Global political-economic affairs and the challenges of leadership were the focus of the third India-Yale Parliamentary Leadership Program, held June 20-27.The 2009 cohort of members of India’s parliament participated in a four-day program on the Yale...
Three scholars have joined the Yale Divinity School (YDS) faculty as assistant professors, according to an announcement by Harold Attridge, the school’s Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean.The new faculty are Chloë Faith Starr, an expert in the Chinese literary...
Yale staff member Eliza Cleveland hopes to sail through the summer more quickly than ever this year — at least, that’s what she’ll have to do in order to win the races in which she’ll be competing.Cleveland, director of external communications for Yale’s...
The Yale University Art Gallery has purchased preparatory drawings by American artist Edward Hopper for two of his most famous paintings, “Rooms by the Sea” (1951) and “Western Motel” (1957) — both of which are in the gallery’s collection.Preparatory...
An exhibition that examines the impact of the current economic crisis in the workplace is currently on view at The Parachute Gallery, a collaboration of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven, the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health, and the...
A memorial service will be held on Friday, July 17, for Robin Siegel Theurkauf, a lecturer in political science, who died on July 10 after a long struggle with cancer. She was 51.The service will take place at 11 a.m. at Marquand Chapel at the Divinity...
A new exhibit at the Yale Divinity Library provides a glimpse into the life and work of Charles and Joy Sheffey, American Methodist medical missionaries who served in Wembo Nyama in the Belgian Congo between 1922 and 1946.The exhibit, titled “Charles and...
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....
Eighteen years after its creation, the Section of Emergency Medicine has been elevated to full departmental status within the Yale School of Medicine. Formerly part of the Department of Surgery, Emergency Medicine now stands on its own at Yale, a...
Francis S. Collins, who received his PhD in physical chemistry from Yale University in 1974, has been nominated to head the National Institutes of Health by President Barack Obama. Collins, 59, headed the successful drive to sequence the human genome. As...