The following is a list of books recently or soon to be published by members of the Yale community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books can forward publishers’ book descriptions to susan.gonzalez@yale.edu....
School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern and Graduate School Dean Jon Butler announced to their students, staff and faculty that a memorial service for Annie Le will be held on Monday, October 12 at Battell Chapel.School of Medicine Dean Robert Alpern and...
Yale engineers have for the first time observed and tracked E. coli bacteria moving in a liquid medium with a motion similar to that of a kayak paddle.Scientists have long theorized that the cigar-shaped cell bodies of E. coli and other microorganisms...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin has named James Levinsohn to be the first director of the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, effective February 1, 2010.The Jackson Institute will offer courses and core teaching programs in international...
Four alumni of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences will be awarded Wilbur Lucius Cross Medals, the school’s highest honor, on October 6 at an event hosted by University President Richard C. Levin, Graduate School Dean Jon Butler and Carlos Riobó...
Two internationally renowned experts on evolution have been hired to anchor the new Microbial Diversity Institute at Yale’s West Campus.Nancy A. Moran, Regents’ Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Howard Ochman, Regents’ Professor of...
Diarrhea-related diseases claim the lives of more than 1.5 million children each year, almost all in developing countries. Poor sanitary conditions, including contaminated water and food, are the major source of the bacteria and viruses that cause severe...
The Gilder-Lehrman Center (GLC) for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition at Yale is pleased to announce that Annette Gordon-Reed has been selected as the winner of the 2009 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in...
Yale University has been contacted regarding rumors that Benno C. Schmidt Jr., former president of Yale University, criticized Chinese universities and the country’s higher education system in general. These alleged disparaging remarks purportedly...
Yale museum hosting New York talk on Horace Walpole The Yale Center for British Art and the Royal Oak Foundation will present a lecture titled “A Little Gothic Castle: Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill,” by Michael Snodin, senior research fellow at the...