Richard Blanco, who gained national renown when he read his poem “One Today” at President Obama’s second inauguration, will be at Yale on Tuesday, Feb. 5, for a tea hosted by Stephen Pitti, master of Ezra Stiles College.The event, which is Blanco’s first...
A memorial service will be held on Sunday, Feb. 10, for longtime Yale faculty member Edward Stankiewicz, considered one of the leading Slavic linguists in the world, who died Jan. 31. He was 92 years old.(Photo by Michael Marsland)The service will be held...
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Four Yale investigators have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to use behavioral, brain scanning, and information theoretic methods to investigate how and why meaning changes in language.Processing of metonymy (a fundamental mechanism...
Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, widely credited as the father of behavioral economics and author of the 2011 best-seller “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” will deliver the 2013 Arthur M. Okun Public Policy Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 20.Daniel KahnemanFree...
Edwin Duval, newly named as the inaugural Henri Peyre Professor of French, specializes in the lyric poetry and narrative prose of the French Renaissance, from the late 15th century to the early 17th century.His research focuses primarily on the influences...
North Korea, which just conducted its third nuclear test, is using its weapons program to deter the United States by holding its allies “hostage,” according to Paul Bracken, who teaches management and political science at Yale.The spread of the atom bomb...