On November 7, 2011, Peter Salovey, provost and Chris Argyris Professor of Psychology and professor of epidemiology and public health at Yale University, delivered the lecture titled "Emotional Intelligence: Is there Anything to It?"
The lecture was part of the Quinnipiac University Interdisciplinary Program for Research and Scholarship's annual student research poster session and Distinguished Interdisciplinary Lecture.
Salovey is the director of Yale's Health, Emotion, and Behavior Laboratory and was previously the deputy director of the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA.)

Salovey has published more than 350 articles in the scientific literature and is a recipient of the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award. He has served on the NSF's Social Psychology Advisory Panel, the National Institute of Mental Health Behavioral Science Working Group and the NIMH National Advisory Mental Health Council.