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01/19/19

Across disciplines, Yale forges rich ties to the Middle East

  Last spring, Kishwar Rizvi, professor of the history of art, led a group of eight graduate students to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as part of her seminar “Museum and Nation.” Rizvi’s students conducted fieldwork there and later hosted a symposium o...
Afghan students visiting Yale CEID
01/15/19

Yale Students mentor international high school students in STEM-related robotics competition in Mexico City

  This story originally appeared in Yale Engineering magazine. There are plenty of challenges involved with designing and building robots — even more so when you’re working from several different points on Earth. This past summer, 17 Yale students...
PrepaTec Adopts Yale RULER Program
01/14/19

Yale's RULER program for EQ implemented at 37 PrepaTec schools in Mexico

Although society has traditionally favored a high IQ over a high EQ (emotional intelligence quota), experts believe that the latter can significantly improve a person’s quality of life. At the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence, researchers have devised a way to...
Anne Underhill
01/09/19

Archaeologist Anne Underhill’s long-standing collaboration with Shandong University in China

Professor Anne Underhill, who is chair of the Anthropology Department, has collaborated with archaeologists at Shandong University, China, on regional surveys and excavation work since 1995—initiating one of the first Sino-American archaeology projects— to help und...
HAPPINESS Project
01/09/19

HAPPINESS Project increases access to mental health treatment in Nigeria

Research from the World Health Organization (WHO) has found that more than 500 million people worldwide suffer from mental health disorders, costing the global economy more than $1 trillion in U.S. dollars annually in lost productivity. Of those people, a f...
12/21/18

AYA to YAA: Yale Alumni Association announces new name, visual identity, and website

Meet the Yale Alumni Association. After four decades as the Association of Yale Alumni, the organization by and for Yale alumni has changed its name as part of a comprehensive rebranding that includes a new visual identity, a refined mission statement, and a new website to be...
12/20/18

A Dream of Sustainable Surgery in Uganda

Nasser Kakembo, MD, is a pediatric surgeon—one of just four among the 200 surgeons who serve more than 40 million people in Uganda. He gets up at 5 a.m. every weekday and drives 40 minutes to the hospital in Kampala, the capital city. He recently treated a young orphan ...
Helen Gichohi
12/18/18

Looking for Balance Between Conservation and Development in Africa

Posed as a question, it sounds like a corny joke. Why do they need to build the highways in Africa so high? So giraffes can walk underneath! But for ecologists like Helen Gichohi, it’s a legitimate concern. As the African continent aims to modernize its infras...
12/17/18

Pension Plan in China Improves Mental Health

A new social pension program in rural China isn’t just providing older adults with more financial security, Yale School of Public Health researchers say, it’s also improving their mental health. It may seem obvious that a post-retirement pension income is going to...
Yale-NUS in Singapore
12/13/18

"An Educated Core" - Examining liberal arts curriculum at Yale-NUS

Rethinking what liberal-arts undergraduates ought to learn, and how A recent article in Harvard Magazine by John S. Rosenberg examines new approaches in liberal arts undergraduate teaching and learning with a focus on the curriculum of several institutions, including Yale-NUS...

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