Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, will chair the fourth meeting of the Global Colloquium of University Presidents on January 14-15. The meeting will take place on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, USA.The Global...
Julia Adams, professor of sociology and professor in international and area studies, has been named the first Joseph C. Fox Director of the Fox International Fellowship.The appointment was announced by Ian Shapiro, the Henry R. Luce Director at the...
Seven faculty members will be establishing new health research collaborations around the world as the first recipients of travel awards from Yale’s Global Health Initiative (GHI).The Global Health Faculty Travel Awards are funded by a Global Health...
A business networking event titled “Japan’s New Administration and the Future of Japan-U.S. Relations” will be held on Thursday, Feb. 25, at Yale.The event is co-sponsored by the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce and the Programs in International...
To set in motion a fruitful dialogue between the Muslim world and the United States — which President Barack Obama promoted at an address at Cairo University last June — Yale Divinity School hosted a planning meeting on Feb. 22-23 for a summit to be held...
As students head out for ports-of-call far and near during spring break, it’s a good time to look back at a group of globetrotting Yale graduate and professional students, who spent ten days in China earlier this year immersing themselves in the nation’s...
James A. Levinsohn, newly appointed as the inaugural Charles W. Goodyear Professor in Global Affairs, is a specialist on international economics and economic development whose projects have included studying the impact of HIV/AIDS on unemployment in South...
When Yale physician Dr. David M. Walker (YC ‘96) arrived in Haiti three weeks after the earthquake as part of a medical relief team, he and his colleagues did not find scores of critically injured individuals needing life-saving care.What they did find...
Applications are now being accepted for the fall 2010 “Faith and Globalization” seminar, co-taught by Yale Professor Miroslav Volf and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.Applications for the seminar are now available online at www.yale.edu/sis/sfg....
On March 13, the Yale School of Medicine sent its second medical relief team to Haiti. The focus this time was less on emergency trauma such as crush injuries, and more on the long-term medical problems that continue to plague Haiti in the aftermath of...