Yale Talk: Conversations with President Peter Salovey

Professor Luciano Floridi, founding director of Yale’s Digital Ethics Center and professor in the practice in the Cognitive Science program, and President Peter Salovey discuss Yale’s new Digital Ethics Center to research the governance, ethical, legal, and social implications of digital innovation and technologies like artificial intelligence.

Yale Digital Ethics Center

To mark Yale Law School’s bicentennial, Dean Heather K. Gerken joins President Peter Salovey for a conversation about the impact the school has had on legal education over two centuries and what comes next. Dean Gerken discusses the Yale Law School’s focus on bolstering needs-based aid, increasing the number of veterans on campus, and preparing the next generation of lawyers and leaders to engage across divides in polarized times.

Yale Law School bicentennial website

Bicentennial video

For this Veterans Day podcast, President Peter Salovey talks with U.S. Air Force veteran Bob Atkinson ’24—an undergraduate in the Eli Whitney Students Program, two-time Bronze Star recipient, and Truman Scholar—about his leadership experiences in the military, on campus, and in the effort to eliminate the domestic opioid epidemic.

For more information, visit: Eli Whitney Students Program, Yale Veterans Network, and Yale Veterans Association

Greg Sterling, The Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean of Yale Divinity School and the Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament, and President Peter Salovey discuss the Living Village Project, which will be a landmark on Yale’s campus and a replicable example for divinity schools, places of worship, and academic institutions to follow worldwide.

The Living Village

To learn more about living buildings, read and watch here

For Earth Day, Professor Menachem Elimelech and President Peter Salovey discuss the development of technologies that make sea and municipal wastewater potable.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Yale President Peter Salovey discuss one of the driving themes of the federal administration’s economic agenda: modern supply side economics. Modern supply side economics has vast implications for American policy from climate, innovation, tax policy, and infrastructure to workforce training, housing, health, and childcare. Secretary Yellen and President Salovey’s conversation includes context of Yale Tobin Center’s research and policy work across these areas – much of which has had national impact – as well as Tobin’s founding mandate to enhance diversity in the study of economics, where greater emphasis on modern supply side issues is credited with expanding interest in the field.

In recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, John Rice, the founder and chief executive officer of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) and a member of the Yale board of trustees, and President Peter Salovey discuss MLT’s work advancing racial equity for individuals and employers.

Yale experts and President Salovey discuss assisting veterans with legal needs related to their military service and return to civilian life.

For more information, visit the Veterans Legal Services Clinic

Professor Sang Kim and President Salovey discuss global supply chain challenges and possible solutions.

For Earth Day, Indy Burke, dean of the Yale School of the Environment, and President Peter Salovey discuss how universities can offer solutions to climate change and help policy makers and the public implement sustainable actions.

Drs. Stephanie Spangler and Saad Omer join President Salovey to reflect on what the community has accomplished during the pandemic and look ahead to what may come next.

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Patricia Melton, president of New Haven Promise, and President Salovey discuss helping students overcome obstacles to attending college.

(Learn more about New Haven Promise, Yale Pathways to Science, and Yale Peabody Museum.) 

Rod Lowe, a U.S. Army veteran and the senior associate director of major gifts for Yale Divinity School, discusses leadership and selflessness with President Peter Salovey.

Sterling Professor of History David Blight, who served as an advisor to the team of curators at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum, and President Peter Salovey discuss commemorating tremendous loss, the purpose of memorialization, and teaching complex history.

President Salovey discusses leadership lessons from the pandemic, favorite baseball memories, the role of athletics at Yale, and the rise of sabermetrics with William O. DeWitt Jr. ’63, chairman and CEO of the St. Louis Cardinals, and William O. DeWitt III ’90, president of the St. Louis Cardinals.

Yale students Florrie Marshall and Ryan Tani join President Peter Salovey in a conversation about creating music and using it to connect people, communicate shared experiences, and mark historic moments.

President Peter Salovey and Professor Willie Jennings discuss the shared endeavor of learning, the beauty of discovery, the dangers of isolation, and cultivating the habits and practices of a healthy intellectual life.

Help Us Make History—an archival project launched by the Yale University Library in May 2020—invites undergraduate, graduate, and professional students to contribute their written and visual records of life on and off campus during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this episode of Yale Talk, President Salovey learns from University Archivist Michael Lotstein about how students, faculty, staff and alumni throughout the generations have helped to write Yale’s history. Current Yale College students Solomon Adams ’24, Emma Levin ’23, and Regina Sung ’24 contribute readings from among the hundreds of submissions that the project has received to date.

To commemorate Founders Day, President Peter Salovey discusses Yale’s responsibility to lead the change needed in society through education, scholarship, research, preservation, and practice. He is joined by the co-chairs of the President’s Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging: Kimberly Goff-Crews, university secretary and vice president for university life, and Gary Desir, vice provost for faculty development and diversity, Paul B. Beeson Professor of Medicine, and chair of the Department of Internal Medicine.

Sharing meals plays a big part in life at Yale. Although Yale Hospitality operations have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, its staff members have been contributing to the university and New Haven communities in numerous ways. In honor of Staff Spirit Week, President Salovey discusses with Maureen O’Donnell, residential dining general manager, and Joseph “Rusty” Hamilton, baker at the Culinary Support Center, how Yale staff is serving those in need during this public health crisis.

President Peter Salovey discussed the national and global economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lessons we can learn from past crises with three Yale faculty experts:

• Pinelopi Goldberg, Elihu Professor of Economics and professor of management and former chief economist at the World Bank Group;
• Andrew Metrick, Janet L. Yellen Professor of Finance and Management and director of the Yale Program on Financial Stability; and
• Robert Shiller, Sterling Professor of Economics and Nobel Laureate.

(Recorded May 20, 2020)

Ann Kurth, dean of the Yale School of Nursing, and Saad Omer, director of the Yale Institute for Global Health, joined President Peter Salovey in early April for a conversation about COVID-19 response and the immediate and long-term impacts of this pandemic.

The HAPPINESS Project is one of the ways Yale faculty and students are tackling the complex, global challenges of connecting people with mental health services. The HAPPINESS Project aims to improve mental health care delivery in Nigeria, and the methods and technology developed through the project have the potential to help many other communities. Upon their return from Lagos, Nigeria, President Peter Salovey, Dr. Theddeus Iheanacho, Dr. Charles Dike, and Mr. Eddie Mandhry discuss the partnerships Yale is developing through this project and the Yale Africa Initiative.