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Twenty years of peace: Progress and possibilities in Northern Ireland
12/10/18

Twenty years of peace: Progress and possibilities in Northern Ireland

On November 30, the MacMillan Center, in conjunction with Queen’s University Belfast, hosted a conference commemorating and reflecting on twenty years of the Good Friday Agreement, titled “Twenty Years of Peace: Progress and Possibilities in Northern Ireland.&rdquo...
Preserving Cultural Heritage
12/07/18

Yale Co-hosts "Culture in Crisis" Conference Focused on Conserving Culture, Nature

  The benefits of both wildlife and heritage conservation were the focus of the 2018 “Culture in Crisis” Conference convened in October at the University of Pretoria (UP) in South Africa. The event was co-hosted by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Y...
Dechen Wangmo
12/06/18

YSPH Alumna Appointed Top Health Official in Bhutan

Yale School of Public Health alumna Dechen Wangmo, M.P.H., ’07, has been appointed Minister of Health of her homeland: the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan.  Wangmo is the lone woman among 10 new cabinet members appointed by newly elected Prime Minister Lotay Tshering f...
Yale Interventional Radiology Initiative
12/05/18

Yale Establishes Tanzania Interventional Radiology Initiative

When Frank Minja, MD, traveled to his native country of Tanzania, East Africa in 2014 to help improve radiology services at the Muhimbili National Hospital campus in Dar es Salaam, he knew the task would be complex and demanding. Minja, an assistant professor of neur...
Photo by Yale-NUS
11/28/18

Yale Economics Professor kicks off Yale-NUS Lecture on Global Affairs

  Yale-NUS College hosted the inaugural Yale-NUS Lecture on Global Affairs this past Fall. The lecture was the first in a series of annual talks sponsored by Professor Saw Swee Hock. Delivered by Yale Professor of Economics Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, the lecture focused on w...
Multidisciplinary student teams collaborate to address water scarcity in South Africa
11/27/18

Yale students journey to Cape Town, South Africa to tackle water scarcity crisis

Early in 2018 Jessica Helfand joined 30 students from the Yale School of Management and the Yale School of Architecture for a trip from the Yale campus to an unlikely destination: the New Haven wastewater treatment plant. The students, who are taking Helfand’s ...
Jan Hagens and international scholars on the YDS Quad
11/26/18

Yale Divinity School and the world: An interview with Jan Hagens

Jan-Lüder Hagens is Director of International Student Exchange Programs at Yale Divinity School as well as Director of the School’s Visiting Fellows Program. YDS interviewed him about his work and these international dimensions of life on the Quad. YDS:&n...
Jackson Spring
11/15/18

Committee advises converting Jackson Institute into school of global affairs

  Yale’s Jackson Institute should become a school of global affairs featuring a robust, faculty-driven research program dedicated to solving real-world problems and shaping a better future for humanity, according to a vision described in an advisory committee repor...
11/13/18

Yale experts consider consequences of China’s rise as global power

  President Xi Jinping of China has marked 2049 — the centennial of the founding of the People’s Republic of China — as the date by which his country will be a fully developed and prosperous global power. A panel of Yale faculty on Nov. 2 cons...
Yale couple start business to improve global healthcare
11/06/18

Yale alumni couple & startup founders use tech to improve global healthcare access

  In today’s world, health, medicine, and wellness transcend the medical facility. Healthcare providers need a holistic view of people — their environments, behaviors, and psychographic characteristics — to improve health outcomes and wellness.  T...

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