Yale University will mark the national holiday commemorating the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with a weekend of events titled “The Beloved Community,” January 18–21. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, June 15, 1964, at Yale...
Yale University has enhanced its highly successful Homebuyer Program for employees and extended it for another two years, from January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2009.The program was created in 1994 by President Richard C. Levin to encourage employees...
Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced today that Yale is reducing the average cost of sending a student to Yale College by over 50% for families with financial need. This new policy will apply to all students returning to campus in the fall...
Yale University has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions by 17% since committing to a steep reduction in 2005, President Richard C. Levin reported today in a speech at the University of Copenhagen.Additional projects planned by the University will produce...
Larry Samuelson, newly named as the inaugural A. Douglas Melamed Professor of Economics, focuses his research and teaching on microeconomic theory, game theory, repeated games and the evolutionary foundations of economic behavior.He is the author of “The...
Ebonya L. Washington, the newly designated Henry Kohn Assistant Professor of Economics, specializes in public finance and political economy.Washington teaches courses in both economics and political science. Her research interests focus on the interplay...
William R. Bennett Jr., the C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science and Physics, who in 1960 co-invented the first gas (helium-neon) laser, died of esophageal cancer on June 29 at his home in Haverford, Pennsylvania. He was...
Rulon S. Wells III, professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy, died on May 3 in Salt Lake City at the age of 90.Wells taught at the institution for over 44 years, offering courses in logic, philosophy of language and symbolism, history of...
Alastair Minnis, the newly named Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, is a scholar of Chaucer and his intellectual milieu, late-medieval literature, medieval literary theory, the medieval study of the Bible and classical literature (including...
Robert J. Shiller, newly designated as the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, specializes in the areas of financial markets, financial innovation, behavioral economics, macroeconomics, real estate, statistical methods and on public attitudes, opinions...