With great pleasure, the Yale College Class of 2010 announces that the Commencement Class Day speaker will be President Bill Clinton, Law ‘73, founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States. President Clinton will...
What do cook stoves in Bangladesh have to do with F-15 jet fuel? Or a plant fungus discovered in the Amazonian rain forest with sustainable architecture? As the faculty who attended the West Campus Energy Symposium on Feb. 27 learned, these are just some...
Teams of culinary wizards from the 12 residential colleges competed against each other in the second annual Iron Chef competition held Feb. 24 in Woolsey Hall.Each team offered its twist on Alaskan salmon, which was provided courtesy of the Alaskan...
James Joyce’s “Ulysses” is a “scary old masterpiece” in the eyes of many readers, notes Yale College associate dean Mark Schenker, but he believes that those who refuse to be intimidated by the novel will discover — as he did many years ago — that it has...
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...
Comedic mayhem will be on the agenda in the Yale Repertory Theatre’s next play, “The Servant of Two Masters.”The play, directed by Christopher Bayes, will be presented March 12-April 3 at the University Theatre, 222 York St.The chaos begins when the wily...
The 2010 winner of the annual Yale Drama Series competition is Virginia Grise, who won for her play “blu,” about a Mexican-American family’s response to the loss of their oldest son in Iraq.“Virginia Grise’s writing is blazingly talented and resonant, and...
For the complete stories on this research, click on the title of each summary.Unintended consequences: Immune response to influenza may trigger life-threatening bacterial infectionsA Yale School of Medicine study provides insight into why the influenza...
As you know, Chile suffered a devastating 8.8 magnitude earthquake February 27. A later tsunami and aftershocks brought additional destruction. Thousands of people are waiting for help to cover such basics as foold and water. They will also need long-term...
Pietro De Camilli named as Javits investigator Pietro De Camilli has been designated a Javits Neuroscience Investigator by the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS). De Camilli, the Eugene Higgins Professor of Cell Biology and...