Yale University President Richard C. Levin has named Psychology Professor Peter Salovey as the next dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, effective immediately. Salovey, the Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology and chair of the Psychology...
A celebration of the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will take place on the Yale campus beginning on January 15, King’s birthday, and concluding on January 20, the national holiday observed in his honor. King was awarded an...
Regular exercise, such as brisk walking, reduces total and intra-abdominal body fat among overweight and obese postmenopausal women, a study by a Yale researcher has found. “Previously sedentary postmenopausal women who exercised for more than 195...
Yale College senior Margaret Sarah Ebert is one of 11 students nationwide who were selected for a Churchill Scholarship to study at Cambridge University next year. Ebert is majoring in molecular, cellular and developmental biology (MCDB) with a focus...
A film and lecture series on globalization and the environment that will explore the differences in the way people in the northern and southern hemispheres view conservation and the appropriate way to manage natural resources and governance will...
Yale Law School will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion on January 31 with a program titled “Roe v. Wade: Thirty Years Later,” in Room 127, Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, 10:30 a.m. to 5:30...
Renovations of the Pierpont House are complete and the Yale Visitor Center, temporarily housed in Dwight Hall on Old Campus, has returned to its home at 149 Elm Street, where it recently opened its doors to the public once again. The house, built in...
“Machu Picchu: Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas,” the largest exhibition on the Incas ever assembled in the United States, will open at the Peabody Museum January 26. The exhibit is one of the largest undertakings in the museum’s history. It is in...
“Matter: The Work of Tod Williams and Billie Tsien” is the exhibition to be featured at the Yale School of Architecture gallery from February 17 to May 4. The first major exhibition of work by the acclaimed design team since their 1990 show, “...
At its meeting in Chicago last week, the American Historical Association (AHA) awarded the J. Russell Major Prize to Yale professor Robert Harms for his book, “The Diligent: A Voyage Through the Worlds of the Slave Trade.” The J. Russell Major...