Pascal Lamy, the director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), will present a lecture on October 24, hosted by the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.The lecture, titled “The Doha Round: An Agenda for Sustainable Development,” will take...
Rita Dove, the youngest person ever named Poet Laureate of the United States and the first African American to hold that honor, will visit Yale as the next Chubb Fellow on November 7.Dove will give a free, public reading of her poetry at 4:30 p.m. in Room...
Discovery of the largest example of a “small” black hole — one formed from the collapse of a single massive star at the end of its lifetime — has led scientists to revaluate of how black holes come into being, according to a report in Nature.“The theory...
The 10th annual Yale Physics Olympics for secondary school students and their teachers will provide in a full day of physics — rather than physical — challenges beginning at 10 a.m. on Saturday, October 20. Faculty demonstrations and an awards ceremony...
The Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Seminars series will begin its fall schedule with a program on the New Haven start-up company BioRelix Inc. on Wednesday, October 24 from 4 to 5 p.m. in the Anlyan Center Auditorium, Yale School of Medicine, 300 Cedar...
Renowned scholars will attempt to shed light on Shakespeare’s inner thought processes at a panel discussion being held at Yale on October 30.Celebrated literary critic Harold Bloom and Connecticut Poet Laureate John Hollander will be among the notable...
Changing the way students eat, think and talk about food is the focus of “The Real Food Summit” to be held November 3-4 at Yale.Hosted by the Yale Sustainable Food Project (YSFP), the Summit will bring together students from 50 colleges in the Northeast...
“Nothing but the fresh” might be the motto of a new café in the Bass Library, which opens its doors on October 23.The Bass Library Café is a joint project of library staff, Yale University Dining Services and the Yale Sustainable Food Project and is...
An archive at Yale that has collected the personal stories of over 4,000 Holocaust survivors over the past quarter century will mark its milestone anniversary with a conference titled “Testimony Across the Disciplines: 25 Years at Yale” on November 4....
Proteins within the bacteria that cause Legionnaire’s disease can kidnap their own molecular “coffin” and carry it to a safe place within the cell, ensuring their survival, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in Nature Wednesday.“This supposedly...