Liberty Media and Liberty Global Chairman John Malone, Yale College Class of 1963, has made a gift of $50 million to Yale School of Engineering & Applied Science (SEAS) to endow ten new professorships, President Richard C. Levin announced today. The...
Sean Faircloth, Executive Director of the Secular Coalition for America, will deliver a public address on American humanism at Yale on Sunday, April 3.Titled, “One Nation Under the Constitution: A Vision of a Secular America,” the free talk takes place at...
Manhattan’s District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. (Yale College Class of ‘77) will give a public talk at Yale on March 30, at 7 p.m., in Room 102 of Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street.In his talk, titled “Leadership, Law and Public Service Today,” Vance...
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,...
Cable-news host and political pundit Rachel Maddow described the unique challenges of being a serious reporter on the unabashedly liberal cable-network MSNBC during a talk at the Yale Law School on March 28.Maddow was invited to speak on campus by Amy...
Gilead Sciences, Inc. and the Yale School of Medicine today announced the formation of a multi-year research collaboration focused on the discovery of novel cancer therapies.The research effort will initially span four years with an option to renew for up...
Thanks to the efforts of Yale College junior Justine Kolata, noted human rights activists and scholars from a variety of disciplines will converge on the Yale campus on April 2 to discuss enhancing the role of human rights in the academic curriculum. The...
Today’s announcement that Yale and the National University of Singapore will create a new liberal arts college in Singapore represents the first time that Yale has partnered with an outside institution to create an entirely new curriculum — one based on...
Fuel cells have been touted as a cleaner solution to tomorrow’s energy needs, with potential applications in everything from cars to computers.But one reason fuel cells aren’t already more widespread is their lack of endurance. Over time, the catalysts...
Sub-Saharan Africa is struggling with twin epidemics — HIV and heroin addiction — and Tanzania, in eastern Africa, is one of the hardest-hit regions.But now, with funding from the U.S. government and organizational expertise from Yale, an effort is...