The turn of the 21st century and the advent of the third Christian millennium is a moment of symbolic relevance for many societies, even those with different calendars and time reckonings. In response to the approach of the Year 2000, the Yale Council...
The changing views and meanings of marriage in the United States from the 1770s to the 1970s will be explored in the next series of DeVane Lectures, which will be given this semester by Nancy F. Cott, the Woodward Professor of History and American...
Martin Karplus, a noted Harvard professor who specializes in theoretical chemistry and biochemistry, will present three lectures Jan. 19-21 on “Proteins: The Fourth Dimension” as part of the Silliman Memorial Lectures series sponsored by Yale University...
Chemical physicist and Yale alumnus John C. Tully, a Guilford resident, has been named the Arthur T. Kemp Professor of Chemistry by vote of the Yale Corporation. Tully, who came to Yale in 1996 after a 26-year career at Bell Laboratories, holds a joint...
Mark Edwards, managing director at Recombinant Capital Inc. ReCap , a San Francisco-based consulting firm specializing in biotechnology business alliances, will speak on “Trends in Biotechnology Financing” on Tuesday, Jan. 27, from 4:30-6:30 p.m. The...
Last summer, for the first time since the 16th century, four Protestant denominations took official steps to reconcile their long-standing differences. Yale University Divinity School will host a colloquium to discuss the implications of the agreement...
Since the emergence of Native American Studies as an academic field in the 1960s, scholars have debated how to represent Native cultures to various audiences. What needs to be taught about the diversity of Native cultures in the Americas? What purpose...
Auschwitz. The Killing Fields. Ethnic cleansing. Armenia. Rwanda. Over and over in the 20th century, tribal identity, religion, language, race and culture have been employed to isolate one group of people from their neighbors. Isolation has led to...
The legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. will be explored in four events on campus in observance of the late civil rights leader’s birthday on Monday, Jan. 19. A family festival focusing on environmental justice will be held at the Peabody Museum of...
Yale University’s academic course titled “New Haven and the Problem of Change in the American City” is expanding its scope this spring and inviting students and faculty from Albertus Magnus College, Quinnipiac College, and Southern Connecticut State...
