Dr. Robert J. Alpern is about to begin his second five-year term as dean of the Yale School of Medicine.With over 1,000 students, almost 2,000 faculty and a budget approaching $1 billion, the enterprise over which Alpern presides is by far the largest of...
At the center of the sprawling 136-acre West Campus are three buildings that will house scientists who are using three distinct technologies yet who share an underlying mission: transforming the way biological research is conducted at Yale.“New...
Steven I. Wilkinson, the inaugural Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies, focuses much of his work on ethnic violence in India and South Asia.His book “Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Conflict in India,” was co-winner of...
Mustachioed men of Movember call for support as end of November approachesTheir mustaches are growing in, and so far, they have raised over $2,500 — and Movember isn’t yet over.As a matter of fact, The Handsome Dans are encouraging everyone in the Yale...
When CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien was growing up, her mother instructed her never to let anyone tell her that she wasn’t black or Hispanic because of her mixed ethnic and racial heritage.So, when she was asked to identify her race on official forms, O’...
Sharon Begley, Newsweek senior editor and science columnist, spoke at the Whitney Humanities Center about the difficulties of explaining science to people who reject rational thought in favor of unsubstantiated emotion and opinion.Her Nov. 12 talk, “...
“Art is anything you can get away with,” Andy Warhol, one of the leading figures of the Pop art movement, once famously contended.A musical that is based loosely (very loosely) on a real incident in Warhol’s life — an assassination attempt — will make...
Guillermo Ortiz, the governor of the Central Bank of Mexico, and Tommasso Padoa-Schioppa, Italy’s former minister of economy and finance, were among the experts who came together Nov. 12 and 13 for a conference titled “Financial Globalization: Culprit,...
An American flag was flown over the Balad Air Base in Iraq for one day last April as a tribute to the Yale Police Department (YPD), which had sent a “care package” for the troops there.On Veterans Day, that same flag was presented to the YPD by a member...
The special section aimed at Yale staff members this month features a story about University employees sharing their Thanksgiving feasts with Yale students from around the world.For more news from working@yale, visit http://www.yale.edu/working.DOWNLOAD...