Rulon S. Wells III, professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy, died on May 3 in Salt Lake City at the age of 90.Wells taught at the institution for over 44 years, offering courses in logic, philosophy of language and symbolism, history of...
Alastair Minnis, the newly named Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, is a scholar of Chaucer and his intellectual milieu, late-medieval literature, medieval literary theory, the medieval study of the Bible and classical literature (including...
Robert J. Shiller, newly designated as the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, specializes in the areas of financial markets, financial innovation, behavioral economics, macroeconomics, real estate, statistical methods and on public attitudes, opinions...
More than 150 Muslim and Christian leaders, including some of the world’s most eminent scholars and clerics, will gather at Yale University July 28 –31 to promote understanding between the two faiths, whose members comprise more than half the world’s...
Larry Samuelson, newly named as the inaugural A. Douglas Melamed Professor of Economics, focuses his research and teaching on microeconomic theory, game theory, repeated games and the evolutionary foundations of economic behavior.He is the author of “The...
Ebonya L. Washington, the newly designated Henry Kohn Assistant Professor of Economics, specializes in public finance and political economy.Washington teaches courses in both economics and political science. Her research interests focus on the interplay...
President Richard C. Levin joined former British Prime Minister Tony Blair at the announcement today of the launch of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation. As part of the Foundation’s efforts, Blair said he would lead a seminar at Yale beginning in the fall.“...
Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science, has been named to the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States. He joins other notable inductees in the Class of 2008 such as filmmaker Martin Scorsese, New...
Nine faculty members and a Yale trustee will be inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS), one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious honorary societies and independent policy research centers. They are among 190 new fellows and...
The Yale Law School Information Society Project and the Yale Law and Media Project will co-host “Technology Policy ’08,” the 18th annual Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference, May 20 through 23 at the Omni Hotel in New Haven. The conference is open to...