New research conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School concludes that people’s cultural values influence how risky they perceive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to be and thus, their views on whether or not the vaccine should...
John Edwin Smith, an early champion of the tradition of American philosophy who taught at Yale for nearly 40 years, died on Dec. 7 while visiting his daughter in Arlington, Virginia. He was 88 years old.Smith’s many publications include “Reason and God,...
Samuel E. Martin, a professor of Far Eastern linguistics at Yale for more than 40 years, died on Nov. 28 at his home in Vancouver, Washington, after a long illness. He was 85 years old.Martin served as director of the Korean Dictionary Project, sponsored...
President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Edward A. Snyder as Dean of the Yale School of Management effective July 2011. Snyder is currently dean at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.President Richard C. Levin has...
Three leading activists for urban food reform in New York and New Haven will meet at Yale on January 28 in a public panel discussion on educating youngsters about the importance of good food and making affordable healthy food available to urban residents....
Multimedia journalist Farai Chideya will visit Yale as a guest of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism on Monday, February 1.Chideya’s talk, “Be the Media You Want to See: How Social Media and Citizen Journalism Are Changing the World,” will take place at...
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...
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...
New research conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School concludes that people’s cultural values influence how risky they perceive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to be and thus, their views on whether or not the vaccine to...
Seymour B. Sarason, who is credited with founding the discipline of community psychology and was a longtime member of the Yale faculty, died on Jan. 29 in New Haven. He was 91.Sarason, professor emeritus of psychology, joined the Yale faculty in 1945 and...