New Haven is the latest stop on Elspeth Hill’s professional journey. A plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Yale School of Medicine, her career has taken her from the United Kingdom, where she’s from and where she earned her medical degree, to the...
In August 1938, James Joseph “Jimmy” Hines, the Tammany Hall leader of the Eleventh Assembly District of Manhattan, became the subject of a media feeding frenzy. Hines was charged with being a paid protector of the illegal lottery ring operated by mobster...
For centuries, a prevailing theory in philosophy has asserted that at birth the human mind is a blank slate. More recently the same notion has also held sway in the field of neurobiology, where it is commonly held that neural connections are slowly...
Faculty members from more than 30 American colleges and universities will convene in New Haven this month for the inaugural Knowledge for Freedom Faculty Institute conference, a three-day event that will explore strategies for engaging high school...