Following the launch of New Haven Promise, a Yale-funded college scholarship program for public school students, the City’s long-time chief executive, Mayor John DeStefano Jr., will come to the University as a Chubb Fellow on November 16 and 17 to share...
The Yale Department of Classics will host a talk and symposium Tuesday and Wednesday, Nov. 16 and 17, that mines ancient history to understand a paradox that has long intrigued economists: the countries richest in natural resources are the poorest in...
Judith A. Carney, Siddharth Kara and Richard Nicholas Rosomoff have been selected as co-winners of the 2010 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, awarded for the best book written in English on slavery or abolition. Carney, professor of geography at UCLA, and...
Following on the success of its inaugural program in the summer of 2010, the Yale Publishing Course has announced that the 2011 program, “Leadership Strategies in a Time of Tradition,” will be expanded to two sessions: a July 10th – 15th session focusing...
Rodney T. Cohen, formerly of Presbyterian College in South Carolina, has been named as assistant dean of Yale College and director of the Afro-American Cultural Center, announced Yale College Dean Mary Miller.Since 2006, Cohen served as director for...
Juan J. Linz, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Social Sciences, has been awarded the prestigious 2010 European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences.The prize, established in 1987 at the initiative of the Italian Association...
Three scholars, all women, joined the senior faculty at Yale Divinity School (YDS) effective July 1, completing what Dean Harold W. Attridge termed “a very successful year of recruiting.”“These new colleagues — Jennifer Herdt, Mary Moschella and Kathryn...
The Organization of American States (OAS) has extended its scholarship and financial aid benefits, geared towards students from Latin America and the Caribbean who are interested in pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees, to include those attending Yale’s...
There will be a memorial service honoring Martin Price, Sterling Professor Emeritus of English, at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, May 27, in Rm. 211 of the Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York St.A reception will follow.Price, who died on April 10 at age 90, was a...
David E. Apter, the Henry J. Heinz II Professor Emeritus of Comparative Political and Social Development and a noted scholar on the birth of developing nations, died May 4 at his home in North Haven from complications from cancer. He was 85.Apter, who...