Daniel A. Spielman, the newly designated Henry Ford II Professor of Computer Science, focuses his research on the design and analysis of algorithms, graph theory, machine learning, error-correcting codes and combinatorial scientific computing.He has been...
Up-and-coming singers in Yale Opera will be featured in two evenings of selected opera scenes, including such audience favorites as Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and Verdi’s “La Traviata.”The performances will take place on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 29 and 30,...
How worried should we be about our privacy when we engage in Web surfing, blogging, Tweeting, social networking, video sharing and other online activities? That topic will be examined during a Privacy and Innovation Symposium taking place on Friday, Oct....
Yale senior Chika Ota spends some time each week rummaging through the local Salvation Army Thrift Store and fishing through campus recycling bins. She’s always on the lookout for objects that others have discarded, which she can use to design and create...
The “worlds” in a bowl of soup will be brought to life in a lecture by noted food writer and memorialist Claudia Roden on Thursday, Oct. 28.Roden, who turned the pleasures of eating into a division of cultural anthropology, will discuss “A Good Soup Holds...
Over the years, many orthopaedists have been invited to deliver the annual Southwick Lecture, which honors the Yale professor who was the first chair of the University orthopaedics department.But this year’s speaker has a unique qualification: He is the...
Undergraduates and their family members were reunited, many for the first time since the fall semester began, during Family Weekend, Oct. 22-23.The annual program not only offers students and their loved ones a chance to catch up with one another other,...
This story is from the Yale School of Public Health website.An ambitious plan to improve eating habits and to encourage other healthy behaviors was launched recently in New Haven schools by a Yale research group that seeks to stem high rates of chronic...
The ancient love story of Orpheus and Eurydice is re-imagined in a godless present-day in the Yale School of Drama’s first production of its season, “Eurydice” by French playwright Jean Anouilh.In the mythical story, the two lovers are separated when...