Carnegie Professor Emeritus of the History of Art Walter Cahn will deliver the first spring-term Franke lecture at the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) at Yale in this semester’s series, “The Age of Cathedrals.”His talk, titled “Romanesque and Gothic as...
Sons of adolescent fathers are nearly twice as likely to perpetuate the cycle of young parenthood and become teenage dads themselves, a new study by the Yale School of Public Health has found.Previous studies have documented the intergenerational cycle of...
Yale student musicians, including the incomparable Whiffenpoofs and Yale Gospel Choir, will put on a concert, “Help Can’t Wait Haiti,” to raise money for victims of the Haiti earthquake on Monday evening, Martin Luther King Day.The benefit concert will...
When Yale’s undergraduate concert orchestra, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, performs Alexander Scriabin’s “Prometheus: The Poem of Fire” on February 13, it will be the first full-production of this multimedia work to benefit from contemporary lighting...
Yale President Richard C. Levin presented a $5,000 contribution for Haitian relief efforts today to Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations, at the opening ceremony of the Global Colloquium of University Presidents.“As a caring, global...
Thanks to genetic data gleaned from the bones found in a several museum collections, an international team of researchers led by scientists from Yale believes it may be possible to resurrect a tortoise species hunted to extinction by whalers visiting the...
Traffic and parking experts Tom Vanderbilt and Donald Shoup will speak at Yale on “Traffic, Parking and our Green Future” on January 19 at 7 p.m. in Sudler Hall at 100 Wall St. The forum is free and open the public.Their talk is being presented by Yale...
As the world mobilizes to help the people of Haiti, the following Yale experts are available to speak to reporters about the problems facing survivors of the devastating earthquake such as post-traumatic stress disorder, disease prevention and disaster...
Yale University announced the launch of a website designed to provide information about federal grants the University has received through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA). The website can be found at http://opa.yale.edu/sp/arra.Faculty...
Yale School of Art is holding a silent auction of small-scale work by students and faculty from January 25 to February 8 to benefit victims of the earthquake in Haiti.The donated works will be on display at Green Hall Gallery, 1156 Chapel Street, from...