“The Yale Child Study Center Guide to Understanding Your Child” (Little, Brown and Company) is a new book for parents that focuses on children’s growth in four key areas-physical, cognitive, emotional and social. The book was written by developmental...
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven has given $100,000 toward the endowment fund for Women’s Health Research at Yale to help the program inform the community about landmark scientific studies and results. The grant, for The Community Fund...
President Richard C. Levin has named professor and former chair of psychology, Alan Kazdin, as the new director of the Yale Child Study Center. Kazdin, the John M. Musser Professor of Psychology and professor in the Yale Child Study Center, will begin...
The first annual Conference on Anthropological Approaches to Health Research will be held at Yale University on Saturday April 6. “Medical anthropology is the comparative study of medical systems, health beliefs and health practices,” says Yasmina...
In his new book, Yale political science professor Robert A. Dahl takes a provocative look at the U.S. Constitution and draws startling conclusions about its democratic foundations. “How Democratic Is the American Constitution?” explores the historic...
The Muriel Gardiner Program in Psychoanalysis and the Humanities at Yale will finish the academic year with two meetings in April. On Thursday April 18, Anne Higonnet will speak on “The Photographs of Sally Mann.” Higonnet is an associate professor of...
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Yale will host a talk by award-winning children’s book author Tololwa M. Mollel on March 27 at 5 p.m. in Room 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street. Sponsored by the Diversity Seminar Series, in...
Yale Divinity School and the Eastern Cluster of Lutheran Seminaries will celebrate the signing of an official partnership agreement on Wednesday, May 1, at 2 p.m. in the Niebuhr Lecture Hall, Yale Divinity School, 409 Prospect Street. The Eastern...
The role that religious institutions play in the continued spread of AIDS in Africa was among the topics discussed at a conference held February 28-March 3 at the Yale Divinity School. Fifty women from 14 countries and diverse faith traditions gathered...
At a conference to be held on March 29-30 at Yale University’s Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, poets and scholars will meet to ponder the ways in which beauty can be judged and described. Titled “The Future of the Aesthetic,” the conference...