There will be a memorial service on Saturday, Sept. 13, for G.K. Hunter, the Emily Sanford Professor Emeritus of English, who died on April 10 at age 88.The service will take place at 2 p.m. in the common room of Davenport College, 248 York St.A native of...
The Yale Library is in the process of designing a new and reconceived social science library which — in addition to collections — will include classrooms, an information commons with full suites of digital services, social and study spaces, and a café.The...
In a fan-cooled classroom on the Yale campus on a sweltering July morning, David Johnson is so on fire that he can barely stop raising his hand. Johnson, a rising sixth grader at the Beecher Museum School of Arts and Sciences in New Haven, has just...
Award-winning author Richard Fortey will give a talk and sign copies of his book while on campus on Thursday, Sept. 11.Fortey’s talk will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Peabody Museum of Natural History, 170 Whitney Ave. The talk is open to the public free of...
Yale Law School will help educate the next generation of human rights leaders, with the support of a $3 million gift from the Robina Foundation. The gift, to be administered over the next three years, will create the Robina Foundation Human Rights...
Dr. Wolfgang Plischke, past president of the Pharma Division at Bayer AG, and Bruce Alexander, vice president for New Haven and state affairs and campus development at Yale, unveiled a plaque celebrating Bayer’s history at the University’s new West...
Six Yale athletes - five alumni and one current student - went to Beijing to compete in the Olympics this August, and two are returning with medals.Sada Jacobson ‘06 won a silver medal in the women’s fencing individual sabre and a bronze medal in the...
The Professors of Bluegrass, a group of musical Yale affiliates, will perform as part of the Connecticut Folk Festival & Green Expo, to be held Sept. 12-14.The event, which is both a concert series and an environmental expo, is co-sponsored by...
Yale Law School students played a key role in a lawsuit that was the subject of Business Week magazine’s June 5 cover story: “Banks vs. Consumers (Guess Who Wins?).”The lawsuit was filed by San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera on behalf of the...
Every year, more than 6,000 people die while waiting for organ transplants, notes Dr. Sukru Emre, section chief of transplant surgery and immunology in the Department of Surgery.“With nearly 100,000 Americans awaiting life-saving organ transplants, the...