Senior Kevin Beckford and 2009 Yale College graduate Nicholas Handler were among 30 American students from 800 applicants selected for Gates Cambridge Scholarships. In addition, Beckford and senior Kayla Vinson, both of Davenport College, are among 25...
This story originally appeared on the website of the Consortium on Financial Systems and Poverty (CFSP), a private research organization comprised of leading and emerging economists. Its goal is to improve the lives of the world’s poor and to reduce...
The darker side of learning the art of acting is explored in “The Method Gun,” the next performance in “No Boundaries: A Series of Global Performances,” presented by the Yale Repertory Theatre and the World Performance Project.The Austin, Texas-based...
On Monday, more than 100 of the brightest science and engineering students who have applied to Yale completed a weekend visit to campus. The event marked the University’s first organized recruiting of high school students identified as particularly gifted...
Open Yale Courses, which will be releasing another set of undergraduate courses this spring, has added a new dimension to its offering by engaging in a social networking pilot project with the website OpenStudy.OpenStudy is designed to connect users in a...
Yale professor Jorge Galan has been named winner of the 2011 Koch Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the field of microbiology.Galan — who is the Lucille P. Markey Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis, professor of cell biology and chair of the...
Every year, students and faculty from the Yale School of Nursing travel to La Escuelita (Little School) in Managua, Nicaragua, where they provide health screenings and work with community organizations to offer follow up care.YSN is holding two...
This article originally appeared on the Yale School of Management news site.An article written by Robert J. Shiller, the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, was recently named one of the “top 20” articles in the 100-year history of the American...
Alfred Guy, assistant dean of academic affairs, was still sitting on the hot seat when time ran out on “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire” on Monday, Feb. 14.He’d made it through nine questions, and used up all of his lifelines. He had an accumulated...
Some might call much of Jordan Colosi’s work tedious, transferring varieties of vertebrate specimens from old jars into new ones at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History. But in combing through an estimated 50,000 jars, she’s getting a close up view...