” helped make its Japanese author known in the West, died in Hamden, Connecticut on April 27. The cause was lung cancer. There...
The Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management (SOM) announced the creation of an Accelerated Integrated J.D.-M.B.A. program that will enable students to earn both degrees in three years. The new combined program in law and business is unique in...
Experts will discuss and give demonstrations of x-ray diffraction (XRD), an important tool being used to analyze all kinds of matter — from fluids to powders and crystals — at a symposium taking place on Friday, May 29.The inaugural “Yale-Rigaku Symposium...
William L. Jorgensen, newly appointed as a Sterling Professor of Chemistry, has been at the forefront of computational chemistry and molecular design.A Sterling Professorship is one of the University’s highest faculty honors.His research in organic,...
The following are among the most recent additions to the selection of netcasts on Yale iTunes U.Found: Missing link in Origin of Scorpion ClawsDerek Briggs, director of Yale’s Peabody Museum of Natural History and the William Frederick Beinicke Professor...