The Yale Law School’s ties to Guantánamo date back to the early 1990s, when a group of Yale faculty members and students sued the U.S. government to secure the right to visit their clients, who were among the hundreds of Haitian refugees who were being...
In a presentation that began with a disembodied voice speaking in a darkened room and ended with a recounting of how storytelling saved the life of Queen Scheherazade of “Arabian Nights” fame, renowned radio personality Ira Glass demonstrated the power...
When he was first given an opportunity to see evidence against his client, Yale law student Joseph Pace ‘10 thought he might find what lawyers normally dread: proof of guilt.But in this case, his client — a middle-aged citizen of Algeria named Mammar...
The following are among the most recent additions to the selection of netcasts on Yale iTunes U.Web Users Write “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxies”Yale postdoctoral associate Kevin Schawinski talks about Galaxy Zoo, an online project that calls on...
Some of the brightest colors in nature are created by tiny nanostructures with a structure similar to beer foam or a sponge, according to Yale University researchers.Most colors in nature—from the color of our skin to the green of trees—are produced by...
Yale University researchers received almost $4 million from the state of Connecticut to study ways human embryonic stem cells can be used to treat ailments as diverse as spinal cord injuries, cancer and mental retardation. Five researchers received grants...
Butterflies seem able to both attract mates and ward off predators using different sides of their wings, according to new research by Yale University biologists.Trying to find the balance between these two crucial behaviors is one of nature’s oldest...
The 2009 Paul Mellon Lecture series, titled “Pen and Pencil: Writing and Painting in England, 1750–1850,” will be presented April 14–28, by Duncan Robinson, master of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge and former director of the Yale Center...
Zedillo lectures at PrincetonErnesto Zedillo, director of the Center for the Study of Globalization, presented the Walter E. Edge Lecture at Princeton University on March 5. His talk was titled “Latin America: Two Hundred Years of Solitude.”The lecture...
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, will give the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture in International Studies at Yale on April 9.His talk, titled “A Historically Relevant Foreign Policy,” will be held at 4 p.m...