The global economic crisis may have many of Yale’s newest alumni feeling apprehension about their futures, but they were nothing but high-spirited as they gathered for campus graduation celebrations.During the Commencement ceremony on the Old Campus on...
“Global Identities/Local Heroes” is the theme of this year’s International Festival of Arts & Ideas, running June 13-27.“Human beings need each other,’” says Mary Lou Aleskie, executive director of the festival. “Our annual gathering of hearts and...
While discussions are now underway about how best to use West Campus in the long term (see related story), some of the complex’s facilities are now available for use by the Yale community.Conference centerThis past year over 60 events were held in the...
Music from around the globe will be featured in a benefit concert being held at Yale as part of “The Art of Survival,” a program marking the annual World Refugee Day commemoration, established by the United Nations to raise public consciousness about the...
Yale’s Peabody Museum is taking advantage of the expansive woods, wetlands and nature trails on the 136-acre West Campus by offering two week-long summer day camps based there.“Critters Camp” will run Aug. 17-21. Designed for up to 24 students entering...
Jacob S. Hacker, who will return to teaching at Yale as the Stanley B. Resor Professor of Political Science, is an expert on the politics and character of U.S. social policy and on American political institutions.Hacker, who taught from 2002 to 2007 at...
This month, Yale University’s newly launched Global Health Leadership Institute will host “Strategic Problem Solving in Global Health,” an innovative conference that will bring together health officials from five countries and members of Yale’s global...