Steven Pincus, professor of history, has been awarded the 2010 Gustav Ranis International Book Prize by the MacMillan Center for his book “1688: The First Modern Revolution” (Yale University Press, 2009).Established in 2005, the Gustav Ranis International...
In honor of his contributions to the humanities, R. Howard Bloch, Sterling Professor of French, has been inducted as a member of the American Philosophical Society (APS), the oldest learned society in the United States.The APS, which was founded in 1743...
Koichi Hamada, the Tuntex Professor of Economics, is one of 14 researchers and 4 journalists to receive the Abe Fellowship and Abe Fellowship for Journalists.Both competitions support international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global...
Four environmental leaders and co-founders of the Natural Resources Defense Council have been selected to receive Yale Law School’s highest honor — the Yale Law School Association Award of Merit — during its Alumni Weekend 2010 in October.James Gustave...
The Yale Law School’s Education Advocacy Project (EAP) won a major victory in the Connecticut Supreme Court on March 22, when the court ruled in favor of the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding (CCJEF) in the case CCJEF v. Rell.CCJEF,...
President Richard C. Levin wrote to the Graduate School Community today announcing the new Dean of the Graduate School:It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of Thomas D. Pollard, M.D., Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular &...
There will be a memorial service honoring Martin Price, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English, at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 27, in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St.A reception will follow.Price, who died on April 10 at age 90, was a...
David E. Apter, the Henry J. Heinz II Professor Emeritus of Comparative Political and Social Development and a noted scholar on the birth of developing nations, died May 4 at his home in North Haven from complications from cancer. He was 85.Apter, who...
Professor Carlos Eire, who teaches in the Religious Studies Department of Yale University, will be featured in a documentary about Operation Pedro Pan, a secret U.S. airlift of Cuban children to the United States following the Castro Revolution.Titled “...