New research conducted by the Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School concludes that people’s cultural values influence how risky they perceive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to be and thus, their views on whether or not the vaccine to...
Seymour B. Sarason, who is credited with founding the discipline of community psychology and was a longtime member of the Yale faculty, died on Jan. 29 in New Haven. He was 91.Sarason, professor emeritus of psychology, joined the Yale faculty in 1945 and...
A. Douglas Stone, the Carl A. Morse Professor of Applied Physics and chair of applied physics, has been elected as a fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA).Stone is one of 63 fellows who were elevated to the rank for 2010. He was awarded the honor...
Yale College senior Sameer Gupta has been named a winner of the coveted Churchill Scholarship to study at the University of Cambridge next year. There are 14 scholars named nationally each year.The Churchill Scholarship is awarded to American students for...
Alumna and senior win prizes for essays on Italian food, fiction The American Association of Teachers of Italian announced that both 2008-2009 College Essay Prizes went to Yale students. Blake Walsh ‘09 is currently a paralegal in a New Haven law firm...
The Yale Black Men’s Union (BMU), a student-run organization, will hold its annual “Tribute to Black Women” on Friday, Jan. 29, at 6:30 p.m. in the Omni Hotel at Yale, 155 Temple St.The annual event honors “the impact that black women make in our lives...
President Richard C. Levin has announced the appointment of Edward A. Snyder as dean of the Yale School of Management (SOM), beginning July 1, 2011.Snyder is currently dean and the George Shultz Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth...
The diary of Anne Frank, the young Jewish girl whose family hid from the Nazis in Holland for two harrowing years, fuels one man’s mission in “Compulsion,” the next play at the Yale Repertory Theatre.The world premiere of the play by Rinne Groff will be...
Science exploration was the theme of the evening when area middle and high school students gathered at the Peabody Museum of Natural History on Jan. 16 for a special event sponsored by Yale Science Pathways, an outreach program that connects local youths...
A special installation now on view at the Yale University Art Gallery showcases a graphic artist’s “visual language” for depicting timeless philosophical messages.Titled “Jane Davis Doggett: Talking Graphics,” the display will continue through March 7....