The following talks at Yale University the week of Sept. 21-27 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. African culture wars is topic of talk by anthropologist Yale alumnus Andrew Apter, an anthropologist who is a specialist on West...
Morse Named Recipient of Highest Engineering Award in Field New Haven, Conn. – On a nearly vertical slope in the Alps virtually inaccessible by helicopter, two mountain climbers get sick and need medical supplies badly. Normally, the sick climbers...
Yale University has announced the appointment of the following three faculty members to endowed professorships: law professors Jules L. Coleman and William. N. Eskridge Jr., and School of Management professor Dick R. Wittink. Coleman, a specialist in...
Willie Ruff, professor at the Yale School of Music, will present the annual James Snead Memorial Lectureship on Sunday, Oct. 4, at 7 p.m. in Dwight Chapel. The lecture is free and open to the public. The talk, titled “The Church Bass: A Yankee...
The classic image of communication between brain cells shows a neurotransmitter crossing the synapse and binding to receptors on the surface of a neighboring neuron. Yet scientists have had only a murky picture of the events within the secreting...
Connecticut Governor John Rowland will present the first Chubb Fellowship Lecture of the 1998-99 academic year at Yale University. His talk, “Urban Connecticut,” will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 6, in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium, 120...
The School of Architecture opens the Fall exhibitions program with “New Blood/101,” a collection of works that cut across the professions of architecture, interiors, landscapes, fashion, interactive design, graphics and product design. The exhibit will...
Gail D’Eramo Melkus is fighting a vicious and subtle epidemic. Melkus, an associate professor at the Yale School of Nursing, studies diabetes in African-American women along with co-investigator Geralyn Spollett, assistant professor. Their work is...
Yale University has received a five-year, $4.3 million grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to pursue advanced research in public health and health care. The grant will support Yale’s continued participation in the Foundation’s Scholars in...
New Haven, Conn. Q The following talks at Yale University, Sept. 28-Oct. 5, are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Gallery talks to focus on 19th century New Haven artist “From Fruit to Nuts: American 19th-Century Still-Life Painting...