Two Yale faculty members — William Nordhaus and Vesla M. Weaver — are among 33 scholars awarded fellowships from the Carnegie Corporation of New York to advance research in social sciences and humanities.The 2016 Andrew Carnegie Fellows were selected from...
Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science, grew up in South Africa during the apartheid era. He recalls that people there could easily list the regime’s injustices, but often struggled to describe a just alternative.This observation — people...
The opening of the new residential colleges this fall, and the corresponding influx of 761 undergraduates to a new area of campus, created a need for additional study space on nearby Science Hill.
A recent renovation at Yale’s Center for Science and...
William Nordhaus ’63 B.A., ’72 M.A., Sterling Professor of Economics, entered his classroom at Dunham Laboratory Monday morning to a burst of uproarious applause.
Hours earlier, Nordhaus learned that he had been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize in Economic...