Yale University has received a $7.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create the Microsavings & Payments Innovation Initiative (MPII), a research effort designed to understand and communicate the development potential of...
Sir John Major, former prime minister of the United Kingdom, will present the George Herbert Walker, Jr. Lecture in International Studies at Yale on November 30.His talk, titled “Fantasy to Reality: The World that Lies Ahead,” will be held at 4 p.m. in...
The program, initiated in 2008 at Jimma University, has already provided 23 senior Ethiopian health care professionals with the necessary leadership skills and management tools to improve the quality of health care for the people of Ethiopia. Eighteen...
Ten guiding principles to strengthen global health strategies and outcomes have been created by a Yale School of Public Health professor and other experts.Health systems strengthening (HSS) is a broad-based approach that addresses underlying causes of...
Yale University and Banco Santander signed a formal agreement January 14 that will provide financial support for three major educational priorities at Yale. The signing ceremony on the Yale Campus brought together Yale administrators, faculty, and...
A panel discussion featuring four experts on the history and political affairs of the Middle East will provide a primer for understanding the rapidly evolving social unrest in the region.Free and open to the public, the discussion will take place on...
Robert B. Zoellick, the President of the World Bank, will speak at Yale on Wednesday, February 9. Free and open to the public, the talk will take place at Luce Hall auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, at 4:15 p.m.The format of the talk, which is hosted by...
Yale University and the Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del Cusco (UNSAAC) today signed an agreement establishing the UNSAAC-Yale International Center for the Study of Machu Picchu and Inca Culture in Cusco, Peru.The Center will display,...
There will be a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “B-Minor Mass” by the renowned Bach Collegium Japan on Saturday, March 26, to benefit Yale’s relief efforts for survivors of the earthquake in Japan.Conducted by the founder of the Collegium, Masaaki...
New York Times columnist and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Nicholas Kristof will talk at Yale about his new book, “Half the Sky: From Oppression to Opportunity for Women Worldwide,” on Tuesday, April 5.His lecture, which is free and open to the public,...
