A new interdisciplinary program at Yale dedicated to advancing the study of American and English democratic institutions at their roots will launch today.Called The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (YCRI), the initiative is a...
New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof will talk at Yale about his new book, “Half the Sky: From Oppression to Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” on Tuesday, April 5.His lecture, which is free and open to the public,...
Hilary P. Blumberg, associate professor of psychiatry and the director of the Mood Disorders Research Program at Yale has been awarded a $3.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to expand her research on bipolar disorder.Blumberg’s...
Manhattan’s District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. (Yale College Class of ‘77) will give a public talk at Yale on March 30, at 7 p.m., in Room 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street.In his talk, titled “Leadership, Law and Public Service Today,” Vance...
Sean Faircloth, Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America, will deliver a public address on American humanism at Yale on Sunday, April 3.Titled, “One Nation Under the Constitution: A Vision of a Secular America,” the free talk takes place at...
Liberty Media and Liberty Global Chairman John Malone, Yale College Class of 1963, has made a gift of $50 million to Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) to endow ten new professorships, President Richard C. Levin announced today. The...
Jo Handelsman, the newly appointed Frederick Phineas Rose Professor of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, is noted for her research on the diversity in microbial communities and their role in infectious disease, as well as for her efforts to...
Competition in college basketball bears a remarkable similarity to life and death in the wild, according to a Yale study published March 9 in the journal PLoS ONE.The Yale researchers found that a few college basketball teams win many games and most win a...
Gary W. Brudvig, the newly designated Benjamin Silliman Professor of Chemistry, is the project leader of a team of Yale chemists and other scientists, who, under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy, are hoping to improve the efficiency of solar-...
Rachel Maddow, political analyst and host of the critically acclaimed “Rachel Maddow Show” on MSNBC, will be at the Law School on Monday, March 28, for a Q&A with Amy Kapczynski ‘03 J.D., visiting associate professor at Yale.“A Conversation with...