Huynh Sanh Thong, considered the preeminent translator of Vietnamese poetry and literature into English and the former director of the Yale Southeast Asian Refugee Project, died on Nov. 17 of sudden heart failure. He was 82 years old. Huynh dedicated much...
Carolyn R. Nordstrom, professor of anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, will deliver the final lecture in the Fall 2008 Franke series, “Mental Geography: Mapping, Cognition, Appropriation, Inscription.” Her talk, titled “emergent(cies)…,” is on...
Samantha Power, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and foreign policy specialist, will present an open lecture on November 18 at 4 p.m. in the Presidents’ Room at Woolsey Hall, the corner of College and Grove streets. Power’s talk is sponsored by the Yale...
New Delhi, India: Yale University President Richard C. Levin announced details of the Yale India Initiative in a ceremony in New Delhi, India attended by representatives of India’s academic, civil society, corporate, and government communities. The Yale...
A new professorship has been established in honor of Yale economist and former provost William C. Brainard by his friends and colleagues.Benjamin Polak has been named the inaugural William C. Brainard Professor of Economics (see related story).The...
Benjamin Polak, who has been named the first William C. Brainard Professor of Economics, is an expert on decision theory, game theory and economic history.The professorship was established by friends and colleagues of Yale economist William C. Brainard...
Joseph H. Britton, newly designated as the inaugural J.L. Caldwell McFaddin and Rosine B. McFaddin Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Pastoral Theology, is the dean of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale and a scholar on piety as the synthesis of religious...
Yale College has received a $1 million gift from an anonymous donor in honor of Sharon Oster, Dean and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Yale School of Management.The gift will establish the Sharon Oster Resource Fund...
The Reverend Ian B. Oliver will be installed as pastor of the University Church in a special service of worship on November 16.The public is invited to attend the service, at 2:30 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of Elm and College streets. Installation is...
Akhil Reed Amar, newly designated as Sterling Professor of Law, is a scholar of constitutional law, the Bill of Rights and criminal procedure.Amar is a co-editor of a leading law casebook, “Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking,” and is the author of...