The Week Ender appears every Thursday in Yale News and offers highlights of the many activities taking place at the university Friday-Sunday.F R I D A Y Celebrate the launching of “Ideas Box,” a portable media center for refugee and vulnerable populations...
YaleNews features works recently or soon to be published by members of the University community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books may forward publishers’ book descriptions to us by email.Guitar Makers:...
Obesity is associated with significant increases in absenteeism among American workers and costs the nation over $8 billion per year in lost productivity, according to a study recently published by Rudd Center researchers. The study suggests that the...
Elga R. Wasserman, who as special assistant to former Yale President Kingman Brewster oversaw the early years of co-education at Yale, died on Nov. 11 at the age of 90.Wasserman was an expert on issues facing women and other minority populations in...
True to recent history, the 2014 elections featured an electorate largely critical of a president midway through his second term in office, Yale political scientists said. The only surprise was the degree of discontent.“The election had more of a...