Auschwitz. The Killing Fields. Ethnic cleansing. Armenia. Rwanda. Over and over in the 20th century, tribal identity, religion, language, race and culture have been employed to isolate one group of people from their neighbors. Isolation has led to...
A $1 million endowment to boost geography education in Connecticut local schools will be launched by the National Geographic Society, the Connecticut Resource Recovery Authority and Yale University next week. National Geographic Society -NGS- Chairman...
Eugene F. Policelli, 62, of South Windsor, Conn., died unexpectedly on Aug. 24. An accomplished scholar and educator, Dr. Policelli was the founding director of Graduate Career Services at Yale University’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. In the...
New Haven Police Captain Francisco Ortiz is one of 26 students learning management and leadership skills at the Management Training Institute, a joint effort of Yale University and the city of New Haven. “Policing has changed since (when) I first began...
Maynard Mack, the Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and one of Yale’s most distinguished scholars and teachers of literature, died at his home in New Haven on March 17. He was 90 years old. Mack taught at Yale for 45 years before his retirement in...
Five faculty members named as outstanding teachers were honored with special awards at the Yale College Senior Class Day program on Sunday, May 20. The teachers were nominated by undergraduates to receive the Yale College Prizes for Distinguished...
Naomi Schor, one of the foremost scholars of French literature and critical theory and one of the pioneer feminist theorists of her generation, died suddenly in New Haven, Connecticut, on December 2, 2001 at the age of 58. At the time of her death,...
Yale President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Ernesto Zedillo, ‘81 Ph.D., the former president of Mexico, as the director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization effective September 1, 2002. “President Zedillo brings to Yale...
The first annual Yale Entrepreneurial Society (YES) Innovation Summit will bring together over 35 of the world’s foremost authorities in the fields of biotechnology, artificial intelligence, nanocomputing, bioterrorism, intellectual property,...
Yale College senior Laura McCargar will receive the Yale Club of New Haven’s second annual Richard Hegel Prize for her senior essay that focuses on public housing in the community. A team of faculty judges selected McCargar’s essay – “HOPE for...
