Loans to European and Asian countries from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are associated with significantly higher tuberculosis (TB) rates and mortality, according to study published in the July issue of PLoS Medicine and co-authored by a doctoral...
This fall, the Divinity School and the School of Management are jointly sponsoring a seminar titled “Faith and Globalization” that will be taught by former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Yale Professor Miroslav Volf. The seminar will meet on...
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...