Does evolution explain human nature? Three experts explored this question on Sept. 24 during a panel discussion sponsored by Yale University, Discover Magazine and the John Templeton Foundation. A video of the discussion, moderated by Corey S. Powell,...
Climate change doesn’t just pose a scientific challenge; it also creates an ethical obligation for those of us in the developed world, according to Rajendra Pachauri, who gave the inaugural talk in the Yale Climate and Energy Institute’s (YCEI) weekly...
“Each year the houses get better and better, and I mean that in all sincerity,” said Yale School of Architecture Dean Robert A.M. Stern, at the dedication of the 2009 house designed and built by the school’s first-year students in the Hill neighborhood of...
Yale College senior Jocelyn Traina is studying a protein implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. She needs to know physics to understand the lasers that she uses, biology to purify the protein for experiments, chemistry to test how it reacts in those...
Alumni from around the world will gather in New Haven to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Afro-American Cultural Center at Yale, 211 Park Street, October 16-18.The weekend will include a conference titled “Charting a Course for the Next Generation of...
A formal dedication of Yale’s new Maurice R. Greenberg Conference Center, a state-of-the-art facility supporting the University’s burgeoning agenda of international programs, took place on Sept. 21.Among the celebrants and speakers at the day’s event were...
Pursuing the research that earned him a Nobel Prize was akin to climbing Mount Everest, said Thomas Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry.
Steitz, who is also a professor of chemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute...
As executive director of Yale Dining Services, overseeing 27 campus food operations, Rafi Taherian is keenly aware of the truth of the saying that “the best is the enemy of the good” — that a demand by food purists for organic, local and fresh ingredients...
What if the world could agree on a shared creation story based on modern cosmology and biology? Could this help resolve the undeniable global problems we face today within the context of a new cosmic perspective?Yale University invites you to explore...
The Whitney Humanities Center at Yale, 53 Wall St., is rolling out the red carpet on October 23–24 for the 40th birthday of “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” the classic movie that teamed American cinema icons Paul Newman and Robert Redford in...