Updated: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 8:06pm
The China India Consumer Insights Program, an initiative of the Yale Center for Customer Insights, was established by Professor K. Sudhir last year. The program’s first annual conference will be held this weekend, April 3-4, at the School of Management, featuring speakers from various business schools and...
After almost four years of rapid economic expansion, the entire Icelandic banking system melted down last October, resulting in the biggest banking collapse that any country has suffered, relative to its size. The country’s financial success from 2003 to 2007 — during which the Icelandic stock market multiplied by nine times — turned out to be a debacle when the...
Are we alone in the universe? It is a question that has perplexed mankind for centuries — and now two Yale scientists are part of the latest NASA search for the elusive answer. Earlier this month, NASA launched the Kepler Mission — a robotic probe capable of finding Earth-sized and smaller planets around other stars in the Milky Way that may support extraterrestrial...
Consistent with a pledge University President Richard Levin made in December, and despite the recession, Yale is continuing to hire faculty at a normal rate. In interviews, six administrators and eight department chairs said the University has been actively recruiting candidates for several dozen faculty positions. And because of this, the administrators said, Yale is...
Dean Shelly Lowe is leaving one Ivy Native American program for another — one in Cambridge. Lowe, director of the University’s Native American Cultural Center, will leave Yale in June to become the executive director of the Harvard University Native American Program. In her new position, Lowe will have the opportunity to continue her doctorate research on higher...
Walk into any room 204 on the Yale campus, and there’s a good chance that you will find a Charney teaching class. All three members of the Charney family are teaching at Yale College this semester, and all three have been assigned to teach in various room 204s across campus. “At first, Jim was assigned to LC 204, Noah was assigned to Trumbull 204, and I was also...
Rajendra Pachauri, the current chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will lead the newly formed Yale Climate and Energy Institute, University President Richard Levin announced March 10. Pachauri, who accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC, is a world-renowned economist and leader in the international policy debate on...
To cope with the University-mandated 7.5 percent cut in total staff salary costs, the School of Management will lay off “a number” of staff while reducing work hours for others, SOM Dean Sharon Oster announced this month. Staff to be laid off will be notified “shortly,” she said, although University Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Michael...
To cope with the University-mandated 7.5 percent cut in total staff salary costs, the School of Management will lay off “a number” of staff while reducing work hours for others, SOM Dean Sharon Oster announced Tuesday. Staff to be laid off will be notified “shortly,” she said, although University Vice President for Human Resources and Administration Michael...
Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, will lead the new Yale Climate and Energy Institute, University President Richard Levin announced Tuesday at the International Scientific Congress on Climate Change in Denmark. Pachauri, who accepted the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the IPCC, is a renowned economist and...
Sir Peter Crane, a geophysical sciences professor at the University of Chicago, will replace Gus Speth ’64 LAW ’69 as the dean of the School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, University President Richard Levin announced in an e-mail message to the environment school community Wednesday afternoon. “Sir Peter is a scientist of world-class stature, a proven leader...
The Board of Permanent Officers voted to appoint Jessica Brantley, formerly an assistant professor, to tenure yesterday afternoon. She is now an associate professor. Brantley specializes in Old and Middle English literature, manuscript studies, text-image relations and the history of the book. In December 2007, she released a book entitled “Reading in the Wilderness,”...
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