The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has named Dr. Thomas Pollard, Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology at Yale, the recipient of the 2015 NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing.Dr. Thomas PollardThe science council of the...
Carolyn Abbate, the Paul and Catherine Buttenweiser University Professor of Music at Harvard University, has been appointed as the 2015 Franke Visiting Fellow at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC).Abbate will give a lecture titled “Sound Object Lessons”...
Dipesh Chakrabarty, the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Law at the University of Chicago will deliver the 2015 Tanner Lectures on Human Values Feb. 18-20. The theme of...
David Sorkin, newly named as the Lucy G. Moses Professor of Judaic Studies, focuses his research on finding new approaches to the intersection of Jewish and European history since the 16th century.David Sorkin (photo by Michael Marsland)Sorkin first...
Yale University astronomers have identified the first “changing look” quasar, a gleaming object in deep space that appears to have its own dimmer switch.
This artist's rending shows “before” and “after” images of a changing look quasar.
The discovery may...
The Week Ender appears every Thursday in Yale News and offers highlights of the many activities taking place at the university Friday-Sunday.F R I D A Y Listen to a talk by John Walsh, specialist in Dutch paintings. Abraham Bloemaert’s Deluge (ca. 1590-95...
