“Every generation in American history has had its own set of moral dilemmas, controversies, and questions about the laws of war,” said John Fabian Witt, the Allen H. Duffy Class of 1960 Professor of Law, speaking on Nov. 15 at the Yale Law School....
Appreciation of a beautifully written text is but one of the skills that students taking courses in English at Yale will learn. Among the others, says Yale English professor Stephanie Newell, is the skill of rhetoric.
Sometimes, when she sees students...
Vice Provost for Research Peter Schiffer has announced the initial steps being taken to advance key science investment priorities at the university. The announcement follows President Peter Salovey’s response last week to recommendations from the...
Yale College Dean Marvin Chun will host a dinner on Dec. 11 to honor the recipients of the annual Poorvu Family Fund for Academic Innovation, created to recognize excellence in teaching. This year's recipients are Laura Barraclough, Dylan Gee, and Madhu...
On Nov. 30, Earth tones were the order of the day at the 2018 Yale Day of Data.
Earth data of every sort figured prominently at the sixth annual event, held this year at Sterling Memorial Library. It included the latest data from satellites, spectrographs...
“I don’t want students leaving Yale and going through life with a feeling that everything powered by big data and algorithms is a black box,” said Alan Gerber, dean of social science and the Charles C. & Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Political...
Ta-Nehisi Coates — bestselling author and distinguished writer in residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute — confessed to a packed Yale Art Gallery auditorium that he first became aware of Yale historian David Blight around...
Yale’s new Brain Imaging Center had an appropriate ribbon cutting to celebrate its opening Dec. 17: President Peter Salovey used virtual scissors to cut a virtual ribbon using his mind.
As university speakers lauded the launch of the imaging center on...