A gift from a Yale alumnus will support research by Yale and Israeli scholars on homeland security and counterterrorism.The gift from Daniel Rose, chair of Rose Associates Inc., and a 1951 graduate of Yale College, will fund a three-year partnership...
Successfully confronting today’s environmental and social challenges requires a re-examination of the values and worldviews that shape our perceptions of nature and society, according to a new Yale report, “Toward a New Consciousness: Values to Sustain...
William R. Bennett Jr., the C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science and Physics, who in 1960 co-invented the first gas (helium-neon) laser, died of esophageal cancer on June 29 at his home in Haverford, Pennsylvania. He was...
Rulon S. Wells III, professor emeritus of linguistics and philosophy, died on May 3 in Salt Lake City at the age of 90.Wells taught at the institution for over 44 years, offering courses in logic, philosophy of language and symbolism, history of...
Climatology, paleontology, geoarcheology and other careers in the geosciences are the subjects of “GEOWhiz,” a new exhibition on view through Labor Day (Sept. 1) at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.“GEOWhiz” was designed and produced by students...
An exhibition honoring the American composer who wrote such popular classics as “Sleigh Ride,” “The Typewriter,” “The Syncopated Clock” and “Blue Tango” is now on display at the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library.Titled “Of Typewriters and Sleigh Bells: A...
Joan Feigenbaum, newly appointed as the inaugural Grace Murray Hopper Professor of Computer Science, focuses her research on Internet algorithms, computational complexity, security and privacy, and digital copyright.While at Yale, she has been the...
Alastair Minnis, the newly named Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English, is a scholar of Chaucer and his intellectual milieu, late-medieval literature, medieval literary theory, the medieval study of the Bible and classical literature (including...
Robert J. Shiller, newly designated as the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, specializes in the areas of financial markets, financial innovation, behavioral economics, macroeconomics, real estate, statistical methods and on public attitudes, opinions...