As a child living in a rural area in eastern Tibet, His Holiness the 17th Karmapa Ogyen Trinley Dorje recalls a natural environment that was pristine and untarnished by modern development.It was there, he said during his Chubb Fellowship Lecture at Yale...
Analyzing ancient texts on cuneiform, or clay tablets, may seem like an esoteric endeavor.Not so, say the scholars working on the Yale Cuneiform Commentaries Project (CCP). They argue that these are just some of the first traces of a tradition that is...
Oktay Sinanoğlu, professor emeritus of chemistry and molecular biophysics and biochemistry, and a member of the Yale faculty for 37 years, died on April 19 at age 80.Oktay SinanoğluAn internationally renowned researcher who was known as “The Turkish...
Nine past, current, and soon-to-be students at Yale are among the 30 winners of 2015 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans.The fellows, selected from a pool of 1,200 applicants, will receive tuition and stipend assistance of up to $90,000 in...
Susan Jakes, editor for ChinaFile.com and senior fellow for the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations, will speak at Yale on Thursday, April 16 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism.Jakes will take part in a lunchtime discussion in Berkeley College,...