Five alumni have been selected by the Association of Yale Alumni (AYA) to receive its highest award, the Yale Medal.This year’s recipients are J. Kenneth Brody ‘44, ‘49 LL.B., Susanna E. Krentz ‘80, James Leitner ‘75, Bobbi Mark ‘76 and Ambassador Joseph...
Donna Diers, a former dean at Yale School of Nursing (YSN), has been named a 2010 “Living Legend” by the American Academy of Nursing (AAN).The AAN’s highest recognition, the Living Legend designation is awarded to distinguished leaders in the nursing...
Randy Olson, a marine biologist-turned-filmmaker who examines scientific topics with a comedic flair, will visit the campus as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism on Wednesday, Sept. 29.Olson will introduce and screen his 2008 mocumentary/documentary/reality...
One message that University Chaplain Sharon Kugler imparts to the many students with whom she crosses paths is that sometimes finding answers is not as important as raising questions.“I find today’s students to be very deep thinkers,” explains Kugler. “...
This summer, a group of New Haven public school students traded long, lazy days for weeks of intensive music study as the inaugural fellows at the Morse Summer Music Academy at the Yale School of Music.Nominated by New Haven Public School teachers and...
Tomorrow’s global citizens are honing their leadership skills today at Yale’s Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at the MacMillan Center, which celebrated its official opening Sept. 19-20. (See related story.)The institute is working to internationalize...
Dr. Joel Gelernter, the newly named Foundations’ Fund Professor of Psychiatry, focuses his research on the genetics of psychiatric illness.The director of the Division of Human Genetics in the Department of Psychiatry, Gelernter seeks to identify genes...
George L. Priest, the newly appointed Edward J. Phelps Professor of Law, is considered one of the nation’s foremost antitrust scholars.He also conducts research and teaches in the areas of capitalism or democracy; products liability; regulated industries...
“The Case of the Spectator,” a multi-media work by Spanish performance artist María Jerez, will make its American premiere Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 23-25, as the first offering in this year’s “No Boundaries” series.Designed to celebrate the diversity of...
The following study by the Cultural Cognition Project appears on the Law School website:Despite the emergence and widespread reporting of scientific evidence, the public is highly divided on climate change and other matters on which there is consensus or...