Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, will chair the fourth meeting of the Global Colloquium of University Presidents on January 14-15. The meeting will take place on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.The Global...
A team of Yale School of Medicine (YSM) and Yale-New Haven Hospital (YNHH) physicians and medical professionals trained in disaster response left this morning for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. In addition to providing trauma and surgical expertise, the...
Julia Adams, professor of sociology and professor in international and area studies, has been named the first Joseph C. Fox Director of the Fox International Fellowship.The appointment was announced by Ian Shapiro, the Henry R. Luce Director at the...
Seven faculty members will be establishing new health research collaborations around the world as the first recipients of travel awards from Yale’s Global Health Initiative (GHI).The Global Health Faculty Travel Awards are funded by a Global Health...
A business networking event titled “Japan’s New Administration and the Future of Japan-U.S. Relations” will be held on Thursday, Feb. 25, at Yale.The event is co-sponsored by the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce and the Programs in International...
Sir Nigel Sheinwald KCMG, British Ambassador to the U.S., will deliver a lecture at Yale titled “Afghanistan and Pakistan: The New Political Strategy.” The talk will take place at 3:15 p.m. on February 23 in the Sterling Library Lecture Hall, 128 Wall...
The Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Yale will host a talk by Andrew M. Mwenda, founding managing editor of Uganda’s The Independent, on Tuesday, March 2.Mwenda’s lecture, titled “Paved with Good Intentions: Africa and the Curse of Foreign Aid,” will...
To set in motion a fruitful dialogue between the Muslim world and the United States — which President Barack Obama promoted at an address at Cairo University last June — Yale Divinity School hosted a planning meeting on Feb. 22-23 for a summit to be held...
Robert I. White, Jr., M.D. of Yale University will travel to Buenos Aires to pave the way for the first center in Latin America to treat a rare but potentially fatal vascular disorder known as Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia (HHT). White is...
As students head out for ports-of-call far and near during spring break, it’s a good time to look back at a group of globetrotting Yale graduate and professional students, who spent ten days in China earlier this year immersing themselves in the nation’s...