Yale faculty member Rolena Adorno, Sterling Professor of Spanish and chair of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, has been awarded the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Lifetime Scholarly Achievement Award.Adorno is the seventh recipient of the...
In 1716, a 13-year-old Connecticut native named Jonathan Edwards entered Yale College, where he passionately studied contemporary issues in theology and philosophy, wrote about the natural world and metaphysics, and engaged with Enlightenment thinking....
For more than four decades, Robert O. Mendelsohn, an environmental economist, has researched the benefit of protecting the Earth’s environment. As the Weyerhaeuser Davis Professor of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, a professor in the...
“Governments should be separate from ideologies, and elected representatives of the people should determine the laws that govern them,” said Nobel laureate and Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi during a recent talk at Yale.Shirin EbadiMore than...
