President Levin announces faculty appointmentsPresident Richard C. Levin recently announced several faculty reappointments:David Bercovici, professor of geology and geophysics, as chair of the Department of Geology and Geophysics, for three years,...
Dr. Nuland to talk about the ‘wonders’ of acupunctureDr. Sherwin Nuland, clinical professor of surgery, will be the guest speaker at the annual meeting and luncheon of the Yale Club of New Haven on May 5.Nuland will speak on “The Wonders of Acupuncture:...
Zedillo lectures at PrincetonErnesto Zedillo, director of the Center for the Study of Globalization, presented the Walter E. Edge Lecture at Princeton University on March 5. His talk was titled “Latin America: Two Hundred Years of Solitude.”The lecture...
Richard Deming wins award for his first poetry collectionRichard Deming, lecturer in English, has won the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America.The society will present its awards on April 29 at the National Arts Club in New...
Yale affiliates to participate in event celebrating ‘little known and familiar treasures’ in New HavenYale affiliates will be featured in the New Haven Museum and Historical Society’s spring lecture series, “Rediscovering Historic New Haven.”The series...
Yale University and UNITE HERE Locals 34 and 35, the two major unions representing Yale employees, have agreed on new three-year contracts more than nine months before the expiration of their current contracts. The new agreements will take effect January...
Kevin Koo and other medical students filed into the Yale Center for British Art recently to spend the afternoon looking at paintings.While future physicians with heavy course loads at the Yale School of Medicine usually don’t have the time to ponder art,...
In the autumn of 1609, the Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo Gallilei turned his telescope to the heavens, deciphering the cratered face of the moon, the four satellites of Jupiter and other features of the sky.The discoveries Galileo made 400...
The work of noted photographer Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964) will be highlighted in an exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.Titled “Living Portraits: Carl Van Vechten’s Color Photographs of African Americans 1939-1964,” the...
Translating basic research into new technologies that advance our health and welfare has been part of Yale’s “DNA” for centuries, and the pace of innovation at the University continues to accelerate dramatically. Visit the “Yale Innovators” website....