Microcredit, which involves giving small loans to very small businesses in an effort to promote entrepreneurship, has been widely touted as a way to reduce poverty and stimulate economic growth. A multitude of both non- and for-profit institutions are...
Marking the 10th anniversary of the Yale World Fellows Program, Yale University has selected 16 World Fellows for 2011.The Yale World Fellows Program is the University’s signature global leadership development initiative and a core element of Yale’s...
In their forthcoming book, “More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics Is Helping to Solve Global Poverty,” Yale economist Dean Karlan and his co-author Jacob Appel take the reader on a tour of the developing world, where development and behavioral...
Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari will present a public lecture at Yale on Tuesday, April 12 at the invitation of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.He will address the community at 4:30 p.m. in Room...
Today’s announcement that Yale and the National University of Singapore will create a new liberal arts college in Singapore represents the first time that Yale has partnered with an outside institution to create an entirely new curriculum — one based on...
The National University of Singapore (NUS) and Yale University announced today that they will establish Yale-NUS College, an autonomous college of NUS. The College will provide a new model of liberal arts education for Asia that will prepare high...
Leaders in science, policy, business and international affairs will convene at Yale to discuss the future of energy April 9 during the Yale Climate & Energy Institute’s second annual energy symposium, titled “Technological Innovation for a Secure...
New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof will talk at Yale about his new book, “Half the Sky: From Oppression to Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” on Tuesday, April 5.His lecture, which is free and open to the public,...
There will be a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “B-Minor Mass” by the renowned Bach Collegium Japan on Saturday, March 26, to benefit Yale’s relief efforts for survivors of the earthquake in Japan.Conducted by the founder of the Collegium, Masaaki...
Yale University and the Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC) today signed an agreement establishing the UNSAAC-Yale International Center for the Study of Machu Picchu and Inca Culture in Cusco, Peru.The Center will display,...