Gary W. Brudvig, the newly designated Benjamin Silliman Professor of Chemistry, is the project leader of a team of Yale chemists and other scientists, who, under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy, are hoping to improve the efficiency of solar-...
Liberty Media and Liberty Global Chairman John Malone, Yale College Class of 1963, has made a gift of $50 million to Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) to endow ten new professorships, President Richard C. Levin announced today. The...
Sean Faircloth, Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America, will deliver a public address on American humanism at Yale on Sunday, April 3.Titled, “One Nation Under the Constitution: A Vision of a Secular America,” the free talk takes place at...
Manhattan’s District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. (Yale College Class of ‘77) will give a public talk at Yale on March 30, at 7 p.m., in Room 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street.In his talk, titled “Leadership, Law and Public Service Today,” Vance...
Hilary P. Blumberg, associate professor of psychiatry and the director of the Mood Disorders Research Program at Yale has been awarded a $3.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to expand her research on bipolar disorder.Blumberg’s...
New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof will talk at Yale about his new book, “Half the Sky: From Oppression to Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” on Tuesday, April 5.His lecture, which is free and open to the public,...
A new interdisciplinary program at Yale dedicated to advancing the study of American and English democratic institutions at their roots will launch today.Called The Yale Center for the Study of Representative Institutions (YCRI), the initiative is a...
Turning from petroleum to natural gas is one way to help solve America’s energy crisis, Texas oilman-turned environmentalist T. Boone Pickens told the audience gathered in the Yale Law School’s Levinson Auditorium on March 24.Pickens decried the U.S....
Members of the Yale community gathered on Cross Campus the evening of March 24 for a candlelight vigil commemorating the victims of the earthquake in Japan and its devastating aftermath.Professor Mari Stever and Toshiki Sakiyama ’13 spoke at the event,...
It’s been 30 years since the first cases of AIDS were diagnosed. The virus has since caused untold suffering and millions of deaths throughout developed and developing countries. And while new research into its treatment and prevention has had some...