Two Yale seniors, Amy Watson and Joshua Silverstein, and 2007 Yale graduate Aaron Kachuck are among 37 students from the United States who have received Gates Scholarships to pursue postgraduate work at the University of Cambridge next fall.Out of a pool...
Yale Law School graduate Ken Chen, currently executive director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, has won the 2009 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.The Yale Series of Younger Poets is the longest-running poetry prize and is considered one...
Two Yale Law School students are among 30 students who have been awarded Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, which are given to “extraordinarily creative and accomplished young immigrants or children of immigrants.”The two — Isra Bhatty...
Martin Price, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and one of the 20th century’s most distinguished scholars of the Augustan Age and the history of the novel, died on April 10. He was 90 years old.Price’s preeminence as an authority on 18th-century...
Charles Walton, assistant professor of history, has been awarded the 2010 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize by the MacMillan Center for his book “Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny & the Problem of Free Speech...
On Wednesday, May 5, William F. May, the Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics Emeritus at Southern Methodist University, will give the annual Robert J. Levine Lecture, under the auspices of the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.“Growing Old...
Sir Iain Chalmers, recognized as one of the leading health researchers of his generation, is the 2010 recipient of the C-E.A. Winslow Award.The honor is bestowed by the Yale School of Public Health every several years to recognize outstanding...
Chemistry professor Robert Crabtree has won the 2010 Kosolapoff Award, presented by Auburn University to outstanding chemists and biochemists for landmark contributions in these fields.“We at Auburn have long admired Professor Crabtree’s work and are...
Growing up in the South Bronx during the 1960s and 1970s, Dwight Dickerson learned how music has the power to bring disparate groups of people together.Dickerson, now enrolled in Yale’s Eli Whitney Student Program for non-traditional students, had been a...
The following is a list of books recently or soon to be published by members of the Yale community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books can forward publishers’ book descriptions to susan.gonzalez@yale.edu....