In honor of his contributions to the humanities, R. Howard Bloch, Sterling Professor of French, has been inducted as a member of the American Philosophical Society (APS), the oldest learned society in the United States.The APS, which was founded in 1743...
Koichi Hamada, the Tuntex Professor of Economics, is one of 14 researchers and 4 journalists to receive the Abe Fellowship and Abe Fellowship for Journalists.Both competitions support international multidisciplinary research on topics of pressing global...
Four environmental leaders and co-founders of the Natural Resources Defense Council have been selected to receive Yale Law School’s highest honor — the Yale Law School Association Award of Merit — during its Alumni Weekend 2010 in October.James Gustave...
The Yale Law School’s Education Advocacy Project (EAP) won a major victory in the Connecticut Supreme Court on March 22, when the court ruled in favor of the Connecticut Coalition for Justice in Education Funding (CCJEF) in the case CCJEF v. Rell.CCJEF,...
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has honored seven Yale faculty with election as new members: Joseph G. Altonji, Peter Cresswell, Paul Harris Freedman, Alanna Schepartz, Günter P. Wagner, Elisabeth Jean Wood and Craig Milton Wright.They are among...
Yale Divinity School (YDS) will host a conference May 6–7 titled “Money and Morals after the Crash,” addressing some of the critical ethical questions people face as the recession brings economic issues front and center.The conference coincides with...
Two Yale Law School students are among 30 students who have been awarded Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, which are given to “extraordinarily creative and accomplished young immigrants or children of immigrants.”The two — Isra Bhatty...
Martin Price, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and one of the 20th century’s most distinguished scholars of the Augustan Age and the history of the novel, died on April 10. He was 90 years old.Price’s preeminence as an authority on 18th-century...
Charles Walton, assistant professor of history, has been awarded the 2010 Gaddis Smith International Book Prize by the MacMillan Center for his book “Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution: The Culture of Calumny & the Problem of Free Speech...
Yale SOM Senior Associate Dean Jeffrey Sonnenfeld was on hand to ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange this morning.-