Yale’s faculty of engineering will convene a forum May 3 of leaders from government, industry and academia to explore “Challenges to Innovation in the 21st Century.” The forum to be held in Davies Auditorium (enter through 10 Hillhouse Avenue), is part...
Yale President Richard C. Levin announced today that Maya Lin has been elected the next Alumni Fellow of the Yale Corporation. Ms. Lin, a graduate of both Yale College and Yale’s Architecture School, will be the first artist to serve on the Yale...
Yale President Richard C. Levin has appointed biodiversity expert Michael J. Donoghue as the director of the University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History. Donoghue, the G. Evelyn Hutchinson Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and chair of...
The Yale Graduate School Alumni Association will award its highest honor, the Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal, at this year’s Commencement Convocation on Sunday, May 26, to Linda Gordon (Ph.D. 1970, History), Sharon Long (Ph.D. 1979, Biology), Julia McNamara (...
A scientific investigation of the relationship between children and nature is the focus of a new book co-edited by professors at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies and the University of Washington. The book, “Children and Nature:...
Among the seniors who will graduate from Yale College on May 27 are several who have achieved extraordinary things-even by Yale standards-in some cases despite daunting challenges.Nana Akua Asafu-Agyei came to Yale from Ghana. Her father died before she...
As Queen Elizabeth II and her subjects observe the 50th anniversary of her reign with public festivities, Yale University is celebrating the milestone with an exhibition of documents and memorabilia from jubilee celebrations past and present. A toy bus...
President Richard C. Levin today congratulated Yale Divinity School Dean Rebecca S. Chopp on her appointment as president of Colgate University and thanked her for her service to Yale. “Colgate is very fortunate to attract Rebecca, who is both a superb...
Using a microscopic grain of superconducting aluminum, a researcher who is now at Yale and his colleagues at CEA-Saclay Laboratories in France, have constructed an “artificial atom” that can be used as a quantum bit, an essential component for the...
Mexico City-CONACYT Director General Jaime Parada and Yale University President Richard C. Levin have signed a Letter of Intent that creates the most generous scholarship program that CONACYT has ever forged with a U.S. university for Mexican students...