Helping University Chaplain Sharon Kugler ensure that the Yale campus is a place where religious diversity is respected and celebrated (read story) are four individuals who represent various faith traditions. The Yale Daily Bulletin asked them to describe...
Five alumni have been selected by the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) to receive its highest award, the Yale Medal.This year’s recipients are J. Kenneth Brody ‘44, ‘49 LL.B., Susanna E. Krentz ‘80, James Leitner ‘75, Bobbi Mark ‘76 and Ambassador Joseph...
Donna Diers, a former dean at Yale School of Nursing (YSN), has been named a 2010 “Living Legend” by the American Academy of Nursing (AAN).The AAN’s highest recognition, the Living Legend designation is awarded to distinguished leaders in the nursing...
Randy Olson, a marine biologist-turned-filmmaker who examines scientific topics with a comedic flair, will visit the campus as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism on Wednesday, Sept. 29.Olson will introduce and screen his 2008 mocumentary/documentary/reality...
One message that University Chaplain Sharon Kugler imparts to the many students with whom she crosses paths is that sometimes finding answers is not as important as raising questions.“I find today’s students to be very deep thinkers,” explains Kugler. “...
This summer, a group of New Haven public school students traded long, lazy days for weeks of intensive music study as the inaugural fellows at the Morse Summer Music Academy at the Yale School of Music.Nominated by New Haven Public School teachers and...
Ever since audiences heard Goldfinger utter the famous line, “No, Mr. Bond; I expect you to die,” as a laser beam inched its way toward James Bond and threatened to cut him in half, lasers have been thought of as white-hot beams of intensely focused...
The investigative reporter Nick Reding will read from and discuss his book “Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town” on October 7, as part of Yale College’s series of Francis Conversations with Writers and Editors.Co-sponsored by the...
Tomorrow’s global citizens are honing their leadership skills today at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at the MacMillan Center, which celebrated its official opening Sept. 19-20. (See related story.)The institute is working to internationalize...
Dr. Joel Gelernter, the newly named Foundations’ Fund Professor of Psychiatry, focuses his research on the genetics of psychiatric illness.The director of the Division of Human Genetics in the Department of Psychiatry, Gelernter seeks to identify genes...