Noted China Central Television (CCTV) news anchor and commentator Bai Yansong will visit the campus as a Poynter Fellow on Tuesday, March 31.Bai will discuss “American Dream — Chinese Dream: The Future of U.S./China Relations Under the Obama...
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, will give the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture in International Studies at Yale on April 9.His talk, titled “A Historically Relevant Foreign Policy,” will be held at 4 p.m...
Two-year-olds with autism lack an important building block of social interaction that prompts newborn babies to pay attention to other people. Instead, these children pay attention to physical relationships between movement and sound and miss critical...
Yale University today filed suit to resolve title to The Night Café, the world-renowned painting by Vincent van Gogh that has been in the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery for almost 50 years. Yale acquired The Night Cafe in 1961 by bequest of...
‘Not for Men Only’ talk to focus on the issue of prostate healthThe Auxiliary of Yale-New Haven Hospital (Y-NHH) will sponsor a free community health education lecture, “Not for Men Only,” a talk about prostate health including causes, symptoms and...
Yale researchers to speak at stem cell symposiumYale scientists will join researchers from around the world to offer their views of the rapidly evolving world of stem cell research at StemConn 09, Connecticut’s International Stem Cell Research Symposium....
Bruce Ackerman to discuss his book about civil liberties at Yale Club eventAs part of its spring speaker series, the Yale Club of New Haven will feature Bruce Ackerman at noon on Tuesday, April 7.The event will take place at the New Haven Lawn Club, 193...
Playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Yale Drama Series Award for her play about a former Guantánamo Bay detainee who was tortured.The prize includes a $10,000 award from the David C. Horn Foundation, along with a...
John Middleton, professor emeritus of anthropology and an internationally renowned Africanist scholar, died on Feb. 27 after a brief hospitalization. He was 87 years old.Middleton’s field work and major ethnographic writings on African cultures forged new...
Stephen A. Kezerian, former director of the Yale University News Bureau, died on March 9, in Berkeley, California, of natural causes at age 87.Kezerian was the press and public information officer for Yale for 37 years. He retired in 1985, and was science...