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...
An archive tracing the life and work of a woman who was a dancer, set designer and the wife of film star Rudolph Valentino before becoming a renowned Egyptologist was recently donated to the Yale Egyptological Institute in Egypt, part of the Department of...
Three Yale Law School students have been named Paul & Daisy Soros New American Fellows for 2009. Carel Alé, Andres Idarraga and Alexandru Iftimie — all first-year law students — are among 31 accomplished young people chosen for the honor this year....
Twelve years ago, the Yale Law School hosted a conference bringing together many of the founding members of critical race theory, an approach to civil rights that challenges the ability of conventional legal strategies to deliver social and economic...
Martin Jesse Klein, a historian of modern physics and former senior editor of “The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein,” passed away on March 28. He was 84 years old.At Yale, Klein was the Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of the History of Physics and...
The Yale Law School’s ties to Guantánamo date back to the early 1990s, when a group of Yale faculty members and students sued the U.S. government to secure the right to visit their clients, who were among the hundreds of Haitian refugees who were being...
When he was first given an opportunity to see evidence against his client, Yale law student Joseph Pace ‘10 thought he might find what lawyers normally dread: proof of guilt.But in this case, his client — a middle-aged citizen of Algeria named Mammar...
There will be a memorial service on Sunday, April 5, for Dr. Jay Katz, the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor Emeritus of Law, Medicine and Psychiatry, who died on Nov. 17 at age 86.The service will take place at 1 p.m. in the Law School’s Levinson Auditorium...