Three widely respected financial experts—Wall Street Economist Stephen Roach, Yale Professor Robert Shiller and former Dean of the Stern School of Business at NYU Thomas Cooley—will join the Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and...
The effectiveness of a recently passed law that increases regulation of the financial services industry will be the focus of a discussion by three widely respected financial experts on Wednesday, Sept. 15, at Yale.The experts — Wall Street economist...
Navigating our way down the street is something most of us take for granted; we seem to recognize cars, other people, trees and lampposts instantaneously and without much thought. In fact, visually interpreting our environment as quickly as we do is an...
From Yosemite’s iconic Half Dome mountain to the world’s tallest Himalayan peaks, many of the planet’s most dramatic landscapes have been carved by glaciers. These mammoth sheets of permanent ice, found on every continent except Australia, slide down...
In a Sept. 15 discussion on campus about the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, three noted financial experts shared the view that the sweeping legislation to prevent the kind of financial abuses that recently pushed the world to...
As UN personnel, diplomats, and representatives of NGOs gather in New York next week for the summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for addressing compelling world issues from poverty to clean water, Yale Divinity School (YDS) will host a...
The investigative reporter Nick Reding will read from and discuss his book “Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town” on October 7, as part of Yale College’s series of Francis Conversations with Writers and Editors.Co-sponsored by the...
Ever since audiences heard Goldfinger utter the famous line, “No, Mr. Bond; I expect you to die,” as a laser beam inched its way toward James Bond and threatened to cut him in half, lasers have been thought of as white-hot beams of intensely focused...
“Americans are going to have to adjust to a new reality” was the take-home message from journalist Fareed Zakaria ‘86, who took part in a discussion with President Richard C. Levin on Sept. 20 at the Whitney Humanities Center.The event was part of the...
A decade ago, a few faculty members at Yale created a new program based on a simple premise: that mental health treatment should focus not only on reducing a patient’s symptoms, but also on helping him or her to function.“We were only looking at half the...