Judith A. Carney, Siddharth Kara and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff have been selected as co-winners of the 2010 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. Carney, professor of geography at UCLA, and...
The Yale Department of Classics will host a talk and symposium Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 16 and 17, that mines ancient history to understand a paradox that has long intrigued economists: the countries richest in natural resources are the poorest in...
Following the launch of New Haven Promise, a Yale-funded college scholarship program for public school students, the City’s long-time chief executive, Mayor John DeStefano Jr., will come to the University as a Chubb Fellow on November 16 and 17 to share...
November 3 will be Doonesbury Day at Yale, when Garry Trudeau (B.A., 1970, M.F.A. 1973) returns to the campus where Bull Tales, the prototype for the satirical strip, first leapt from his imagination onto the pages of the Yale Daily News.The celebration...
Muhtar Kent, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, The Coca-Cola Company, will deliver the Coca-Cola World Fund at Yale Lecture on Monday, October 4. His talk, “Who Will Drive the 21st Century Agenda? Women,” will be at 4 p.m. in Luce Hall...
University Professor of Jewish Law and Contemporary Civilization at Yeshiva University, Suzanne Last Stone, will explore Talmudic law in modern secular, religious and political contexts in the 2010 Franz Rosenzweig Lectures on October 10, 11 and 12 at...
As UN personnel, diplomats, and representatives of NGOs gather in New York next week for the summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for addressing compelling world issues from poverty to clean water, Yale Divinity School (YDS) will host a...
Three widely respected financial experts—Wall Street Economist Stephen Roach, Yale Professor Robert Shiller and former Dean of the Stern School of Business at NYU Thomas Cooley—will join the Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and...
A Yale team led by Professor of Egyptology John Coleman Darnell has unearthed a lost city — the site of a massive bread-making industry — that flourished more than 3,500 years ago in the Western desert of Egypt.
The discovery of the remains of this mud-...
Rodney T. Cohen, formerly of Presbyterian College in South Carolina, has been named as assistant dean of Yale College and director of the Afro-American Cultural Center, announced Yale College Dean Mary Miller.Since 2006, Cohen served as director for...