Yale University’s biodiesel shuttle buses and vans are a familiar sight on the streets of New Haven, transporting some 3,500 to 5,000 faculty members, staff, and students around campus daily. Soon, these environmentally friendly vehicles will sport new,...
Carlo Petrini, founder and president of Slow Food, an international movement dedicated to restoring healthy practices of food production and consumption to modern life, will present a talk titled “Terra Madre: Forging a New Global Network of Sustainable...
Yale University students, staff and faculty will take part in the United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP 16) in Cancun, Mexico from Nov. 29 to Dec. 10 in a number of ways, including as panelists on two official side events, as members of country...
A pledge of $3 million will endow a joint senior faculty appointment between Yale Divinity School/Berkeley Divinity School and the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (FES) in honor of H. Boone Porter, a graduate of Yale College, Berkeley...
In a new report, researchers have found that Americans have a wide range of attitudes and beliefs when it comes to climate change, yet also show some surprising similarities. The report, which is the latest in a series from the Yale University Project on...
Leaders in science, policy, business and international affairs will convene at Yale to discuss the future of energy April 9 during the Yale Climate & Energy Institute’s second annual energy symposium, titled “Technological Innovation for a Secure...
As the world watches the rapidly escalating situation in Egypt, two questions of paramount concern emerge: “What will happen next?” and “What are the long-term implications for the region?”Yale political scientist Ellen Lust is uniquely qualified to...
Reporters are invited to a three-day immersion in current economic issues at Yale University this weekend, when the Graduate School department of economics hosts a reunion conference, April 16-18. Topics to be covered at “The World Economy in the 21st...
To mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the Yale Center for International and Area Studies (YCIAS), International Security Studies (ISS) and the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism present “Vietnam 30 Years On: Reality and Metaphor: Images of the...
Yale Law School’s Information Society Project will host “The Global Flow of Information: A Conference on Law, Culture and Political Economy,” at Yale Law School, 127 Wall St., April 1–3. The conference will explore the emerging patterns of information...