Faculty appointments President Richard C. Levin announced the following appointments: Laura Engelstein, the Henry S. McNeil Professor of Russian History, as chair of the Department of History. Her term, which begins on July 1, will be for three years....
Edward Kamens named department chair President Richard C. Levin announced the appointment of Edward Kamens, the Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, as chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Kamens’ term will be for three...
Dr. Michael Caplan, the C.N.H. Long Professor and chair of the Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology at the Yale School of Medicine, has received the University’s first Postdoctoral Mentoring Prize.The new prize, to be presented annually, honors...
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences has honored seven Yale faculty with election as new members: Joseph G. Altonji, Peter Cresswell, Paul Harris Freedman, Alanna Schepartz, Günter P. Wagner, Elisabeth Jean Wood and Craig Milton Wright.They are among...
In recognition of his prolific contributions to the field of immunological research, Yale professor Ruslan Medzhitov, Ph.D., has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, the elite corps of researchers from the nation’s top scientific...
The inaugural session of the Yale Publishing Course July 18-23, 2010 will focus on “Leadership Strategies in a Time of Transition.”The Yale Course on the University campus is carrying on the mission of the now defunct Stanford Publishing Course to train...
It gives me great pleasure to announce the appointment of Jeffrey Brenzel TD ’75, Dean of Undergraduate Admissions, Lecturer in Philosophy, and current Timothy Dwight resident fellow, as the next Master of Timothy Dwight College for a period of five years...
Yale Law School graduate Ken Chen, currently executive director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop, has won the 2009 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.The Yale Series of Younger Poets is the longest-running poetry prize and is considered one...
Two Yale Law School students are among 30 students who have been awarded Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, which are given to “extraordinarily creative and accomplished young immigrants or children of immigrants.”The two — Isra Bhatty...
Martin Price, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and one of the 20th century’s most distinguished scholars of the Augustan Age and the history of the novel, died on April 10. He was 90 years old.Price’s preeminence as an authority on 18th-century...