Two Yale University faculty members were honored recently for captivating their students in the classroom and for making noted contributions to their fields. Historian Howard R. Lamar and statistician Joseph T. Chang received the William Clyde DeVane...
The Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will co-sponsor a reception and discussion on the theme “The Role of the University in an Era of Globalization: Building Partnerships...
Yale University has received a five-year, $400,000 grant from The Procter & Gamble Co. to help develop a new public health training program in the People’s Republic of China. Yale’s Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, which is an...
A newly discovered species of a winged dinosaur has been named in honor of Yale paleontologist John Ostrom, one of the earliest proponents of the controversial theory that modern-day birds are descended from dinosaurs. News that the raven-sized...
The end of the century will witness an unprecedented change in the worldwide pattern of human settlements – for the first time in history, more people will live in cities and towns than in rural areas. More than simply a demographic shift, rapid...
The American Bach Society will hold its biennial meeting at Yale University, April 24-26. The conference will explore the topic “J. S. Bach and the Musical Instruments of his Time,” and will be hosted by the Yale department of music, School of Music,...
Your child begins to cough and sneeze over the weekend. If you bring her to the daycare center on Monday morning, will she infect the other children? Chicken pox, strep, ear infections, head lice, diarrhea… the miseries of childhood can be passed from...
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University has acquired a distinguished collection of art, manuscripts and printed material concerning the American West. The acquisition, a gift of Dr. Franz R. and Mrs. Kathryn M. Stenzel of...
Curtis Hanson, Oscar-winning screenwriter and director, will be the next Chubb Fellow at Yale. He will speak on Tuesday, April 21, on his Academy-award winning motion picture, “L.A. Confidential: Image and Reality in the City of Manufactured Illusion...
Yale University will host the world premiere of a specially commissioned symphonic work by Ezra Laderman, professor of composition at the Yale School of Music, on May 2, 9 p.m., in Woolsey Hall, corner of Grove and College streets. The concert, in...