The following talks at Yale University Oct. 13-19 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Environmental contamination is topic of two talks Konstantin Krivoruchko, assistant professor and head of the Geographic Information System –...
Researchers at Yale University have succeeded for the first time in measuring an electric current flowing through a single organic molecule sandwiched between metal electrodes. The feat could pave the way for a radically new generation of transistors...
Longtime Yale University faculty member Roger E. Howe of Hamden has been appointed as the Frederick Phineas Rose Professor in Mathematics by vote of the Yale Corporation. The chair was endowed by Yale alumnus and benefactor Frederick P. Rose to honor...
Two Yale alumni are among 10 Americans who were awarded the first National Humanities Medal by President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton at a Sept. 29 ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House. Businessman Richard J. Franke, a...
Yale’s Dean of Undergraduate Studies Joseph W. Gordon was elected vice president of the nation’s most venerable academic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa, during its 38th triennial Council, which convened in Chicago last week. The election places Dr....
Seventy years ago, two Italian immigrants to the United States were executed in Massachusetts’ Charlestown State Prison, despite massive international protest. The official record said Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti had committed robbery and...
On Tuesday, Oct. 14, Berkeley Divinity School at Yale will present honorary degrees to Connecticut’s former Lieutenant Governor Eunice Strong Groark, the Reverend H. Boone Porter, the Reverend Barbara Brown Taylor, and the Right Reverend Herbert...
On Thursday, Oct. 23, the Women’s Campaign School at Yale will host 40 fifth graders for a “Students’ Day in Hartford.” Participants will include pupils from Toquam School in Stamford and Longfellow School in Bridgeport. The Women’s Campaign School...
Sister Helen Prejean, whose work with death-row inmates was the subject of the Tim Robbins film “Dead Man Walking,” and other distinguished lecturers will be featured at the 1997 Annual Convocation of the Yale Divinity School and Berkeley Divinity...
The following talks at Yale University during the week of Oct. 6-12 are free and open to the public. Tax policies for nonprofits is subject of talk James J. McGovern, a principal with KPMG Peat Marwick’s Exempt Organization Tax Practice, will discuss...
