Yale University announces the selection of 15 Yale World Fellows for 2010. The Yale World Fellows Program is the University’s signature global leadership development initiative and a core element of Yale’s ongoing commitment to internationalization. Each...
Gareth Evans, Co-Chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament (ICNND), will present a lecture titled “Eliminating Nuclear Threats” on April 27 at 1:00 p.m.The talk, which is free and open to the public, will take...
On April 23, 2010, a discussion at Yale University will mark the launch of the Climate Civics Institute (CCI), a collaborative global policy platform co-founded by Yale World Fellows Unmesh Brahme and Tim Jarvis. CCI will deliver policy mechanisms to...
Last summer, Yale School of Nursing doctoral student Rose Nanyonga Clarke retraced a 32-mile journey on foot that she had made 20 years before at age 17, when she was disowned by her family and scorned by her village in Uganda for refusing to participate...
The democratization of Turkey will be the topic of a lecture at Yale by Turkish news anchor Banu Güven, who will visit Yale as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. Güven’s talk, “Turkey: A ‘One Of A Kind’ Democracy and its Challenges,” will take place at 4 p.m...
On March 13, the Yale School of Medicine sent its second medical relief team to Haiti. The focus this time was less on emergency trauma such as crush injuries, and more on the long-term medical problems that continue to plague Haiti in the aftermath of...
Applications are now being accepted for the fall 2010 “Faith and Globalization” seminar, co-taught by Yale Professor Miroslav Volf and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.Applications for the seminar are now available online at www.yale.edu/sis/sfg....
James A. Levinsohn, newly appointed as the inaugural Charles W. Goodyear Professor in Global Affairs, is a specialist on international economics and economic development whose projects have included studying the impact of HIV/AIDS on unemployment in South...
When Yale physician Dr. David M. Walker (YC ‘96) arrived in Haiti three weeks after the earthquake as part of a medical relief team, he and his colleagues did not find scores of critically injured individuals needing life-saving care.What they did find...
As students head out for ports-of-call far and near during spring break, it’s a good time to look back at a group of globetrotting Yale graduate and professional students, who spent ten days in China earlier this year immersing themselves in the nation’s...