As of next fall, only “Fair Trade”-certified coffee will be served in the dining halls of Yale University. Switching from conventionally traded coffee was the unanimous decision of members of the student advocacy group, the Yale Sustainable Food...
Women do smile more than men, but when occupying similar work and social roles, the gender differences in the rate of smiling disappear, a Yale researcher has found.
Also, there are large differences in the degree to which men smile less than women...
Yale University has chosen renowned architects Goody, Clancy & Associates and Kieran Timberlake Associates for the design of two residential colleges scheduled for comprehensive renovations under the University’s Residential Facilities Renovations...
The New England Regional Conference on Medical Anthropology, devoted to anthropological approaches to health research, will take place at Yale University on April 5, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. This one-day symposium includes 16 speakers who will present a variety of...
On March 27, the Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities at Yale will host a talk by Gilbert Rose, MD, on the meaning of musical expression, a subject of philosophical inquiry throughout the ages. Titled “How Does Music Mean? What...
Yale University will host a free, public conference on “Genocide and Terrorism: Probing the Mind of the Perpetrator” on April 11 in the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., 9 a.m.-6:15 p.m. Keynote speaker will be Matthias Kuntzel, a political...
Reporters and Editors seeking experts on the war in Iraq and related issues may contact Yale faculty through the Office of Public Affairs. Below is a list of some of the many members of the faculty with relevant expertise. Bruce Ackerman, professor of...
A rich selection of 25 illuminated manuscripts from the collections of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale will be on display at the Beinecke from March 28 through April 11. The manuscripts range chronologically from ordinances from...
With a focus on the Middle East, a symposium at the Yale School of Architecture on April 4-5 will examine the competing forces of globalization and local culture in modern architectural practice. Architects, critics and scholars from around the world...
Anne O. Krueger, the first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will give a lecture on Wednesday, March 26 at 4:30 p.m. in the Lecture Hall of the Sterling Memorial Library (Wall Street library entrance). The lecture, “...