A symposium titled “Photography, Memory and the Black Panther Party’s Visit to the People’s Republic of the Congo, 1971” will be held April 30-May 1 at the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale (AACC).The event marks the 10th anniversary of the...
This spring marks the 35th anniversary of the publication of “All Our Kin,” Carol Stack’s path-breaking ethnography of the survival strategies of African-American women living in poverty in urban America. A conference honoring the legacy of Stack’s work...
Marc Brackett, a research scientist in psychology and deputy director of the Health, Emotion and Behavior Laboratory at Yale, has been honored as the outstanding young researcher of the year by the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning...
There will be a memorial service for Huynh Sanh Thong, former director of the Yale Southeast Asian Refugee Project, on Saturday, May 2, at 1 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. A reception will follow at 2:30 p.m. in the Yale...
If you think of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library as a tomb for old “dead” books where only the most somber of scholars conduct research, curators Nancy Kuhl and Timothy Young hope a visit to their “Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities” might make...
The Yale Law School and the Yale School of Management (SOM) announced the creation of an Accelerated Integrated J.D.-M.B.A. program that will enable students to earn both degrees in three years. The new combined program in law and business is unique in...
“Suppose you’re a judge in traffic court and for every conviction, you get a percentage of the fine. Or suppose you preside over a case involving a physical assault, and, unbeknownst to the court, your daughter was attacked and beaten several years ago....
For the second time in 10 years, students in a Yale Law School clinic played a major role in the revitalization of New Haven’s Greater Dwight neighborhood - this time, by overseeing the $11.5 million refinancing of the Shaw’s Shopping Center on Whalley...
Harold W. Attridge has been appointed as the first Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean of Yale Divinity School (YDS). The new endowed deanship was created through a $5 million gift from Robert L. McNeil Jr. ’36 B.S. in honor of his grandfather, an 1877 graduate...
Jacob S. Hacker, who will return to teaching at Yale as the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science, is an expert on the politics and character of U.S. social policy and on American political institutions.Hacker, who taught from 2002 to 2007 at...
