The following talks at Yale University the week of Nov. 10-16 are free and open to the public, unless noted otherwise. Forest Service chief to discuss federal programs for landowners Michael P. Dombeck, chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s...
A fierce, decades-long battle for control of Maine’s forest management culminated Nov. 4 when voters by a narrow margin defeated a referendum that would have placed unprecedented restrictions on the state’s logging practices. The referendum, a topic of...
Peter N. Belhumeur, associate professor of electrical engineering at Yale University, has been awarded a $500,000 Presidential Early Career Award to support his research for the next five years in computer vision, robotics, face recognition, medical...
On the heels of the recent White House Conference on Child Care, a major report released today at Yale University offers hard-hitting solutions for improving the quality of early care and education. “Not By Chance: Creating an Early Care and Education...
Richard H. Brodhead, dean of Yale College since 1992, has agreed to continue for a second five-year term in his post, according to an announcement by Yale President Richard C. Levin President Levin said, “In response to my request for assessment of the...
The following talks at Yale University Nov. 3-9 are free and open to the public. Dean of Columbia journalism school to be next Poynter Fellow Tom Goldstein, a Yale alumnus and dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, will...
Yale University will host the “International Colloquium on Padre Antonio Vieira” on Friday, Nov. 7, and Saturday, Nov. 8, in Room 203 of Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the death of one of the most extraordinary men...
Yale Law School will host a conference marking the 10th anniversary of Critical Race Theory. The conference runs from Thursday, Nov. 13, through Saturday, Nov. 15, at 127 Wall St. Critical Race Theory is a loose community of scholars who assert that...
“Painted on Earth,” an exhibition of 23 works by contemporary artist David Newman, will be on view through Friday, Dec. 19, at the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale, 80 Wall St. The paintings in the exhibit represent two very different...
Racism, sexism, and “nativism” are as central to American politics as liberalism and republicanism ever were, argues Yale political scientist Rogers Smith in his newly released book, “Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. Public Law...
