Noted child psychologist William Kessen, who was the Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of Psychology and professor of pediatrics at Yale University, died on Saturday, Feb. 13, at the age of 74. Professor Kessen’s research centered on the behavior of...
Mark A. Reed, an award-winning scientist noted for his work in nanotechnology and molecular electronics, has been named the Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering and Applied Science by vote of the Yale Corporation. Reed has held a joint...
Jerry M. Woodall, who has been a pioneer in research on semiconductor materials and devices, has joined the Yale faculty as the C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor of Electrical Engineering by vote of the Yale Corporation. Woodall has been the Charles William...
Baltimore Mayor Kurt L. Schmoke has been named Senior Fellow of the Yale Corporation, the University’s governing body, President Richard C. Levin announced today. Schmoke, the first African-American to be named Senior Fellow, was appointed a fellow of...
The following talks at Yale University from Feb. 15-21 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Talk to examine women’s rights in the U.S. “Women’s Human Rights in the United States” will be the focus of a talk by Dorothy Q. Thomas, who...
U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., will be the next Chubb Fellow at Yale University on Thursday, Feb. 18, 6 p.m. in Lecture Room 127, Yale Law School, 127 Wall St. Please note: this is a new time and room for the previously announced lecture....
Robert White Creeley has been named the winner of the 1999 Bollingen Prize in Poetry, called “America’s top poetry award” by the New York Times. The Bollingen Prize, established by the late Paul Mellon in 1949, is awarded biennially by the Yale...
Q Best-selling novelist Scott Turow will speak at Yale University Law School on Thursday, Feb. 18, at 4:10 p.m. in the Levinson Auditorium, 127 Wall St. Turow, author of “Presumed Innocent,” “Burden of Proof,” “Pleading Guilty” and “The Laws of Our...
Yale University announced plans today to construct a major medical research complex in New Haven’s Hill neighborhood to meet a growing need for more space at the top-ranked Yale School of Medicine. Construction of the $160-million, 440,000-square-foot...
The next speaker in the semester-long Distinguished Lecturer lunchtime series “The Restoration Agenda: Focus on Plants” is JoAnn Burkholder, professor of aquatic botany and marine sciences at North Carolina State University, Raleigh. Her talk on...
