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January 13, 2016
Tariq Thachil has been named the Peter Strauss Family Assistant Professor of Political Science, and will be promoted to the Strauss Associate Professor in July.
January 12, 2016
How greatly does food advertising influence eating behavior?  Quite a bit, a new Yale University meta-analysis of 45 studies suggests. The results, the authors say,...
January 12, 2016
When Theodore P. Shen ’66 decided to help launch the Shen Curriculum for Musical Theater a decade ago, he wanted “to elevate American musical theater as an integral part of...
January 11, 2016
There will be a memorial service on Saturday, Jan. 23 for Herbert Scarf, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Economics, who died from heart failure on Nov. 15.
January 7, 2016
Funded by a $10 million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation, a team of researchers from Yale, Princeton, MIT, and the University of Pennsylvania aim to...
January 7, 2016
Monkeys, like humans, will take the time and effort to punish others who get more than their fair share, according to a study conducted at Yale. In fact, they can act...
January 6, 2016
Anthony Reed, associate professor of English and African American studies, was recently awarded the Modern Language Association of America’s 14th annual William Sanders...