It begins with a seemingly typical admissions information session: A young admissions officer smiles as he answers prospective students’ and parents’ rather mundane questions about the University.But as a new Yale new admissions video continues, the...
Iceland leads the world in addressing pollution control and natural resource management challenges, according to the 2010 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) produced by a team of environmental experts at Yale University and Columbia University. This is...
President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Edward A. Snyder as dean of the Yale School of Management (SOM), beginning July 1, 2011.Snyder is currently dean and the George Shultz Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth...
The diary of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl whose family hid from the Nazis in Holland for two harrowing years, fuels one man’s mission in “Compulsion,” the next play at the Yale Repertory Theatre.The world premiere of the play by Rinne Groff will be...
Science exploration was the theme of the evening when area middle and high school students gathered at the Peabody Museum of Natural History on Jan. 16 for a special event sponsored by Yale Science Pathways, an outreach program that connects local youths...
A special installation now on view at the Yale University Art Gallery showcases a graphic artist’s “visual language” for depicting timeless philosophical messages.Titled “Jane Davis Doggett: Talking Graphics,” the display will continue through March 7....
On Wednesday, Feb. 3, Alberto Manguel, internationally acclaimed essayist, novelist, anthologist, translator and editor, will deliver the Finzi-Contini Lecture under the auspices of the Whitney Humanies Center (WHC).Manguel’s talk, titled “Borges and the...
Illustrator Michael Sloan and cartoonist Tom Tomorrow will discuss “The Art of Politics” on Friday, Feb. 5, at an event sponsored by the Edith B. Jackson Child Care Program at Yale.Their talk will take place at 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Luce Hall, 34...
Yale Law School professor emeritus and alumnus Daniel J. Freed, a pioneer in the criminal justice process and a key figure in the development of clinical education at the Law School, died Jan. 17 in New York. He was 82.Freed was clinical professor...
For the complete stories on this research, click on the title of each summary.Wide disparities found in age of hospitalization for different racesBlacks are admitted to the hospital at a significantly younger age than their white peers — about five-and-a-...