Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition will hold a public forum on October 3 to commemorate the 200th birthdays of Nat Turner and John Brown, two of America’s most controversial fighters against slavery. Chaired...
Bishop Martin Lind of Linkoping, Sweden, and Manas Buthelezi, lately retired bishop of the Central Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of South Africa, will be featured guests at a two-day colloquium at the Yale Divinity School on October 23-24....
A symposium tracing the evolution of medical ethics over the past three decades and predicting future developments will be held at Yale University October 6. The event from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. is sponsored by the Institution for Social and Policy...
Dean James Gustave Speth of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies has been named to a new international committee on sustainable development. Speth was invited to join the Coordinating Committee for the Transition to Sustainability by...
Hundreds of alumnae from around the globe will converge on Yale University Oct. 5-8 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES). F&ES is the oldest, continuous forestry school in the country....
Yale will hold a campus-wide open house for the public on Saturday, October 21 to launch the celebration of the University’s 300th birthday. “We invite all our neighbors and friends to spend the day exploring our campus and all it has to offer,”...
The Yale Physics Department’s Wright Nuclear Structure Laboratory will host the 33rd meeting of the Symposium of Northeastern Accelerator Personnel October 9-12. The objective of the symposium is to assemble a wide spectrum of engineers, physicists and...
In her recently published “Harems of the Mind,” Yale professor Ruth Bernard Yeazell examines how a mysterious Middle Eastern institution captivated the Western imagination and put its mark on European culture. From the defeat of the Ottomans by the...
A national survey of 3,000 adults on what they know about child development shows serious gaps in basic knowledge, says a Yale psychiatrist and president of a group that acted as the chief scientific collaborator on the survey. Kyle Pruett, M.D., a...
Melasyn(tm), a water soluble, synthetic melanin that was first developed as a skin cancer preventative by Yale School of Medicine researcher, John Pawelek and his colleagues, has now hit the national cosmetics market as the key ingredient in a make-up...