Earthquakes along the San Andreas fault northeast of Los Angeles have occurred more regularly than previously thought, and the next “big one” may come sooner than supposed, say two geologists who are using their knowledge of lichens to pinpoint the dates...
The following talks at Yale University the week of Feb. 9-15 are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted. Award-winning public artist to present slide lecture Public artist Jody Pinto, whose designs for plazas, bridges, gardens and urban...
A lecture and exhibition at Yale will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi by a Hindu fanatic on Jan. 30, 1948. “Mahatma Gandhi’s Dialogues with Americans” will be the topic of this year’s Gandhi Lecture, presented by...
Yale President Richard C. Levin has announced that the University is conducting a study of Yale’s campus buildings and grounds to assist in the physical planning for the campus in the future. “Over the past few years, we have undertaken the renovation...
Sen. Phil Gramm (R-Texas) will visit Yale University as a Chubb Fellow on Thursday, Feb. 19. He will present a public lecture, “Investment-Based Social Security and Medicare,” at 4:30 p.m. in Room 127 of Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. The talk is free...
Steven Leitman, environmental planner with the Apalachicola Basin Project, will be the next speaker in the semester-long series “The Restoration Agenda: Water!” presented by the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. His talk, titled “How much...
Joel S. Birnbaum, senior vice president of research and development at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, will present the next Sheffield Fellowship address at Yale University. Titled “After the Internet,” his talk will be presented Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 4:30...
The Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders, a training clinic operated by the Yale University psychology department, will join hundreds of colleges, hospitals and treatment centers across the country in the second National Eating Disorders Screening...
Writer and AIDS activist Edmund White will read from his work on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 5 p.m. in Room 208 of the Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University. The event is free and the public is welcome. White’s new novel, “The Farewell Symphony,”...
Henry Louis (Skip) Gates, Jr., the W.E.B. Du Bois Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research, will visit Yale University as the next Chubb Fellow. He will give a public...