Thomas W. Pogge, who has joined the Yale faculty as the Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, has written extensively on political philosophy, especially on John Rawls, Immanuel Kant, cosmopolitanism and global justice.Pogge’s work...
James E. Rothman, the newly designated Fergus F. Wallace Professor of Biomedical Sciences, is an internationally renowned expert on membrane trafficking, the means by which proteins and other materials are transported within and between cells.Rothman, who...
Chinese musician and educator Wing Ho will be the first Class of ‘57 Visiting Professor of Music Education, serving in the 2008-2009 academic year.Robert Blocker, dean of the Yale School of Music (YSM), announced Wing Ho’s appointment on the last day of...
Two of America’s most celebrated composers are among the six new faculty appointments at the Yale School of Music (YSM), according to its dean, Robert Blocker.The new appointments are for the 2008-2009 academic year.The composers are David Lang, a recent...
President Richard C. Levin will be the guest speaker in the Yale School of Management Leaders Forum on Tuesday, Sept. 16.His talk, which is free and open to the public, will take place 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. in the General Motors Room, 55 Hillhouse Ave....
“Passion Play,” an epic trilogy of plays performed in one evening and the Yale Repertory Theatre’s first production of the 2008-2009 season, will be staged Sept. 19-Oct. 11.The play is by Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah Ruhl, whose works “The Clean House”...
A reading of the play “Grenadine,” the winner of the 2008 Yale Drama Series Award, will take place on Monday, Sept. 15, at the New Theater, 1156 Chapel St.The reading will take place at 7:30 p.m. Admission to the event is free, but reservations to ensure...
A memorial service will be held on Friday, Sept. 26, for Herbert Ames Cahoon Jr., a mentor of students at Dwight Hall at Yale and long-time director of Yale Volunteer Services, who died Aug. 18 at his home in Woodbridge. He was 91 years old.The service...
Gaston Leonard Schmir, professor emeritus in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, died on July 2. He was 75 years old.Schmir was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in 1970 and had battled the disease for 38 years.Schmir was appointed...
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Sept. 20, for Alison Peake Henning, who for nearly three decades served the Saybrook College community as the wife of the college’s master, the late Basil Duke Henning.Henning died on July 2 of cancer at her...