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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…)

New Website Highlights Musical Groups’ Summer European Tours

By Guest PostMay 6, 2011EntertainmentEurope, istanbul, music lovers, musical groups, passion for music, summer, summer 2011, Sweden, the spizziwinks, uppsala, whiffenpoofs, whim 'n rhythm, yale, yale baroque ensemble, yale glee club, yale groups, yale music, yale schola cantorum

Music lovers vacationing or living in Europe this summer won’t have to wait to come back to campus for some Yale-made music; they can just drop by one of the many concerts being presented by Yale groups touring the region.

Each summer, musical groups from Yale travel the world to share their passion for music. A new website, “Yale Music in Europe, Summer 2011,” tracks the whereabouts of eight of these troupes: Yale Schola Cantorum, Redhot & Blue, Yale Glee Club, Whim ‘n Rhythm, Yale Alumni Chorus, Whiffenpoofs, The Spizziwinks(?) and Yale Baroque Ensemble. (more…)

Coming To A Computer Near You: Google Apps For Education

By Guest PostApril 19, 2011Education, Technologyapplemail, blackberry, calendar, chuck powell, docs, electronic protected health information, email system, ephi, Google, google apps, google apps for education, google talk, groups, information technology services, iPhone, its, peter salovey, sites, thunderbird, yale, yale systems

It’s official. Yale is making the switch from its current email system to Google Apps for Education — a move that is expected to cut costs and free up resources, while expanding the features available to the Yale community.

“This will be a huge improvement for students, who will benefit not only from a better Web-based email client, but also from the entire suite of Google Apps for Education: Google Talk, Groups, Docs, Sites and Calendar,” says Chuck Powell, associate CIO for operations, support and services at Information Technology Services (ITS). He also noted that the switch means that ITS has one less commodity service to provide, which frees up time to work on more institutionally-important initiatives that outside vendors like Google can’t deliver. (more…)

Researcher Aims to Improve Effectiveness of Radiation Therapy for Cancer

By Guest PostMarch 7, 20112 commentsHealth, Scienceanticancer drugs, biology of tumor cells, cancer therapy, cancer treatment, characterize the tumors, chemotherapy, ct, diabetes, heart attacks, hypoxia, hypoxia induced pathways, hypoxic cells, localiz, malignant cells, methods for imaging tumors, microscopic tumors, mri, oxygen deficiency, oxygen deficiency in tissues, PET, pharmacology, radiation, sara rockwell, stroke, therapeutic radiology, yale

Sara Rockwell is a leader in her field. A professor of therapeutic radiology and pharmacology at the School of Medicine, Rockwell was among the first researchers to study the effects of oxygen deficiency on the response of malignant cells to radiation and anticancer drugs, and was among the first to consider the implications of this deficiency in microscopic tumors for the development of solid malignancies.

Rockwell, who is also associate dean for scientific affairs, joined the faculty of Yale School of Medicine in 1974, and teaches radiation biology, pharmacology, cancer biology, ethics and career development skills. She earned her bachelor’s degree in physics from Penn State University in 1965. She went on to earn her doctorate degree in biophysics from Stanford University in 1971. (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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