With the help of a $1.95 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Graduate School will offer a new concentration for PhD students entitled “Technologies of Knowledge” next spring. Part of the grant’s broader aim to enhance humanities education at Yale, the new concentration will provide 12 third-year doctoral students with an additional »
Earlier today, Brian Kobilka MED ’81 was one of two American scientists awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He will share the prize with his former mentor, Robert Lefkowitz, a professor of biochemistry at Duke University. Kobilka and Lefkowitz have made significant progress in unraveling the workings of G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs), a large »
True to their name, the 15 participants in Yale’s first-ever “Directed Studies for Life” are keeping in touch. Andrew Lipka ’78 recently sent a holiday card (see above photo) to participants and faculty in the program, which last summer brought alumni, their spouses and parents of Yale students back to campus to study the classics. »
Professor Steven Smith announced that he will stop teaching the popular Introduction to Political Philosophy class for the time being — instead, interested students can read the course’s material in a new book due for release next year. At the end of his Wednesday lecture to the course, the final of the semester, Smith said »
Theater fans across Yale packed the Calhoun dining hall on Friday to scramble for a better view of the one, the only, Patti LuPone. LuPone has been dominating the Broadway stage for over 30 years in roles ranging from Eva Peron in Evita to Fantine in Les Miserables to Rose in Gypsy and to Reno »