Laszlo Lovasz, the William K. Lanman Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Yale University, has been named as a co-recipient of the 1999 Wolf Prize, Israel’s most prestigious international award. The Wolf Prize is presented each year by the...
John Ostrom, the Yale paleontologist who helped give wing to the theory that birds are the direct descendants of dinosaurs, will be honored at an international symposium titled “New Perspectives on the Origin and Early Evolution of Birds” on Saturday...
Q Dean David A. Kessler of the Yale School of Medicine and New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. will be on hand Feb. 10 to unveil plans for a major medical research complex to be built in New Haven’s Hill neighborhood. Where: Hill Regional Career High...
The next speaker in the semester-long Distinguished Lecturer lunchtime series “The Restoration Agenda: Focus on Plants” is JoAnn Burkholder, professor of aquatic botany and marine sciences at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Her talk on...
U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., will be the next Chubb Fellow at Yale University on Thursday, Feb. 18, 6 p.m. in Lecture Room 127, Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. Please note: this is a new time and room for the previously announced lecture....
Robert White Creeley has been named the winner of the 1999 Bollingen Prize in Poetry, called “America’s top poetry award” by the New York Times. The Bollingen Prize, established by the late Paul Mellon in 1949, is awarded biennially by the Yale...
Q Best-selling novelist Scott Turow will speak at Yale University Law School on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 4:10 p.m. in the Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St. Turow, author of “Presumed Innocent,” “Burden of Proof,” “Pleading Guilty” and “The Laws of Our...
Yale University announced plans today to construct a major medical research complex in New Haven’s Hill neighborhood to meet a growing need for more space at the top-ranked Yale School of Medicine. Construction of the $160-million, 440,000-square-foot...
Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke has been named Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation, the University’s governing body, President Richard C. Levin announced today. Schmoke, the first African-American to be named Senior Fellow, was appointed a fellow of...
The following talks at Yale University from Feb. 15-21 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Talk to examine women’s rights in the U.S. “Women’s Human Rights in the United States” will be the focus of a talk by Dorothy Q. Thomas, who...