Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, will deliver the 2008 Tanner Lectures on Human Values on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 29 and 30, at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St.His talks — “The Epistemology of Physics and Scientific Revolutions...
President says University is in a strong financial position and can navigate through turbulent economic waters.It is impossible to ignore the dramatic headlines and news reports surrounding the worldwide financial crisis. During times like these, it is...
President Richard C. Levin named Sharon Oster Dean of the School of Management while a search is conducted for a successor to Dean Joel Podolny. October 22, 2008 To the Yale SOM Community: After three and one half years of innovative and creative academic...
The Yale Babylonian Collection is participating in an international research project that is examining human interaction with the environment in Mesopotamia, specifically salinization in Umma, an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia.Max Bichler from the...
Assistant coach of Yale field hockey Tamara Durante can now claim a Gold Medal win as part of her international coaching experience.Durante helped the U.S. Under-21 Women’s National Team to a gold medal victory on Oct. 12 at the 2008 Junior Pan American...
The following is a list of books recently or soon to be published by members of the Yale community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books can forward publishers’ book descriptions to susan.gonzalez@yale.edu....
Now that the presidential debates are over, Yale law student Aaron Zelinksy will have a bit more time to focus on his classroom reading.Since August, Zelinsky has been posting daily content to The Presidential Debate Blog (www.PresidentialDebateBlog.com...
The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale will launch a new Internet show called “The MacMillan Report” on Oct. 22 at noon on its website at www.yale.edu/macmillanreport. “The MacMillan Report” will feature one-on-...
Yale has been awarded $6.9 million to partner with Bridgeport Public Schools to help prepare the district’s students for college. The “GEAR UP” grant from the U.S. Department of Education has been awarded to Nadia Ward, assistant professor of psychiatry...
Physicians-in-training at the Yale School of Medicine will learn how to identify and aid individuals with substance abuse problems through a program being suppported by a five-year, $1.8 million grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service...