Yale University Professor Elizabeth Alexander will speak about her experience writing and presenting a poem at the inauguration of President Barack Obama, at a Master’s Tea on Thursday, January 29, at 4 p.m. in Ezra Stiles College, 19 Tower Parkway. The...
John Mackey, founder and CEO of the supermarket chain Whole Foods, will be making two public addresses at Yale on February 10.At 11:45 a.m., he will discuss “Conscious Capitalism” in the General Motors Room of Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Ave. At 4:30 p.m...
Yale Law School and its Arthur Liman Public Interest Program will host a major colloquium titled “Forty Years of Clinical Education at Yale: Generating Rights, Remedies and Legal Services,” on March 5 and 6 in the Sterling Law Buildings, 127 Wall St....
His students are sitting in a Yale classroom in New Haven in the 21st century, but John Carlson wants to transport them back to England in the mid-1960s. He wants them to struggle alongside the scientists back then who were trying to identify the agent...
On a bright, cold day, standing before a sea of people that stretched to the horizon and witnessed by millions more watching on televisions around the world, Yale Professor Elizabeth Alexander stepped up to the microphone and presented a gift of words to...
A new Yale gallery that will be devoted to bringing examples of contemporary art from around the world to New Haven formally opened on Jan. 26 with the exhibition “Shifting Shapes - Unstable Signs,” featuring recent work in diverse media by artists from...
Robert Heimer, a professor in the Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases in the Yale School of Public Health, will work and lecture in Russia with support from a 2009 Fulbright Scholarship.Designed to promote “mutual understanding between the...
Jon Butler will continue to serve as dean of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences through June 30, 2010, a year past the end of his current appointment, announced President Richard C. Levin.The extension of Butler’s term will “provide continuity...
Paul R. Hudak, professor of computer science, will become the new master of Saybrook College on July 1, President Richard C. Levin has announced.His wife, Cathy Van Dyke SOM ‘86, currently mentor coordinator for the New Haven Public Schools Science Fair...
Robert J. Schoelkopf, newly named as the inaugural William A. Norton Professor of Applied Physics and Physics, is noted for his research on quantum transport, single-electron devices and charge dynamics in nanostructures.When he won the American Physical...