President Richard C. Levin announced today that Yale has received a $50 million gift to establish the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. “The Jackson Institute will become a signature program, marking Yale’s global aspirations. Its teaching programs...
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, two-term president of Brazil, will speak at Yale University as a Chubb Fellow, a Downey Fellow and a visiting fellow of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization.Fernando Henrique Cardoso, two-term president of Brazil, will...
Will the materials we use in everyday products end up in our water supply? How much metal does the developed world use in computers, cars and skyscrapers? These questions were at the heart of two research papers written by Yale environmental engineers...
Yale University will open two buildings central to its music programs, Gustave Stoeckel Hall and Albert Arnold Sprague Memorial Hall, to the public on April 18 at 2 p.m. for a tour that will highlight recent architectural renovations and enhancements.Both...
We may be too late to save the world from meltdown, but we have to try anyway, so said writer and environmental activist Bill McKibben to the audience that had gathered in Marquand Chapel to hear his lecture on global warming.McKibben — whose April 3 talk...
Yale University has completed construction of a new ultra-green building—designed to use 50 percent less energy than a comparably sized modern building—for its School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES). Kroon Hall achieves its remarkable...
Japanese Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki will speak at Yale on April 22 at 4:30 p.m. in Room 101, Linsley-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street. His talk is titled, “Closer Cooperation: Economy, Energy, Environment.” The event, hosted by the Council on East Asian...
Evan Osnos, a staff writer for The New Yorker based in Beijing, will discuss “China in the Age of Obama: Democrats, Identity, and Style” on Monday, April 27 at Yale.This lecture, sponsored by The Council on East Asian Studies and the Poynter Fellowship in...
After 88 days alone with the sounds of the ocean, meals of only freeze-dried rations or energy bars, and wind that blew him every which way but toward land, Paul Ridley is home. On March 29, Ridley completed a 3,500-mile solo row across the Atlantic Ocean...
Yale University Library joined with UNESCO, the Library of Congress and 30 international institutions in Paris today to launch the World Digital Library, a website that features unique cultural materials from libraries and archives around the world.The...