While statistics suggest that the rapid growth of nations like Brazil, China and India will make them the most powerful economic forces of the future, it is women who will drive the economic agenda for the 21st century, contends Muhtar Kent, chair and CEO...
Human rights activist and lawyer Gary Haugen, whose organization provides legal representation to poor people in developing countries, will speak at Yale Law School on Monday, Oct. 11.He will discuss “The New Mandate for Human Rights: Addressing...
In June, a Yale study offered scientific evidence of something that some parents have long suspected: Kids think that junk food tastes better when it comes in packages adorned with licensed cartoon characters than when it doesn’t.The research, which was...
A new exhibition opening at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History explores what we know, what we don’t know, and what we think we know about one of the world’s greatest space mysteries: black holes.Titled “Black Holes: Space Warps & Time Twists...
A team led by Yale School of Medicine professor Frederick L. Altice, M.D., has received a five year, $4.2 million grant from the National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIDA) to study ways of curbing the HIV epidemic in states of the former Soviet Union –...
New Haven Mayor John DeStefano Jr. met with Yale College students Tuesday evening to listen to their accounts of the compliance check conducted by city police officers and other officials early Saturday morning at a downtown nightclub that had been rented...
Andrew Phillips knows how to make molecules. During the nine years he spent at the University of Colorado at Boulder, his lab synthesized a total of 25 complex molecules, many of which have biologically useful properties.Now, as a new professor of...
With the sounds of bagpipes in the background, President Richard C. Levin and officials from Yale and the city came together for a ribbon cutting ceremony on Oct. 4, marking the official opening of the newly constructed Yale Health Center at 55 Lock St....
According to recent media reports in China, Professor Shelly Kagan of Yale is now the most popular foreign teacher in that nation.A course titled “Death” by Kagan, the Clark Professor of Philosophy, has been one of the offerings in the Open Yale Courses...
Vintage posters from around the world promoting movies with a biblical theme are on view in the exhibit “Reel Religion: A Century of the Bible on Film,” on view through Nov. 19 at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music.The exhibition features over 50 vintage...