Informed discussion can profoundly affect people’s positions on issues of mutual interest, according to an innovative poll conducted at Yale University this weekend. The New Haven Regional Dialogue, a Deliberative Poll conducted at Yale on March 1-3,...
It is hard to figure out what all those polls really show about who is likely to win the November 7 Presidential Election, but help is now available. Yale University political science professors Donald Green and Alan Gerber, with statistics graduate...
The College Entrance Examination Board’s scoring of Advanced Placement (AP) exams is unrealistically inflated, says William Lichten, professor emeritus of physics at Yale and a fellow of the Institution of Social and Policy Studies, in a newly-published...
The College Board’s campaign to offer 10 Advanced Placement classes in every high school is misguided because few of the students enrolled in expanded AP programs will receive passing scores on the exam, a Yale study shows. William Lichten, a fellow at...
Most poor people in the United States are white, but the news media generally show them as black, according to research by Martin Gilens, assistant professor of political science and a fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale...
Dr. Jay Katz, an eminent scholar in reproductive technology law and ethics who served on the Yale Law School faculty for over five decades, died of heart failure on Nov. 17 in New Haven. He was 86 years old.Katz was the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor...
Carol R. Ember, executive director of the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF), has been elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).The AAAS awarded the distinction to 486 of its members this year. Ember was chosen for...
In celebration of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150 year anniversary of publication of his Origin of the Species, Yale has created a webportal, Yale Celebrates Darwin. The portal provides links to information about all the...
President Richard C. Levin and faculty colleagues will participate in a panel discussion Tuesday, Feb. 17, on the global financial crisis.Organized by the Yale College Council and the Yale Student Investment Group, the free public panel, “Understanding...
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...
