The Yale Concert Band will mark the 50th anniversary of the “sent-down” youth movement of China’s Cultural Revolution in a concert on Thursday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Woolsey Hall, corner of College and Grove streets.
The band will be joined by the SYGQ...
This commentary by Yale President Peter Salovey was published in the Feb. 27 issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Many Americans today are skeptical about the value of higher education.
Last summer, a study from the Pew Research Center found that...
Diana B. Henriques, an author and former senior writer at The New York Times, will speak at Yale on Saturday, March 3, as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
Henriques will speak at TEDxYale. Her talk, “Trust, Lies, and Bernie Madoff: Lessons from a Con Man...
Robert Pear, a domestic correspondent at The New York Times, will discuss his over 40-year career at the newspaper at Yale on Monday, March 5, as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.
Pear’s talk, “Four Decades Reporting on Health Care for the New York Times,”...
This commentary by Yale President Peter Salovey appeared online in Scientific American on Feb. 27.
If knowledge is power, then scientists should easily be able to influence the behavior of others and world events. After all, scientists spend their entire...
The manipulation of political messages and images — including images of war and political narratives — will be explored during the fourth Poynter Fellowship Symposium “Truth and the Internet Age” on Tuesday, March 6.
The symposium, “When Images Lie:...
The deep partisan divisions in America and the question of whether we’ve reached a point of no return will be discussed in a panel discussion called “Hyperpartisan: Who Destroyed American Politics?” on Tuesday, March 6.
The panel will feature two former...
Update: Due to impending inclement weather, this talk has been canceled. It will be rescheduled for a later date this fall.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, professor of communication and director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of...