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�����Ź��� psychology faculty member David Anderegg will read from his new book Nerds: Who They Are and Why We Need More of Them at the .

Faculty member and South African anti-apartheid hero Mac Maharaj and his biographer Padraig O’Malley appeared on the nationally syndicated public radio program Fresh Air with Terry Gross on Monday, May 12, to discuss their recent reconciliation work with 36 Iraqi leaders. 

The Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced that five members of �����Ź���'s community have been honored with this year's 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships for their "distinguished achievement in the past and exceptional promise for future accomplishment." Guggenheim Fellowships, one of the nation's most prestigious honors, were given to current MFA in Writing faculty member Michael Paul Burkard; acclaimed poet Reginald Shepherd '88; innovative choreographer Myrna Packer '74; New Yorker magazine editor and translator Ann Goldstein '71; and professor of organism biology and ecology at the University of Massachusetts, Laurie R. Godfrey '67.

Photography faculty member Liz Deschenes is one of only eight photographers chosen by the  to participate in their latest exhibition, “Color Chart: Reinventing Color 1950 to Today.”

Former President William J. Clinton invited �����Ź���’s President Elizabeth Coleman to join him at a press conference on Saturday, March 15, 2008, to inaugurate the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U)—a new venture of the Clinton Global Initiative that challenges college students and universities to tackle global problems with practical, innovative solutions. Clinton highlighted just two commitments in his press announcement: �����Ź��� College’s and a commitment made by a Yale undergraduate student.