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Q&A: Yale Library Aims Both To Serve And Preserve, Says Gibbons

By Guest PostJanuary 17, 2012Education, Generalanthropologist, atmosphere, beinecke, freshman, kianti roman, knowledge, nancy foster, North America, river campus, sterling, sterling memorial library, susan gibbons, university librarian, university of rochester, yale, yale library

Susan Gibbons began a five-year term as University librarian in July 2011. In that role, she oversees one of the largest university libraries in North America, which includes over 12.5 million volumes housed in 18 different libraries.

Before coming to Yale, Gibbons worked at the University of Rochester, where she began as digital initiatives librarian in 2000. In 2008, she was appointed vice provost and dean of the River Campus Libraries.

Gibbons took time out of her hectic schedule to meet with YaleNews. The following is an edited transcript of that conversation. (more…)

Watching the Nervous System Being Wired in Real Time

By Guest PostDecember 2, 2011Sciencebill hathaway, daniel colon ramos, imaging technology, living organism, migration of cells, nervous system, neurodevelopmental atlas, new diseases, single cell, worm, yale, yale cell biologist, yale university

Thanks to a new imaging technology developed at Yale, the National Institutes of Health and Sloan-Kettering, scientists can now see for the first time the development of a living organism at the level of a single cell.

One of the developers, Yale cell biologist Daniel Colon-Ramos, illustrates the power of the new technology in this video that shows the migration of cells that will form the nervous system in a developing worm. (more…)

Women See Naked Men Differently Too

By Guest PostNovember 12, 2011Culture, Scienceability, amount of skin shown, bedroom, benevolent sexism, career advancement, factors, feminist theory, inanimate object, kinds of mind view, kurt gray, men and women, mind, negative effects, northeastern university, people with bare skin, perception, psychologist, revealing attire, self control, sexes, united states, university of maryland, yale

COLLEGE PARK, Md – For both men and women, wearing revealing attire causes them to be seen as more sensitive but less competent, says a new study by University of Maryland psychologist Kurt Gray and colleagues from Yale and Northeastern University. (more…)

From the Man Who Played God, a Vampire and a Statesman: Don’t quit

By Guest PostNovember 10, 2011Culture, Entertainment1968, academy award for best actor, academy award winning actor, actor, brilliant director, broadway debut, bruce almighty, chubb fellow, clint eastwood, driving miss daisy, fast black, film studies program, glory, god, hello dolly, invictus, jackson state university, james bundy, long walk to freedom, los angeles, lucious fox, million dollar baby, mississippi born actor, morgan freeman, ned logan, nelson mandela, new york, nobel peace prize winning statesman, pbs children show, ron gregg, sergeant major john rawlins, south african leader, street smart, the dark knight, the electric company, the shawshank redemption, unforgiven, us air force, vincent the vegetable vampire, woolsey hall, yale

Woolsey Hall was packed with his fans on Nov. 8 when Academy Award-winning actor Morgan Freeman took the stage for an “Actor’s Studio”-styled interview with Ron Gregg, a senior lecturer and programming director in Yale’s Film Studies Program.

Among those who came out to see the 74-year-old-actor — visiting the campus as a Chubb Fellow —was a 95-year old woman who listened as Freeman described his acting career and his history on television, in theater and in film. When given the opportunity to ask a question, she simply gushed, “Morgan Freeman, I love you. I’ve seen every movie you’ve been in.” She then told him, “I don’t want to show you any disrespect” for being so bold. (more…)

Yale Establishes Kissinger Archives and the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy

By Guest PostSeptember 2, 2011Politicscharles b johnson, charles hill, China, donald kagan, henry a kissinger, jackson institute for global affairs, james levinhson, john lewis gaddis, johnson center for the study of american diplomacy, jonathan spence, kissinger archives, nicholas f brady, paul kennedy, richard c levin, secretary of state, us foreign policy, White House, yale, yale faculty, yale students

Former secretary of state Henry A. Kissinger gave an address before Yale faculty, students and World Fellows during a ceremony to celebrate the establishment of the Kissinger archives and the Johnson Center for the Study of American Diplomacy.

The archives extend well beyond Kissinger’s years in the White House and span the nearly 40 years since he left public service. Kissinger’s papers will serve as the foundation for the newly created Johnson Center, made possible by generous contributions from Charles B. Johnson ’54 B.A. and Nicholas F. Brady ’52 B.A. The Center will be located within the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale. (more…)

Take Fear Head on, Actor Tom Hanks Tells Yale Seniors

By Guest PostMay 23, 2011Culture, Educationacademy awards, apollo 13, big, catherine lew, class day, eliza gonzalez, eric randall, Facebook, fear or faith, forest gump, graduates, ivy ode, john paul jones, old campus, old country, oscar-winning actor, philadelphia, preparing to leave, saving private ryan, tom hanks, toy story, tweets, Twitter, veterans of the iran and afghan wars, woody, yale, yale baseball cap, yale class day, youtube viral sensations

How Yale’s newest graduates make their imprint on the world and on history will be determined by how well they handle fear and inspire faith, Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks told the seniors in his Class Day address on May 22.

In the ceremony on the Old Campus, Hanks urged the soon-to-be graduates to begin their future by coming to the aid of the U.S. veterans of the Iran and Afghan wars, whose “faith in themselves is shadowed by the fear of not knowing what is expected of them next,” he said. (more…)

Go Ask ALICE: Learning About the Big Bang

By Guest PostDecember 15, 20101 commentSciencea lead ion collider experiment, alice, bang, big, big bang, CERN, european organization for nuclear research, galaxies, geneva, john harris, Large Hadron Collider, lhc, particle accelerator, particles, planets, soup, stars, switzerland, universe, yale

Nearly 14 billion years ago, the universe began with a bang — a big one.

Scientists believe that the universe and everything within it began as an extremely hot, dense “soup” that eventually gave rise to galaxies, stars, planets and life and that continues to expand to this day.

Now scientists around the world are pushing back the frontiers of our understanding about the moment the universe was born using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), a giant particle accelerator at CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) near Geneva, Switzerland. (more…)

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