Painter and printmaker Alex Katz will speak at the Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel St., on February 9 at 6:30 p.m. Hosted by the Yale School of Art, the talk is free and open to the public. Katz is best known for his luminous, large-scale...
Four distinguished architects will hold visiting endowed professorships at Yale University’s School of Architecture during spring semester, Dean Robert A.M. Stern has announced. Each visiting professor will teach a studio course and present a public...
Yale President Levin to Formally Announce $500 Million Plan for Science and Engineering Facilities New Haven, Conn. –Yale University President Richard C. Levin will lead a tour of the University’s science and engineering facilities for federal, state...
The famed king of big band swing is back at Yale by popular demand. On February 11, the Yale University Concert Band will raise the spirit of Glenn Miller and the 418th Army Air Forces Band as they lived and played in New Haven more than a half century...
A new course offered by Yale’s International Security Studies Program aims to restore the subject of “grand strategy” to the academic agenda during a post-Cold War era that the course’s teachers contend sorely needs broad strategic thinking in...
New Haven, Conn.– If your faith in a continued bull-run on Wall Street hasn’t been shaken yet, you should take a sobering look at “Irrational Exuberance” by Yale Professor Robert J. Shiller. A respected expert on market volatility, Shiller argues in his...
It’s a small world and getting smaller, thanks, in part, to Kang-i Sun Chang, whose latest book, “Reflections on Yale, Gender, and Culture,” will be published in China next month. Chang is a literature professor at Yale. Her writing in English is...
Students at Hill Regional Career Magnet High School in New Haven are learning science with the only microscope of its kind to be found in a public school in Connecticut. The Zeiss EM109 electron microscope, worth more than some city schools’ annual...
A new light sensitive drug used to treat the most severe form of macular degeneration, which is the leading cause of blindness in people over 50, is being tested at Yale School of Medicine. The drug, verteporfin, is expected to receive approval by the U...
A Yale researcher has discovered that it is not necessary to have a greasy core in order to fold a protein, which is a whole new way of looking at these critical molecules. Protein folds within each cell are of great interest to researchers,...