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...
Stephen L. Darwall, the newly named Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Philosophy, has focused his research on the foundations of ethics, moral psychology, moral theory and the history of these subjects.Also a visiting lecturer in law at the Yale Law...
David Scott Kastan, newly appointed as the George M. Bodman Professor of English, is a scholar of early modern English literature and culture, especially Shakespeare and Milton, as well as of the history of the book, and editing and editorial theory....
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair will join University President Richard C. Levin for a conversation in Woolsey Hall on September 19 at 4:30 p.m. before an audience of Yale faculty, students and staff. They will discuss Mr. Blair’s tenure as prime...
Robert Wayne Harms, the newly named Henry J. Heinz Professor of History and African Studies, is an award-winning scholar of African history, including the slave trade and the continent’s environmental and agrarian history.His 2002 book “The Diligent: A...
Frank M. Snowden, the newly appointed Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of History, is a scholar of Italian history, European social and political history, and the history of medicine.At Yale, Snowden is also chair of the Program in the History of Science...
