Liu Yandong, state councilor for the People’s Republic of China, was awarded a Howland Fellowship during a visit to campus on April 15.That day, at the Yale Center for British Art, she gave a talk titled, “Deepening People-to-People Exchanges and Cultural...
Academy award-winning actress and Yale alumna Jodie Foster will visit the campus on Wednesday, April 29, when she will be honored by the University’s Film Studies Program and take part in a conversation with members of the Yale community.The conversation...
The Michael J. Fox Foundation has awarded $125,000 to Yale biomedical engineers Mark Saltzman and Michael Levene for research on the obstacles to drug delivery in regions of the brain affected by Parkinson’s disease. Saltzman and Levene will develop new...
A symposium titled “Photography, Memory and the Black Panther Party’s Visit to the People’s Republic of the Congo, 1971” will be held April 30-May 1 at the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale (AACC).The event marks the 10th anniversary of the...
This spring marks the 35th anniversary of the publication of “All Our Kin,” Carol Stack’s path-breaking ethnography of the survival strategies of African-American women living in poverty in urban America. A conference honoring the legacy of Stack’s work...
Marc Brackett, a research scientist in psychology and deputy director of the Health, Emotion and Behavior Laboratory at Yale, has been honored as the outstanding young researcher of the year by the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning...
There will be a memorial service for Huynh Sanh Thong, former director of the Yale Southeast Asian Refugee Project, on Saturday, May 2, at 1 p.m. in Battell Chapel, corner of College and Elm streets. A reception will follow at 2:30 p.m. in the Yale...
Yale’s four “affinity groups” will host networking activities this spring.An affinity group brings together Yale faculty and staff who share interests, issues, and a common bond or background, and who can offer support for each other. The affinity group...
Every 10 years, Yale undertakes a comprehensive and wide-ranging self-study as part of reaccreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). The self-study has been ongoing since last summer, and a NEASC delegation will visit the...
The Yale football team will lead a marrow donor testing drive on Thursday, April 23, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. at University Commons, corner of College and Grove streets.The drive, which is open to the public, is part of the “Get in the Game. Save a Life” campaign...