The National Institute of Justice (NIJ), a research and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice, has issued a report reaffirming the “Code of the Street” theory of urban violence developed by Yale professor Elijah Anderson.This validation...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marilynne Robinson will present the 2009 Dwight H. Terry Lectures at Yale University, beginning March 24.The talks, free and open to the public, will be held on March 24, 26, 31 and April 2 at 4:30 p.m. in 102 Linsly-...
The World Economic Forum has designated eight alumni of the Yale World Fellows program — the University’s premier international training program — as Young Global Leaders in recognition of their professional accomplishments and their contributions to...
Yale University and the Hastings Center, an independent bioethics research institute based in Garrison, NY, have announced the establishment of the Yale-Hastings Program in Ethics and Health Policy — a collaboration designed to increase the range, depth...
Yale economics professor Aleh Tsyvinski has been selected by The World Economic Forum to join the elite class of Young Global Leaders (YGL) 2009.Tsyvinski was among 230 leaders from government, business, academia, non-profit organizations and the arts who...
Best-selling author Gay Talese will give a public reading from his work at Yale on April 1 as a John Christophe Schlesinger Visiting Writer.His talk, which is free and open to the public, will be held at 7 p.m. in St. Anthony Hall, 483 College Street. The...
New Haven residents and Yale historians will gather March 26 at 5:30 p.m. at the New Haven Museum at 114 Whitney Ave. for a unique celebration of the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama. Sharing their eyewitness accounts and photographs, New...
Author and environmental activist Bill McKibben, who writes about global warming, alternative energy and the risks associated with human genetic engineering, will speak at Marquand Chapel of Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect St., on April 3, noon–1 p.m....
President Richard C. Levin has named Kate Stith, Lafayette S. Foster Professor of Law, as Acting Dean of Yale Law School. Stith succeeds Harold Hongju Koh, who has been nominated by President Barack Obama as Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State....
Robert E. Rubin, secretary of the Treasury under President Clinton and economic advisor to President Obama, will deliver the Arthur M. Okun Public Policy Lecture at Yale on April 7.The lecture, titled “The Global Crisis and Decision Making,” will take...