On a brisk Saturday morning in November, pre-teen girls from across the greater New Haven area clamored around a large pile of pipe cleaners, sparkles, crayons, pom poms and glue sticks. Scattered throughout were less-familiar items: alligator clips, wire...
Not many teachers would have the courage to ask, on the last day of class, how many of the nearly 180 students sitting before him had been dreading the course when it first began back in September. But that’s exactly what Scott Miller, the Irénée duPont...
Ira Flatow, host and executive producer of “Talk of the Nation: Science Friday” on National Public Radio, will give a public lecture on campus on Tuesday, February 10.Titled “Talking Science in A Science-Challenged World,” Flatow’s talk will begin at 4 p....
The Yale University Police Department (YPD) will once again host its Citizen’s Police Academy beginning March 24 for members of the Yale and New Haven community.The academy is free of charge and takes place over a six-week period on Tuesdays, 6–8:30 p.m...
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...
Kirsten Gillibrand, the new U.S. Senator from New York, occupying the seat vacated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is a graduate of the Women’s Campaign School at Yale University (WCSY).Gillibrand, a Democrat who had been reelected in November to...
Governor Deval Patrick will deliver the keynote address at the Annual Black History Month Dinner at a Yale residential college on February 13, 5:30 p.m. Hosted by Pierson College and the Afro-American Cultural Center, the address and dinner are free and...
Yale University Library has received a $5 million dollar gift from Arcadia, a United Kingdom-based grant-making fund established in 2001, to make the library’s important collections of international materials more available through cataloguing and...
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...