This month, in addition to frequenting lecture halls during class time and fulfilling guest speaker engagements, a select group of Yale professors will be establishing their presence through another medium: television.An upcoming Connecticut Public...
The woman was angry when her two children began to misbehave at the grocery store and defy her requests to clean up after themselves, something they never did when she was shooting heroin.Instead of immediately punishing her children, the woman stopped...
A document titled “Doing Virtuous Business” — based on the book “Spiritual Enterprise” by Theodore Malloch, senior research scholar at the Yale Divinity School (YDS) — will be screened at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the school’s Niebuhr Hall, 490...
Benoit B. Mandelbrot, the Yale professor who gave the world mathematical tools to describe such complex phenomena as clouds and the patterns of leaves on trees, died last week at the age of 85.The “father of fractal geometry,” Mandelbrot worked at Yale...
“If a stranger asked you for the keys to your home, you would just give it to him, right?”That’s the slogan on a new poster that warns campus community members to beware of “phishing” emails — messages that falsely claim to be from legitimate...
When photographer Bernie Staggers arrived at work in March 2009, he was not expecting the news he was about to receive. In 90 days, his job as a photographer would be eliminated.“When I was notified, a combined sense of disbelief, sadness and anger...
Over the weekend, current staffers at the Yale Daily News (YDN), the oldest college daily in the nation (founded January 28, 1878), welcomed alumni of the publication to campus to celebrate the rededication of Briton Madden Memorial Hall, the newspaper’s...
After spending six days in intensive care fighting her way through another life-threatening condition, Yale hockey player Mandi Schwartz got some much-needed positive news in her battle with cancer on Friday.Tests have confirmed that, 23 days after her...
October 15, 2010Dear Members of the Yale Community:I write in response to concern over the DKE incident on Yale’s Old Campus Wednesday evening. I speak for the University in expressing my outrage that such words were shouted on this campus.That said, I...
In August of 1890, American artist John La Farge (1835-1910) and his friend, the renowned historian Henry Adams (1838-1918), embarked on a journey to the islands of the South Pacific that would keep them away from home for more than a year — with stops in...