Members of the Yale community will be among the scholars, authors, scientists, community activists, musical performers and chefs who will share their expertise this month at festive dinners to benefit Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership (...
A memorial concert on Sunday, Feb. 22, will honor the late Yale teacher, conductor and violist Jesse Levine.The event, which will feature spoken tributes and performances by colleagues and students, will take place at 4 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of...
Sandwich-making in a Yale dining hall may not qualify to most people as an art, but staff member Pamela Dear brings a painterly eye to the task.A desk attendant and pantry worker in the Branford/Saybrook College dining hall, Dear is also a painter and...
Yale University Library has received a $5 million dollar gift from Arcadia, a United Kingdom-based grant-making fund established in 2001, to make the library’s important collections of international materials more available through cataloguing and...
President Richard C. Levin and faculty colleagues will participate in a panel discussion Tuesday, Feb. 17, on the global financial crisis.Organized by the Yale College Council and the Yale Student Investment Group, the free public panel, “Understanding...
How many arms does a spiral galaxy have? Can you spot a galaxy with a central “peanut” bulge? Or how about a galactic merger? Answers to these and other strange questions will be provided by ordinary web users in an online citizen science project called...
Yale economist tapped to help Iceland’s economySigridur Benediktsdottir, lecturer in economics, was appointed by the Icelandic government to a special Investigation Commission last month.The commission’s mandate is to investigate the events leading to,...
In an effort to accelerate improvements in the effectiveness and efficiency of healthcare in developing nations around the world, Yale University has launched the Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI). The mission of the GHLI is to strengthen the...
A three-judge panel has named Allen Grossman the 2009 winner of Yale University’s Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.The Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, established by Paul Mellon in 1949, is awarded biennially by the Yale University Library to an...
Elderly women who suffer a first “mini-stroke” are less likely than men of the same age to be readmitted to a hospital, according to a study led by the Yale School of Public Health. The paper appears in the online version of Stroke, the journal of the...