News

Search News

(0 selected)

By Region

By Content

CLEAR ALL
04/06/21

An Interview with Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako, 4th year Medical Student

Max Jordan Nguemeni Tiako is a 4th year medical student at the Yale School of Medicine. He grew up in Yaoundé, Cameroon. He earned a B.S. in civil and environmental engineering from Howard University, and a Masters in Bioengineering from the Georgia Institute of Technol...
04/05/21

An Interview with Assistant Professor Benedito Machava

Benedito Machava is a historian of colonial and post-colonial Africa. Raised and educated in Mozambique, he received his Ph.D. at Michigan University in 2018. His research focuses on liberation struggles, decolonization, nation-building, socialism, and socialist experiments in...
04/01/21

Peter Salovey signs Joint Statement of Global University Leaders on the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development

Peter Salovey joined university presidents from 30 countries to announce action on climate change by signing the Joint Statement of Global University Leaders on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is the first time that leading universities across six continents ha...
03/26/21

Conversation with Hopewell Chin'ono

The Jackson Institute for Global Affairs hosted a conversation with Hopewell Chin'ono, a Zimbabwean human rights activist, award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker on March 31. The event was co-sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism. At t...
03/26/21

Pinelopi Goldberg featured in Yale-NUS webinar 'Addressing Global Inequity'

A webinar organized by Yale-NUS College focused on the topic 'Addressing Global Inequality' took place on March 30, 2021. It featured Pinelopi Goldberg, former Chief Economist of the World Bank and Elihu Professor of Economics at Yale University, and Dani Rodrik, Ford ...
03/23/21

Decolonizing the American University - African Writers in Conversation Series

    On March 17, 2021 distinguished Professor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o gave a lecture on 'Decolonizing the American University' as part of the African Writers in Conversation Series. The event was sponsored by the Yale MacMillan Center's Council on Afr...
03/23/21

Eight writers awarded Yale’s Windham-Campbell Prizes

  Yale University on March 22 announced the eight recipients of the 2021 Windham-Campbell Prizes. The writers, whose work explores matters both personal and political, were honored for their literary achievement or promise. Each will receive $165,000 to support their w...
03/19/21

Maurice R. Greenberg World Fellows Program announces Class of 2021

A Brazilian diplomat, an Israeli journalist, and a British expert in the ethics of artificial intelligence are among the 16 women and men who have been selected as 2021 World Fellows. This cohort brings the total number of World Fellows since the program’s start in 2002...
Leading for Change 2
03/16/21

Yale and Africa's 'Leading for Change' conversation series

The third webinar of our 'Leading for Change' conversation series took place on Friday, April 16 at 12pm ET in partnership with the Yale Undergraduate Association for African Peace and Development (YAAPD). We were joined by Marcio Burity as he discussed Afric...
03/10/21

Three Decades Devoted to Brazil

Yale School of Public Health Professor Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, Ph.D., has worked around the world during a long and productive career to create better health and nutrition outcomes, with a focus on promoting breastfeeding, household food security, and combatting malnutr...

Pages