Charlayne Hunter-Gault, award-winning journalist/activist, author, and the first black woman to attend the University of Georgia, will be at Yale on Tuesday, Feb. 5, for a tea at Branford College. Her talk is titled “Social Justice, Equity and Public...
Yale’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community will honor award-winning actress Cynthia Nixon for her activism for LGBT rights and marriage with a concert and an inaugural award on Friday, Feb. 8.The concert, featuring the Yale...
Four Yale investigators have been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to use behavioral, brain scanning, and information theoretic methods to investigate how and why meaning changes in language.Processing of metonymy (a fundamental mechanism...
Nobel Prize-winner Daniel Kahneman, widely credited as the father of behavioral economics and author of the 2011 best-seller “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” will deliver the 2013 Arthur M. Okun Public Policy Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 20.Daniel KahnemanFree...