President Richard C. Levin today announced that Dr. Henry A. Kissinger will donate his papers to Yale University. The collection, which consists of approximately one million documents and objects covering Dr. Kissinger’s extraordinary life as a diplomat,...
Professor Richard Prum, an evolutionary biologist at Yale and a self-described “lifelong bird enthusiast,” discussed how the birds of paradise of Papua New Guinea developed their dazzling feathers and elaborate mating dances in a segment shown on June 13...
Yale Law School Professor Emeritus Charles Elias (“Eli”) Clark ’43 B.A., ’47 J.D., ’58 M.F.A., died on June 11, at his home in Hamden, Connecticut. He was 89.A specialist in the field of law pertaining to the transfer of family wealth, Clark was the...
Former members of the El Salvadoran military, including several members of the High Command, were recently indicted their roles in the 1989 massacre of six Jesuit priests and two women during El Salvador’s civil war — thanks in good part to work by...
The true story of a youngster accused of witchcraft, three teenagers who decide to become single mothers together and the collision of faith and science — these are the themes of the three original works that will be honed for the stage at workshops at...
Forty-nine members of Yale Medical Group (YMG), the clinical practice of the faculty of Yale School of Medicine, are included in New York Magazine’s list of Best Doctors for 2011, far outnumbering any other practice or hospital in Connecticut. The list is...
Andrew J. Casson, the newly appointed Philip Schuyler Beebe Professor of Mathematics, is an expert on geometric topology who has made influential mathematical discoveries.Casson has worked in high-dimensional manifold topology and 3- and 4-dimensional...
Jennifer Herdt, who was recently named the Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics, specializes in the history of moral thought since the 17th century, classical and contemporary virtue ethics, and contemporary Protestant social ethics and...
A film about two CIA agents — one of them a Yale alumnus — who spent two decades as prisoners of war in China, was shown on June 3 during the 60th reunion of the Class of 1951 on campus.Titled “Extraordinary Fidelity,” the hour-long film blends...
In April, the Yale School of Medicine hosted some of the world’s preeminent scientists in a two-day gathering, to help celebrate the start of the school’s third century.Seven Nobel laureates were among the 15 scientists who spoke about the critical issues...