A Yale University postdoctoral scholar, Joseph Entin, is among the first Visiting Scholars at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Entin’s research, titled “Sensational Modernism: Disfigured Bodies and Aesthetic...
Siberian Yupik, an “international” language common to one people native to two continents, is among 12 languages receiving support this year from the Endangered Language Fund (ELF) of Yale University. The Yupik language, chosen this year by ELF from...
One hundred million Americans should not have to pay income tax, according to Michael J. Graetz, the Justus S. Hotchkiss Professor of Law at Yale University and a former deputy assistant secretary of the Treasury for tax policy. In his essay, “100...
On December 5, U.S. Representative Christopher Shays and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh will be among distinguished panelists at a symposium examining the relationship between news organizations and American security agencies as they...
In his new book, “Predicting Presidential Elections and Other Things” (Stanford University Press), Yale economist Ray C. Fair teaches the basics of social science methodology and provides ways to apply the lessons-from forecasting election outcomes and...
Fred Sander, M.D., will deliver a talk, “On the Universality of the Pygmalion-Galatea Process: From Genesis to Eugenics,” on November 21 at 8 p.m., at Yale’s Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, as part of the Muriel Gardiner Program in...
The Yale Divinity School has received a grant of over $1.5 million from Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment Inc. to participate in a national program called “Sustaining Pastoral Excellence.” The program is a new effort of the Endowment to focus...
Robert Johnston, an associate professor in the history and American studies departments at Yale, has received the President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association for his forthcoming work, “The Radical Middle Class: Populist Democracy...
The architectural firm Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates has donated its Eero Saarinen papers to the Manuscripts and Archives division of the Yale University Library. “We are delighted that it is now possible to transfer these important...
Edward James Olmos, actor, producer, director and social activist, will deliver the initial Chubb Lecture of this term on Friday, November 15, at 4:30 p.m. in the Luce Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Ave. Olmos, who was born and raised in East Los Angeles, is...